Privacy Policy

Homecouple.com is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Homecouple.com Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Homecouple.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Homecouple.com collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Homecouple.com also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Homecouple.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Homecouple.com for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Homecouple.com Web site.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Homecouple.com public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Homecouple.com does not read any of your private online communications.

Homecouple.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Homecouple.com so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Homecouple.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Homecouple.com and Homecouple.com family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Homecouple.com collects and uses your personal information to operate the Homecouple.com Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Homecouple.com also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Homecouple.com and its affiliates. Homecouple.com may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Homecouple.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Homecouple.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Homecouple.com may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Homecouple.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Homecouple.com does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Homecouple.com keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Homecouple.com, in order to determine what Homecouple.com services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Homecouple.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Homecouple.com Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Homecouple.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Homecouple.com; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Homecouple.com, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Homecouple.com Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.