Pembrook Woods Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Post date: Oct 20, 2011 5:51:38 PM

Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Agreement Between User and Pembrook Woods Homeowners Association, Inc. (operator of Pembrook Woods)

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using this Web Site. By accessing or using the Web Site, you agree to be bound by this Agreement below in it’s entirety. The name of the corporation is PEMBROOK WOODS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., hereinafter referred to as the "Pembrook Woods.”   If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Web Site.

“PembrookWoods.com” or “Pembrook Woods” means Pembrook Woods Homewoners Association, Inc., a Maryland corporation.

TERMS OF USE

This Web Site is purely a public resource of general information, which is not promised or guaranteed to be correct, complete and up-to-date. The content and information displayed on this web site “Pembrook Woods” is the property of Pembrook Woods Home Owners Association (HOA) board. The downloading, reproduction, or retransmission of Pembrook Woods Information, is strictly prohibited.

By using this website you are accepting all the terms and conditions set forth below. If you do not agree to each and all of these terms and conditions please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change and or modify portions of these terms at any time without notice and, unless otherwise indicated, such changes will become effective immediately; therefore, please check these terms periodically for changes.

Pembrook Woods Internet sites may contain or reference trademarks, patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes or other proprietary rights of Pembrook Woods and/or other parties. No license to or right in any such trademarks, patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes and other proprietary rights of Pembrook Woods and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you.

You agree that you will not use any device, software or other instrumentality to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our site, and that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. In addition, you agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein, without the prior express consent from an authorized Pembrook Woods representative (such consent is deemed given for standard search engine technology employed by Internet search web sites to direct Internet users to this site).

The materials on this Web Site and any associated pages, documents, comments, answers, forms, e-mail, articles, or other communication is not intended to create, and receipt of it does not constitute, an attorney-client, broker-principal or any other fiduciary relationship. Applicability of any legal principles discussed at this Web Site or any associated pages, documents, comments, answers, forms, e-mail, articles, or other communication may differ substantially in individual situations or in different states. Remember, that when dealing with any legal matter do not rely on these materials without first seeking the advice of an attorney in your state about your particular situation and facts.

Pembrook Woods does not guarantee the accuracy of any information available through the links you will find at this Web Site. These links are provided only as a matter of convenience to the public. Nothing contained at this Web Site should be construed to constitute a recommendation or endorsement of any product, service, Web Site or other firm. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this Web Site, you do this entirely at your own risk. We urge you to use discretion in providing personal information to the sites to which we link. Pembrook Woods urges you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party Web sites at the time you first visit such sites. 

The Pembrook Woods Board has designed this Web Site with the specific purpose of displaying its full content to you, the user. We object to the viewing of the contents of this Web Site in any format which is not authorized by us. Therefore, unauthorized “Framing” is expressly prohibited. If you are viewing the Pembrook Woods Web Site with other material as part of the display or in a “Framed” display, please contact us.

This site may provide you with the ability to use usernames, passwords, or other codes or devices to gain access to restricted portions of this site ("access codes"). The content contained in such restricted areas is confidential to Pembrook Woods, and is provided to you for your personal use only, which includes reviewing HOA Documents, reports and statements. We reserve the right to prohibit the use of such access codes on your behalf by third parties where we determine that such use interferes with our site's operation or results in commercial benefits or other entities to our detriment.

This Agreement and the resolution of any dispute related thereto or the Web Site shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Maryland, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Agreement. Our failure to insist upon strict enforcement of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Any legal action or proceeding between Pembrook Woods HOA and you related to this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in Maryland; provided, that if any such action or proceeding arises under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States of America, or if there is a diversity of citizenship between the parties thereto, so that it is to be brought in a United States District Court, it shall be brought in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, sitting in Baltimore.

ALL INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY PEMBROOK WOODS HOA BOARD ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, AND PEMBROOK WOODS REPRESENTIVE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL PEMBROOK WOODS BOARD OR IT’S REPRESENTIVE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEB SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF PEMBROOK WOODS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

With respect to all communications you make to Pembrook Woods regarding Pembrook Woods Information including but not limited to blogs, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions and the like: (a) you shall have no right of confidentiality in your communications and Pembrook Woods shall have no obligation to protect your communications from disclosure; (b) Pembrook Woods shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute your communications to others without limitation; and (c) Pembrook Woods shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, content or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information. The above is limited only by our commitment and obligations pertaining to your personal information (for more information, please see our Privacy Statement).

Pembrook Woods Information may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors, including but not limited to inaccuracies relating to fees and or dates. Pembrook Woods shall not assume responsibility or liability for any such inaccuracies, errors or omissions, and shall have no obligation to honor reservations or information affected by such inaccuracies. Pembrook Woods reserve the right to make changes, corrections, cancellations and/or improvements to Pembrook Woods Information, and to the products and programs described in such information, at any time without notice.

If you are a home owners of Pembrook Woods or authorized representative of a Home owner of Pembrook Woods using this site the following apply: Passwords- We have provided you with a unique password so that access to information related to your agency and transactions can be restricted to only those individuals to whom you provided the password. It is your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of the password. Pembrook Woods assumes no liability for any access to information or transactions that are executed with the password provided to you. We strongly recommend that you change the password on a periodic basis and whenever you suspect that knowledge of the password is no longer limited to those that you have authorized.

