This Old House Home Team - Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting This Old House Home Team. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on this site.

By joining This Old House Home Team, you agree to our collection and use of your personal information as outlined below. If you do not agree to this Privacy Statement, you should not visit or join This Old House Home Team. We know that safeguarding your privacy is serious business. This Privacy Policy tells you how we collect personal and other information from you and how we use it. Please take the time to read this Privacy Policy.

Collection of Personal Information About You
The personally identifiable information that may be collected on This Old House Home Team may include your name, home or other addresses, e-mail address, telephone number and birthday. Additionally, we collect information about your interests and preferences from your survey responses and usage information.

About Your Personal Information
This Old House, a division of Time Inc. ("This Old House"), will not share with or disclose to third parties any personally identifiable information without your prior consent, except as set forth herein. Any information you give us in response to surveys is combined anonymously with the responses of many others before it is shared with third parties.

Agents and contractors of This Old House (including, without limitation, our research vendor, Questus) who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for This Old House. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Inadvertent disclosure may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identity in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.

We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

We may use personally identifiable information to contact you about participating in surveys, to respond to your inquiries, to notify you about This Old House events and offers, to notify you of any prizes you may have won and to inform you of any news about the Home Team and your participation therein. We may also use this information to notify you about advertiser (third party) events and offers, and to invite you to test/sample products.

On occasion, This Old House may conduct surveys for the benefit of our advertisers, in which case we will transmit only anonymous or aggregated data to the advertiser. We may offer you the opportunity to communicate directly with third parties and if you choose to do so, that party may then communicate directly with you. You may "opt out" of receiving any further communications from This Old House Home Team at any time by visiting the "Edit Your Profile" section of the site and canceling your membership.

Your account information is contained within your This Old House Home Team profile. You may edit your profile at any time - all you need is the original email address that you used to sign-up. This Old House Home Team makes every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. As a result, This Old House Home Team cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

This Old House Home Team is an Opt-In Members Only Panel
This Old House Home Team conducts surveys of various kinds among its Panel members. Information from research will be used to design new products or services and to develop advertising or marketing programs. Personally identifiable information will not be shared with other participants of the This Old House Home Team.

Use of "Cookies"
A software technology called "cookies" will be used to collect non-personal information about our visitors. Such information includes: type of browser software a visitor uses to access the Internet (i.e. Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, FireFox 2.x, 3.x, Safari 2.x, 3.x, etc.); type of operating system (i.e. Windows XP, OS X, etc.); or the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider. Also counted is the number of visitors who come to the site each day in an aggregate form.

Questions or comments
Our Web Site Privacy Policy has been developed out of respect for the privacy preferences and choices of our customers and prospects. We have established procedures to ensure that every reasonable effort is made to address your concerns. If you have any questions or comments concerning this policy, please contact Alex@TOHHomeTeam.com or THIS OLD HOUSE HOME TEAM, 1 Beach Street, Suite 103, San Francisco, CA 94133.