Preferred Partners of the Hamptons Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy Last modified: June 30th, 2025 Introduction Preferred Partners of the Hamptons LLC (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website PPOTH.com or its affiliated mobile application (collectively, our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect: • On this Website. • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website. • Through mobile and desktop applications you access or download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website. It does not apply to information collected by: • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (excluding advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website. 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 Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website 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 18 Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, 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 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at office@ppoth.com. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information: • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); • That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. We collect this information: • Directly from you when you provide it to us. • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies. • From third parties, for example, our members. The information we collect on or through our Website may include: • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website. • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us. • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes. • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website. • Your search queries on the Website. 2 You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: • Details of your visits or access to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website. • Information about your computer or mobile device and internet connection, including your IP address, device’s unique device identifier, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number. The information we collect automatically may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to: • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns. • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests. • Speed up your searches. • Recognize you when you return to our Website. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include: • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. 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 Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. 3 • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our email may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). When you use the App or its content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties include: • Your mobile device manufacturer. • Your mobile service provider. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. How We Use Your Information We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information: • To present our Website and its contents to you. • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us. • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. • To provide you with notices about your account. • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it. • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information. • For any other purpose with your consent. We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, 4 please contact office@ppoth.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. Disclosure of Your 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 and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Preferred Partners of the Hamptons LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Preferred Partners of the Hamptons LLC about our Website users is among the assets transferred. • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information. • With your consent. We may also disclose your personal information: • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use. • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Preferred Partners of the Hamptons LLC, our users, or others. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information 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: • Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Although we do not use your data for an advertising purpose, we want to provide you with ways you can choose not to have your information collected or used for advertising. You can opt out of 5 receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI's website. Accessing and Correcting Your Information You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at office@ppoth.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. 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. If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use. Your State Privacy Rights State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. Company’s services and this Website are intended for Suffolk County, New York residents, only. Company limits its services and targets the consumers of real estate located in Suffolk County, New York. Therefore, the laws regulating privacy, consumer protection, or any other law, other than those that apply to residents of Suffolk County, New York, does not apply to Company. California residents may reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite S-202, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or Hearing Impaired (800) 735-2929. The most updated contact information can be accessed at: https://www.dca.ca.gov/about_us/contactus.shtml. Nevertheless, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to: • Confirm whether we process their personal information. • Access and delete certain personal information. 6 • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah). • Data portability. • Opt-out of personal data processing for: • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa); • sales; or • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah). • Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data. The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact office@ppoth.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request please contact office@ppoth.com. Please know that we do not currently sell data that would trigger a State’s statutory opt-out requirements. Changes to Our Privacy Policy It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Contact Information To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: office@ppoth.com. 7