Data privacy is extremely important to World Home Deals and we want to be honest and transparent about how we use your personal data. Therefore, we provide a policy that explains how your personal data will be processed and protected.
World Home Deals is committed to ensuring that the collection and processing of your data, made through the site www.worldhomedeals.com, are in compliance with applicable U.S. laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) where relevant, as well as international regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for users in the European Union.
This policy may be modified, supplemented, or updated in order to comply with any legislative, regulatory, jurisprudential, or technical changes. Before you start browsing, you must refer to the latest version of the policy. For any information on personal data protection, you can also consult the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) website (https://www.ftc.gov).
Who Collects the Personal Data?
Your personal data is collected by World Home Deals, whose head office is located at:
2175 American Way, 30341 Chamblee, GA, USA.
World Home Deals is a company registered in the United States.
As part of its compliance with applicable privacy laws, World Home Deals:
• Appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO);
• Impact on privacy: Implementation of a risk analysis similar to a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA);
• Privacy by design: taking into account the protection of personal data from the moment it is created;
• Keeping a register of the processing that contains:
◦ Name and contact information of the actors involved
◦ Purposes of the processing operations
◦ Data Category
◦ Link to the risk analysis
◦ File Retention Period
◦ Hosting Location
◦ Alert process in case of data breach
Data Protection Officer:
We appointed a Data Protection Officer who will ensure that your personal data is used consistently in a transparent, accurate, and law-abiding manner. You may contact our Data Protection Officer at contact@WorldHomeDeals.com.
Right of complaint to a supervisory authority:
If you find that World Home Deals is using your personal data inappropriately, you may contact us. You also have the right to report this to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (https://www.ftc.gov) or, if applicable, to your state’s Attorney General. For California residents, you may also contact the California Privacy Protection Agency (https://cppa.ca.gov).
Use of Personal Data
“Personal data” refers to any information relating to an identified natural person or that can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identification number or to one or more elements specific to that person.
When World Home Deals collects your personal data, it is carried out in a fair and transparent manner by providing notices or references to the present Policy.
Personal data is information about you that allows us to identify you, such as your first and last name, email address, telephone number, postal address, and any other personal data useful for the purposes defined below.
Personal data is collected using our various forms (initial contact, recruiting, newsletter registration, reservations, quote requests, brochure downloads, and landing page…). Each form only collects the personal data that is strictly necessary (minimization of data) and states, in particular:
• What the objectives of the data collection are (purposes);
• Whether these data are mandatory or optional for the processing of your request;
• Who will be able to consult them (in principle, only World Home Deals, unless it is specified in the form that a transfer to a third party is necessary to the pursuit of the purpose);
• Your data protection rights and how to exercise them with World Home Deals.
World Home Deals commits to only processing personal data that are adequate, relevant, and not excessive, with regards to the purposes for which they are collected, namely:
• Processing your requests for contact and information;
• Sending you the brochure for a property program or a white paper (for example: 10 key points towards making a good investment in Florida);
• Sending you, with your consent, personalized World Home Deals offers (new properties, promotional/commercial offers).
Personal Data Processor Subcontractors and Recipients
We do not transfer, market, or barter your data for marketing purposes to parties outside of the World Home Deals group. Under exceptional circumstances, data transferred to third parties would only be used in order to dispense our services and with your prior consent to us sharing such information (e.g., for a special promotional event).
Retention Period for Personal Data
World Home Deals processes and stores personal data in a secure environment for the duration necessary to the fulfillment of the purposes for which they were collected, or as required by applicable law.
What are your rights and conditions regarding your personal data?
Please note that you have a right of access, portability, rectification, and deletion on the data that concerns you. For California residents, under the CCPA, you also have the right to know what personal data is collected, request its deletion, and opt-out of its sale. For any information or any exercise of your data protection rights with regard to the processing of personal data by World Home Deals, you may contact the Data Protection Officer:
• By email at the following address: contact@WorldHomeDeals.com.
• Or by post at the following address:
• 2175 American Way, 30341 Chamblee, GA, USA
Right of access:
You are entitled to request information about the personal data we hold about you. You can contact World Home Deals, who will send you your personal data by email, at the following address contact@WorldHomeDeals.com.
If World Home Deals processes your personal data via automated means with your consent or agreement, you have the right to obtain a copy of your data transferred to you or to another party in a structured and customary format. This only applies to the personal data that you have provided to us.
Right to rectification:
You have the right to request the correction of your personal data if they are inaccurate, and to also complete any incomplete data.
Right of deletion:
You have the right to delete any personal data processed by World Home Deals at any time, except in the following cases:
• You have a pending matter with Customer Service;
• You are suspected of having used or have used our services fraudulently in the past four years;
• If you have made a purchase, we will save your personal data as required by law or for business purposes.
Your right to object to the processing of your data or opt-out:
You have a right to object to the processing of your personal data or, under the CCPA, to opt-out of the sale of your data (if applicable). We do not sell your data, but you may still opt-out of certain processing by contacting us. We will refrain from using your personal data unless required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time using the unsubscribe link featured in all our email correspondence.
Data Protection & Storage
Your personal data will be kept for the duration necessary to the fulfillment of the purpose for which they were collected. They will subsequently be deleted, except where retention is required to manage pending claims, litigation, or to meet our legal or regulatory obligations under U.S. law.
Policy on personal data relating to minors
The site does not target minors. Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. Should information be collected from a child via the website, the child’s legal representative may contact the Data Protection Officer to rectify, modify, or delete this information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that may be placed on your device during the consultation of a website. A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the device on which it is stored, during the period of validity or recording of said cookie.
• Authentication cookies;
• Preference cookies;
• Cookies for statistics and audience measurement.
The www.worldhomedeals.com site uses cookies for authentication and audience measurement.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to help us save your favorite items. We use our cookies as well as third-party cookies to collect statistics and user data in compiled and individual form as analysis tools to optimize our site and provide you with relevant marketing material. Some third-party cookies are installed by services that appear on our pages and are beyond our control. These are installed by social networking providers such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. They are associated with the users’ ability to view and share content on this site, as indicated by their respective icons.
What types of personal data do we use?
We will only collect your cookie ID in connection with your personal data that has been transmitted and compiled during your browsing of the site.
Who can access your personal data?
The data transmitted to third parties is solely used to provide you with the aforementioned services, as an analysis tool to collect statistics, optimize our website, and present you with relevant material.
What are the legal conditions for processing your personal data?
We will collect cookies from your personal data only within the bounds of your browsing of the website and with your consent where required by law (e.g., under GDPR for EU users).
How long do we preserve your data?
World Home Deals does not store personal data that is generated by cookies beyond the duration of your browsing session, unless required for analytics purposes. You can easily delete cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time using your browser. To learn how to manage and delete cookies, visit the “Help” section of your browser. You can choose to disable cookies or receive a notification every time a new cookie is sent to your computer or mobile device.
Note that if you limit the use of cookies by the website, you will no longer be able to fully enjoy our features.
You may choose to disable these cookies at any time. You can accept or reject them on a case-by-case basis or systematically reject them once and for all.
