DmvRecord Website Privacy Notice
Last Updated: July 7, 2023
- 1. Purpose of this Notice
- 2. Who are we?
- 3. What Personal Information Do We Collect & How Do We Use It?
- 4. Information We Do Not Collect
- 5. Age Limitations
- 6. Who Do We Share Personal Information With?
- 7. Public Data We Collect
- 8. How We Protect Data
- 9. Data Retention Period
- 10. What Are Your Rights?
- 11. How We Exercise Your Rights
- 12. Personal Information of Law Enforcement and Elected or Appointed Officials
- 13. Cookies
- 14. Other Important Information
1. Purpose of this Notice
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into our Terms of Service. Please read it carefully before you share any personal data with us. By accessing or using our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to our terms, including this Privacy Policy.
The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to let you know how DmvRecord, Inc. handles personal information in connection with your access to or use of our website and related services. It also provides information about your rights related to our use of personal information.
This Privacy Notice only applies when you use the website,DmvRecord.com, Inc., and not to any third-party websites, applications, or other third-party services (collectively, "Third Party Platforms") even if such Third-Party Platforms are linked to or accessible from the Service. Each Third-Party Platform will have its own data collection and usage practices, and may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information from you. DmvRecord is not responsible for the content or practices of any Third-Party Platforms and, if you choose to visit or use them, you do so at your own risk.
2. Who Are We?
We are DmvRecord.com, Inc. ("DmvRecord", "we", "us", or "our"). Our mission is to deliver accurate and up to date court records in a language you can understand. We acquire the most important and difficult to find property information, organize the data and combine it into an easy-to-understand report. We are constantly refining our processes and resources to improve our offering so we can provide you everything you need to make an informed decision in one convenient place. Please note that we are not a data broker as defined by U.S. state laws and will update this notice if this changes.
Any information or other data provided to or gathered by DmvRecord is controlled by:
DmvRecord.com, Inc.
support@dmvrecord.com
3. What Personal Information Do We Collect & How Do We Use It?
The type of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with us and our Service. When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The outline below describes the categories and specific types of personal information that we collect, how we collect it, our purpose for collecting it, and who we have shared it with during the past 12 months.
How We Collect Personal Information
Reviews
We collect the information you provide to us when you submit a review on our site about a neighborhood.
Cookie Tracking & Utilization
We collect this information when you visit our website.
Lead Generation
We collect this information when you visit our website and submit an inquiry to use.
Opt-Out Preferences.
We collect this information when you request to opt-out of receiving communication from us.
Website Interaction.
We collect this information when you visit and interact with our website.
Type of Personal Information
Reviews
Content of your review (only contains personal information you decide to include in your review)
Cookie Tracking & Utilization.
Device ID, IP address, Cookies, beacons, pixel tags, Mobile ad identifier or similar unique identifiers, Browsing history, Interaction with our platform.
Lead Generation.
First & Last Name, Email Address, Phone Number, & Real Estate Property, Preferences
Opt-Out Preferences.
Opt-Out signal
Website Interaction.
Browsing History, Device Fingerprint, IP Address, Location, Mouse clicks and activity tracking on website
Our Purpose for Collecting Personal Information
Reviews
We use this information as part of our services by sharing your review on our site to provide transparency to our users interested in learning about the neighborhood you reviewed.
Cookie Tracking & Utilization.
We use this information to conduct statistical analysis about how our site is used so we can strategically advertise and improve our site.
Lead Generation.
We use this information to communicate with you about the services you requested, including matching you with a real estate agent. We may also send you advertisements for other properties that match your interests.
Opt-Out Preferences.
When you exercise your right to opt-out of our communications, we keep a record to show we complied.
Website Interaction.
We use this information about how you interact with our website for security, statistical analysis, and to improve our website.
Who We Shared With
Reviews
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. Our Suppliers and Vendors: Cloud Service Provider
Cookie Tracking & Utilization.
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. Our Suppliers and Vendors: Analytics Provider
Opt-Out Preferences.
