Privacy Policy

V 2 Last updated 21st March 2024

Homestead Futures Inc. Privacy Policy

NOTICE: We may sell your personal data. 

INTRODUCTION 

Homestead Futures Inc. ("Company", "we", or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.myhomestead.com/ (the “Site”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and disclosing that information. It also tells you about the rights and choices you have with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions.

This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Information we obtain in various contexts, both online and offline, including when you access or use our Site and when you communicate with us. It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Site.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY section below). Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16

Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.  If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at connect@myhomestead.com. 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Provide to Us  

The information we collect on or through our Site may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site, interacting with Site features such “Check SB 9 Eligibility,” requesting further services, contacting us or reporting a problem with our Site. 
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
  • Details of transactions when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers or bank wiring information), email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies  

When you visit and navigate through the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device; information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.  For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see the YOUR RIGHTS section below. 
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.  
  •  “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information. We do not collect Order Information automatically, but we may tie Device Information collected automatically to Order Information that you provide to us.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to: Communicate with you; Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our or a third-party’s products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). We may also use Device information for retargeting or other marketing campaigns.

We may use your Personal Information to contact you about our own and/or third parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your Personal Information in this way, please e-mail us at connect@myhomestead.com. For more information, see the YOUR RIGHTS section below. 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction. We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.  For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site.  
  • To another company that buys some, or all, of the assets or stock of Homestead Futures Inc., and that company may use and disclose Personal Information for purposes similar to what is described in this policy.  Homestead may also disclose Personal Information with prospective v purchasers to evaluate the proposed transaction. 
  • To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. To opt out of these disclosures, please e-mail us at connect@myhomestead.com. 
  • For targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed and Categories of Recipients

We disclose the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes to the categories of recipients listed below. 

The categories of personal information we may disclose include Basic Identifying Information, Payment Information, Device Information and Other Unique Identifiers, Internet or Other Network Activity, Geolocation Data, and Commercial Data.

The categories of third parties to whom personal information was or may be disclosed for their direct marketing purposes include: businesses, service providers, unaffiliated or non-agent third parties  third parties, such as advertisers and marketing partners, data analytics providers, potential purchasers of Company assets, and social media networks. 

YOUR RIGHTS 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information: 

  • Cookies. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site. 
  • Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to connect@myhomestead.com.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your [email address/contact information] used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to connect@myhomestead.com.
  • Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to connect@myhomestead.com.
  • Third Party Resources. We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website. For Google Analytics, you may exercise an opt out going to tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You may adjust your Google advertising settings by visiting adssettings.google.com.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to connect@myhomestead.com. 

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

You may send us an email at connect@myhomestead.com to review, request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may revise this privacy policy from time to time and will post the date it was last updated at the top of this privacy policy. We will provide additional notice to you if we make any changes that materially affect your privacy rights and we have an email address on file. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at 

connect@myhomestead.com

or by mail using the details provided below:

Homestead Futures Inc.
2926 Denby Ave, Unit C
Los Angeles, CA, 90039, United States