Griffis Residential Privacy Policy
This notice (the “Privacy Policy”) informs you of the privacy policies of Griffis Residential as they pertain to your personal information. This privacy policy, informs you, who visits www.griffisresidential.com and all other URLs that our (“Site”) directs you to, of the privacy practices that are used by Griffis Residential to collect, use and protect your personal information. Websites that are linked to our (“Site”) and are not linked to this privacy policy, operate under their own Privacy Policies and are not a reflection of Griffis Residential’s privacy practices.
What personal information do we collect from visitors to our website?
Griffis Residential collects two types of information: personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information is only collected when you enter information onto our Site. While using our Site, you may elect to provide personally identifiable information through the “Contact” feature,” Live Chat” feature, or when emailing us. When utilizing these features, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other details of your rental experience to help us determine how we can provide you with the best service and contact you.
Non-personally identifiable information is information that is automatically collected when a user visits our Site. The information collected is not used to personally identify you and includes, but is not limited to, IP address, pages you visited, features you used, anonymous user data, etc.
How do we use your information?
Non-personally identifiable information is used to track patterns and trends of a visitor’s use of the Site. The information collected may include pages you visit and features you used while on the Site. We collect this information to enhance the user experience.
When you submit a “Contact” form or use the “Live Chat” feature on our Site and you enter your personal information, you have authorized us to share your information with our apartment communities and are agreeing to allowing our communities to use this information to contact you.
To follow-up with you, answer inquiries, respond to questions and to lease you an apartment, Griffis Residential may share your personally identifiable information with its affiliates that assist us by hosting user’s contact information and providing communication services. Griffis Residential affiliates that are featured on our Site operate under their own privacy policies and Griffis Residential has no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these websites before visiting their Site.
Other than described in this Privacy Policy, Griffis Residential does not disclose your personally identifiable information with third parties.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. They are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We do not use cookies that store personally identifiable information. By selecting the appropriate settings within your browser, you can refuse the use of cookies. However, electing this preference can limit the functionality of our Site.
How we protect your personally identifiable information
In order to generally ensure that your personally identifiable information is safeguarded, Griffis Residential has adopted the following internal procedures:
- access to non-public personal information is restricted to employees and service providers that need to access such information in order to engage in business activities on behalf of Griffis Residential;
- hard-copies of documents containing non-public personal information are kept in a secured environment; and
- electronic files containing non-public personal information are contained in a secure database accessible to only individuals who have a business need for such information.
Additionally, Griffis Residential’s disposal of non-public personal information shall be done in a secure manner.
Your rights regarding the use of your personally identifiable information
You may correct your personally identifiable information at anytime by emailing us at webmaster@griffisresidential.com. Information requested for modification will be changed as soon as possible.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
Your consent and policy changes
By using our Site, you are consenting to the terms and conditions as described within this policy. If you do not wish to comply with this policy, please do not use this Site.
If at any time this policy is to be modified, the effective date will be posted to this webpage. By using this Site and providing personally identifiable information, you are consenting to any new privacy practices determined after the effective date. For this reason, we encourage you to read this policy notice each time you visit our Site.
If you have any questions as they pertain to this privacy policy or your personally identifiable information, please email us at webmaster@griffisresidential.com