Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the owner of this Website (from now on "we" or "us") collects and uses the information about you when visiting and using this Website. It explains as well how you can verify and control this information. By using this Website, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy only applies to our Website. If you click on any link included in this Website that lands you to a third party page or service, it won't be valid anymore. Each page or service should have its own privacy policy statement that we suggest you to carefully review before providing any personal information to it. Even if the link is placed inside our Website, this third party page or service is ruled by its own privacy statement.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

By using this Website we collect three kinds of information:

A. Information directly provided by you

This information is directly and voluntarily provided by you through the forms on this Website. It can include, but is not limited to: email, phone number, address, zip code, name, surname, job, etc.

B. Information automatically collected

When visiting the Website, we automatically collect data about your internet connection such as your IP address, the region you’re connecting from, your device, and browser preferences. We also collect behavioral data like time spent on the Website and your interactions with it.

C. Third party information

This Website implements third-party services for specific goals, such as enhancing security or improving user experience. These third parties may collect both personal and behavioral data. We use services like Google Analytics, Tune, TrustedForm, or Journalya. We do not control the data collected or stored by these partners.

To learn more about our interest-based advertising and your advertising choices, please see the "How We Use the Information We Collect" and "Your Choices and Opting Out" sections below.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

A. Information Use By or For Us

Additionally, if you use the Website to connect with third-party services, you authorize us to use information on your behalf to interact with those services as needed.

B. How We Use Your Information for Interest-Based Advertising

We may use third parties to display targeted advertisements based on your interests. These third parties use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies to collect data about your online activity.

We may also serve interest-based ads via platforms like Facebook or Twitter using hashed identifiers, allowing personalization without directly sharing your personal details. Hashed data is deleted after use and not retained for other purposes.

To understand your options regarding interest-based advertising, please see the "Interest Based Advertising Choices" section of this policy.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share or disclose the information we collect from and about you as described below.

A. Sharing of Information by You

The Website offer many ways to find, enjoy, and share content. Your activity in connection with the Website may include filling out surveys, reviewing and rating products or services, inquiring about or purchasing products or services, participation in online communities, "liking" or "sharing" our content to your social media accounts or pages or otherwise interacting with the Website. Any information you may disclose on our Website, in blogs, on message boards, in chat rooms, or on other public areas on the Website or other third-party websites, applications, or services that this Website may link to, becomes public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

B. Sharing of Information by Us

We may share or disclosure your personal information as follows:

Affiliate Companies or Subsidiaries: We may share your information with any parent company or any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or are under common control with us.

Selling Personal Information: We are a lead generation company and are in the business of selling personal information about our users and visitors to third parties, such as, without limitation, bathroom installation providers. When you request a bathroom repair or installation consultation or quote we may sell, disclose, or otherwise share your information to bathroom installation providers or other third party service providers not affiliated with us. The third parties that purchase or receive your information from us may then (i) use your personal information for their own purposes (including for commercial purposes), (ii) contact you regarding their products and services, and/or (iii) further disclose your personal information to other third parties for their own commercial purposes.

Marketing Partners and Other Third Parties: We may share your information with our marketing partners or other third parties to bring selected retail opportunities, offers, contests, programs, events or news to you via direct mail, email and/or telemarketing. You may have no relationship with these other companies. We are not responsible for the content of any third party communications sent to you and you will need to opt out of those communications separately, if desired.

Service Providers: We may share your information with our third party service providers that provide business, professional or technical support functions for us, including to the extent necessary or desirable to help run promotions, fulfill orders, complete your transaction, or provide customer service. These service providers may have access to personal information about our site visitors if it is needed to perform their functions for us, but they are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information, except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.

Legal Matters; Safety: We may access and disclose your information to respond to judicial process or provide information to law enforcement or regulatory agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law. We also may disclose your information as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our Terms of Use, or if it is in our interest to protect our property or other legal rights (including, but not limited to, enforcement of our agreements) or the rights or property of any third party.

Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets: Information about our users, including personal information, may be disclosed and/or sold as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, or similar transaction by us, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information could be transferred and/or sold to third parties as one of our business assets.

Aggregate or Anonymous Non-Personal Information: We may share aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

Other: We may share your information as described to you at the point of collection.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

California residents may also take advantage of the following rights:

You may request, up to two times each year, that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which your personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information, the categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, any categories of personal information that we sold about you, the categories of third parties with whom we have shared your personal information, and the business or commercial purpose for selling your personal information, if applicable.

You may request that we delete any personal information that we have collected from or about you. Note that there are some reasons we will not be able to fully address your request, such as if we need to complete a transaction for you, to detect and protect against fraudulent and illegal activity, to exercise our rights, or to comply with a legal obligation.

