Welcome to Thepghouse.com! We are a real estate information service connecting
people in the real estate market. Thepghouse.comand our subsidiaries and
affiliates (collectively "Thepghouse.com") provide you with access to a
variety
of services, including but not limited to the www.thepghouse.comwebsite (the
"Website") and Thepghouse.com’smobile applications and all the products
and
services available through our website (collectively the "Services"). The
Website is owned and operated by Devananta Private Limited, a company
incorporated under the laws of India.
Our Privacy Policy is incorporated as part of the Thepghouse.comTerms of Use.
Please read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use carefully before using our
Services. By using Thepghouse.com ‘s Services, you agree to the provisions of
this Privacy Policy. If you do not want to be bound by our Privacy Policy,
please do not use our Services.
Why We Collect Information from You
Thepghouse.comis a real estate information service. To provide our Services, we
use the information we collect to:
• Help you find the most relevant information for your situation by customizing
our Services to optimize your experience;
• Keep you connected with Thepghouse.comacross the internet and update you with
residential real estate-related news and information; and
• Put you in touch with the right people to sell, buy, rent, or research
residential real estate, obtain a mortgage, and to optimize the information we
share with those parties to initiate a productive and efficient relationship.
Our goal in this policy is to be completely transparent about the data we
collect, why we collect it, and how we use it, in order to make finding your new
home a pleasant and fun experience!
To Whom Does This Policy Apply
Some parts of this Policy are directed at specific types of people. We use some
special terminology to refer to them, which we define below. This Policy applies
to everyone who uses our Services, but sometimes we direct parts of it toward
particular groups of users.
Users: "Users" are everyone who uses our Services.
Real Estate Professionals (REPs): "Real Estate Professionals," or "REPs" are
users who have created accounts (free or paid) with us to sell or rent real
estate, participate in our advertising services, and participate in other
Services that we direct toward the professional real estate community. REPs
include landlords, agents, developers, institutional property consultants,
mortgage professionals and subscribers. We send leads to REPs on your behalf, as
described in this Policy.
Advertisers : Advertisers are the users who have created accounts (free or
paid)
with us to sell their services and avail our advertising & other services that
we direct towards the Advertiser’s Community. Advertiser’s include Water can
service, Food service, laundry service and other service providers.We send leads
to Advertisers on your behalf, as described in this Policy.
What Information Do We Collect, and Where Do We Get It
We Collect Some Information From All Visitors to Our Website: Like many online
services, we use technologies like session and persistent cookies, web beacons
(tiny image files on web pages that communicate information about the page
viewer to the beacon owner), log data, and third-party analytics services to
collect and analyze information about all users of our Services This includes
things like User search preferences, interaction with ads on our Website, and
location.
Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of
the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser
type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your
mobile carrier, device, search terms, and cookie information. We receive Log
Data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our
websites, sign into our Services, or interact with our email notifications. We
use Log Data to provide our Services and to measure, customize, and improve
them, as well as collect and use them in the aggregate. This Policy does not
apply to, nor do we take any responsibility for any information that is
collected by any third party either using the Website or through any links on
the Website or through any of the advertisements.
Cookies are small data files that we transfer to your computer. We use "session"
cookies to keep you logged in while you use our Services, to better understand
how you interact with our Services, and to monitor aggregate usage and web
traffic information on our Services. We use "persistent" cookies to recognize
you each time you return to our Services. For example, we create a persistent
cookie that includes some basic information about you, like your most recent
search and whether an agent responded to a query you sent using Thepghouse.com's
Services. We use this persistent cookie to remember your preferences and, if you
create an account, to make your user experience consistent after you register.
Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your
settings or use third-party tools to refuse cookies or prompt you before
accepting cookies from the websites you visit. You can also use your browser
settings or other tools to delete cookies you already have. Please be aware that
some parts of our Services may not work for you if you disable cookies.
Information We Collect from REPs& Advertisers: If you create a REP/ Advertisers
account with us, whether as a landlord, Services provider, agent, developer or
subscriber we will ask you to provide certain information in order to set up
your account. We ask all REPs/ Advertisers to provide a name, a company (if
available), a phone number, and an email address. If you create a paid
REP/advertisers account and become a subscriber, we require you to submit all of
the information required from landlords and agents as well as a description of
your campaign. We will also collect financial data like credit card information
and billing addresses from subscribers, so that we can handle billing. If you
are a subscriber, a Thepghouse.com representative may call you to verify your
information.
Additional Information About You that We Obtain from Third Parties: We may
sometimes obtain information about you from third parties and use it to help
agents serve you better. For example, our partners may help us provide
predictions of your income range and how likely you may be to purchase a home.
We will share this augmented data only with selected REPs/ Advertisers
(subscribers) who you choose to share information with by contacting them
through the Thepghouse.com Services.
Location Data: If you provide location information (like a ZIP code, street
address, or even just a city) during the registration process or at any other
time via your account settings, we will store that information and associate it
with your account.
We may use and store information about your location to provide localized
features, to analyze our Services with the help of third-party analytics
services, to provide you with relevant advertising and marketing materials, and
otherwise to improve and customize our Services.
How We Share Your Information
As you use, access and navigate our Website, we collect various information,
which may either be personally identifiable information or information that is
not personally identifiable. This information is classified as:
• “Personal Information” which means personally identifiable information like
your name, your address, your age, your email address and your phone number.
• “Sensitive Personal Information” which means your financial information, your
passwords, any biometric, medical or health related information.
• “Other Information” which means all other information other than “Personal
Information” or “Sensitive Personal Information.” For example, the nature of
device information, your usage patterns, your usage preferences, logs which are
created when you access and use the Website, local caches on your browser, your
location, ip address and the like. These are just examples and the list is by no
means exhaustive.
