LINCOLN APPRAISAL: PRIVACY POLICY
Lincoln Appraisal & Settlement Services, LLC (“Lincoln
Appraisal”) is committed to protecting the personal information
of our customers. Because your use of our services and website and
any of its web pages indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy,
we ask that you please review it carefully. We may change our Privacy
Policy at any time by posting revisions to this website. Our Privacy
Policy shall be applicable to any person or entity who directly
or indirectly, themselves or through an agent or representative,
inputs information into or on our website, and is applicable to
all information input into or on our website. Terms defined in our
Terms and Conditions of Use, also linked
to our website, shall have the same meaning in our Privacy Policy.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
It is important that we collect accurate personal information to
provide better service to you. We obtain information from your visits
to and registration on our website, from orders and requests for
our services, physical inspections of property when an appraisal
is conducted, and in conversations and other communications with
you or your agents or representatives. Specifically, we may obtain
information such as your name, address, email address, phone number
and other contact information, as well as credit card numbers and
expiration dates, from orders and other forms you submit to us,
or from other communications with you. We do not generally obtain
your credit history. We also employ "cookies" to collect
information about you and other users and the use of our website.
"Cookies" are small computer files that we transfer to
your computer's hard drive that allow us to know how often you visit
our website, and the activities you conduct while on our website.
Our use of cookies is not used to record any of your personally
identifiable information while on our website. We may obtain information
such as your Internet service provider, your computer’s operating
system and Web browser, your Web site use and your product and service
preferences from your visits to Web sites. We may ask you to provide
demographic information, so we can provide a more useful personalized
experience to you.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We use your personal information to provide the services you or
your agent or representative has requested us to perform. We request
information from you to process any request from you, including
any order, other request for services or other purchase. Some information
is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have
trouble processing an order, contact information may be used to
contact you or your agent, such as a bank, other financial institution,
or others who represent you or make requests on your behalf.
Lincoln Appraisal may use a third party intermediary to manage
credit card or other payment processing. This intermediary is solely
a link in the distribution chain, and is not permitted to store,
retain, or use the information provided, except for the sole purpose
of credit card processing.
We also use collected information to setup or improve our website,
and we may use collected information to contact you for a variety
of reasons, including, without limitation obtaining information
from you regarding your use of our website and ways we can improve
our website, and to send information to you regarding us, and our
services, and to better understand our services. We use information
in ways we determine most appropriate. We do not, however, share
e-mail or other addresses with third parties, except in connection
with providing the services you request. Also, we will not sell
or rent personal identification information to anyone and we will
not disclose any collected information to others in ways different
from what is disclosed in this statement.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our website,
track your use, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We may disclose personal information when required or permitted
by applicable law, judicial process or in court proceedings.
What Personal Information Is Shared
With Others
We share your personal information with our employees, agents,
and independent contractors who provide services you request or
which are requested on your behalf. We also may share information
about current and former customers with governmental agencies or
third parties as required or permitted by law. We may share aggregated
demographic information with professionals who construct and modify
our website, and who assist us in developing our business. Aggregated
data is not linked to any personal information that can identify
any individual person, and parties using such aggregated data are
not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for
the purposes of providing these services.
How Do We Protect The Personal Information
About You?
We use physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect
the information we collect about you. We instruct our employees
as to the confidential handling of information we collect. Employees
who violate these confidentiality requirements may be subject to
disciplinary action. Of course, you are responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality and security of your passwords and user identification
information. The information we maintain about you should be accurate
and complete to assist us in providing services to you. If you see
information in our reports to you or elsewhere which suggests that
our information is incomplete or inaccurate, please phone us at
1-877-696-5462 so that we can update this information.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Web Site and to
read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects
personally identifiable information. Please be aware that we are
not responsible for the privacy practices of such other site. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this
Web Site.
What information do we share about
former Customers?
We do not share information about our former customers except
in response to subpoenas, discovery requests or for other legal
reasons. If your personally identifiable information changes, or
if you no longer desire our services, we will endeavor to provide
a way to safely store, correct, update or remove that your personal
data provided to us. You can begin this process at the member information
page.
CONTACTING THE WEB SITE
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, the practices
of this website, or your dealings with this website, you may contact
us by email at:
info@Lincolnappraisal.com
,
or phone us at 1-877-696-5462.
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