Our Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 2024

Zook Homes (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates ZookHomes.com (“website”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding collecting, using, and disclosing personal data when you use our website and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. When using the ZookHomes.com website, you agree to collect and use information per this policy.

Information Collection & Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our website and service.

Types of Data Collected

PERSONAL DATA:

While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Cookies and Usage Data

USAGE DATA:

We may also collect information about how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

TRACKING & COOKIES DATA:

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a trace amount of data that may include an anonymous, unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be unable to use some portions of our website.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our website.

  • Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

  • Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

USE OF DATA:

Zook Homes uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • Maintaining the website. 

  • Notifying you about changes to our website.

  • Allowing you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so.

  • Providing customer care and support.

  • Analyzing valuable information so that we can improve the website. 

  • Monitoring the usage of the website.

  • Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues with the site.

TRANSFER OF DATA:

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Zook Homes will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and under this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS:

Zook Homes may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation.

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of Zook Homes.

  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website.

  • Shield the personal safety of users of the website or the public.

  • Defend against legal liability.

SECURITY OF DATA:

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.Defend against legal liability.

SERVICE PROVIDERS:

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our website (“Website Provider”), to provide services on our behalf, to perform website-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

ANALYTICS:

We may use third-party Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visitor activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY:

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY:

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, before the change becomes effective, and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.