Privacy Policy

Help Stop Eviction is committed to protecting your privacy both online and offline. This privacy policy explains the information we may collect through your use of this site, via phone calls, or any information sent to us by mail, email, or any other method of communication and how we use, share, and store that information.This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms and Conditions of Use. By using this web site, or by requesting any of our services, you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions, which can be found here: https://helpstopeviction.com/terms-and-conditions . Please read the complete Terms of Conditions, including this Privacy Policy, before using this web site or requesting any of our services.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect your Personal Information, but only when you provide it to us voluntarily through various activities on this web site, via phone calls, or by e-mail or mail. “Personal Information” includes your name, organization, e-mail and mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and when purchases are contemplated or completed, credit card and/or other financial information.  If at any time you prefer to provide such information by phone, fax, or in writing, please visit the Contact Us or similarly denominated section of this web site.This website uses a secure server so your credit card number or bank account numbers, if used, as well as any other personal information, will be encrypted and will remain confidential, and Help Stop Eviction will use industry standard and reasonable efforts to keep the information confidential.

Help Stop Eviction’s website also contains, or in the future it may contain, but is not limited to, sections that allow you to join our email newsletter, and it may contain pages where you can register for the website, or obtain additional information, request to purchase Help Stop Eviction’s services, or send an email inquiry.  By submitting your Personal Information through this web site, you give your consent to Help Stop Eviction’s collection, use, and disclosure of such information as described in this Privacy Policy. We will use your Personal Information to fulfill your request or other purpose for which you provided it. We may also use it for such purposes as sending you, either electronically or through the U.S. mail, information about our programs, services, and upcoming events as well as other materials that we think may be of interest to you.  At any time, you may request that we discontinue sending you these communications by contacting us with your request as described in the Contact Us or similarly denominated section.

Help Stop Eviction does not sell, trade, transfer, lease, or rent any Personal Information to any third party except as authorized by you or as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. To provide services to you, we may share your Personal Information with third parties, such as those who facilitate activities on this web site or our programs and services. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes and will require our service providers not to use your Personal Information for marketing purposes without your consent.

Help Stop Eviction reserves the right to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a subpoena, court, search warrant, or other legal process, to defend Help Stop Eviction against legal claims, or for other reasons that we, in our sole discretion, determine in good faith are necessary or appropriate. Help Stop Eviction may transfer Personal Information to its successors or assigns, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.

To provide us with updates on your Personal Information, to modify your preferences regarding supplying your information to third parties, to be removed from mailing lists, or to have your Personal Information removed from our database, contact us with your information or request as described in the Contact Us or similarly denominated section of this Site.

At any time, you can contact us if you need to correct your information or want to be removed from any of our lists.  

Cookies and other Aggregate Information

“Cookies” are small text files that a website can use to recognize returning users, facilitate ongoing access to and use of the website, and allow a website to track usage and collect aggregate data in order to improve the website. This web site may set “cookies” to automatically track data and non-personal information about users.

Help Stop Eviction may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the web site, track the volume of usage, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to any user’s personal information. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of this web site and to help make the web site more useful.

Help Stop Eviction’s web site may contain links to other sites.  There is a possibility that those sites may use cookies to collect a visitor’s personal information.  We cannot control the use of cookies by sites linked to our site and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites.

Security

Help Stop Eviction uses standard and reasonable precautions to host and maintain this web site in a secure manner and to safeguard it from unauthorized access. However, no transmission through the Internet can be guaranteed to be wholly secure, nor can any electronic submission of information be completely secure from technologically sophisticated and/or bad actors, so you submit information at your own risk. If you send us an email, it is not necessarily secure against interception.We strive to ensure that your visit to our Site is a satisfactory one and that your privacy is respected. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please visit the Contact Us or similarly denominated section of this Site.

California Consumer Privacy Act

Consumers in California may have certain privacy rights, including the right to not be discriminated against and request to know what personal information Help Stop Eviction has collected about them, the deletion of such information, and how PPLSI has used or otherwise shared such information over the past years. California consumers can make a request by contacting the email address or phone number listed in the “Contact us” or similarly denominated section of our website. Help Stop Eviction will respond in accordance with CCPA guidelines.  Help Stop Eviction collects various types of personal information, as explained elsewhere in this policy, for the purpose of facilitating the services offered by Help Stop Eviction. Categories of information collected include, but are not limited to, personally identifiable information, such as names, addresses, and social security numbers. commercial and financial information; and legal information. Help Stop Eviction does not sell personal information. Help Stop Eviction will comply with CCPA Right-to-Forget Deletion Guidelines.

Effective Date of Policy and Changes

The effective Date of this Privacy Policy is November 5, 2024.  This policy may be updated as industry practices change and develop.  Help Stop Eviction reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to revise, change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any material changes to the Privacy Policy will be incorporated on this page. Notice of changes may be given in any manner we choose in compliance with the law such as, but not limited to, posting a notice of changes on our websites. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the most recent version of the Privacy Policy. The first effective date of this Privacy Policy is November 5, 2024, and as amended over time with the last amendments as of November 5, 2024.