US Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 20, 2022
This Privacy
Policy applies to information we collect through: (1) this website operated by 7960
Rafael Rivera Way (NV) Owner LLC and its Affiliates
or agents (referred to herein as “Property Owner", "we",
"us", or "our"), (2) mobile applications, (3) hardware
devices in units or otherwise on our properties, (4) other websites and other
services we own, operate, or make available and that link to the Privacy Policy
and (5) to all other general enquiries we receive (including postal mail,
electronic mail and telephone
requests) (collectively the “Services”). “Affiliate” means with respect
to a party, any person or
entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that
party, where “control” means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such entity, whether through the ownership of
voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
Property Owner
recognizes the importance of protecting the
privacy of individual-specific
information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of
being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly,
with a particular consumer or device (“Personal Information”) particularly our consumer users
(referred to as "you" or "your" in this Privacy
Policy). This Privacy Policy
describes what Personal Information we gather, how we use it, how it is shared
and how you can correct, change and limit our use of it. If you are asked
to submit registration details via our Services, you may be requested to agree
to additional terms regarding our use of your Personal Information, and those additional terms will apply
in that context. Any additional terms will be available
for your review at the time of registration. We encourage you to read this
Privacy Policy before you send or share Personal Information with us or use our
Services. We also encourage you to read it again when you return to our
websites.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES PROPERTY OWNER COLLECT?
Categories and Types
of “Personal Information”
We collect
the following categories and types of personal information:
·
Contact Information: your first and last name,
current and previous
mailing addresses, phone number, email address;
·
Other identifying information: IP address, social security number,
taxpayer identification number, drivers license
number, your photo, passport number,
user names/account names and passwords, insurance policy
number, credit history, sanctions and Politically Exposed Persona (“PEP”)
screening results, tax documentation;
·
Financial Information: payment,
banking and other
financial history information, credit score;
·
Information regarding when you entered
a particular unit and a defined area of common space (for residents who have
access to Smart Community Products);
·
Geolocation data;
·
Commercial information: records
of products or Services purchased, obtained, or considered (including, but not limited to
Smart Community Products), other purchasing histories or tendencies, utility
bills, insurance claimant name and contact information, lease information,
rental history, rent amount;
·
Employment or other professional information: current job and past job history, job title, and, in the case of prospective and
current residents or tenants, pay history, income;
·
Demographic information: your date of birth, race, national origin,
citizenship, marital status, veteran or military status,
background check information, household information, whether you have pets;
·
Internet or other electronic activity: your browsing and click history
when you are using our websites and applications, including information about
how you navigate within our Services and which elements of our Services you use
the most; your internet protocol address, and cookie identification number; for
those who have Smart Community Products installed, data captured from Smart
Community Products, such as usage information, the temperature in your unit,
smart light usage, possible leaks in the unit, movement detected via motion
sensors that may be in your unit and whether you subscribe to our offered
Wi-Fi. “Smart Community Products” are devices that allow for automated
functions within your home, which may
include, but are not limited to: device hubs, smart thermostats, smart locks,
communal area access controls, leak sensors, video doorbells, window sensors,
motion sensors, smart plugs, appliance sensors, HVAC sensors, garage door
openers, and ubiquitous Wi-Fi. If you connect a third party device, such as
digital home assistants to your SmartHub, we will know that you use such products;
however, we will not be able to track the usage data of third party smart
devices, other than Smart Community Products with the exception of digital home
assistants if provided by the property;
·
Security visual and audio information: video or photo
footage that we may capture;
date and time that you arrive
to and leave our premises;
·
Preferences: details that you provide
to us about your interests, your communication
preferences; and
·
Inferences: inferences drawn from the categories described above to
create a profile about you to reflect
your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude.
For example, if you are a property employee at a property
where Smart Community Products are installed, we may track your movements in and out of units to see how long unit tours last. If you are a
resident at a property where Smart Community Products are installed, we may
generally track how many people use our common spaces to better understand
which amenities are popular among residents. .
HOW DOES PROPERTY OWNER USE YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
Categories of Use
We use your personal
information for the following purposes:
·
Transactional Purposes: We use your contact information, demographic information, other identifying information financial
information, internet or other electronic activity and commercial information
to:
o
Create an account
with us;
o
Provide you with certain property-specific Services, such as Smart Community Services in some locations; or
maintenance of our properties;
o
Help you find and rent a unit within our properties; and
o
Communicate with you about your account, lease
or unit.
·
Analytical Purposes: We use your internet
or other electronic activity, visual and audio
information and geolocation data to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.
·
Marketing Purposes: We use your contact
information, commercial information, demographic information, internet or other electronic activity, and inferences to inform you of
our new products and events.
·
Maintenance and Improvement of Services and Websites: We use your contact
information, commercial information, and internet or other electronic activity
to:
o
Provide and maintain
functionality on our websites;
o
Improve our websites
and Services;
o
Handle your customer services requests, including
direct your questions to appropriate individuals, and improve and monitor our customer support
responses;
o
Optimize amenities at our properties; and
o
Help us diagnose
technical and service
problems and administer our websites.
