This Privacy Policy covers the practices of all affiliates associated with WS Manors, Inc. including but not limited to: WS Homes, Inc.; Northern Manors; Cherry Hills Manors, Railway Manors, and Wininger Stolberg Property Group, Inc. It applies to all personally identifiable information about you that we obtain. If at any time you decide no longer to be a tenant of WS Manors, Inc., we will continue to adhere to the following policies and procedures with respect to your personal information.
Information Collect About You:
We collect a wide variety of information about our tenants and potential tenants. Most of this information is considered “Nonpublic personal information” which is information you voluntarily provide us. We collect this information through a variety of means:
- Information you fill out on application forms.
- Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies.
- Information provided from current or previous employers, current or previous landlords, or other businesses you have authorized us to correspond with.
- Information available from public records.
In addition, we will sometimes collect information when you visit our website. This information does not identify you personally. Sometimes we will use “cookies” which are a small amount of text stored on your computer. We will only use “session cookies” in some places where people can transact business. This means we only store the cookie on your computer during that visit to our website. After you close your browser window, the cookie is erased.
How This Information Is Used:
We will not sell or rent your information that we have obtained. We honor the trust you have placed in us to keep your information confidential, and will only share information as outlined below:
- Processing and Servicing Transactions: Information is shared, as necessary, to service and process business activities that are requested by you, such as a credit card payment, application for residency, and maintenance service requests. Information is also shared in connection with maintaining and servicing your account, such as debt collection.
- Other Lawful or Required Purposes: This category includes a variety of permissible sharing situations, such as when you request or consent to have information shared, or when we share information with our auditors, attorneys, accountants, government regulators, in response to subpoenas, and other circumstances where sharing information is permitted or required by law.
When you send us an email, we won’t share your email address with anyone outside of WS Manors, Inc., and its associates. We will only use your email address to respond to your request.
Security Standards:
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safe-guards to protect the information you give us. We also limit access to your nonpublic personal information to those employees and associates who need to know that information in order to provide services to our tenants. We also have put into place appropriate procedures to protect the information we gain online, including reasonable and appropriate security for applications, other forms, and credit card submissions. Your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.