1. Introduction

This policy describes how TeamAlliance collects, shares, and uses your information when you access our services. This policy applies to all of the products and services owned and operated by TeamAlliance Inc., Team Alliance Realty Inc, Brokerage, including the content, features, data, and software available on www.TeamAlliance.com our mobile applications, and other websites or applications that we operate (“Services”).

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

a. Information You Provide

We collect content, images, and other information you provide to us when you access our Services, including when you complete webforms on www.TeamAlliance.com in our mobile application; create an account with us; communicate with us about our Services via comments, direct message, e-mail, SMS message, or telephone; or respond to one of our surveys. When you upload photos of your home to our website, we can see the photo and the metadata that accompanies the image file. Please do not upload home photos with people or other identifying personal information in them.

Categories of information you may choose to provide to us include:
  • Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address,
  • Your account log-in details,
  • Financial information, including bank account and real estate financing information,
  • Details about your home and neighborhood,
  • Circumstances related to your purchase or sale of a home that might help us tailor our Services to you,
  • Homes you visit or view on our website or mobile application and your opinions about those homes,
  • Reviews or comments you leave on our website, mobile application, or on other public websites,
  • Your driver’s license information,
  • Real estate offer letters,
  • Citizenship status (for tax calculation purposes) and
  • Marital status (for tax calculation purposes).
b. Information We Collect from Your Device(s) We may collect the following information from the device that you use to access our Services:
  • Device attributes such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, bandwidth, available storage space, browser type, app and file names and types, and plugins;
  • Information about operations and behaviors performed on the device, such as mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots) or whether a window is in the foreground or background;
  • Information you allow us to receive through device settings you turn on, such as access to your GPS location;
  • Network and connection information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, and IP address; and
  • Data from cookies, tags, pixels, web beacons, and log files stored on your device, including cookie IDs, page views, how often you visit our website or mobile application, and links you click on. Please note our Services do not support Do Not Track signals from your browser.

We generally use this information for your convenience and to improve our Services. For instance, we may use it to: (i) remember your information so that you do not have to re-enter it; (ii) provide you with customized content and information, including advertising; (iii) monitor the effectiveness of our Services; (iv) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and usage patterns; and (v) diagnose or fix technology problems

c. Information We Collect When You Call Us

We may record telephone calls between you and our customer service team. We do this to make sure we provide you with the best possible service. Our customer service team members also enter certain information you provide into our customer service databases to ensure continuity and consistency throughout your experience with TeamAlliance.

d. Information We Collect from Partners, Service Providers, and Affiliated Businesses

We may collect information about you from our partners, service providers, and affiliated businesses in order to provide the Services, along with certain related products and services such as home financing, homeowners insurance, title insurance, escrow services, homebuilder partnership programs, real estate agent partnership programs, and, in cases where TeamAlliance is not able to buy your home, access to other potential purchasers or brokers, or to listing agents who may be able to help with your home sale. Information we gather about you from our partners, service providers, and affiliated businesses may include:

  • Multiple Listing Service (MLS) information about your home or the home(s) you are interested in buying;
  • Prequalification letters from financial institutions (with your consent);
  • Construction or purchase contracts (with your consent);
  • Verification of your identification and a risk score about you prior to allowing you smart-lock-enabled entry into an TeamAlliance -owned home;
  • Information related to completion of the construction of your new home (if you are working with a homebuilder and you agree);
  • Information about the condition of, and repairs to, your home and property;
  • Information related to your home purchase, sale, moving dates, and financing in connection with helping us facilitate “trade-in” deals;
  • Information about whether you may need homeowners insurance; and
  • Information about how you engaged with an TeamAlliance advertisement or social media post.
e. Information We Collect from Public Sources

Much of the information necessary to help you buy or sell your home is available from public government sources. We sometimes collect information from these sources so that you do not have to spend time looking for and aggregating it for us. For example, we may collect the following information about you and your home from public sources:

  • Tax assessments of your property;
  • The school district and public transportation available near your home;
  • Information contained on the deed to your property, such as name, address, liens, encumbrances, and title;
  • Sale prices of homes similar to your home (called “comparables”);
  • The number of bedrooms and bathrooms in your home;
  • Whether your home has access to features like a beach, boat dock, or parking garage;
  • Whether your home is in an earthquake or flood zone or has any other condition that would affect its market value;
  • Permits issued for remodels and additions;
  • The finished and unfinished square footage of your home; and
  • The year your home was built.
f. Information We Collect Through Our Mobile Applications

When you access our Services through our mobile applications, we may receive certain mobile device data such as a unique identification number associated with your device, your device type and manufacturer, your mobile carrier, subscriber status, payment method, phone number, caller ID data, and, depending on your mobile device settings, your location information, including GPS coordinates.