·
Security and Fraud
Prevention: We
use your contact information, audio and visual information, other identifying
information, financial information, geolocation data, internet activity or other electronic activity, and inferences to protect the website, our properties, to protect you and other residents, and
for fraud detection, theft prevention, emergency response purposes, and legal
compliance.
WHAT ARE OUR SOURCES FOR YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
We collect information from the following sources:
We collect
information directly from you. We collect contact,
financial, other identifying information and demographic information directly from you.
We collect
information about you from third parties. We collect your contact information and certain
identifying data from third parties, such our property managers. We may collect information from public databases or
credit agencies.
We collect information from you passively. We collect internet
or other electronic activity passively
using tools like browser cookies, web beacons and tracking pixels, SDKs and
other similar technologies. This activity is further described in the Usage
Tracking: Cookies section below. We also collect information about you through
some of the smart features
of our units. For example,
if your unit has a smart lock installed, we collect data regarding when
the smart lock is used.
WHEN WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Our Service
Providers
From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other businesses whom we believe trustworthy (“Service
Providers”). For example, we may
disclose information we collect from you to third party vendors, service
providers, contractors or agents, such as building
maintenance staff and property managers. Each Service Provider must agree to use
reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the
information involved, to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized
access, use, or disclosure. Service
Providers are prohibited from using Personal
Information other than as specified by us.
Your Roommates/Other People
in Household
If you have a roommate or other people
in your household, we will share information about alerts and
maintenance requests that may be prompted by Smart Community Products.
Our Affiliates
We may share Personal Information (including internet or other
electronic activity) with our Affiliates. If
our Company is merged, acquired,
or sold, or in the event of a transfer
of some or all of our assets,
including a property, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information in
connection with such transaction.
Law Enforcement and Courts
In certain instances we may disclose
your contact information when we have reason to believe that it
is necessary to identify, contact
or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be
causing injury to you, to Property Owner or to others. We may also disclose
your contact information when we believe the law or legal process requires it.
USAGE TRACKING: COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information
that a website transfers to an individual for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make internet technology use easier for
you by doing things such as saving your preferences and interests while you are
at our sites. The use of cookies is an industry
standard, and as such, you will find them at most major websites. By showing how and when users use a website,
cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to our websites are based on such data as
total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily
tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies only to provide
services better tailored to your needs and for the protection of our websites
and users from potential harm.
We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies.
We use persistent tracking cookies on our websites
which are cookies that stay in your web browser between visits. We use these to capture analytical
information about our visitors that helps us to improve the performance of our
website and create a better experience. These cookies allow us to recognize and
count the number of visitors, to
provide content related to a prior visit to our websites, to see how visitors move around the websites and the
products and Services they are interested in when they are using them and to
see what other types of products and services they may be interested in. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example
by making sure users
are finding what they need easily.
We may also use cookies which
allow us or third parties to advertise our products and services on websites
that you access after you have visited our websites. You may also see advertisements from us if other websites you visit
capture through a cookie that you have been on our websites. These ad
preference cookies are often used by search engine sites. Our non-essential
cookies can be disabled as indicated below.
To prevent this advertising, you may also need to review the cookies
disabling information on the other websites you visit.
Most browsers are set up
to accept cookies. If you
want to change your cookie preferences, you can do so through your browser
settings or refuse the cookies when you enter any of our websites. You may also
limit the information we gain from certain cookies by logging directly into the
registered areas of our sites rather than by logging in by using your social
media log-in credentials. Please remember that our cookies are often used to give you certain
functionality and without
them you may not be able to fully use some of our
websites.
You can also remove
cookies that have already been set in your browser
via your browser
settings.
We use Google Analytics
on the websites and Services
to collect internet
or other electronic activity, to analyze how users use the websites and Services. For more information about how to opt out
of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
THIRD-PARTY SITE LINKS AND SERVICES
You should be aware that when
you are on Property Owner’s website
you could be directed to other third-party sites that are beyond our control.
There are links to other sites from Property Owner’s website, which take you outside our service. For example, if you click on a banner, an advertisement
or a search result, the click may take you off our website. We may also partner
with third party
service providers to provide
certain services to you and you may have the option to use their applications and websites.
These other sites and services may
send their own cookies to visitors to collect data or solicit information.
Property Owner does not control these sites and services and therefore is not
responsible for their
content. The inclusion
of hyperlinks to any other sites by Property Owner does
not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites, nor any association
with their operators.
This Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation
of the internet, which is beyond our control. Remember
that whenever you give out Personal Information online, that information may be
collected and used by people you do not know.
