This Privacy Policy describes how Fast Affordable Homes (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit fastaffordablehomes.com.
Information We Collect
Personal Information
When you interact with our website, we collect and store various types of personal information. This includes your name and email address when you leave comments or create an account. We also collect your IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection purposes. If you register on our site, we store the profile information you provide. Additionally, we retain any comments and other content you submit to the site.
Technical Data
Our website automatically collects certain technical information during your visit. This includes browser cookies that store your login status and preferences, your screen display choices, data about your interactions with posts, and information about your device and browser.
How We Use Your Information
Website Functionality
We utilize your information to authenticate your identity and maintain account security. This information allows us to save your login status and preferences, enable comment functionality, and implement effective spam detection measures.
Content Management
Your information enables us to display your profile picture through the Gravatar service when applicable. We use it to process and display your comments, manage user accounts and permissions, and store your content preferences for an optimal browsing experience.
Cookies and Tracking
Our website implements several types of cookies to enhance your experience:
- Comment Cookies: Remain active for one year and save your details for convenience.
- Login Cookies: Last for two days; screen option cookies last for one year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
- Session Cookies: Essential for maintaining your user session and preferences while browsing our site.
Third-Party Content
Our website may incorporate embedded content such as videos, images, and articles from other websites. This embedded content functions exactly as if you had visited the original website directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, implement their own cookies, monitor your interactions with their content, and track your behavior if you’re logged into their services.
Data Sharing and Security
We share certain data with specific services to maintain website functionality. This includes sharing information with automated spam detection services and including your IP address in password reset emails. If you use Gravatar for profile pictures, we provide an anonymized string created from your email address to their service.
Data Retention
We maintain an indefinite retention period for comments and their associated metadata to facilitate follow-up comments and enhance spam detection capabilities. For registered users, we store all personal information provided in their user profiles until they request deletion. Login and preference cookies expire according to their predetermined durations as detailed in our cookies section.
Your Rights
As a user of our website, you maintain specific rights regarding your personal data. You may request an export of all personal data we hold about you. You have the right to request deletion of your personal data, though this excludes data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, with the exception of usernames which cannot be changed. Website administrators have access to view and edit this information as well.
Media Content
We advise users against uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to the website. Please be aware that visitors can download and extract any location data from images posted on the website. This measure helps protect user privacy and prevent unintended location sharing.
Comments
Our comment system collects specific data when visitors leave comments. This includes the information provided in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string, which we use for spam detection. All comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments.
Contact Information
For any privacy-related questions, concerns, or requests, please contact us through our website. We are committed to addressing your privacy concerns promptly and thoroughly. Contact us.
Updates to This Policy
We maintain the right to update this privacy policy at any time as our services evolve and privacy requirements change. Your continued use of our website following any modifications to this policy indicates your acceptance of these changes.
This privacy policy was last updated on October 31, 2024.