Welcome to OFFER4HOMES. As used in this Privacy Policy, “OFFER4HOMES”, “we” or “us”, refers to all websites, applications, content, products and services (collectively, the “Services”) owned or made available by VME HOMES, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “OFFER4HOMES”), which Services are accessible through OFFER4HOMES’s website at www.offer4homes.com, any other websites through which OFFER4HOMES makes the Services available, mobile device applications, or other electronic dialog systems application for mobile devices (collectively, the “Site”), as links that can be put on other sites, and Services which may be provided by OFFER4HOMES or third party providers in conjunction with the purchase and sale of a home.
OFFER4HOMES respects the privacy of the users of its Site and Services (“Users” or “you”) and is committed to protecting the personal information shared users share with it. You have a right to know our practices regarding the information we may collect, use or disclose when you visit or use our Service. The Privacy Policy will also give you more information about how to manage the personal information that you provide to us.
BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SITE AND SERVICES OR COMMUNICATING WITH US OUTSIDE OF THE SITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING AND CONSENTING TO THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, WHICH MAY BE UPDATED AND AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR SITE AND SERVICES OR COMMUNICATE WITH US.
User Consent
You accept and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy by accessing or using one or all of the Site and Services. The Site and Services are available only to people who are at least eighteen (18) years old and possess the legal capacity to form a binding agreement with OFFER4HOMES.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SUCH LEGAL CAPACITY, OR IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY OR BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS, USE OR REGISTER TO ANY OF OUR SITE AND SERVICES.
Children’s Privacy
OFFER4HOMES is in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. You must be at least 18 years old to use our website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. However, we hereby advise all visitors to our site under the age of 13 not to disclose or provide any personally identifiable information on our Service. In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided personally identifiable information to us, in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we will delete the child’s personally identifiable information from our files to the extent technologically possible.
What Types of Information Do We Obtain?
We may collect two types of information from our Users:
a. The first type of information is non-identifiable and anonymous information (“Non-personal Information”). We are not aware of the identity of the User from whom we have collected the Non-personal Information. Non-Personal Information is any unconcealed information which does not enable identification of an individual User, and which is available to us while such User is accessing or using the Site and Services. Non-personal Information which is being gathered consists of technical information, behavioral information and aggregated information, and may contain, among other things, the activity of the User on the Site and Services (including page-views, click-stream, searches on the Site and Services, aggregated events like completing transactions, traffic sources and navigational paths), referrals (web traffic), operation system, type and version of browser or mobile device, keyboard language, the hardware specifications of the User's device (including screen resolution and screen orientation), time spent on various pages of the Site and Services, etc. If you choose to access, visit and/or use any third party social networking service(s) that may be integrated with or linked to the Site and Services, we may receive personally identifiable information and other information about you and your computer, mobile or other device that you have made available to those services, including information about your contacts on those services. For example, some social networking services allow you to push content from our Site and Services to your contacts or to pull information about your contacts so you can connect with them on or through our Site and Services. Some social networking services also will facilitate your registration for our Service or enhance or personalize your experience on our Site and Services. Your decision to use a social networking service in connection with our Site and Services is voluntary. However, you should make sure you are comfortable with the information your third party social networking services may make available to our Site and Services by visiting those services' privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly with those services. We reserve the right to use, transfer, assign, sell, share, and provide access to all personally identifiable information and other information about you and your computer, mobile or other device that we receive through third-party social networking services in the same ways described in this Privacy Policy as all of your other information. We use this information to monitor the usage of our Site and Services, assess its performance, ensure technological compatibility with your computer or mobile device, and understand the relative importance of the information provided on our Service. We may also use this data to conduct statistical analyses on visitors’ usage patterns and other aggregated data.
We use this information to monitor the usage of our Site and Services, assess its performance, ensure technological compatibility with your computer or mobile device, and understand the relative importance of the information provided on our Service. We may also use this data to conduct statistical analyses on visitors’ usage patterns and other aggregated data.
b. The second type of information is individually identifiable information (“Personal Information”). This information may identify an individual or may be of a private and/or sensitive nature.
  • Users of the Site and Services may automatically provide their (a) IP address (or Mac Address, as applicable) mainly for enhancing the User’s experience; and (b) pages viewed by each individual User and information uploaded by the User.
  • Users may be required to provide the following details: full name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number(s).
  • Contact information, purchasing preferences and other information you provide to us or that we obtain from real estate agents and professional, publicly available databases;
  • We may also create transactional records of each of the transactions or other events (i) to enable our Site and Services, (ii) to enable the services provided by third parties, and (iii) to enable us to comply with various legal obligation.
As long as any Non-Personal Information is connected or linked to any Personal Information, we treat it as Personal Information. We do not collect any Personal Information from you or related to you without your approval. Your approval is obtained, when you consent to the Privacy Policy as stated above.
How Do We Collect Information on Our Users?
