Please note the terms and conditions of this third-party website may be different from relatedgroup.com
Related Group (collectively, “Related,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) are committed to protecting the privacy of identifiable individuals through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. We have created this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information as well as the rights and choices you have associated with that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected during any written, electronic, and oral communications or collected online or offline or to provide you with our services (the “Services”). Such personal information may be collected in the following manners:
By using our Services, you consent to the collection and use of the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not feel comfortable with any part of this Privacy Policy, you should not use or access our Site or Services.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and make changes to information previously collected, as permitted by law. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page with the “Effective Date” of the revisions. We encourage you to look for updates and changes to this Privacy Policy by checking this date when you access our Site. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of any amendment to the Privacy Policy shall constitute your acceptance of such amendments.
Please note that our Site may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media pages. These links are intended for your convenience only. These third-party websites and services are not related to us and may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices. We have no responsibility for these websites or their privacy practices and encourage users to read the privacy policies of all websites they visit.
We may collect your personal information when you interact with our Site, mobile applications, with us over email or phone and at physical locations. Personal information or personal data is generally any information that relates to you, identifies you personally, or could be used to identify you including, but not limited to: your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or any other information. The definition of personal information or personal data depends on the applicable law based on your physical location. Only the definition that applies to your physical location will apply to you under this Policy.
The types of personal information that we may collect about you include but are not limited to: information you provide to us, information collected automatically about your use of our Site and Services, information from other sources to help us supplement our records, improve the personalization of our service to you, promote safety at our apartment communities and other properties we control, and/or detect fraud.
Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us. The personal information we collect on or through our Site or Services may include:
Information from Third Parties. We may receive information about you from other sources and combine that information with the personal information we collect directly from you. For example, we may receive payment information from the organization you use to pay us to correct our records. Additionally, we may collect credit or identity information, as well as conduct civil and criminal background checks, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud or to assist us in maintaining safety at our apartment communities and other properties we control.
Information Collected from Other Sources. We may receive information about you from other sources to help us correct or supplement our records, improve the quality or personalization of our service to you, and prevent or detect fraud.
Information Collected Automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
We may use cookies, embedded scripts, software development kits (“SDKs”) and other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”) to collect additional personal information automatically as you interact with the Services and to personalize your experience with our Services. We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or other online services (“behavioral tracking”).
Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser that enables the Site’s or provider’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information. We use first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes: to make our Services function properly, to improve our Services, to make login to our Site or Services easier (such as by remembering your User ID), to recognize you when you return to our Site, to track your interaction with the Site, to enhance your experience with the Site, to remember information you have already provided, to collect information about your activities over time and across third party websites or other online Services in order to deliver content and advertising tailored to your interests; and to provide a secure browsing experience during your use of our Site. The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device until they expire or are deleted.
We may place cookies from third-party service providers who may use information about your visits to other websites to target advertisements for products and Services available from us. We do not control the types of information collected and stored by these third-party cookies. You should check the third-party’s website for more information on how they use cookies. The following types of cookies are used on our Site:
Use of Cookies in E-Mails. We send marketing e-mails on behalf of Related and its affiliates. There are no cookies in the e-mail. However, when an e-mail recipient clicks on a link provided in a marketing email of Related or its affiliates, a persistent cookie is placed on the user’s computer which is used to measure the effectiveness of the e-mail marketing efforts by helping to better understand how our users navigate through the site. The cookie will remain on your hard drive 30 days after the last time you clicked on the coded link in the e-mail, or until you delete it. These cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files. In addition, we do not use cookies to gather information concerning your visits to websites belonging to parties other than Related.
Pixel Tags. To track the effectiveness of the advertisements of Related or its affiliates, we may use pixel tags (also known as clear gifs, beacon gifs, 1-by-1 gifs, or web bugs). Pixel tags are not visible to the user of the site and consist of a few lines of computer coding. If you are visiting www.relatedgroup.com from an advertisement on another site, the pixel tag references the cookie you received when you clicked on the advertisement. The pixel tag then registers this activity to allow us to count the number of times an advertisement is accessed. In addition, we also measure the requests generated from a particular ad. We may use pixel tags in marketing e-mails that helps us send the e-mail in a format you can read and allows us to know which e-mails you act upon.
Analytics. We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Site. Presently, we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that tracks and reports Site traffic.
For your choices in relation to cookies, please see the section below entitled Choices and Rights.
We use your personal information as described in this Policy for business and commercial purposes, or as disclosed to you prior to such processing taking place. We may process your personal information for the reasons described below.
We share your personal information as needed to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy and as permitted by applicable law. We may disclose your personal information as described below.
Our legal bases for processing your information under the applicable data protection laws will depend on the personal information at issue, the specific context in the which the personal data is collected and the purposes for which it is used. We generally only process your data where we are legally required to; where processing is necessary to perform any contracts we entered with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you; where processing is in our legitimate interests to operate our business and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms; or where we have obtained your consent to do so. Below is a chart showing how Related uses your personal information, as described above in Sections 3 and 4, with the corresponding legal bases for processing.
Section & Purpose of Processing | Legal Bases for Processing |
Section 3(b) To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance.
Section 3(d) To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks. Section 4(a) As required by Law |
Based on our legal obligations. |
Section 3(a) To Provide Our Services.
Section 3(c) To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies. Section 3(e) To Provide Services Communications. Section 3(f) To Respond to Requests. Section 4(b) Within Our Corporate Organization. Section 4(c) With Our Service Providers. Section 4(e) With Our Partners. |
Based on our contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract. |
Section 3(h) To Research and Develop Our Services.
