Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
At Brookston Oaks (“Brookston Oaks”), we recognize that privacy is important, this Privacy Policy sets out the manner in which Brookston Oaks collects, uses, discloses and otherwise manages personal information. Brookston Oaks may modify
this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you, and you should review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis for any such changes.
- Information we collect and how we use it:
We offer a number of products and services that may not require you to register for an
account or provide any personal information to us. However, in order to provide our full
range of products and services, we may collect the following types of information:
1 Information you provide – Brookston Oaks may collect personal information supplied
by you from time to time including:- When you sign up for a contest or other promotional service or website that requires registration, we ask you for personal information such as your name, email address and an account password, address, telephone number, date of birth, gender or other personal information.
- If you participate in market research for Brookston Oaks we may collect
personal information such as your name, email address, address, telephone
number, date of birth, gender, your consumer habits or preferences or other
personal information. - If you contact Brookston Oaks to make a request, complaint or to provide
feedback to Brookston Oaks we may collect personal information such as your
name, email address, address, telephone number, date of birth, gender,
particulars of your inquiry or complaint or other personal information All personal
information will be used only for the purposes for which it was provided, unless
we obtain your consent to use such information for additional purposes. - Brookston Oaks cookies – When you visit our website, we send one or more cookies
– a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies
your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user
preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or
to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some promotion or contest features and services may not function properly if
your cookies are disabled.
Log information – When you use our websites, our servers automatically record
information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs
may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser
type, browser language, the date and time of your request, referring/exit pages and
URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed
and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages and one or
more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Clear Gifs Information- When you use our websites, we may employ “clear
gifs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our
users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may
also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are
opened by recipients.
User communications – When you send email or other communication to
[email protected] , we may retain those communications in order to process
your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Links – our websites may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of
whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality
of our search technology, customized content, and advertising.
Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and
operated by Brookston Oaks We do not exercise control over the sites displayed
as links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies
or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
We may utilize personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes
(i) to provide products or services to you; (ii) to identify who you are, (iii) to administer
contests and promotions, (iv) to contact you for marketing or promotional purposes, (v)
to improve upon or personalize the content and layout of our websites, (vi) to notify you
of changes to our websites, (vii) to improve upon our products and services (viii) to
process inquiries or complaints, and (ix) such other purposes as may be identified at the
time of collection.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a service that requires registration, we may ask you to provide
personal information. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other
than those described in this Policy or in the specific service notices, you may opt out of
the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use
personal information for purposes other than those described in this Policy or in the
specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent. You can decline to
submit personal information to Brookston Oaks, in which case Brookston Oaks may
not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Brookston Oaks only shares personal information with third parties in the following
limited circumstances:
1. We have your consent.
2. We provide such information too our affiliated companies or other trusted
businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our
behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on
our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
3. We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to:
1. Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request,
2. Enforce Brookston Oaks ‘s Terms of Use including investigation of potential
violations thereof,
3. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or
unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews
of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well
as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where
we store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to Brookston Oaks
‘s employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to
operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations subject to enforcement, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Notwithstanding the security measures taken by Brookston Oaks, you acknowledge
that the internet and electronic communications are not secure mediums. Brookston Oaks does not represent, warrant or guarantee that personal information will be secure and you acknowledge that you submit personal information at your own risk.
Data integrity
Brookston Oaks processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was
collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy
notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that
we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or
improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information
we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or
correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Brookston Oaks ‘s services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information, either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or
to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or
for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the
information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such
requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or
systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing
on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we
provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge,
except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
Compliance
Brookston Oaks regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to
direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Brookston Oaks ‘s treatment
of personal information by contacting us through this website.