PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING ANY
PART OF THE WEBSITE
1. Overview. Standard Pacific Corp. (the “Company”)
recognizes and respects the privacy of users of the Website. The following
privacy policy, as modified from time to time by us as described below (the “Policy”),
tells you about the information that the Company collects through the Website,
how we use that information and how you can opt out of certain uses of
information we may collect. If you access the Website you are consenting to the
information collection and use practices described in this Policy, as modified
from time to time by us.
2. Effective Date and Updates. This Privacy Policy is
effective at 6:00 p.m. on November 22, 2004. The Company reserves the right to
make changes to this Policy at any time, and will post any revised Policy on
this page. You will know we have changed the Policy when you see a new
effective date in the first sentence of this paragraph. The Company will not
notify its Website visitors or customers of any such changes by e-mail or other
personal contact. We encourage you to check the date of this Policy whenever
you visit this Website so that you will know when you need to review the Policy
for modifications. Please note that this Policy applies to all information
collected online by the Company, but does not apply to personal financial
information that may be collected by our mortgage subsidiary, Standard Pacific Mortgage, Inc. (“Standard Pacific Mortgage”), or any of our mortgage
banking or title joint ventures, each of whom have their own privacy policies.
3. Information The Company May Collect About You.
We collect the following types of information on the Website:
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"Personal Information
" is information that is used by the Company to identify you individually, such
as your name and address.
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"Aggregate Information
" is information that does not contain Personal Information or from which
Personal Information has been removed. An example of Aggregate Information is
information about use of the Website, such as pages visited on the Website.
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"Financial Information" means financial information collected
during the online mortgage or loan application process. Financial Information
is collected and used in accordance with the policies outlined in the Family
Lending Privacy Policy, if Standard Pacific Mortgage, Inc. is collecting the
information, or by the privacy policy of our mortgage joint venture, if the
mortgage joint venture is collecting the information.
The actual information we collect from you depends on the services you use on
the Website. The following is a more detailed explanation of some of the types
and uses of information we collect.
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Email Services
. If you provide us with your email address and opt in to any email
notification features that the Company may now have or may develop in the
future, you may receive email from time to time from the Company. Each email
you receive from the Company will contain an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom
of the email message which will provide you the opportunity to opt out of
receiving future communications from the Company by clicking on the
“unsubscribe” link and following the unsubscribe instructions.
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Information Request Forms
. The Website contains various request forms that allow you to request
information, products and services and to submit resumes to the Company. For
instance, we may collect information such as your preferences regarding
location, size and price of a new home. When we collect such information, we
may share it with third parties as is necessary to respond to your request.
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Surveys
. From time to time, we may collect information through online surveys,
questionnaires or information requests on the Website. These surveys may
request demographic information (such as age range, gender, areas of interest)
and customer feedback. Participation in such surveys, questionnaires or
information requests is voluntary and with each request you will have the
choice of whether or not to disclose information. We may use such survey
information to analyze the Website and to improve users' overall experience on
the Website.
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Administrative Purposes
. We may collect and use information that identifies you personally when you
submit comments, questions or suggestions through the Website. For example, if
you submit questions to webmaster@stanpac.com or submit information requests we
will use the information you provide to respond to you. We also may collect and
use your information to contact you when necessary for other administrative
purposes. If you do submit comments, questions or suggestions through the
Website, please do not include confidential personal or financial information
in such requests. Such e-mail will be maintained in accordance with our
corporate e-mail and document retention policies.
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Resumes. If you submit your resume to us or complete
a form related to a job opening on the Website, we may use the information to
contact you, in our sole discretion, or we may store it in our files in a
manner consistent with the way we store other information related to job
applications.
4. Disclosure of Your Personal and Aggregate Information.
Personal Information . The Company will not sell or disclose
your Personal Information without your consent except as set forth below.
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Consultants
. From time to time the Company engages consultants that may need access to the
information we collect to perform their services for us, such as administering
our mailing lists. We require that our consultants keep Personal Information
confidential and use it only in accordance with the service agreement between
the Company and such consultant.
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Transaction Processing
. When you complete an information request form or otherwise indicate to us
that you want us to provide you with a product or service (such as a request to
be included in mailings about our future projects), we share and maintain the
data needed for you to receive the products or services you have requested.
