Privacy Policy

OBI is committed to protecting your payment and private information. Our Privacy Policy governs data collection and usage of any of the services provided by OBI Real Estate and any of our affiliates (collectively, “OBI”). By using our Services, you consent to the data practices described in this policy as well as our Terms of Service. If you do not agree to any part of this Privacy Policy, you should stop accessing our Services.  

Collection of Personal Information

OBI may collect your personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, physical address or telephone number. If you purchase our Services, we will collect and store your billing and credit card information. OBI may also collect demographic information, such as your Postal Code, age, gender, preferences, professional associations, years of experience, areas of specialty, and more. OBI will not delete customer information for paying members. However, OBI reserves the right to delete customer information for members with a free or unpaid account status at any time.

OBI may also automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by OBI for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our Services.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through our Services, this information may be collected and used by others.  OBI encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. OBI is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the websites we operate.

OBI may also collect personally identifiable information about other individuals whom you are generating documents pertaining to, such as the personal information of individuals and/or parties involved in lawsuits and other legal matters. If you do not feel comfortable entering information such as Social Security or Tax I.D. Numbers, we encourage you to only provide the last 4 digits of yours or or others’ Social Security or Tax I.D. Numbers, or to leave such fields blank and to manually enter any personal information with which you are not comfortable submitting over an internet connection upon downloading the documents and/or forms you generate using our Services.

 

Third Parties

OBI collects and uses your personal information to operate our website and deliver the Services you have requested.  OBI may also use your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from OBI and its affiliates. OBI may contact you to participate in surveys to conduct research regarding your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered in the future.

OBI does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about offerings that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party without your express consent. OBI may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. OBI may share your information with third parties who perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these Services, and they are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

OBI may disclose personal information when we are required to or we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law (for example, a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users’ rights, property or safety; to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Services; or if we believe that an emergency involving the danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires or justifies disclosure of personal information.OBI may disclose information about our customers, including personal information, as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information could be transferred to third parties as one of OBI business assets. In such an event, we will attempt to notify you before your personal information is transferred, but you may not have the right to opt out of any such transfer.

You are responsible for safeguarding and preventing unauthorized access to the user information and password that you use to access our Services. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party and you are responsible for any activity using your account, whether or not you authorized that activity. Please immediately notify OBI of any unauthorized use of your account. 

Keeping your information secure

OBI secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. OBI secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

At any time, OBI may change the provisions of this Privacy Policy.