1. Scope. This privacy policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services available on ShortSteals.com and on other related sites where this policy is posted. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use in registration, you expressly sonsent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, including its transfer to aand storage on our servers in the United States.


2. Collection. While buyers can browse Property advertisements on this website without being a registered user, certain activities (such as viewing property contact information and advertising a property) do require registration. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. In most cases, the information we hold about you is collected on the ShortSteals.com website, but we may also collect information from private-label, co-branded and affiliate websites. Depending on the services used, we may collect and store the following personal information:
Contact information such as name, email address, address and telephone number;

• Financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers;
• Transactional information
• Information based on your activities o the website, such as search information, computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to, from and within the website, ad data, and IP address and standard web log information.


3. Supplemental information from third parties. We may occasionally obtain supplemental information about you from third parties. For example, if you incur a debt to ShortSteals.com, we may conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law. As another example, if the information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you to send us additional information (such as you driver’s license, credit card statement, and or a recent utility bill or other information confirming you address) or to answer additional questions online to help verify your identity.


4. Use. Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We may use your personal information to:

• Provide the services and customer support you request, including confirming emails related to the website services, reminders and transactions.
• Provide the ability to communicate with Buyers and Sellers
• Collect fees, resolve disputes
• Compare and verify the accuracy of information with third parties
• Promote safe service and prevent, detect, error, fraud and other potentially prohibited or illegal activity.
• Enforce our agreements, terms, conditions, and policies.


5. Disclosure. We may share some or all of your personal information with:

• Members of our corporate family to provide joint services and help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts.
• Law enforcement offices, third-party rights owners or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that on advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our users or the general public.
• Other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information, or about whom you are explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service.
• Service providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, invoicing, affiliate and rewards programs and co-branded credit cards).
• Another business entity should we (or our assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business entity. Should such a transaction occur, that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
We may also disclose personal information if permitted to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process.


6. Lead Response. When a buyer contacts a seller through the website, we will collect the buyers telephone number and other information related to the communication. ShortSteals.com also reserves the right on behalf of the Seller, to confirm the ability of the potential buyer to purchase interested Property, to include but not limited to; the receipt of credit application on behalf of a Mortgage Broker for pre-qualification purposes.