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Legal Requirements
. We may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if
we believe that such action is reasonably necessary to: (a) conform with the
law, respond to claims or comply with legal process served on the Company or
the Website; or (b) protect and defend our rights or property, including the
Website, our employees, guests or the public.
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Company Sale
. Because information collected through the Website is a trade secret and asset
of the Company, we may disclose or sell such information in the event we
entertain the sale of the Company or some or all of its assets.
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Employment. If you submit a resume or other
information to us in connection with a job opening at the Company, we may
disclose or transfer Personal Information and any other information you submit
to employees and consultants involved in the recruiting and hiring of job
applicants.
Aggregate Information: The Company collects "Aggregate
Information" about you and your use of the Website whenever you visit the
Company online. For instance, the Company may collect various forms of "click
stream" information such as entry and exit points for our Website (i.e.,
referring URLs or domains), site traffic statistics, page views, impressions,
and operating system and browser type. In addition, when users request pages on
the Website, the Company’s servers automatically log the users IP address. An
IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you are surfing the Web. The Company may collect, compile, store, publish,
promote, report, sell, or otherwise disclose or use any and all Aggregate
Information. However, if the Company correlates any Aggregate Information to
you, such information will be treated like Personal Information under this
Policy.
5. Cookies. The Company may make use of "cookies" on
the Website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user's computer
by a web server based on the permissions set in a user's browser software. A
cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any information from a user's
computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather, it is an identifier
used by the website that originally placed it on your hard drive. The actual
contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same server to
identify the computer and subsequently to customize, monitor, or regulate the
use of a site based on information stored in the cookie and the host server.
Therefore, cookies only identify the user's computer to the website that may
correlate other information, including personal information, with the cookie.
Cookies allow the Company to automate access and data entry functions of the
Website such as login information, correlate online ordering information for
purchases, tailor the Website to your preferences or interests, or customize
promotions or marketing. In addition, cookies allow us to track usage of the
Website to determine which areas are useful or popular and which are not,
thereby enabling us to improve and update the Website effectively.
6. Security. The Company uses reasonable efforts to
store and maintain personal information to protect it from loss, misuse,
alteration or destruction by any unauthorized party. If you are asked to
provide financial information in connection with your request for the Company’s
products or services, such information will be collected through a secure
internet connection using reasonable commercial security measures. We store no
financial information or social security information on the Website. When we do
transmit your data, we use only secure servers using current encryption
technology to encode your data safely. We make reasonable efforts to attempt to
prevent the unauthorized access of our systems containing personal data.
7. Breach of Security. In the event of a breach of our
information system security that may compromise your personal financial
information, we will promptly notify you of such breach at the e-mail address
that we have on file for you. We reserve the right to reasonably delay such
notification as may reasonably be necessary as part of any internal
investigation or law enforcement efforts related to such breach. I usually put
Children info here since it is the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act
that you are complying with so, in some sense, you lack of collection of
personally identifiable info from children is a privacy issue.
8. Outside Links. While on the Website, you may be
referred to web sites other than the Company’s Website. A link from the Website
to such a third party website does not imply endorsement of that site nor any
ability to control that site's privacy practices. Be aware that third party
websites may collect data and personal information and operate according to
their own privacy practices. Therefore, you should carefully review the privacy
policies of third party websites before submitting any Personal Information to
them.
9. Opting Out, Removal of Personal Information and Contacting Us.
Any time your provide us with Personal Information, the Website provides you
the opportunity to opt out of receiving further communications from us. To opt
out of receiving marketing information or to unsubscribe from any specific
email service, email a request to webmaster@stanpac.com. If you have questions
or concerns about this Policy, or the accuracy of any Personal Information we
hold about you, please contact us at webmaster@stanpac.com. You may request
removal of your Personal Information from our system(s) by contacting
webmaster@stanpac.com. We will comply with your request except to the extent we
are required to maintain your information in accordance with our document
retention policies or applicable laws or regulations. If at any time you feel
that the Company has not adhered to this policy, email us at
webmastser@stanpac.com. We will do our best to respond promptly to your
concerns.
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