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DISCLAIMER
GuideToRetirementLiving.com does not guarantee the accuracy of any
information available on this site, and is not responsible for any
errors, omissions, or misrepresentations. Product information including
availability, features, floor plans and rent ranges are subject to
change without prior notice and should be verified independently with
the property managerss.
EQUAL
HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
Our Policy
All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation, or
discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin, or intention to make such preference,
limitation or discrimination." State and local laws forbid
discrimination based on factors in addition to those protected under
federal law.
We
will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in
violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings
advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
If You
Suspect Discrimination:
Complaints alleging housing discrimination may be filed with the nearest
office of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), or by calling HUD’s toll free number, 1-800-669-9777 (voice), or
1-800-543-8294 (TDD).
You can contact
HUD on the internet at
http://www.hud.gov/complaints/index.cfm
Also, some information regarding real estate and related matters in this
Web Site is provided via hyperlink to third party sites. If you suspect
discrimination by one of these sites, please contact our staff at
Sgurney@gwpi.net.
GuideToRetirementLiving.com Privacy Policy
GuideToRetirementLiving.com respects the privacy of its users. In this
document we explain how we use information you supply us via the
GuideToRetirementLiving.com Web site. This privacy policy may be
modified in the future. If it is, a new policy will be posted on our Web
sites and you will have the opportunity to modify your information on
file with us as explained below.
This Web site is the product of www.GuidetoRetirementLiving.com, a division of
Greater Washington Publishing, Inc.
What
personal information do we collect?
Visiting: You are not required to provide personally identifiable
information to visit the GuideToRetirementLiving.com site. We do collect
usage data, ZIP codes and other information on all users, but it is not
personally identifiable except as described below under the section IP
addresses.
Registration, Service Requests and Web Forms: You may be asked to
provide personal information to use certain services on this site, which
will be apparent from the forms we ask you to complete. When you request
more information, use one of our other interactive services, or enter a
contest, we may request specific information about you, including your
name, age, address and phone number, as well as demographic and vehicle
information. To use one of our other interactive services, or enter a
contest, you must be 18 years of age or older and agree to the Terms and
Conditions of the Web site.
Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are placed on your
computer's hard drive by our computers (or servers) to identify your
computer. Cookies are read only by the server that placed them there and
are unable to execute any code or virus. We use cookies to recognize you
when you visit our site, to personalize your experience and generally to
serve you better. For example, if you enter your name, address or ZIP
code on one of our forms, it may be stored in a cookie so you do not
have to enter it again. Cookies also can tell us what advertising you
have seen on our site, which allows us to offer you a more diverse
selection of advertising information. Cookies also may compile data
about our visitors that may be shared with other companies, such as an
outside advertising company. However, no personally identifiable
information stored in cookies will be shared with outside companies for
any purpose without your permission. You can disable cookies or
otherwise manage them through tools provided with your browser software
and with third-party software packages. If you turn off cookies, many
GuideToRetirementLiving.com features will not work as well or at all. IP
addresses: GuideToRetirementLiving.com compiles IP addresses -- the
location of your computer on the Internet -- for administrative and
analytical purposes. GuideToRetirementLiving.com does not routinely
collect any personally identifiable information through its compilation
of your IP address or the location of your computer on the Internet.
However, in cases of suspected abuse or service problems, we may use an
IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information
to enforce our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot the
service, the site, its users or others who may be affected. No
personally identifiable information associated with IP addresses will be
shared with third parties for marketing purposes without your
permission.
How do
we use the information we collect?
Site Interaction: The information you provide on our site may be
stored on our servers or, in some cases, in a cookie on your computer.
This information will be used to compile aggregate data that is not
personally identifiable and may be used internally or shared with third
parties. This information may also be used to confirm and fulfill a
request you are making, to follow up on that request and to communicate
with you about the GuideToRetirementLiving.com service. The messages
that GuideToRetirementLiving.com sends for these purposes may
incidentally include promotional material or other content from
GuideToRetirementLiving.com or its partners. In the case of these
messages, we are not sharing your personally identifiable information
with third parties, nor will we continue to send you promotional
messages if you ask us not to, as described below in the Section
entitled "Accessing, changing or deactivating information collected by
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com."
Direct Promotion: Using the contact information provided by
registrants 18 years of age and older, including e-mail addresses,
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com, its affiliates, or third parties to whom
GuideToRetirementLiving.com discloses such information in accordance
with this privacy policy (including its partners or advertisers) may
periodically send you promotional or informational messages. In any case
where we might use your contact information for this purpose, you will
be able to indicate at registration whether you wish to receive such
promotional or informational messages. However, by providing us your
personal contact information when you register or request specific
services, you agree that GuideToRetirementLiving.com may contact you
regarding account status, changes to this privacy policy or other terms
of service, and to confirm, fulfill and follow up on your registration,
service or information request.