No Arrangements for Prohibited Persons-Pembrook Woods is a United States company and is prohibited from providing services to certain “prohibited persons” that are government officials or residents of certain embargoed countries, or terrorists or drug traffickers whose names are published on lists maintained by the United States Department of Treasury.

If you choose to leave this Pembrook Woods site via links to other non- Pembrook Woods sites, including those of advertisers, Pembrook Woods are not responsible for the privacy policies of those sites or the cookies those sites use. In addition, because Pembrook Woods has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Pembrook Woods is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

If you would like to view the privacy practices that govern how we process information about you on Pembrookwoods.com please review our Privacy Statement. By using our site, you consent to your personal information being processed as set out in our Privacy Statement.

If you have questions about these Terms of Use please send an e-mail to privacy@pembrookwoods.com.  

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy and Data Security

At Pembrook Woods, we are committed to protecting your privacy. Your right to privacy and data security is a primary concern. Below are the guidelines we use for protecting the information you provide us during a visit to our Internet Web Site. This statement discloses the privacy guidelines for the entire Pembrook Woods Web Site. Pembrook Woods representatives welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. For more information or questions concerning our privacy or information usage guidelines, e-mail us. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the technologies Pembrook Woods representatives use to communicate with you, we may occasionally update this policy. Notice of any revisions will be posted to this Web Site so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. The guidelines at this Web Site are applicable only to this Web Site. Information submitted solely in a business capacity is not covered by these guidelines.

Pembrook Woods asks for ONLY Specific Types of Personal Information

Unless you explicitly provide us with your personally identifiable information (e.g. user name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, etc.) we do not obtain information that individually identifies you when you visit our site.

For example, we may request information from you when you:

In each of the instances above, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, address, type of business, customer preference information, as well as other similar personal information that is needed to avail you of our services or offers. If we ever ask for significantly different information we will inform you. In the case of newsletters or mailing lists, you will be able to “unsubscribe” to these mailings at any time.

Pembrook Woods uses Your Personal Information for ONLY Specific Purposes

The information you provide will be kept confidential and may be used to assist you in your home buying effort, or in connection with any services or information provided by Pembrook Woods. Your consent to our processing this information is necessary to provide the services or information in which you have asked to participate.

Kid's Privacy Policy

A SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS: We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from visitors 13 years or younger. To protect the interests of children, no personal information will be requested on our Web site from children 13 years of age or younger. We will give out personal information about children if required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena.

You Can Opt-Out of Receiving Further Marketing from Pembrook Woods at Any Time

If you gave us permission on one of our Contact, Comment, Sign-Up or newsletter sign-up forms, we will send you information about our various services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. Only Pembrook Woods (or agents working on behalf of Pembrook Woods and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings, do not give us permission where requested on these forms or do not sign-up for our e-mail newsletter service. If you wish, you may at any time easily opt-out of receiving further marketing from Pembrook Woods. In the case of newsletters, this may be done by following the “unsubscribe” instructions for opt-out, which are set forth in each e-mail newsletter. In the case of all other communications, you may opt-out of any future communications by sending an email to with your exact name and email address with the message “opt-out” to us. As this is presently a manual process, we will remove you at our earliest possible convenience in accordance with your request.

Pembrook Woods will not disclose your personal information to any outside organization for its use in marketing without your consent

Information regarding you (such as name, address and phone number) or your Sign-Up provided information (such as customer preference information, home buying preferences and details) will not be given or sold, traded, or rented to any outside organization for its use in marketing or solicitation without your consent. However, access to your information will be provided to our Agents and Brokers after you have agreed to such release by affirmatively indicating your acceptance in the place provided on the Contact or Sign-Up form.

Use of “Cookies”

A cookie is a tiny piece of information asking permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Pembrook Woods does not use or collect “cookies”, except for the limited purpose of supporting features that enhance your browsing experience on the Pembrook Woods Web Site. No personally identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) is written to, or collected by, the cookies that are placed on your hard drive by Pembrook Woods.

About IP addresses

An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Web servers — the big computers that “serve” up Web pages — automatically identify your computer by its IP address. Pembrook Woods collects IP addresses for the purpose of system administration. When visitors request pages from Pembrook Woods, our servers log their IP addresses. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. This means that a user’s session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us.

What else should I know about my privacy?

Third party Internet sites and services accessible or linked through Pembrook Woods have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of us. Pembrook Woods assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords or any account information when accessing these other, independent Web sites. Please be careful and responsible whenever you’re online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to protect your personal information, Pembrook Woods cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Links

Pembrookwoods.com provides links to other sites as a benefit to you. Pembrook Woods is not in control of the information collection and dissemination practices of the sites to which Pembrookwoods.com links, nor do we necessarily endorse such practices merely by providing links. We urge you to use discretion in providing personal information to the sites to which we link. Pembrook Woods urges you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party Web sites at the time you first visit such sites. We undertake no obligation to review or ensure enforcement or compliance with the privacy policy of any Web site to which Pembrookwoods.com links.