We generally collect this information to provide and improve your experience with the Services and to verify the identity and location of people who access TeamAlliance homes. This helps us keep you and our properties safe. When you first launch our application or when you use it to visit an TeamAlliance home, you may be asked to consent to allow us to access your geographic location. If you initially consent to this and change your mind, you can revoke your consent by changing the geo location preferences in your device settings. Or, if you prefer, you can follow the standard uninstall process to remove our application from your device.

g. Information We Collect When You Visit an TeamAlliance Home

If you use our application to unlock an TeamAlliance home, we will know the date and time the home you visited. Some of our homes also have additional monitoring technologies such as motion sensors that tell us when there is activity in a house and video cameras monitored by a security service provider.

There are some situations where, you can tour the home with the help of a real estate agent.

a. To Provide Our Services to You

We use the information that we collect about you to deliver our Services, including to personalize features and content to you. We use the information you provide to give you options for home buying and selling that may be relevant to your individual circumstances. As discussed in more detail below, you have choices about how and whether we process some of your information.

b. To Learn About the Home You May Want to Sell or Buy

We use information you provide to us about your home or the type of home you are interested in buying and, in some cases, combine it with information from MLSs and public property and tax records to help us provide the Services to you. Before you sell your home to us, we will examine photos of your home that you upload and review information about the condition of your home provided to us by our home assessors. If you are interested in buying a home using our Services, we may consider property profiles that you have “liked,” rated, or otherwise indicated your interest in through our website or mobile application to try to match you with homes you might want to purchase.

c. To Keep You, Your Information, and Our Properties Safe

TeamAlliance cares about your safety. We use the monitoring and identity verification technologies described above to help keep you safe when you visit an TeamAlliance home and to prevent property damage and fraud.

d. To Advertise Our Services

We may use information collected about you to provide you with relevant information about additional Services that TeamAlliance or our affiliated companies offer, such as our trade-in program, home financing, homeowners insurance, and title insurance services. Specifically, we use information about how you interact with our website and mobile application, combined with information you provide us and information we collect from other sources, to serve you relevant advertising.

e. To Do Market Research

We are constantly striving to improve our customer experience. We conduct research into all aspects of the home buying and selling process to try to identify ways to make it better. Sometimes we use partner companies to conduct surveys of willing participants who offer suggestions as to how we might improve our Services. We also aggregate and analyze consumer information that we collect on our website, mobile applications, and from conversations with our customer service representatives to identify trends which inform how we change and grow.

f. To Support Information Security and Debugging

We may use information about you and your use of the Services to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and improve the security of our systems. We may also use this information to debug our Services to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

g. In Connection with a Dispute

We may use personal information to prosecute or defend against claims in court and other dispute resolution forums.

a. With Your Consent We may share your information when you specifically direct us to do so. Examples of situations where we share your information with your consent include:
  • Agent partnerships. TeamAlliance works with both consumers and real estate agents. We may share your information with our agent partners, to the extent you’ve specifically authorized us to do so, in order to pair you with an agent who can help you through the home buying or selling process.
  • Builder partnerships. TeamAlliance partners with homebuilders to provide buyers who are purchasing new homes from these builders with the opportunity to request offers from TeamAlliance for their current homes. When you authorize us to do so, we may share your information with our homebuilder partners.
  • Other potential home buyers. Sometimes Opendoor is not able to purchase a home. In these instances, we may work with other potential home buyers, including institutional buyers, to try to find a purchaser for the home. In other cases, we may determine that one of our home buyer partners may be able to make a better offer for your home than TeamAlliance. In these circumstances, with your consent, we may share your information with these potential buyers.
  • Other related partners with whom you ask us to share your information. TeamAlliance will share your personal information with other parties at your direction.
b. With Our Affiliated Companies

We may share your information between our affiliated companies to the extent allowed by law. For instance, if you sell your home to TeamAlliance or purchase a home using our Services, we may share your information with our affiliated home insurance agency, Digital TeamAlliance Insurance Services LLC for the purpose of marketing homeowners insurance services to you.

c. With Service Providers Who Facilitate Our Ability to Provide You with the Services

We may share your information with service providers, including payment processors, technology and infrastructure providers, digital communications services, commercial data and market research analysts, consumer report providers, auditors and accountants, physical site security providers, IT security and bug-fix partners, and other providers, who perform services for and on behalf of TeamAlliance for the sole benefit of us and our customers.

d. With Law Enforcement, Courts, or Government Agencies

We may share your information as necessary to respond to legal process or to regulatory authorities (such as pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, investigative demand from law enforcement, regulators, or others; national or international security letters; etc.); to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities (including fraud or stalking) and security or technical issues; to respond to or participate in commercial disputes (e.g., lawsuits or investigations); or to protect against fraud, claims, or other liability or harm to you, us, or others.

a. “Selling” Your Data

TeamAlliance is not a data broker. However, in some circumstances we share your information with third parties not owned by or co-branded with TeamAlliance that benefit directly from our sharing your information with them. We want you to be aware of these sharing arrangements so that you can exercise your rights to opt-out of such sharing, as described in Section 7, below.

