Amended & Restated
Last Updated: January 18, 2008

ApartmentRatings.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read this to learn about our policy regarding visitor and member privacy.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers ApartmentRatings.com's treatment of personally identifiable information that ApartmentRatings.com collects when you are on the Web site located at www.ApartmentRatings.com, and when you use ApartmentRatings.com's services. This policy also covers ApartmentRatings.com's treatment of any personally identifiable information that ApartmentRatings.com's business partners share with ApartmentRatings.com.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ApartmentRatings.com does not own or control, or to people that ApartmentRatings.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

ApartmentRatings.com collects personally identifiable information when you register for a ApartmentRatings.com account and when you use the service. ApartmentRatings.com may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.

When you register with ApartmentRatings.com, we ask for your email address and zip code. You may also be requested to provide additional information to ApartmentRatings.com after you have registered, such as your apartment search price range, move date, phone number, and other information. Pseudo-anonymous information associated with your browser session (stored in browser cookies), such as your favorite apartments and moving calendar data, may also be permanently stored once you register with ApartmentRatings.com. Once you register with ApartmentRatings.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

ApartmentRatings.com also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, ApartmentRatings.com cookie information and the page you requested.

ApartmentRatings.com uses your information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and in some cases, to contact you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

ApartmentRatings.com will not provide your personally identifiable information to other companies or people except in the following instances:

• We have your consent to share the information;
• We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
• We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of ApartmentRatings.com to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process;
• We find that your actions on our Web sites violate the ApartmentRatings.com Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services; or
• As set forth in the Business Transfers section of this policy.

Your Internet browser has a feature called "cookies" which may store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to our site. ApartmentRatings.com may set and access ApartmentRatings.com cookies on your computer. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information.

ApartmentRatings.com uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here). Advertisers or other companies do not have access to ApartmentRatings.com's cookies.

ApartmentRatings.com uses web beacons to access our cookies within our network of web sites and in connection with ApartmentRatings.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

ApartmentRatings.com gives you the ability to edit your ApartmentRatings.com Account Information and preferences at any time.

You may request deletion of your ApartmentRatings.com account by sending an email to staff@aptratings.com.

Security

Your ApartmentRatings.com Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

In certain areas, ApartmentRatings.com uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

ApartmentRatings.com may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a notice on this page of the site.

Business Transfers

If there is an acquisition of ApartmentRatings.com's business (whether by merger, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock of ApartmentRatings.com, or otherwise), your information could be sold as part of that transaction and your personally identifying information potentially could be used by the purchaser. However, if the purchaser materially changes this Privacy Policy or the information handling practices as described in this Privacy Policy, you will be notified through a notice posted on this page of the site.

Privacy of Children

ApartmentRatings.com is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13 years of age. This requirement is clearly posted during the registration process.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions complete a feedback form or send an email to staff@aptratings.com.