By accepting this Privacy Policy and the Standard Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the HomesForStudents Standard Terms and Conditions.

HomesForStudents strongly recommends that as you read this Privacy Policy, you click on such links to obtain further important details about the Privacy Policy, as they may contain further terms and conditions which apply to you as a registered HomesForStudents member.

HomesForStudents undertakes to hold and transmit your Information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. HomesForStudents will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not register.

Overview of Privacy Policy
Your Privacy is very important to us. Our privacy practices are held to high standards.

As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about HomesForStudents's practices so that you can make informed decisions.

The privacy practices of this statement apply to the www.HomesForStudents.co.uk website (the "Site").

As described below, some of your personally identifiable information is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties. By accepting the Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information.

Policy

1. Information We Collect.
   Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth and efficient experience. The Information allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customise our service to make your experience easier.
   
   We automatically track certain information based upon your behaviour on our site using cookies and other devices. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.
   
   We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our site. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customised services. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our site.
   
   If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
   
   If you register for HomesForStudents on another web site or use a web site providing a service for HomesForStudents or a web site that helps facilitate your activity on HomesForStudents, that web site may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to HomesForStudents.
   
   
2. Our Use of Your Information.
   We use information in the files we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to:
   • resolve disputes,
   • troubleshoot problems and
   • enforce our Standard Terms and Conditions.
     
   At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases
   
   Unless you chose to opt out during the registration process or at any later time, you agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customise our site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
   
   You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.
   
   
3. Our Disclosure of Your Information .
   Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
   
   As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
   
   Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password are never disclosed to marketing advertisers.
   
   HomesForStudents Community. Throughout the Site, you are identified by your User ID. If you do so, you will disclose your email address to other users and third parties. As a result, other users and third parties might send you unsolicited email and be able to personally identify all of your public activities on the Site. Although our pages are coded with robot exclusion headers, others may illegally attempt to automatically collect your email address from our site. Even if your User ID is not your email address, your User ID can be used to identify you and your activities throughout the Site for example:
   • Selected suppliers can see your requests for proposals,
   • buyers can see the offers that are made in response to their calls for proposals,
   • your feedback rating and associated comments,your postings on the Site, and so on,

   
   External Service Providers. There are a number of services offered by external service providers that help you use our Site (e.g., featured suppliers, associates and partners). If you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. We may, for your convenience, provide some of your personally identifiable information to the external service provider offering such services. However, before we disclose your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you will see what data is about to be sent and have the ability to approve the disclosure. To prevent our disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such disclosures or simply not use their services. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Users who register on a HomesForStudents affiliate web site grant HomesForStudents permission to pass your contact data to that affiliated web sites. The use of such information by the affiliated web sites is limited by their applicable privacy policies.
   
   Internal Service Providers. We may use internal service providers to facilitate our services (e.g., search, discussion boards, surveys) and therefore we may provide some of your personally identifiable information directly to them. In some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a internal service provider to conduct a survey for us). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional. In all cases, these internal service providers' use of information we supply them is restricted by confidentiality agreements. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
   
   Legal Requests. HomesForStudents co-operates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
   

4. Your Use of Other Users' Information.
   In order to facilitate interaction among all HomesForStudents members, our service allows you limited access other users' contact information. As a landlord / agent you have access to the email address and other contact information of the potential tenant and as a potential tenant you have access to the email address and other contact information of the landlord / agent who advertises their properties.
   
   By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other users' personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Site or through an HomesForStudents-related communication or HomesForStudents-facilitated transaction, HomesForStudents hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for:
   • Bobex-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages,
   • using services offered through Bobex
   • any other purpose that such user expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s).
     
   In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure. Note that law enforcement personnel and other rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they access.
   
   HomesForStudents and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a HomesForStudents user, even a user who has purchased a service or product from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other HomesForStudents users, please send an email to info@HomesForStudents.co.uk .
   
   
5. Use of Email Tools.
   You may not use any of the HomesForStudents services to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our Standard Terms and Conditions.
   
6. Control of Your Password.
   Your User ID is only for your individual use, other users in your company should register separately. You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your HomesForStudents password to any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
   
   
7. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information.
   Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration including:
   • Your e-mail address.
   • Your registration information such as: name, company, address, city, county, post code, country, phone numbers, fax number.
   • Your password.
   You must promptly update your information if it changes.
   Upon your written request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, and financial information from our active databases. To make this request, email deactivate@HomesForStudents.co.uk Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
   
   We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Standard Terms and Conditions . Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored "back up" systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.
   
   
8. Other Information Collectors.
   Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since HomesForStudents does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
   
   
9. Security.
   HomesForStudents uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. HomesForStudents treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorised access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
   
   
10. Notice.
    We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective after we provide you with at least thirty (30) days' notice of the changes by posting the changes on the announcements board. We provide you with thirty (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify HomesForStudents if you do not agree to such changes.