Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2024 Last Updated: January 1, 2024

LASection8.com ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://www.lasection8.com (the "Site"), and your rights with respect to that information. Please read this policy carefully. If you disagree with its terms, please discontinue use of the Site.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

Information You Provide Directly: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and any other information you submit through our contact forms, rental applications, or maintenance request forms.

Automatically Collected Information: When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and other diagnostic data.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior on our Site. See Section 5 (Cookies and Tracking) for more detail.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To respond to your inquiries and provide requested services; to process rental applications and maintenance requests; to communicate with you about properties, availability, and services; to send administrative information, including updates to our terms and policies; to improve our Site, services, and user experience; to analyze usage trends and monitor the effectiveness of our marketing; to comply with legal obligations; to detect, prevent, and address fraud, security breaches, and other harmful activity; and to send promotional communications where you have consented or where permitted by applicable law.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, including email delivery, web hosting, analytics, and customer support. These parties are contractually obligated to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us.

Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Protection of Rights: We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, or situations involving potential threats to safety.

4. California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These rights include:

Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.

Right to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Correct: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: To the extent we collect sensitive personal information, you have the right to limit its use and disclosure.

Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To exercise your California privacy rights, submit a verifiable consumer request by contacting us at the information provided in Section 11. We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days as required by law.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use the following types of cookies and tracking technologies on our Site:

Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function properly. These cannot be disabled.

Analytics Cookies: We may use third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics to collect information about how users interact with our Site. This information is used to improve our Site and services. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Retargeting and Advertising Cookies: We may use retargeting technologies that allow us to show advertisements to users who have previously visited our Site on third-party websites and platforms. These technologies collect information about your visits to our Site and may be used to display relevant advertisements. You may opt out of interest-based advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at https://optout.networkadvertising.org.

Social Media Pixels: Our Site may include pixels or tracking codes from social media platforms (including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, and Google) that allow those platforms to collect information about your use of our Site for advertising and analytics purposes. Their use of your information is governed by their respective privacy policies.

You may control cookie preferences through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Site. California residents may also exercise rights with respect to certain data collected through cookies under the CCPA/CPRA.

6. Do Not Track

Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" feature. Our Site does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals. We will update this policy if our practices change.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

8. Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.

9. Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

11. Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you require this policy in an alternative format, please contact us using the information below.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post the revised policy on this page with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.