Any personal information will be used to allow you to login to your account or
to resolve specific service issues, inform you of our new services or features
and to communicate with you in relation to your use of the Website. Any other
information we collect will be used for-
• our business purposes and this may include the viewing or advertising of
residential or commercial real estate, rental properties or to use associated
services;
• analytical purposes, data usage;
• improving the Website, or your user experience; and
• providing targeted advertisements to you.
We will share all information we collect from you, including the personal
information with any third party if we in good faith believe it is required for
the purposes of our compliance with any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or enforceable governmental request/action or any manner required for
the purposes of protecting our rights or interests.
From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our Website
available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think
you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address
with other companies or organizations, please let us know by emailing us at
Support@thepghouse.com or call our call center at +91xxxx-xxxxx.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone
or text message contact from us with information regarding new products and
services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls
or text messages, please let us know by e-mailing us at Support@thepghouse.com
or call our call center at+91xxxx-xxxxx.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest
to
you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on
our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our Website, ad server companies may
collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream
information.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information (Non-PII): is information that cannot
by
itself be used to identify an individual person. Non-PII includes information
received from the web browser, operating system, or device, including such
things as information about the browser and browser settings, information about
the operating system or device, the unique identifier assigned to a device, the
web address of a web page visited, the name or type of mobile app, the time and
date a web page or app was visited, the address of the referring web page, and
other information about a web page or app. It could also include the number of
times a particular browser or device has been shown a particular ad, or it may
include generic categories about users and their interests (for example, “male
flat buyer”). Non-PII also includes information about the precise geographic
location of the device, which may be collected when the user of the device
permits such collection.
Use of Non-PII: In order to provide and improve our Services and to share
relevant ads with you, provide interest-based advertising (to opt out of
interest-based advertising on the Platform, go to the Opt Out section below),
show ads in a particular sequence, customize ads to a particular geographic
region, determine when users respond to ads and reporting aggregated statistics
regarding, for example, the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns we use
and disclose to our advertising and analytics partners Non-PII that we collect,
including cookie data, some log data, and mobile data. We also share anonymous
profiles of users who view a property or other services with REPs/ Advertisers.
Opting out of tracking on our services through this link inserts a cookie on the
user’s browser. We rely on this cookie to identify an opted-out user. We will
not be able to identify an opted out user, if the user
• Clears the cookie from his/her browser,
• Uses a different browser, Or
• Uses a different computer
We will discontinue tracking activities for an opted out user. This means that
we will not track an opted out user’s behaviour or display customised ads to the
user. However, an opted out user may be able to view suggestions by us
pertaining to marketing, branding or promotional campaigns.
Direct Contact with a REP/ ADVERTISER: If you fill out a form to contact a
REP/ADVERTISER (or use any other contact forms available on our Website) or call
a REP/ADVERTISER via our mobile site or app, we may share personally
identifiable information that you share with us and information about your use
of our Services with the party you wanted to contact. This may include data you
input such as home search criteria or Log Data that we collect as you use the
Services. If a REP/ADVERTISER wants to contact you based on the anonymized
profile of Thepghouse.com pages you visited, we will contact you to see if we
can make that connection. Sometimes, if we are working with a third party to
improve the leads we provide to our subscriber REPs/ Advertiser, we may provide
that third party with additional but limited personally identifiable information
for the sole purpose of their carrying out their duty to us.
Mortgage Services: If you request a mortgage quote using our services, you
authorize us to share the personally identifiable information necessary for our
partners to deliver the service. They are not permitted to use the information
for any other purpose.
User-Generated Content: If you use our user-generated content services, like
posting a question, answer or blog on our Website, you should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or
used by other users and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are
not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit
in these forums.
Protecting Ourselves and Our Users: We may release personal information when
we
believe that doing so is appropriate to comply with a legitimate law,
regulation, or legal request; to enforce or apply our policies; to initiate,
render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our rights or
property; to protect the safety of our users; to address fraud, security, or
technical issues; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving
immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires
disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.
All Thepghouse.com websites including this Website fully comply with all Indian
Laws applicable. Thepghouse.com has always cooperated with all law enforcement
inquires. Thepghouse.com may disclose all or part of your personal details in
response to a request from the law enforcement authorities or in a case of a
bonafide requirement to prevent an imminent breach of the law.
Mobile Ad Networks and Analytics: For our mobile products, we use third-party
service providers for the limited purpose of helping us analyze your mobile Log
Data and location data, so that we can improve and localize our Services, show
you relevant advertisements, and study the way our mobile users interact with
our Website and Services.
General Matters
The Accuracy and Confidentiality of Your Account Information Is Your
Responsibility: You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy and accuracy of
your password, email address, and other account information at all times. We
recommend a strong password that you do not use with other services. We are not
responsible for personal data transmitted to a third party as a result of an
incorrect email address.
Third-Party Websites: Our Website may contain links to other websites. When
you
click on one of these links, you are navigating to another website. We do not
accept liability for misuse of any information by any website controller to
which we may link. We also do not have any responsibility of liability for the
content on websites that use the Thepghouse.com search functionality. We
encourage you to read the privacy statements of these websites, which may differ
from ours.
Sale/Merger: Information about our Users and our Website is a business asset
of
Thepghouse.com. Consequently, information about our Users, including personal
information, will be disclosed as part of any merger or acquisition, creation of
a separate business to provide the Website, our Services or fulfill products,
sale or pledge of company assets as well as in the event of an insolvency,
bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as
one of the business assets of the company.
Security: We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect the
loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, we cannot
absolutely guarantee the protection of any information shared with us. When you
enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms,
we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer
technology (SSL).
Policy Changes: We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our
information practices. If we make any change in how we use your personal
information we will notify you by means of a notice on this Website prior to the
change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for
the latest information on our privacy practices.