We collect and store information, either independently or through the help of third-party service providers when you use the Site and Services and when you voluntarily disclose information to us, including when you request an offer, provide us your location, upload or otherwise submit photos, make an offer, update your e-mail preferences, respond to a survey or provide other feedback about the Site and Services or contact us with questions or comments. We may also collect information about you when you request to receive text messages from us.
We will not ask for or request sensitive information such as government identifiers, medical information, or financial information, except in connection with requests for offers or purchase or sale transactions. Please do not provide this type of information to us unless specifically requested.
Please note that any information you upload or share while using the Site and Services are non-confidential, may become publicly available and may be collected, used or redistributed by others through the internet and other media channels.
Using our Site
We also collect and store certain technical information when you access, browse and use our Site and Services. This technical information helps us operate and provide our Site and Services to you, and includes standard information about interactions and system capabilities.
We also may collect information using cookies and other tracking technologies. (See Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies below.)
What are the Purposes of the Collection of Information?
Non-personal Information and Personal Information are used for statistical and research purposes and allow us to improve the quality of each and all Site and Services (e.g. discovering User preferences and trends allows us to customize and enhance our Site and Services) and offer future commercial services. Personal Information is also collected in order to:
  • Send Users commercial content or advertisements;
  • Verify the User's identity.
  • Provide technical assistance and support;
  • Enable you to submit requests for offers, make offers, and use our other related services;
  • To process real estate transactions;
  • To contact you directly about offer requests, offers, or sale or purchase transactions;
  • Respond to your requests for offers, feedback or questions (by telephone, text or email);
  • Supply you with the content you have requested through the Site and Services. We may also use the information to communicate with you about new features, products or services, and/or to improve the services that we offer by tailoring them to your needs.
  • Share information about you and your computer, mobile or other device, including without limitation User information and other personally identifiable information, with our parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates. In addition, as our business changes, we may buy or sell various assets. In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by us, our parent or any subsidiary or affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by another company, the information from and/or about our Service users may be among the transferred assets.
  • Allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance or market research but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services. There are also times when you provide information about yourself to us in areas of the Services that may be managed or participated in by third parties. In such cases, the information may be used by us and by such third party(ies), each pursuant to its own policies. While we may seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, we do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties.
  • Provide access to our database in order to cooperate with official investigations or legal proceedings initiated by governmental and/or law enforcement officials, as well as private parties, including, for example, in response to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process.
Transferring Information between Jurisdictions within OFFER4HOMES
The Site and Services are hosted in the United States and are mainly directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the Site and Services from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Site and Services, you are transferring your Personal Information to the United States. From time to time, your Personal Information may be accessible by OFFER4HOMES outside of the United States for optimizing User experience and for internal purposes. All such transfers and access will be subject to applicable privacy laws and the terms of this Privacy Policy. You consent to such transfers and access by agreeing to this Privacy Policy
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We may share certain information we collect from you with third parties (in the U.S. or in other countries) for (i) the purpose of processing or storing your information on our behalf; (ii) internal purposes (including without limitation, statistics and analytics) and (iii) commercial purposes (including, without limitation, management of any plans).
In addition, OFFER4HOMES may share Personal Information in the following cases: (a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) to respond to User's support requests; (e) to respond to claims that any content available on the Site and Services violates the rights of third-parties; (f) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; (g) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OFFER4HOMES, OFFER4HOMES representatives, its Users or the general public; (h) when OFFER4HOMES is undergoing any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of its assets; (i) to collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through OFFER4HOMES’s authorized third parties service providers (including, as applicable, their affiliates as necessary to provide us with the requested services), as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction; (j) to store or process your Personal Information through OFFER4HOMES’s affiliated companies, which may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction; (k) to enable payment through certain online payment services; and/or (l) pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure.
For avoidance of doubt, OFFER4HOMES may transfer and disclose Non-personal Information to third parties at its own discretion.
Deletion or Modification of Personal Information
If for any reason you wish to delete or modify your Personal Information, you can send us an e-mail of your request to: info@offer4homes.com and we will make reasonable efforts to submit to your request pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.
Note that, unless you instruct us otherwise, we may retain and use your Personal Information for as long as reasonably required for the purposes of which such Personal Information was collected, including without limitation, for future analytics and analysis, in order to comply with our legal or business requirements or obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our Privacy Policy, all as permitted under any applicable privacy laws.
Aggregate and/or anonymous information derived from your use of the Site and Services may remain on our servers indefinitely.
Securing Your Information
The security of your information is important to OFFER4HOMES, and we have established administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information against loss, alteration, unauthorized access, theft, misuse or disclosure. Unfortunately, no system can guarantee complete security of your information. As a result, OFFER4HOMES cannot ensure or warrant your information, including your Personal Information, is completely secure from unauthorized third parties. Thus, your use of the Site and Services and communication with us is at your own risk.
You are responsible for the security of information that you transmit to us over the internet.
