COMMITMENT
TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Cityside Mortgage Group LLC LLC.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to
us. At CMG, we want to make your experience online satisfying
and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users,
we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use
it.
INFORMATION GATHERED & TRACKED BY CMG
CMG gathers two types of information about users:
Information
that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive a no obligation quote.
Information
Company gathers through aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and
to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics
of our audience. Because Company derives its revenue mainly
from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to
users. Under no circumstances does Company divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
CMG tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. CMG does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type
by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
CMG sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users
enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your
use of this site to information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. CMG uses cookies to track user traffic patterns
(as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies,
you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do
not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However,
you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards,
forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
CMG uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance
their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide
in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users
to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums.
We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special
editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. CMG never shares newsletter mailing
lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors
or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of
our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather
how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue
to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered
in Search function as one of many measures of what interests
our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user
enters.
CMG creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic
patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows
our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our
users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their
needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific
user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information
about any individual user except to comply with applicable law
or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
CMG uses the above-described information to tailor our content
to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our
service free. We will not share information about individual
users with any third party, except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety
of our users or the public.
SECURITY
CMG operates secure data networks protected by industry standard
firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary
and only authorized individuals have access to the information
provided by our customers.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of
this information by CMG. If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