Section 3(i) To Personalize Your Experience. Section 3(j) To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions. Section 4(d) During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers |
Based on our legitimate interest to operate our business and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedom. |
Section 3(g) To Provide Marketing Communication.
Section 3(k) With Your Consent. Section 4(f) Sharing Based on Your Consent |
Based on your consent. |
We are committed to protecting your personal information from unauthorized access and use. To help protect your personal information, we implement and maintain appropriate technical, physical, and administrative safeguards. Access to your personal information is restricted solely to those employees and vendors who need to know that information to provide our Services to you. Our employees receive training to maintain the confidentiality, privacy, and security of your personal information.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Site.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Site and Services usage data for internal analysis purposes.
We do not offer Services to minors and do not intend to collect personal information from children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 18. If an individual under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us as described below so that we may promptly delete the child’s information from our record.
Analytics. We use Google Analytics. For information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookies. Your browser may provide you with the option to refuse some or all browser cookies. You may also be able to remove cookies from your browser. You can exercise your preferences in relation to cookies served on our Site by taking the steps outlined below.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. You can decide whether to accept cookies. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you may exercise your preference by modifying your web browser setting to either (1) refuse some or all cookies, or (2) notify you and ask for your permission when a website tries to set a cookie. If you want to learn the correct way to modify your browser settings, please use the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menu in your browser or review the instructions provided by the following browsers:
If you disable or remove cookies, some parts of the Services may not function properly. Information may still be collected and used for other purposes, such as research, online services analytics or internal operations, and to remember your opt-out preferences.
This section applies only to California residents. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), below is a summary of the “Personal Information” categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140 (o)), that we collect, the reason we collect your Personal Information, where we obtain the Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information.
We generally collect the following categories of Personal Information about your when you use our Services:
We generally do not collect biometric information, audio recordings of your voice, education-related information, or inferences about your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitudes. For more information about the Personal Information we collect please refer to Sections 1 and 2, above.
We collect your Personal Information for the business purposes described in Section 3, above. The CCPA defines a “business purpose” as the use of Personal Information for the business’s operational purposes, or other notified purposes, provided the use of Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the operational purpose for which the Personal Information was collected or another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected. The categories of third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information are listed in Section 4, above.
If you are a California resident, you have certain rights in relation to your Personal Information which are listed below; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of Personal Information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the Personal Information, your account with us or the security of our network systems.
You or your authorized agent may submit a request to exercise any of the above rights by contacting us at relatedsiteinfo@relatedgroup.com, and putting “CCPA Rights Request” in the subject line. We may require additional information to verify your identity or to verify that your authorized agent has the authority to make the request on your behalf before responding to a CCPA rights request. If we cannot verify your identity from the information we have on file, we may request additional information from you, which we will only use to verify your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DENT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, our Site does not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals.
Depending on applicable law where you reside, you may be able to assert certain rights related to your personal information identified below. If any of the rights listed below are not provided under law for your operating entity or jurisdiction, Related has absolute discretion in providing you with those rights.
We may ask you to identify which country you are located in when you use or access some of the Services, or we may rely on your IP address to identify which country you are located in to determine your rights under the applicable data protection law in your jurisdiction. Your rights to personal information are not absolute. Depending upon the applicable law, access to your rights under the applicable law may be denied: (a) when denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another’s privacy; (c) to protect our rights and properties; (d) where the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.
Your personal information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data, including personal information, to United States and process it there. In such cases, we will take appropriate steps to ensure an adequate level of data protection of the recipient as required under the applicable data protection law, including the GDPR, and as described in this Privacy Policy. Before we share your information with any party, we will enter into a written agreement that requires that party to provide at least the same level of protection for the personal information as required under applicable data protection laws. If you do not want your information transferred to or processed or maintained outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, you should not use our Services.
When Related collects and processes personal information from data subjects while they are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (collectively, “European Residents”) the provisions in this section apply.
Data Controller. Related Groups, located at 315 South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami Florida, 33131, relatedsiteinfo@relatedgroup.com.
Complaints. If you have any issues with our compliance, you have the right to lodge a complaint with an EEA supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to first address your concerns and would welcome you directing an inquiry first to us per the Contact Us section below, and include “GDPR Compliant” in the subject line. If you reside in the UK, you may file a complaint with the relevant data protection authority, Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, 0303 123 1113, casework@ico.org.uk.
As a Colombian resident, your rights to your personal information are those provided in the Constitution and in Law 1581 of 2012, including the following: (a) access, free of charge, to the data provided that has been processed; (b) requesting the updating and adjustment of your information in the event of partial, inaccurate, incomplete, fractioned or misleading data, or of data whose handling is prohibited or has not been authorized; (c) requesting proof of the authorization granted; (d) submitting to the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce complaints for violations to the provisions of the regulations in force; and (e) revoking the authorization and/or requesting the deletion of the data, unless there is a legal or contractual duty that makes it imperative to keep the information. For information regarding the handling of data, submitting requests, exercising your rights and/or request email us at relatedsiteinfo@relatedgroup.com, and put “Colombia Data Rights Request” in the subject line, or you can write to us at: 315 South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami Florida, 33131, Attention Legal Department (Privacy).
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy please email relatedsiteinfo@relatedgroup.com or you can write to us at: 2850 Tigertail Ave. Suite 800 Miami, FL 33133, Attention Legal Department.
Please note the terms and conditions of this third-party website may be different from relatedgroup.com