Your Privacy Is Important To Us
AptExpert.com– Kathy Curtis, Texas Apartment Locators Houston respects the privacy of our online visitors. The information collected from the website’s submission page will never be sold, rented, or distributed. Your information will be used exclusively by a trained and licensed real estate sales agent for the sole purpose of assisting with your apartment search. Our website analytics software may collect visitor usage, data, and cookies for website improvements, statistics, and functional purposes, only. Your private information is of the utmost importance to us. You will not be subjected to spam a result of visiting the site nor submitting details about your search, nor will your private information be used for other purposes. We also make every effort to protect our email communications using state of the art security software for antivirus, spam, and malware.
You also don’t pay funds to anyone other than the leasing office, landlord or apartment management websites when you apply for your apartment or townhome.
In accordance with the GDPR and Federal Trade Commission, this privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for this website – AptExpert.com, Kathy Curtis, an agent of Texas Apartment Locators Houston, Broker of record.
This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website – AptExpert.com.
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information.
- How you can contact me should you need to inquire about your data or information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email, another direct message, or contact from you. We will not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you regarding your apartment search, and the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than, as necessary to fulfill your request: Example – asking questions about your particular rental/credit criteria as you’ve requested for obtaining general qualifications with properties deemed suitable to match your requests.
We may be asked to provide your contact information, name, phone, and email to register you at a property prior to your visits.
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Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email, text, or phone at a future date to ask if you’re in need of our services, inquire about your level of satisfaction with using our service or ask about your property experience.
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided here: 281-414-5258 or kat@aptexpert.com and you may also:
- Inquire as to what data we have about you if any
- Change/correct any data we have about you
- Ask us to delete your contact information completely from our database
- Express any concerns you have regarding the data.
Registration
Our site has a registration page or “contact us” or “submit your contact info” in a contact form to complete at your discretion, alternatively, you have the option to call, text, or email to do business with us.
In order to use this website to search our database, a user must first follow the link to our 3rd party database however, you’ll only share information with me once your favorite properties have been selected. (solely to function in assisting you with your apartment search) The contact form is used exclusively by me to call or text you to discuss details for your apartment search.
Any information collected in that conversation is also solely used for that purpose, and once the search is complete, that information is shredded if in written form. Further, the database stores the contact information and notes regarding your search for up to 730 days.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site, identify repeat visitors, and to be sure the site functions and navigates properly. Cookies can track and target the interests of users but that’s not the case when you use this site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
The data collected by our analytics partners are also used to identify aggregated demographics, track length of activity or interest in particular page content, and again is not personally identifiable. It’s used solely to improve our site, its navigation, and its function. We will only share names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Site links you may see are: links to school districts; media publications for local resources; we may also share links for purposeful information regarding events or attractions in and around the Houston area on our blog.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
We never collect sensitive information (such as credit card data, or accept payments of any kind from you or from this site). Our website uses a secure socket layer for added protection which can be verified by the “lock” icon in the address bar or looking for “https” at the beginning of the URL address on each page of this site and AptExpert.com’s pages.
No one else has access to your personal information submitted through contact forms or emails. Certain identifying information is stored on our 3rd party database, which is also secured, protected, and only accessible to us. The computer/server in which your name and contact information or personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 281-414-5258 or via email to kat@aptexpert.com
Our business is regulated by the Texas Real Estate Commission as licensed real estate sales agents/brokers.