SECURING INFORMATION
Property Owner takes reasonable
technical and organizational measures in accordance with applicable laws to
safeguard users' Personal Information. While Property Owner strives to protect
your Personal information and therein your privacy, we cannot guarantee the
security of any Personal Information you disclose online,
and you therefore disclose such Personal Information at your own risk.
EMAIL CONSENT AND OPT-OUT
Your provision of Personal
Information through any of our registration forms on our websites constitutes
your affirmative consent that we may contact you by email to provide you with information and notices relating to the
property where you reside, on various similar services available to you at or
through that property and on various other properties that may be available and of interest
to you in the future.
It also means we may email you regarding updates
to this Privacy Policy.
You may choose to opt out of
receiving future commercial email messages from us. Each mass commercial email
sent by us contains a link with instructions on how to remove yourself from our
email list. You may not be able to opt out of receiving other types of email messages
from us, such as emails about
the status of your lease, property notifications or maintenance-related emails.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our websites are not directed
at children. We do not collect or maintain
information at our sites from those we know are under 16,
and we do not permit children under 16 years of age to become registered users of our websites. By using any of our websites, you represent that you are not under 16 years of age. If you are a
parent or guardian and you believe that your child under age 16 may have
provided personally identifiable information through any of our websites,
please contact us using the information in the "Contact Information"
section.
DATA TRANSFERS – INTERNATIONAL USERS
If you provide Personal
Information to us, it may be transferred to and processed on computers in the U.S. and other countries. Do not provide
your Personal Information to us if you do not want this
information to be transferred outside of your country, or if the laws in your
country restrict these types of transfers.
DO-NOT-TRACK DISCLOSURES; THIRD-PARTY TRACKING
Certain mechanisms may allow you to send web browser signals,
known as “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals, indicating your choice to disable tracking
on websites. We do not respond to browser do not
track signals currently. We may
not be aware of or able to honor and respond to every such mechanism. More information about “do not track” is available at www.allaboutdnt.org concerning such information.
Third parties, other than our
service providers, do not have authorization from us to track which websites, apps,
or other online
services you visit prior to and after
visiting our websites. Please note, however,
that we cannot control third-party tracking and there may be some third-party
tracking that occurs without
our consent or knowledge.
NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF CERTAIN STATES
Some state laws permit residents
who provide us with Personal Information to request certain information
regarding our disclosure of such information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. We do not,
currently, disclose such information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. If we change this policy, we will update
this provision and provide instructions on how you may make a request for details.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY
RIGHTS
If you are a California resident,
you have certain privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act ( “CCPA Rights”). This section describes those rights and how you can exercise
them with us.
CCPA RIGHTS REQUESTS
RIGHT TO KNOW AND RIGHT TO DELETION
You can request what Personal Information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold in the
preceding 12 months.
You can also request
that we delete your Personal
Information. We may not delete
all of your Personal Information if one of the following exceptions
applies:
·
Transactional: to complete a transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide
a good or service requested by you, or perform a contract we have with you;
·
Security: to detect data security incidents;
·
Error Correction: to debug or repair any errors;
·
Legal: to protect against
fraud or illegal
activity or to comply with applicable law or a legal
obligation, or exercise rights under the law, such as the right to free speech;
or
·
Internal Use: to use your Personal
Information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context
in which you provided the information (i.e. to
improve our services).
Please note that if we delete your Personal Information, many of our services will not work the same. For example, we may longer
be able to offer you the same level of service if we delete your Personal
Information.
To submit a request to know or a
request to delete, please email us at privacy@westcorpmg.com. If you email
us, you will be asked to verify
your identity and we will need
your [name and address with unit number]. In order to designate an
authorized agent to act on your behalf you must provide the authorized agent
with written permission to do so, and your authorized
agent must submit that written proof at the time they make the request on your behalf.
If you wish to make multiple requests under this section, we recommend
sending the deletion request last, as we will not be able to fulfill your other
requests once we have deleted your information.
SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not presently “sell” your information, as such term is defined
under the CCPA. Further, we also do not knowingly sell the personal
information of minors 16 years old or younger.
NON-DISCRIMINATION
We will not
discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA Rights and we will not
deny you goods or services, charge
you a different price, or provide you with a lesser quality
of goods or services if you exercise any of your
CCPA Rights.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Any changes that we make to this Privacy
Policy will become effective upon posting. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will advise current residents of any material changes via
email, text message (if you elect to be contacted via text message), or direct
notice to your unit or mailbox. We will post any updated Privacy Policy on our
websites with the date that it was last updated. Any Personal Information that we collect
from you will be treated
in accordance with the most recent version
of the Privacy Policy that
has been provided to you.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If your Personal Information
changes (such as zip/postal code, phone, email or postal address), please email us at privacy@westcorpmg.com
to update your information. We may ask you to
authenticate your identity before we can make any changes.
You may use this email to get in
touch with us for any other reason relating to this Privacy Policy. If you send us an e-mail, our communication should clearly be marked as data protection query and as being time sensitive.