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May 15, 2004
The following Privacy Policy is applicable to all of the information
collected during your use of Wensmann Homes, Inc. web sites. Please
read this information carefully before accessing any part of the sites.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Wensmann recognizes and respects the privacy of users of its web sites.
To better protect your privacy, we are providing this Policy to explain
our online information practices and the way that we may collect and
use information from you.
From time to time, Wensmann may provide personally identifiable information
from your information requests, its registration database, and/or its
mailing list (collectively referred to herein as "mailing list")
to selected third-party sponsors, businesses or organizations, who
may send e-mail messages and other information to you. Wensmann will
endeavor to only provide such information to reputable companies and
organizations. Wensmann, however, is not responsible for the collection
or maintenance practices of such third parties. You may request that
we not share your information with any third-party sponsors, businesses
or organizations, by sending us an email at webmaster@wensmann.com or
mailing your request to:
Webmaster, Wensmann Homes
1895 Plaza Drive #200
Eagan, Minnesota (651) 406-4400
Wensmann will not use or share the personally identifiable information
provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above
without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit
such unrelated uses.
The Information We Collect
Generally, Wensmann may gather and aggregate information about visitors
to its web sites by tracking the usage of certain features available
on the web sites. The collection of this information enables Wensmann
to tailor its content to your needs, keep you informed of information
that you may find of interest, and to help better understand the demographics
of its audience, which assists it in providing appropriate products
and services to its customers.
Information Systems Security Policy and Notification Procedures
In the event a breach of the security system occurs for which we reasonably
believe that an unauthorized party has acquired your unencrypted personal
information maintained on our computer systems, we will notify you of
that intrusion by sending you an e-mail message at the electronic mail
address that we have on file for you. For purposes of this section, "personal
information" means your name in combination with (a) Social Security
number; (b) driver's license number; or (c) account number, credit or
debit card number, in combination with any required security code, access
code, or password that would permit access to your financial account.
Not with standing the foregoing, "personal information" does
not mean information that may be publicly available. Although we will
attempt to notify you of such breach in a prompt matter, our notification
to you may be delayed consistent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement
and the time necessary to restore the reasonable integrity of any such
affected data system.
Registration or Information Requests
Additionally, at certain sections of our web sites you may register or
request to receive additional information or services. During these
processes, you may be asked to provide the following personally-identifiable
information: your name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address,
information about the size and/or ages of members of your household
or business, and/or employment, business and/or home preference information.
Wensmann and/or its designee will use this information in responding
to your request.
When you register, you may also be given the opportunity to be on
Wensmann’s mailing list for future information. If you decide
to be on our mailing list, Wensmann will maintain your personally identifiable
information in secure on-line and off-line facilities. Your personally
identifiable information will only be disclosed to certain employees
of Wensmann or its designees with a business purpose to review your
information, or to selected companies as described below, see Sharing.
Except as set forth in this Policy, if you decide not to be on our
mailing list, Wensmann will not maintain your personally identifiable
information for longer than is reasonably necessary to respond to your
request and maintain its computer systems, except that Wensmann may
utilize your personal information in aggregated statistics.
Moreover, consistent with our Commitment
to Privacy, unless you request that we not share your information,
we may share your requests, including your personally-identifiable
information, with third-party homebuilders or other parties so that
such third parties can contact you, including by sending you e-mail
and other information to you. Wensmann, however, is not responsible
for the collection or maintenance practices of such third parties.
Electronic Mail Messages and Inquiries to Wensmann Homes
We will use return email addresses to answer, or have our designee’s
answer, electronic mail messages that we may receive. Consistent with
our Commitment to Privacy,
unless you specifically request that we not include your address and/or
other information for our mailing list, we reserve the right to keep
and disclose your address and other information as if you registered
to be on our mailing list. (See Registration
or Information Requests)
Contest or Other Drawings
On some pages of our sites, you may be given the opportunity to register
to enter contests or sweepstakes. In connection with your entry, you
may be requested or required to provide certain personally identifiable
information about yourself, including your name, address, age, gender,
telephone number, email address, and/or various interests. By submitting
your entry, you acknowledge that, in addition to providing your information
to relevant taxing authorities as may be required; we will maintain
your information for our mailing list. (See Registration
or Information Requests.) If you do not wish for us to maintain
your information, please see the section of this Policy on Correcting
Your Information.
Other Disclosures
Finally, Wensmann may store and disclose personal information as allowed
or required by applicable law, including making disclosures that are
necessary or advisable to: (a) protect the rights, safety or property
of Wensmann or others or (b) conform to legal or regulatory requirements.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For
that reason, Wensmann Homes does not intend to or knowingly collect
or maintain personally identifiable information from children under
13.
Correcting Your Information
If your personally-identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if you no longer want Wensmann to maintain your information,
this can be accomplished by sending us an email at webmaster@wensmann.com or
sending your request to:
Webmaster, Wensmann Homes Inc.
1895 Plaza Drive #200
Eagan, Minnesota (651) 406-4400
Cookies and Log Files
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information
about you. Wensmann may use cookies on its sites to provide better
navigation on our site for you, which will terminate once you close
your browser. Additionally, you may still use our site even if you
reject the cookie. Cookies, however, may be used by some of the web
sites to which we link. Therefore, please review the Links section
of this Policy below.
In addition, we may use your Internet Protocol (or IP) address to
analyze trends, administer the site and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use in order to improve our site. We will not link any
IP addresses that we may collect to any personally identifiable information.
Sharing
Wensmann may share non-identifying, aggregated demographic information
with homebuilders and other companies involved in its projects. Except
as expressly set forth above, this information will not be linked to
any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Additionally, Wensmann may outsource the responsibility for responding
to your requests for information or services to a third-party designee.
Wensmann will request that such third-party designee only use your
information to respond to your request and that such designee not trade,
sell, or rent your information.
From time to time, Wensmann also may provide personally identifiable
information from its mailing list to selected third-party sponsors,
businesses or organizations, which may send e-mail messages and other
information to you. Wensmann will endeavor to only provide such information
to reputable companies and organizations. Wensmann, however, is not
responsible for the collection or maintenance practices of such third
parties. You may request that we not share your information with any
third-party sponsors, businesses or organizations, by sending us an
email at webmaster@wensmann.com or
mailing your request to:
Webmaster, Wensmann Homes
1895 Plaza Drive #200
Eagan, Minnesota (651) 406-4400
Wensmann will not use or share the personally identifiable information
provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above
without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit
such unrelated uses.
Links
On our sites, you may have the opportunity to follow a link to sites
for homebuilders, retailers, and other sites of interest. Wensmann
endeavors to only link to reputable organizations related to your areas
of interest. Because these other sites may not be hosted or controlled
by Wensmann, however, we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of those sites. Therefore, the privacy policies with respect to these
areas may differ from those applicable to our sites and we encourage
you to review the privacy policies of each of those other web sites.
This privacy policy only applies to information collected and maintained
by Wensmann and its affiliates.
Governing Law
The internal laws of the State of Minnesota, without reference to any
choice of law provisions, shall govern any claims relating to the materials
on our web sites.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or our web site, please contact
us at webmaster@wensmann.com. |