If you have reason to believe that your interaction with the Site and Services is no longer secure, you must immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
Direct Marketing and Advertisements
Direct Marketing: You hereby agree that we may use the contact details you provided us with for the purpose of offering you products or services which may interest you, or send to you other marketing materials. You may withdraw your consent by sending us a notice to the following email: info@offer4homes.com or alternatively following the opt-out instructions for removing yourself from our mailing list which are available in the commercial materials transmitted to you. We may contact you by telephone (on a recorded line), automated calling, facsimile device, or SMS text messaging, based on the information you provided to us. By visiting or using OFFER4HOMES’s content, products or services, you expressly authorize us or an authorized agent of us to contact you by telephone (on a recorded line), automated calling, facsimile device, or SMS text messaging, at the telephone number(s) you provided to us, even if you have opted into the National Do Not Call List administered by the Federal Trade Commission, any state equivalent Do Not Call List, or OFFER4HOMES’s internal Do Not Call List. If we, or one of our agents contacts you by telephone and you wish not to be contacted again, then you should specifically make a request to us not to contact you again. Users are subjected to standard SMS and data rates as determined by your telephone service provider.
Advertisements: When using our Site and Services, you may receive or be exposed to advertisements and commercials from third party advertisers and/or our authorized service providers and/or vendors. By clicking the advertisements or commercials you may be transferred to a website of an advertiser or receive any other messages, information or offers from the advertiser and/or from others. Note that if you click on any of these advertisements, these advertisers may use web- tracking technologies to collect data regarding advertisement performance, your interaction with such ads and your interests (which may include, Non-personal and/or Personal Information about you) in order to serve you advertisements and for the legitimate business interests of such third parties' ad networks. We recommend that you review the terms of use and privacy policy of any advertiser with which you are interacting, since their privacy policy, not ours, will apply to any of those interactions.
Surveys: We may provide you the opportunity to participate in surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personal information from you. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information and demographic information. We use this information for market research purposes and to improve our services. We will occasionally provide anonymized aggregated statistics about our users in reports to third parties. These reports will not identify individual users.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personal information for any other purpose.
Third Party Service Providers
We may be using third party software or service in order to collect, host, store and/or process information. We use commercially reasonable efforts to engage with third parties that post a privacy policy governing their collection, processing and use of Non-personal and Personal Information. Such third party service providers include, without limitation: Amazon Web Services, whose privacy policy can be found at Amazon AWS Privacy Policy; Facebook Pixel, whose privacy policy can be found at Facebook Privacy Policy; Google Analytics, whose privacy policy can be found at Google Analytics Privacy Policy. For more information about opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, please visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Links to Third Party Websites or Services
One or all of the OFFER4HOMES Site and Services may contain links to non- OFFER4HOMES websites or services for your convenience only; they are not under our control and we do not endorse or assume any responsibility for their content, information or functionality. Your access or use of any non- OFFER4HOMES websites or services or reliance upon their content is at your own risk. Most of the linked sites or services provide legal documents, including terms of use and privacy policy, governing their use.
The information they collect about you should be specified in such documents.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
When you access or use our Site and Services, we or our third party service providers (including without limitation, Google Analytics) may use industry-wide technologies such as "cookies", local storage capabilities, or other similar technologies, which store certain local information on your computer and/or track User usage patterns ("Tracking Technologies"). These Tracking Technologies allow the collection of Non-personal Information and Personal Information (e.g. pages viewed by a User within a certain Service, the duration of the browsing, etc.). The Tracking Technologies enable, inter alia, automatic activation of certain features and make the User’s experience and usage simpler, more relevant, convenient and effortless.
We and our third party service providers may use both session cookies (which expire once the User closes the browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on the User's browser and may be used by the browser on subsequent visits to the Service(s), unless deleted by the User).
Changes to the Privacy Policy
OFFER4HOMES reserves the right to make changes to its Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason, so please re-visit this page frequently. If OFFER4HOMES makes material changes to the Privacy Policy, then OFFER4HOMES will either notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Site and Services. These changes will come into effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on the Site and Services or sent to you by e-mail, whichever is earlier. Otherwise, all changes are effective as of the date indicated at the top of this page ("Last Updated") and your continued use of the Service(s) after the indicated date will constitute acceptance to be bound by those changes. If the Privacy Policy must be amended in order to comply with any legal requirements, the amendments may take effect immediately or as required by law and without any prior notice.
OFFER4HOMES reserves the right to stop, temporarily or permanently, the operation of any and all Site and Services without notice, at any time. All information (ours or yours) made available on the applicable Service may be removed or deleted and you are required to make your own copy of any information you submit to OFFER4HOMES. OFFER4HOMES will not be liable to you or to any third party for any changes, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service(s) or any malfunctions that may occur in connection thereto.
California Privacy Rights for California Users
California residents: We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates to market to you, except with your express consent. We will not share your personal and financial information with affiliates or joint marketing companies, if you instruct us not to do so.
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits OFFER4HOMES users who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes To make such a request, please send an email to info@offer4homes.com.
Got any Questions?
If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Policy, please send us an email to the following address: info@offer4homes.com and we will make an effort to reply within a reasonable timeframe.