GENERAL
The success of Oakwood Homes is dependent upon building and maintaining goodwill with our customers. We are committed to the protection of the privacy of those using our website and services. By using our website, or providing us with personal information, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy Policy, do not provide us your personal information or use our website, including live chat services.

This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal information collected or provided through our website and how we use personal information collected. “Personal information” is information that identifies an individual and is associated with a specific person. Personal information does not include information that is anonymous, aggregated, or is no longer identifiable to a specific person.

 

COLLECTED INFORMATION
We may collect the following types of personal information about you through the website and via our registration cards in the sales offices, including but not limited to:

  • If you use our website to request information, use live chat, request warranty services, contact us, or provide feedback at any place on our website, you may be asked for basic registration information, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, user name, password, and other registration information.
  • You may also be asked to provide identification information to confirm your identity, including your first and last name.
  • We may collect information about your interaction with our website such as computer browser type, pages visited, average time spent on our website, IP address, unique identifier of the device, operating system version, and app version.
  • We may request or receive other personal information such as feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas to provide you with other benefits or to improve upon our products and services. In such instances, you will be given the opportunity to provide or decline that information.

 

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use customer personal information to:

  • respond to customer inquiries about our products and services;
  • fulfill customer requests for our products and services;
  • provide customers with the information regarding products and services that are offered by us, requested from us, or that relate to our website;
  • send text based messages. You have the ability to “opt out” text messaging communication at any time. You may opt out upon receipt of the text message or request to be taken off our list via the contact information at the bottom of this page.
  • send you electronic and other messages about a property in one of our communities or an offering from one of our affiliated companies;
  • carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between our customers and us;
  • analyze website usage and improve our products and services provided through our website;
  • improve our website design and functionality;
  • deliver to customers any notices or alerts and communications relevant to customers regarding their use of our products and services;
  • perform market research, project planning, product development, troubleshooting problems, analysis of user behavior, marketing, and promotions;
  • for targeted marketing by us and by businesses affiliated with us to make advertising more relevant;
  • decide which advertisements and sponsor messages to show to which customers;
  • provide you newsletters, articles, product or service announcements, event invitations, program and promotional information and offers, and other information, which may be provided to you by us or by other companies;
  • enforce our legal rights and comply with law;
  • detect and protect against errors, fraud, or other criminal activity;
  • use your information to pre-fill form fields on the website for your convenience; and
  • identify your identity in the event you contact us for assistance or support.

We may provide personal information to our business partners and affiliates, third party vendors, and service providers for processing of personal information on behalf of us. We also may partner with third party vendors to source or provide certain targeted offerings and other ads and discount offerings to you. We may use data to show you these ads, but we do not sell personal information like your name, email address, and payment information.

If you do not “opt out” of receiving promotional materials, we may release any personal registration information regarding you to businesses affiliated and controlled by us who provide goods or services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you decide that you would like to discontinue receiving promotional information from us and businesses affiliated with us, please contact us or elect to “opt out” of receiving those promotional materials.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to share or disclose your personal information with law enforcement, government officials, and other third parties to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, and as otherwise required by any applicable law.

 

EMAIL MESSAGES
We limit our own email solicitations to those who have not “opted out” of receiving such communications. You may unsubscribe from any email messages we send at any time and will not receive further electronic messages from us by following the instructions included within the message.

In some of our email messages, we may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on our website. When clicked, these URLs pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We may track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION
If you would like to have your personal information removed from our databases, please contact us, and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request.

We comply with applicable state and federal laws requiring secure disposal of records containing personal information of our customers. We maintain customer information for as long as needed. We take reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of a customer’s records containing personal information within our custody or control that is no longer required to be retained by us by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or indecipherable through any means.

 

WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE REGARDING YOUR USE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ME?
You can set your browser to notify you before you receive cookies so you have a chance to accept the cookies, and you can set your browser to turn off cookies by updating your privacy settings in your browser. Please note that if you choose to reject or disable cookies, your access to certain areas of our web sites may be limited. You may opt out of the use of cookies used for remarketing purposes and behavioral advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at https://optout.networkadvertising.org. If you prefer not to have your IP address and corresponding geographic information collected for web site analytic purposes, you may download and install the Google Analytic Opt-out Browser Add-on which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. You may also change your ad settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads to control certain interest based ads.

If you provide your email address to opt in to receiving future commercial marketing emails from us and our affiliates, then we may send information to you about our products or services and the products and services of our affiliates. To opt out from receiving commercial marketing email communications from us, please click on the opt-out (unsubscribe) link in the message you receive from us.

 

USE OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
When using our services and offerings we may also collect non-personal information − data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. Aggregated data is considered non-personal information. If we combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information.
We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:

  • We may collect information such as language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, time, and the time zone where our website is accessed or used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our offerings, programs, products, services, and advertising.
  • We also may collect information regarding customer activities from our other programs and offerings. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our programs, offerings, and services are of most interest.

As our website is navigated, certain information may also be passively collected by us or a third party service provider. This information includes Internet protocol addresses, browser types, domain names, access times, operating systems, mouse clicks, mouse movements, and scrolling activity. We may also use cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of uses or visits.

Non-personal information may be collected to analyze the use of our offerings and services to make them more useful to customers and to provide customers with relevant offerings. We may use it to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our customers and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the our website. We may provide statistical information based on this data to advertisers, affiliates, and other current and potential business partners. We may also use the aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their website. By doing so, we hope to understand our customers’ needs and desires so that we can make new offerings to them or tailor existing offerings to fit their desires.

 

PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
We take the security of personal information seriously. We use technical and administrative security measures such as but not limited to firewalls, encryption techniques, and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of personal information. However, no complete assurance can be made against all cyber-attacks and other security breaches. To safeguard against unauthorized access, you may be required to login to certain secure areas of our website using a user name and a password. Both user name and password are encrypted when sent over the Internet.

 

THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may use third party service providers to help us analyze certain online activities. For example, these service providers may help us measure the performance of our online promotions or analyze website activity. We may permit these service providers to use cookies and similar technologies to perform these services.

 

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may offer links to other third party websites for convenience and information only. These websites have their own privacy and information collection practices and security measures.

 

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, or in the event of a merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization, or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties, information that includes, without limitation, personal information of clients and customers. Such third parties will assume responsibility for the information collected by us in connection with our business operations or through our website and such third parties will assume the rights and obligations regarding such information as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

MINORS
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children (defined herein as minors younger than eighteen years of age) without obtaining parental consent. Before providing personal information to us, we ask that children have their parents read this Privacy Policy. If a minor provides us with his/her personal information without parental or guardian consent, we encourage the parent or guardian to contact us to have this information removed and to unsubscribe the minor from future communications with us.

 

INTERNATIONAL USERS
Our website is not intended for persons who are not residents in the United States. We do not actively market to persons residing outside of the United States and we do not knowingly collect personal information from non-U.S. residents. If you are a resident of the European Union or Switzerland and desire to provide us with your personal information, please contact us first. If you are located outside of the United States and provide us with personal information, please be aware that any such information will be transferred to and stored in the United States.

 

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to Oakwood Homes at:

 

Oakwood Homes
Attention: Legal Department
4908 Tower Rd
Denver, CO 80249

 

MODIFICATIONS
Oakwood Homes reviews its privacy practices from time to time, and those practices and this Privacy Policy are subject to change. This was last updated on July 11, 2019.