  • Social media. If you buy or sell a home with TeamAlliance, we may provide information about you to social media networks who will use it to better target our advertising to you and other social media users similar to you (e.g., same age, geographic area, etc.) who may benefit from our Services.
  • Tour assistants. If you are in the market to purchase a home, we may share your information with tour assistants in your area who can show you non- TeamAlliance homes.
  • Third-party home buyers. If TeamAlliance cannot purchase your home, or if we determine one of our home buyer partners may be able to make a better offer for your home than TeamAlliance, we may share your personal information with these potential buyers.
  • Home insurance agencies. If your real estate transaction is such that you may need homeowners insurance, we may share your information with home owners insurance agencies and those agencies may reach out to you directly to offer you a quote.
  • Vendor due diligence. If you are an individual or business wishing to provide services to TeamAlliance we may share your information with a due diligence service as part of our obligation to perform vendor due diligence. The due diligence provider may use this information to inform and further refine its risk analysis tools.
a. Safeguards

We use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, administrative, and procedural safeguards to preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and security of all personal information collected through the Services. However, no security measure, system, or control is infallible. Therefore, like all businesses, we cannot guarantee that our systems are invulnerable to attack or misuse.

b. Your Role

You have a major role in the security and privacy of your own information. For example, you should not provide us with personal information that we do not request. Additionally, you are responsible for controlling access to any personal computing device through which your information may be stored or accessed. You are also responsible for safeguarding any passwords or other log-in credentials that may be used to access your information, including in the Opendoor environment. We recommend that you log out of any account when you are done using it.

c. Third Parties

Please remember to review the privacy settings and security policies of third-party sites and services that you use, such as social networks. We are not responsible for the privacy or security measures of any third party.

d. Incident Response

In the event that the security of any personal information under our control is compromised, we will take reasonable steps to investigate and mitigate the situation, including, when appropriate, notifying those individuals whose information may have been compromised and taking other steps in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

a. Right to Opt-Out of Sales of Your Personal Information

You have a right to opt-out of sales of your personal information. You may request to opt-out by calling 647-560-8669. We will respond to a request to opt-out of future sales within fifteen days after we receive it.

b. Right to Know About the Personal Information We Collect and Share You have the right to request that we tell you about our collection, use, and sharing of your personal information over the past twelve months. Once we receive and validate your request, we may disclose to you:
  • The categories of personal information we collected about you;
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you;
  • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information;
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information;
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request);
  • The categories of personal information about you that we disclosed to third parties for a business purpose and the categories of recipients of that information; and
  • The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of recipients of that information.
c. Right to Delete the Personal Information We Collect and Share You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions. Depending on the nature of the data, deletion may consist of erasing, aggregating, or anonymizing your information. After we receive and validate your request, we will delete and direct our service providers to delete your personal information, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request, in whole or in part, if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
  • The categories of personal information we collected about you;
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you;
  • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information;
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information;
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request);
  • The categories of personal information about you that we disclosed to third parties for a business purpose and the categories of recipients of that information; and
  • The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of recipients of that information.

Please be aware that, once deleted, your data, including your account and activities, cannot be restored.

d. How to Make a Request to Know or Delete You may, without charge, request to know or delete your personal information calling 647-560-8669. Only you or an authorized agent may make a request to access your personal information. You have the right to make a free request twice during any twelve-month period. The request must:
  • Provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person, or an authorized representative of the person, about whom we collected the personal information; and
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail for us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

For your safety and the safety of your information, we cannot fulfill a request to provide or delete personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you or an individual for whom you are a lawful agent. We may require additional verification before deleting or disclosing particularly sensitive information. We will only use the verification information you provide for the purpose of verifying your identity or authority to make the request. Submitting a request does not require you to create an account with us.

We do not charge you a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under Section 7. Unless permitted by law, we will not:
  • Deny you goods or services;
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
  • Provide you a different level of quality of goods or services; or
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected] or 647-560-8669. This policy is updated regularly. Changes will be effective as soon as the revised policy is posted unless otherwise stated. In certain circumstances, we may provide a more prominent notice before the change goes into effect (including, for certain of our Services, email notification of policy changes).

This Privacy Policy was created on July 20,20, 2020.