Keeping customer information secure is a top priority for all of us. We understand
that you expect privacy and security for your nonpublic personal information and
we are committed to treating your information responsibly. We are sending you
this privacy notice to help you understand how
SILVER SPRINGS SHORES
INVESTMENTS, LLC handles the personal information about you that
it collects and may disclose. This notice tells you how you can limit
SILVER
SPRINGS SHORES INVESTMENTS, LLC from disclosing personal information
about you.
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) also describes the standards
SILVER SPRINGS SHORES INVESTMENTS, LLC follows in handling nonpublic
personal information that we receive about you. By “nonpublic personal information”
we mean information we possess that identifies you personally and is not otherwise
available to the public. This notice will refer to this information simply as
“personal information.”
Unless otherwise stated, the provisions of this
Notice will apply to former customers as well as current customers. We may amend
this privacy policy from time to time.
Categories of Personal Information
We Collect
The personal information we collect from you comes from
the following sources:
- Information we may receive from you use of this
website, or from applications, subscriptions, contract documents or other forms
(electronic or otherwise) including, but not limited to, your name, age, gender,
marital status, number of dependents, assets, debts, income, employment information,
social security number, address, telephone number
- Information about your
transactions with us, our affiliates, nonaffiliated third parties or others, such
as your account balances, payment history and account activity
- Information
we may receive from a consumer reporting agency, such as your credit bureau reports
and other information relating to your creditworthiness, your financial circumstances,
and your credit history, including any bankruptcies or foreclosures you may have
experienced
- Information we receive about you from other sources, such
as your employer and other third parties.
Parties to Whom
We May Disclose Personal Information
SILVER SPRINGS SHORES
INVESTMENTS, LLC may disclose any of the above information that we collect
to affiliates or to nonaffiliated third parties as described below.
Categories
of Affiliates To Whom We May Disclose Personal Information
It is
often helpful to disclose personal information to our affiliates. Our affiliates
are primarily engaged in real estate development, finance, marketing and sales
and activities related to those processes
Categories of Nonaffiliated
Third Parties To Whom We May Disclose Personal Information
Sometimes
it is necessary to disclose personal information to nonaffiliated third parties.
The types of nonaffiliated third parties to whom we may disclose your personal
information include:
- Financial service providers including, but not limited
to, banks, mortgage companies, consumer credit companies, life insurance companies,
credit insurance companies, hazard insurance companies, automobile insurance companies,
investment advisors and companies registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, real estate agents and brokers
- Non-financial companies, such
as discount consumer buying clubs, consumer products companies, companies engaged
in direct marketing and consumer services companies
- Non-profit organizations
- Companies
that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other institutions with which
we have joint marketing agreements
We may also disclose personal
information about you to nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law.
Note:
If you check Box 1 on the Privacy Choices Form, we will not make these disclosures
except as follows. First, we may disclose information about you as described above
in "Categories of Personal Information We Collect" to third parties
that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other institutions with whom
we have joint marketing agreements. Second, we may disclose personal information
about you to third parties as permitted or required by law, including disclosures
necessary to process and service your account.
Personal Information
about Former Customers
We treat information concerning our former
customers the same way we treat information about our current customers.
Your
Privacy Choices
This section describes your privacy choices. Please
remember that we will continue to protect your personal Information regardless
of your privacy choices.
Your Right to Opt Out of the Disclosure of
Nonpublic Personal Information to Non-Affiliated Third Parties (Box 1)
We disclose, or reserve the right to disclose, nonpublic personal information
about you to nonaffiliated third parties. If you prefer that we not disclose
nonpublic personal information about you to nonaffiliated third parties, you may
opt out of those disclosures, that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures
(other than disclosures permitted or required by law). As described in this
notice, we will limit the personal information about you that we disclose to nonaffiliated
third parties if you check Box 1 on the Privacy Choices Form.
Sharing
with Affiliates (Box 2)
The law allows us to share with our affiliates
any information about our transactions or experiences with you. Unless otherwise
necessary to service your account or as otherwise permitted by law, we will not
share with our affiliates any other information that you provide to us or that
we obtain from third parties (for example, credit bureaus) if you check Box 2
on the Privacy Choices Form.
Our Mailing and Telemarketing Lists
(Boxes 3 and 4)
We would like to keep you informed about promotional
offers from our affiliates and from nonaffiliated third parties. If you wish to
be taken off our mailing and/or telemarketing lists that we use for such offers,
please check Box 3 and/or Box 4 on the Privacy Choices Form.
We will continue
to mail you information that you may find valuable in managing your account with
us even if you have checked Box 3. We may also continue to send you promotional
offers from third parties, but only through any routine correspondence or statements
that we send you in the ordinary course of our relationship.
Please allow
approximately 30 days from our receipt of your privacy choices for them to become
effective.** Your privacy instructions and any previous privacy instructions that
you may have given us will remain in effect until you request
a change.
Privacy
Choices Form
If you want to limit disclosures of personal information
about you as described in this notice, just check the appropriate box or boxes
to indicate your privacy choices. Then, send this form to the address listed below.
Our
Privacy Promise With Respect to the Security of Personal Information
While information is the cornerstone of our ability to provide superior service,
our most important asset is our customers' trust. Keeping customer information
secure, and using it only as our customers would want us to, is a top priority.
We
restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees
who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. We
maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal
regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. Third parties who
have access to your nonpublic personal information must agree to follow appropriate
standards of security and confidentiality.
- We will safeguard, according
to strict standards of security and confidentiality, any information our customers
share with us.
- We will limit the collection and use of customer information
to the minimum we require to deliver superior service to our customers, including
advising our customers about our products, services and other opportunities, and
to administer our business.
- We will permit only authorized employees,
who are trained in the proper handling of customer information, to have access
to that information. Employees who violate this Privacy Promise will be subject
to our normal disciplinary process.
- We will tell customers in plain language,
initially and at least once annually, how they may remove their names from marketing
lists. At any time, customers can contact us to remove their names from such lists..
- Whenever
we hire other organizations to provide support services, we will require them
to conform to our privacy standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
- For
purposes of credit reporting, verification and risk management, we will exchange
information about our customers with reputable reference sources and clearing-house
services.
- We will attempt to keep customer files complete, up to date,
and accurate. We will tell our customers how and where to conveniently access
their account information (except when we're prohibited to do so by law) and how
to notify us about errors which we will promptly correct.