Privacy Policy

Privacy is important to all of us. No one likes to think that their personal information is being broadcast by someone else especially to those who might use that information for their own purposes.

There are certain types of information that is collected when you use our site. There are also safeguards to protect that. By reading this document you can decide whether to share with us.

Keep in mind that we at Bestguide-RetirementCommunities.com maintain the highest standards in all our operations as regards to integrity in everything we do. We also protect your privacy in line with these high standards.

At bestguide-retirementcommunities.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

Bestguide-Retirementcommunities.com does not sell any personal information. 

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use  bestguide-retirementcommunities.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

bestguide-retirementcommunities.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that bestguide-retirementcommunities.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to bestguide-retirementcommunities.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies  

bestguide-retirementcommunities.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy  

bestguide-retirementcommunities.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on... 

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks.  Click here to do that. 

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google advertising opt-out.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products. 

Bestguide-retirementcommunities.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse bestguide-retirementcommunities.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Advertising from the Ezoic platform:

We also receive ads from the Ezoic platform.  Go here to see Ezoic's Privacy information.   

Personally Identifiable Information

bestguide-retirementcommunities.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
  
• To display content on the site correctly.
  
• To improve customer service.
  
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  
• To personalize your user experience.
  
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  
• To improve our site.
  
• To improve our products and services.
  
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
  
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

bestguide-retirementcommunities.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell bestguide-retirementcommunities.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site  is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, go to Data Review.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information on the servers by going here to GDPR Data Request. 

Updates and Effective Date

Bestguide-retirementcommunities.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to bestguide-retirementcommunities.com’s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: September 10, 2019

Disclaimer:

Bestguide-Retirementcommunities.com is an information only site. We give no recommendations or opinions. While we do our best to make sure information is accurate, we expect all visitors to Bestguide-Retirementcommunities.com to do their own personal verification of any and all information on this site.

We Refer You With Links to Other Sites..

There are links on our site that go to third party sites. We refer you to these sites for your convenience and is not a recommendation or opinion. When you leave our site, we are not responsible for any information you obtain from other sites you are referred to. Please do your own investigation of information received from this site as information can change frequently and most of the sites we refer you to can change information without notice. Prices, information, floor plans and all other information can change and must be personally verified through Realtors, Builders and other professional advisers as well as personal investigation. The best way to obtain the most accurate information when appropriate is to directly contact the builder of communities.

Disclosure:

We are not affiliated in any way with third parties reviewed, interviewed or linked to on our site. We are not responsible after you leave our site for any information you give or receive from other parties.

Our site gives information for your convenience. We never advise you or recommend. We expect you to seek out your own advisers and experts and make your own decisions.

We do our best to have the most accurate information but cannot guarantee this since information changes.

We never recommend any product or community. It is your sole responsibility to decide on the community best for you. Seek information regarding purchasing from the builders directly not from any third parties mentioned here and always do your own thorough investigation of communities and information regardless of information received here or elsewhere.

We always seek to be accurate but cannot guarantee this as information is constantly changing. Therefore, please do your own thorough checking of all information.

Our reviews of communities are unpaid. We are not affiliated with the communities we review in any way. Interviews and reviews are to give you the latest information. They have been contributed by communities or persons without compensation. We select communities to review or interview randomly.

Reviews may have photos taken by us with upgraded options and may not be included in advertised price. You must do your own investigation as to what is or is not an option at a community.

We may have advertisers, and if so, they will be identified as such with something like "Advertisement" or "Site Sponsor."

Our photos are mostly original taken by us, our family or uncompensated and contributed by communities with some from Photo banks but these are kept to a minimum.

Hold Harmless..

You agree to hold Bestguide-Retirementcommunities.com harmless from any and all actions taken by you due to information on this site as this site is for your information only and given to you for your convenience and must be personally verified by you and any actions subsequent to are a result of your personal verification and decision and your sole responsibility.

If at any time you have questions about these policies, please feel free to contact us from the contact us page on our site.

Thank you.

Bestguide-RetirementCommunities.com
Updated 2020