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. Our Suppliers and Vendors: Hosting Provider
Website Interaction.
Browsing History, Device Fingerprint, IP Address, Location
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. Our Suppliers and Vendors: Hosting Provider, Analytics Provider
Mouse clicks and activity tracking on website
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. Our Suppliers and Vendors: Analytics Provider
4. Information We Do Not Collect
We do not intend to collect, nor would we need special or highly sensitive categories of personal information such as your gender, sexuality, genetics, health, or political and religious affiliations.
5. Age Limitations
Our services, events, and offerings are directed to individuals interested in buying or selling residential property. Therefore, we do not intend to collect information from or direct any of our content to children under 18 years old. If you learn that a child under 18 years old has provided us with personal information, contact us immediately.
6. Who Do We Share Personal Information With?
When we share your data to third parties, we try to ensure that any third parties with whom we share your personal information are limited by law and by contract in their ability to use your personal information for any purpose other than to help us facilitate our services.
While we have your personal information, we share it with third parties listed in Table A and who fall into four categories:
Our Employees, Contractors, Affiliates, and Subsidiaries. We may share your personal information with our employees, contractors, affiliates, and subsidiaries as necessary to provide you with our services and in connection with your use of our website.
Our Suppliers and Vendors. We may provide your personal information to certain vendors and service providers who are working for or with us, and who require such information to facilitate the provision of our services, including our website. These suppliers and vendors may include providers of email, cloud services, hosting & analytics, data aggregation, marketing/advertising, lead generation/distribution, payroll and talent acquisition.
Business Transfers. We may share personal information with another company if we are involved in activity related to a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business. If any such change of ownership happens, we will ensure it is under terms that preserve the confidentiality of personal information, and we will notify you on our website or by email before any transfer of your personal information.
Vital Interests, Legal Compliance, and Public Safety. We may disclose personal information we collect about you to protect the vital interests of any person, to exercise or defend our legal rights, or to comply with court orders and similar legal or regulatory obligations, or in response to a valid subpoena, court order, warrant, or similar government order, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our property or rights, or those of third parties or the public at large. This may include exchanging personal information with our lawyers, advisors, and other organizations for the purposes of fraud protection where we reasonably consider it is in our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others to comply, as well as where we are legally required to do so.
7. Public Data We Collect
How We Collect Publicly Available Data: Public Data
We obtain publicly available data from another company that aggregates information from the government.
Type of Publicly Available Data
First & Last Name, Property Address, Property Ownership, Registered Sex-Offender status
Our Purpose for Collecting Publicly Available Data
We use this information as part of our services by organizing publicly available data and posting it on our website.
8. How We Protect Data
We take the security of data very seriously, and we work hard to protect any information you provide to us from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. We cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, but we do our utmost to protect it.
As a minimum we take the following measures to secure your data:
Data Transfer Integrity - All traffic to and from [COMPANY] servers is secured by transport level security (TLS) sent over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and secured using an AES 256-bit SSL certificate. This ensures that data sent between your systems and ours is encrypted.
Password Encryption – DmvRecord.com, Inc. user passwords are stored in our database after being hashed.
Firewalls - DmvRecord.com, Inc. enforces network level control for access to infrastructure by using multiple different firewall technologies to ensure that different components of its systems are logically isolated from one another.
Operational Access Controls -DmvRecord.com, Inc. employees require access to production services for operational reasons. We employ multiple authentication mechanisms to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
Software Updates - DmvRecord.com, Inc. regularly applies software patches to production infrastructure in order to ensure a strong security posture to known software vulnerabilities.
External Accreditation -DmvRecord.com, Inc. takes a pro-active approach to security by employing an external company to perform monthly security scans of its infrastructure.
9. Data Retention Period
We keep your non-public personal information for no longer than reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected in the first place, except where the law or a court order allows us to keep it for longer. We may also delete your information, content, and account if we decide it violates our Terms or any applicable laws.