Visitor Behavior: GuideToRetirementLiving.com may perform
statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in
the various areas of our site, for development purposes, and to inform
advertisers and partners about consumers who click on their advertising
or other messages. In these analyses, we will disclose information to
third parties only in aggregate form, except as specified below. We also
may use personally identifiable information to improve your experience
while you are visiting our site. This might include prefilling your
personal information into Web forms so that you do not have to retype it
or presenting you with editorial and advertising content that may be of
interest.
With
whom do we share the information we collect?
GuideToRetirementLiving.comwill share personally identifiable
information with third parties in the following cases:
1. With affiliates for whom we provide Web sites. If you entered the
GuideToRetirementLiving.com Web site through a site maintained by one of
these affiliates, then your personally identifiable information may be
shared with that affiliate on the condition that the affiliate's use of
the information is consistent with this privacy policy.
2. As is necessary for third parties to provide information or
perform services specifically requested by you. If through
GuideToRetirementLiving.com you request additional information from an
apartment community or property manager, we will share your information
with those companies. Personally identifiable information that you have
supplied may also be included in reports to these third parties. Once
information is provided to these third parties,
GuideToRetirementLiving.com is not responsible for the use of this
information.
3. For direct marketing purposes, but only if you have authorized
GuideToRetirementLiving.com to do so and only if you are 18 years of age
or older. Although GuideToRetirementLiving.com will notify all third
party direct marketers that the information provided to them is
confidential, GuideToRetirementLiving.com does not and cannot control
the use or disclosure of information by such marketers after the
information is provided to them.
4. To perform analytical and other services as an agent of
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com. In some cases we may work with third parties that
do analysis and development on our behalf. We may share your personally
identifiable information with such a third party on the condition that
the third party maintains the information as confidential and only uses
the information to perform the services specified by
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com.
5. During the processing of transactions involving a credit card, we
transmit your credit card number to the appropriate credit card company
or bank. In addition, if customers do not pay us for products or
services ordered, we may submit thier account information to a third
party collection agency.
E-mail
a Friend
GuideToRetirementLiving.com sometimes offers you the ability to send
e-mail to a friend or other third party. E-mail a Friend functionality
is for informational purposes only and may not be used for any unlawful
purpose. This includes all harassment or threats.
GuideToRetirementLiving.com expressly reserves the right to release
information you provide through use of this functionality (including but
not limited to e-mail addresses, names and IP addresses) to third
parties in any case of suspected abuse or other problems, in order to
enforce our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot the service,
the site, its users or others who may be affected. Information collected
under the "e-mail a friend" functionality is otherwise subject to the
same limitations of use, access, security and disclosure described
elsewhere in this privacy policy.
How do
we handle changes to your information or to this policy?
Notification of changes: Any changes to this policy will be posted
on our Web site in this location. If those changes affect how we use
your personally identifiable information, we will contact you at the
e-mail address in our records to notify you of the change before it
takes effect in regard to your information. You can then either agree to
the changes, modify your personally identifiable information or
deactivate your user record.
Accessing,
changing or deactivating information collected by
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com: If you wish to access, verify the
accuracy of, change or deactivate your personal information on file with
GuidetoRetirementLiving.com; change your permissions regarding use of
personally identifiable information for direct promotion purposes by
GuideToRetirementLiving.com or its partners (including affiliates and
third parties identified in this policy), please contact us by emailing
Sgurney@gwpi.net
or calling us at 703-992-1100.
Deactivation of user information: If you deactivate your user
information, your account information will no longer be used by
GuideToRetirementLiving.com or made available to any third parties
except in an aggregate form or as required by law.
Security
We
have in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect
the information we collect online. However, as effective as these
measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee
the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information
you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over
the internet.
Does
this privacy statement extend to links to other sites?
This site contains links to other sites. While we encourage our business
partners to adopt privacy policies that build users' trust and
confidence in the Internet, we are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of Web sites linked to any of our sites. We may
allow third parties to sponsor promotions and sweepstakes through our
site. Use of any personal information provided to such a third party
will be governed by that party's privacy policy.
Collection of information by third parties
GuideToRetirementLiving.commay use a third-party advertising company to
serve ads when you visit our site. This company may use information (not
including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about
your visits to our and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition,
we may share Web site usage information about visitors to our sites with
this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on
our site and other sites. For this purpose, we and our third-party
advertising company note some of the pages you visit on our site through
the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs or single-pixel gifs). In
the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party
advertising company may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your
computer.
If you have any
questions about this privacy statement, please e-mail us at
Sgurney@gwpi.net
Effective Date: March 28, 2005
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