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Privacy Statement

Introduction

Welcome to http://www.washingtonhousinginitiative.com (the "Site") owned by Federal City council ("FCC") and operated by JBG SMITH Properties LP (“JBGS”). FCC and JBGS are referred to collectively herein as "We" or "Us"). Site visitors ("You" or "Your" as applicable) should read and understand the following Privacy Policy ("Policy") which discloses our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of Your personal information ("Information") collected through the Site. This Policy applies to all services available on the Site. This Policy does not apply to services or products offered by other companies or individuals, including third party sites made available through this Site. By using the Site, You consent to the collection and use of Your Information as described in this Policy and the Terms and Conditions, which is incorporated herein by reference and may include terms which are listed but not defined in this Policy.

We may update or modify this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes we will post a revised effective date below. Any changes shall be effective immediately upon posting the revised Policy. Your use of the Site after changes are made shall be deemed acceptance by You of the revised Policy.

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Information Collected

Information is collected through two methods: (i) Information provided by You to the Site; or (ii) Information that is obtained from Your use of the Site.
 

  1. Information provided by You: You may browse the Site anonymously. If you contact us through the Contact page you will be asked to provide contact information so that we may respond to your inquiry. The Site may allow You to distribute materials and information downloaded from the Site to third parties via the third party’s email address. You represent that You have the authority to provide the email addresses of those third parties, and that those third parties have agreed to receive such materials and information from us.


  2. Information Collected from Your use of the Site: Based upon Your use of the Site, we may automatically collect certain information, such as Your usage data, preferences, or other data relating to Your use of the Site. We use cookies and similar technology to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about Site usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember You and Your preferences when You revisit the Site. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. Some cookies used to allow the Site to function easily are erased when you close your browser window. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. In particular, we may collect the following types of information:
     

    1. Your browser type, language, plug-ins, Internet domain and operating system;


    2.  Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;


    3. The website(s) You visited before visiting the Site and the website(s) You visited after visiting the Site;


    4. Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that may identify the physical location of such devices;


    5. Data collected through cookies and other tracking technologies;


    6. Your location information if you agree to share it with us; and


    7. Data related to Your interactions with content on the Site, such as the type of content viewed on the Site.


    8. Third Party Cookies and Do Not Track. We may allow selected third parties to place cookies through the Site to provide us with better insights into the use of the Site or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to You. These third parties may collect information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our website. We may also permit third party service providers to place cookies through our Site to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third-party cookies or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
 

 

We do not use technology that recognizes a "do-not-track" signal from your web browser.

 
Use of Collected Information

The purpose of collecting Your Information is to provide You with the best experience possible.

In general, we will use Your Information for our general commercial purposes, including, for example, to: (i) analyze, operate and improve the Site and the services offered thereon; (ii) customize the content You see when You use the Site; (iii) enforce our Terms and Conditions and this Policy; (iv) conduct market analysis, traffic flow analysis and related reporting to third parties; (v) to send You information about us and our products and services, if any, and those of other companies we believe You may find of interest; and (vi) for any other purposes disclosed to You at the time we collect Your Information. By providing Your or another’s email address You hereby grant Us permission to distribute any notices, news alerts, materials, updates or any other information to those email addresses.

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Accessing Your Information and Your Choices

You can choose not to receive emails from us by "unsubscribing" using the instructions in any email you receive from us. This will not stop us from sending emails about your transactions, if any, with us or in response to inquiries you send us.

You can choose to delete or block cookies by setting your browser to either reject all cookies or to allow cookies only from selected sites. If you block cookies performance of the Site may be impaired and certain features may not function at all.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose Your Information to our affiliated companies, but we will not sell, trade or rent Your Information to any third party except with your authorization or as described in this Policy. We may reveal information about You to unaffiliated third parties: (1) if You request or authorize it; (2) if the Information is provided to help complete a transaction for You; (3) if the Information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) if the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, user Information may be one of the transferred assets); (5) if the Information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.); or (6) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

We may provide data, such as aggregate data, sales, site traffic and related Site information, to third parties; however Your Information will not be included in such data except in an aggregate manner where the use of such Information will not identify You personally. Additionally, We may disclose anonymized forms of Your email address to third party websites to enable Us to provide You with the services You have agreed to receive.

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Your California Privacy Rights

We do not share your information with others for use to directly contact to you by means of the mail, telephone, or electronic mail to market their products, goods, or services to you for your personal, family, or household purposes.
 

Security of Your Information

We use reasonable technical, administrative and physical measures to protect Information contained in our system against misuse, loss or alteration. Please understand that no security system is perfect and, as such, We do not guarantee the security of the Site, or that Your Information won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to the Site.

 

Links to Third Party Websites

Although the Site contains links to third party websites, We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on those third party websites. Where we have linked You to a third-party website You should read the terms and conditions and privacy policy stated on that third-party website as it governs the use of that third party website.

 

Children’s Privacy

The Site is directed to persons 18 years of age or older. Accordingly, You must be 18 years of age in order to access the Site. If You are under 18 years of age You may not access the Site without the consent of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect, distribute or share any Information from persons under 18 years of age and we are not under any obligation to verify that persons accessing the Site are, in fact, over 18 years of age. If we become aware that a child under 18 years of age has provided Information to Us or the Site, we will delete such Information as soon as is possible under the circumstances.

 

Termination

In the event you receive news and alerts services, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications You receive if you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive the such news and alerts services. Please note that we reserve the right to use Your Information in any aggregated data collection after termination, however we will ensure that the use of such Information will not identify You personally.

 

Questions

If You have any questions concerning this Policy or the Site, please contact:
 
(Effective Date: October 18, 2018)
JBG SMITH Properties LP
4445 Willard Ave, Suite 400
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
marketing@jbgsmith.com

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