10. Your Privacy Rights
For the publicly available data that we collect through an aggregator from local governments like the secretary of state and the property appraisal districts and further described in Section 8, you will need to contact your local government for information about your rights including how to remove such information. We do not have the authority to remove your information from government websites.
For personal information that you submit or that we otherwise collect when you visit our website as described in Section 3 and Section 7, your rights are as follows:
1. The right to know about the personal information we collect about you and how it is used and shared;
2. The right to correct your inaccurate personal information;
3. The right to access a portable copy of your personal information;
4. The right to delete your personal information (with some exceptions);
5. The right to opt-out of the sale* of your personal information;
6. The right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights;
7. The right to opt-out of the sharing* for targeted-advertising based on your activity on other websites;
8. The right to opt-out of automated profiling*; and
9. The right to limit* our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.
*Please note that these rights do not currently apply because we do not collect sensitive personal information, profile, or share data for cross-context behavior targeting. We will update this privacy notice if we intend to use personal information for such things in the future.
11. How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise any of your rights described above in What Are Your Rights, you can contact support@dmvrecord.com or submit a request using the form on our website.
Before we can process a request, we will verify your identity by asking you to confirm some of the information we maintain such as your phone number, for example. In the event that an authorized representative would like to exercise rights on your behalf, we need the following information before we can process the request: (1) confirmation directly from you to us that that the authorized representative has your permission to submit the request; and (2) Verification of the authorized representative’s identity. If we cannot verify the authorized representative using reasonable efforts, we may not be able to process the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.
12. Personal Information of Law Enforcement and Elected or Appointed Officials
We recognize that members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials may be entitled to additional privacy in accordance with U.S. state law. While we will gladly honor requests from such members of law enforcement and the judiciary to anonymize or if possible, delete personal information in an expedited manner, our solution is only temporary. Because our information comes from an aggregation of data publicized by the local governments, it is impossible for us to permanently remove your personal information from the original source. If you are a member of law enforcement or an elected or appointed official, we strongly urge you to submit your deletion request to the original publisher, your local government.
To submit a Law Enforcement or Other Officials Request, send an email to support@dmvrecord.com.
For the purposes of this section "members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials" includes the following:
- State constitutional officers.
- Members of the Legislature.
- Judges and court commissioners.
- District attorneys.
- Public defenders.
- Members of a city council.
- Members of a board of supervisors.
- Appointees of the Governor.
- Appointees of the Legislature.
- Mayors.
- City attorneys.
- Police chiefs and sheriffs.
- A public safety official, as defined in Section 6254.24.
- State administrative law judges.
- Federal judges and federal defenders.
- Members of the United States Congress and appointees of the President.
13. Cookies
13.1 What Are "Cookies"?
Cookies are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. They allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. Session-based cookies last only while your browser is open and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies last until you or your browser delete them or until they expire.
You can learn more about deleting, disabling, blocking and controlling cookies online at unaffiliated websites such as https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
13.2 What Are "Cookies"?
We use a very 'light cookie' to recognize you and authenticate your identity when you visit our website or use our services. We don't store user data in the cookie itself.
We also use Google Analytics to measure the effectiveness of promotions and see web traffic insights.
13.3 What Can You Do If You Don’t Want Any Cookies To Be Set Or Want Them To Be Removed?
Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you. In some browsers you can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you more fine- grained control over your privacy. What this means is that you can disallow cookies from all sites except those that you trust.
Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. As a courtesy, we provided the links below to some commonly-used browsers so you can find more information on how to manage your cookie settings.
14. Other Important Information
14.1 Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. Laws, regulations and industry standards evolve, which may make those changes necessary, or we may make changes to our business. We will post the changes to this page and update the "updated date" when we do. We encourage you to review our Privacy Notice to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will provide additional notice, such as via email or through the services. If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Notice, you should tell us immediately to let us know and otherwise stop using our website.
14.2 Contacting Us.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice. You may contact us at support@dmvrecord.com. Be sure to include "Privacy Notice" in the subject line.