Privacy & Policy
PRIVACY POLICY EFFECTIVENESS
This Privacy Policy shall apply only to individual consumers and solely to information collected by this Website. This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 19, 2023 (“Effective Date”) and applies to personal and financial information submitted on this Website on or after the Effective Date.
OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
Your privacy is very important to Johnson Development and M/I Homes, Inc., as well as to our respective subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “we,” “us” or “our”) and we are all committed to treating your personal information responsibly. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information gathering and dissemination practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personal information you submit on this Website on which this Privacy Policy is posted. Use of this Website constitutes your consent to our collection and use of personal data in accordance with the terms hereof. We endeavor to maintain appropriate procedures and safeguards to protect the confidentiality of personal information we collect from visitors to this Website. Personal information collected is accessible only by designated staff or agents of our organization who are also bound to this statement, except as expressly described below. We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information that you disclose online and transmit to us, and you understand that you do so at your own risk.
PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE MAY COLLECT
We may collect information about you from a variety of sources, including when:
- You provide us information
- We observe or collect information through technology
- We receive information about you from third parties
- We collect information on our Social Media Pages
We may collect information you provide directly to our Sites, such as the following categories of information:
- Contact Information: We may collect contact information, which includes personal information such as name, address, email address, and telephone number.
- Financial Information: We collect financial information that you submit to our Sites, such as mortgage application information, payment details, and other financial information.
- Demographic Information: We may have access to demographic details about our Site users such as birth date, gender, zip code, and other similar details.
Social Media Information: We may allow you to use your personal social media account, on social media sites (“Personal Social Media Account”), to provide information to us when you participate in certain features on our Sites. The information we collect may include any information you have shared on your Personal Social Media Accounts. We may continue collecting this information from your Personal Social Media Accounts should the information be revised by you later. If you choose not to provide us with certain requested information, you might not be able to take advantage of some of the features on our Sites.
We may collect navigational information, such as the following, when you use our Sites:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- The Internet service provider used to access our Sites
- IP Address
- Use of links to arrive at our Sites
- Web pages requested and viewed
- Time spent on our Sites
- For our mobile websites and apps, technical information about the device used, such as screen size, cookie support by the device and how images may appear
Our Sites and emails include features that may require collecting different types of location information that we then use for the specific feature you have selected, such as:
- Where to Buy. Our Sites may allow you to search or navigate by location. If you access one of our Sites through a mobile device and you have enabled location-based services, specific location information may be collected for these features. If you access these features through a desktop device, you may be able to choose to have your browser provide us your location information to respond to your request. The specificity of the desktop device location information can vary depending on the browser you are using and how you are connected to the internet.
- Email. Our emails may use your IP Address to determine the postal code where you are located when you open the email. The specificity of the location can vary depending on the device used to open our emails.
Our Sites and Social Media Pages are not intended for children under the age of 18. No one under 18 should share any personal information with us, including by creating an account. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 18. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under the age of 18, we will make reasonable efforts to delete that information from our records.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information you provide on an aggregated basis to do such things as operate our site, enhance our site, and to better understand the profile of our online audience. We may also use this data, both aggregate and personal to you, to enhance your site experience on our site by displaying content and marketing messages that we believe will be of interest to you. In some cases, we use your personal information to contact you or to provide information to you, such as to send newsletters to you that you request. We may provide your information to third parties such as homebuilders and service and product providers to enable them to follow-up with you on your requests. We may also use your information for market research purposes, for project planning or for developing prospect lists for our existing and future. In doing so, we may reproduce, publish, broadcast or post such information to third parties assisting with our planning.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
We do not sell or rent your personal information or share your personal information with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except with your permission or as described above, or under the following limited circumstances:
- We may need to share the information or send the information to partners who work on our behalf under confidentiality agreements in order to provide the information, product or services you have requested or to help us communicate with you about offers (provided that these companies do not have any independent rights to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us, unless they have your consent to do so).
- We may store and disclose personal information as allowed or required by applicable law, including making disclosures in order to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.
- We may store and disclose personal information as allowed or required by applicable law, including making disclosures in order to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.
- We may establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims as necessary or advisable to protect the rights, safety or property of our communities or others and to conform to legal or regulatory requirements.
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Website terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if this company is acquired by or merged with another company.
LINKS
This Website may contain links to third-party Websites for homebuilders, retailers, service providers and others, which are provided solely as a convenience to viewers and not as an endorsement of the contents of such sites. While we endeavor to only provide links to Websites maintained by reputable organizations, you should be aware that these third parties might be able to gather information from and about you if you visit their Websites. In these cases, those third parties will use such information in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ substantially from our policy. We assume no liability for the privacy practices of such other sites and are not responsible for the availability or content of, any off-site pages or any other sites linked to our Website. Your linking to off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING METHODS
“Cookies” are small pieces of information stored on your computer. We may use cookies, pixels, beacons, or tags for a number of reasons. The information we and our third party service providers collect through cookies, pixel tags, and similar technology includes the following:
- Your interactions with our Sites and with our advertisement
- The time of your visit to our Sites
- Confirmation when you open email from us, including the time you open the email and whether you click on any links in the email
- Sites you visit after visiting one of our Sites
CORRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION; OPT-OUT RIGHT
If you are a resident of California, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, California Civil Code § 1798.100 et seq., (with any implementing regulations and as may be amended from time to time, “CCPA”) relevant to your Personal Information (as defined under the CCPA), as well as other laws, subject to certain exemptions provided therein.
If your Personal Information is subject to the CCPA, you may have the right to:
- Request that a business provide you access to the following no more than twice in a 12-month period:
- the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information that the business has collected about you;
- the categories of sources from which your Personal Information is collected;
- the business or commercial purpose for collecting or sharing your Personal Information;
- the categories of third parties with whom a business shares your Personal Information; and
- the categories of Personal Information that are sold (as defined under the CCPA) and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold.
- Request that a business delete your Personal Information, subject to exceptions under the CCPA or other applicable law; and
- Request that a business not “sell” your Personal Information by opting out of the sale of your Personal Information.
California residents also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of any of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA, as described in this section. Please note that you may authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf. If you use an agent, we will take measures to verify your agent’s authorization similar to the verification described above for fulfilling any access or deletion requests. We may require more information to ensure proper verification of your agent’s identity and authorization.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY OR USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
This Privacy Policy may be updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy or if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that affect user information already collected through our site, we will post a notice of those changes on our Homepage. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. If you do not agree to any provision of this Privacy Policy, or any update or modification thereto, please do not use our Website.
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Contact us via U.S. Mail
Johnson Development Corp.
5005 Riverway, Suite 500
Houston, TX 77056
Contact us by telephone at 713.960.9977
M/I HOMES
4131 Worth Ave., Suite 500
Columbus, Ohio 43219
Contact us by telephone at 614.418.8370
