Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://costtoclose.com/, The Cost to Close and Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC. and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC dba The Cost to Close. The Cost to Close website is an Ecommerce site. By using the The Cost to Close website (Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC), you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information.

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

– First and Last Name

– Mailing Address

– E-mail Address

– Phone Number

– Job Title

– Business Address

– Personal Address

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close, in order to determine what Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close websites.

Use of Tracking Technologies: Facebook Pixel and Google Tag Manager

Our website utilizes various tracking and analytics tools to enhance user experience and analyze website performance. This includes the use of Facebook Pixel, Google Tag Manager, and Hotjar.

– Facebook Pixel: We use Facebook Pixel to understand and track users’ interactions on our website. This tool helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding the actions users take on our website. The data collected through Facebook Pixel is used to ensure that our advertisements are shown to the right audience and to improve our ad campaigns.

– Google Tag Manager: Google Tag Manager is implemented to manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on our website. It allows us to track conversions, website analytics, and other metrics related to user interactions with our site.

The information gathered by these tools is used for analytics and advertising purposes and is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We do not sell the information collected by these tools.

Use of Cookies.

The Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close websites may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close pages, or register with Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close site or services, a cookie helps Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close websites, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close services or websites you visit.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close uses only Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies must be present for the website to provide the basic functions on the website. They are necessary for accessing to some features of the website including sing in, adding item to a cart, e-billing. These cookies are usually only set on response to actions made by you.

Links.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion.

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you at info@costtoclose.com, we will:

Delete your personal information from our records; and

Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; Comply with an existing legal obligation; orOtherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications.

From time to time, Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close or click on a link therein. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close, you may opt out of such communications by info@costtoclose.com.

Changes to this Statement.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our websites, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the websites and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information.

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.

If you believe that Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close at:

Real Estate Chronicles Publishing Group, LLC., dba The Cost to Close

8609 Westwood Center Drive

Suite 110 PMB 1108

Tysons Corner, VA 22182

Effective as of March, 2024