HRES Roommate Center Privacy

This policy covers how the HRES Roommate Center and its affiliates, successors, parents, subsidiaries, assigns, licensees, and designates (collectively and individually "HRC" ) treats personal information that HRC collects and receives, including information related to your past use of HRC products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

Use and Collection of Information

HRC collects personal information when you register with HRC, when you use the HRC web site or when you visit HRC pages or the pages of certain HRC partners.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation and personal interests. Once you register with HRC and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

HRC automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, HRC cookie information, and the page you request.

HRC uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal purposes.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information

HRC does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except under the following circumstances:

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of HRC's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Cookies

HRC may set and access HRC cookies on your computer.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preference

General

You can edit your HRC account information at any time.

HRC reserves the right to send you certain communications relating to the HRC service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the newsletters, that are considered part of your HRC account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can deactivate your HRC account by visiting our Account Deactivation page.

Confidentiality and Security

HRC limits access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

HRC may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your HRC account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a Customer Service Form or you can contact us at:

HRES Roommate Center
Customer Care: Attention Privacy Policy
598 Broadway, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10012