You may request to opt out of WhaleMavenHomes.com sale of your personal information to third parties, and to our affiliated companies that do not share the same brand name, for their direct marketing purposes. This means that, if you opt out, going forward, we will not share your information with such third parties to use for their purposes unless you later direct us to do so. To effect the opt out, please click on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link on our website footer.

To take advantage of your access and deletion rights, please use the "Contact us" form in the footer to send us your request. Further information may be required for verification. We value your privacy and will not discriminate in response to your exercise of your privacy rights. We will respond to your access and deletion requests within 45 days of receipt of your request, after proper verification, unless we need additional time, in which case we will let you know. We will respond to your opt of sale requests as soon as reasonably possible.

For purposes of compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act, in addition to the further details as described throughout this Privacy Policy, we make the following disclosures:

YOUR CHOICES AND OPTING OUT

Cookies, Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures

Certain parts of our Website require cookies. You may adjust your device or Internet browser settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Website or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your device’s settings or your Internet browser’s "Help" section for more information on how to delete and/or disable cookies or to control your tracking preferences.

Our system may not recognize "do not track" (DNT) requests or headers from some or all browsers. We may use cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and to link data collected across other computers or devices that you may use.

Interest-Based Advertising Choices

To understand your choices for receiving more relevant advertising provided on the Service or across other websites and online services, please review the information below:

On your mobile device, you may also adjust your privacy and advertising settings to control whether you want to receive more relevant advertising.

Even if you opt out, you still may receive advertising from us that is not customized based on your Service or usage information, or advertising from other third parties if they are not a DAA or NAI participating company.

Unsubscribing from Our Marketing Communications

We provide our customers with the opportunity to opt out of having their information used for purposes not directly related to placement, processing, fulfillment, or delivery of a product or service. To opt out of marketing communications or to request to be added to our Do Not Call List or Do Not Mail List, you may use one of these convenient methods:

Electronic Promotional Offers

If you receive commercial email from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions contained within the email. You may also opt out from receiving commercial email from us by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address given at the end of this policy. You should note that unsubscribing from our electronic mailings will not automatically unsubscribe your information from electronic communications sent by any third party, and you will need to separately unsubscribe from such third party’s communication, if desired.

Direct Mail Offers

If you do not wish to be notified by postal mail regarding products, services, events, programs, and offers that we believe you may find of interest, you may opt out from such communications by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address given at the end of this policy.

Telemarketing

If you do not want to receive marketing phone calls from us, you may:

Once we place your name on our internal "Do Not Call" list, we will no longer call you for marketing purposes (unless you submit another inquiry or request another consultation/quote from us subsequent to your initial request). Your instructions to limit the use of your information for these purposes will be processed as soon as reasonably practicable. Also, our Do-Not-Call process applies to calls made by us or by entities on our behalf. You may still receive calls from third parties who are not calling on our behalf regarding their products and services in which case you will need to request that those parties not call you, on a case-by-case basis.

Unsubscribing from Third Party Communications

Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal information, and your choices. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Protecting children’s privacy is important to us. We do not direct the Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children who are under the age of 16. If we learn that a child under the age of 16 has provided personal information to the Website, we will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our files.

THIRD-PARTY CONTENT, LINKS, AND PLUGINS

For your convenience, the Website may contain links to other websites, products, or services that we do not own or operate and which have privacy policies that differ from our own. If you choose to visit or use any third-party products or services, please be aware that this policy will not apply to your activities or any information you disclose while interacting with third parties, and we are not responsible for the practices of such third parties or websites.

The Website also may offer you the ability to interact with social plugins from social media sites, which may allow us and/or the social media site to receive data from or about you. In some cases, we may know that you clicked on a social plugin, such as a Twitter Follow button, or receive other information from the social media sites. Similarly, if you have previously provided personal information to a third-party operating a plug-in on the Website, then such third-party may recognize you on the Site. Your choice to use social network plugins and provide your information to them is subject to each social media site’s privacy policy, which may be different from ours, so please read these policies carefully to understand their policies and your options. As with linked sites, we have no control over the information that is collected, stored, or used by social network plugins, and are not responsible for the practices of such sites.

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

This Website is hosted in the European Union and is generally intended for United States visitors. If you visit from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please be aware that you are transferring personal information to the United States. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and some other regions. By providing personal information to us, you consent to the transfer of it to the United States and the use of it in accordance with this policy.

DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable security measures that are designed to protect personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please note, however, that no data security measures can be guaranteed to be completely effective. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any personal information or other information. You transmit personal information to us at your own risk.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will we will post the change(s) on the Website also update the "last updated" date at the end of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes means you accept the changes. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to stay informed about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information. If we change the Privacy Statement in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy, email us at info@bathroom.WhaleMavenHomes.com

Last update: Monday 1st of August 2022