Methods of processing
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of LandSearch (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Legal basis of processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
- Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing ("opt-out"), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;
- provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
- processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
If broader protection standards are applicable, Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
- Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
- Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner's legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on LandSearch, possibly based on User interests.This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside LandSearch. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.
Google Ad Manager (Google LLC)
Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google LLC that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with. In order to opt out from being tracked by various advertising networks, Users may make use of Your Online Choices. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of LandSearch and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered. Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Microsoft Advertising (Microsoft Corporation)
Microsoft Advertising is an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of LandSearch, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
Analytics collected directly (LandSearch)
LandSearch uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features (Google LLC)
Google Analytics on LandSearch has Advertising Reporting Features activated, which collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie (web activity) and from device advertising IDs (app activity). It allows the Owner to analyze specific behavior and interests Data (traffic Data and Users' ads interaction Data) and, if enabled, demographic Data (information about the age and gender). Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports (Google LLC)
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for LandSearch (demographics means age and gender Data). Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
ListHub Metrics
ListHub Metrics is a web analysis tracking service provided by Move, Inc. ListHub aggregates and analyzes the Data collected in the use of LandSearch to generate intelligence reports tracking how visitors are interacting with listings that are shared with participating brokers, agents, and sellers.
Personal Data collected: Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States.
Contacting the User
Contact form (LandSearch)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes LandSearch to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes, or any other kind of request as indicated by the form's header. Listing and profile messages will be shared with the relevant parties to the source page.
Personal Data collected: email address, full name, IP address, and phone number.
Mailing list or newsletter (LandSearch)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User's email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning LandSearch. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up for LandSearch or after making a purchase.
Personal Data collected: email address.
Phone contact (LandSearch)
Users that provided their phone number might be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to LandSearch, as well as for fulfilling support requests.
Personal Data collected: phone number.
LandSearch account
We reserve the right to communicate with you about your account or any critically important issue regarding LandSearch or our services.
Personal Data collected: email address, first name, and last name.
Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of LandSearch and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Mapbox widget (Mapbox Inc.)
Mapbox is a maps visualization service provided by Mapbox Inc. that allows LandSearch to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Vimeo video (Vimeo, LLC)
Vimeo is a video content visualization service provided by Vimeo, LLC that allows LandSearch to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
YouTube video widget without cookies (Google LLC)
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows LandSearch to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
This widget is set up in a way that ensures that YouTube won't store information and cookies about Users on LandSearch unless they play the video.
Personal Data collected: Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Heat mapping and session recording
Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of a page where Users most frequently move the mouse or click. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behavior. Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for later visual playback.
FullStory (FullStory, Inc.)
FullStory is an analytics and heat mapping service provided by FullStory, Inc.
FullStory maps how frequently Users interact with the different areas of LandSearch, allowing the Owner to draw conclusions about their interests and preferences. FullStory further allows for the recording of mapping sessions making them available for later visual playback.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out. Privacy Shield participant.
Handling payments
Payment processing services enable LandSearch to process payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means. To ensure greater security, LandSearch shares only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction.
Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the User, such as emails containing invoices or notifications concerning the payment.
Stripe (Stripe Inc)
Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Hosting and backend infrastructure
This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable LandSearch to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of LandSearch. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Amazon Web Services, Inc.)
Amazon Web Services is a hosting and backend service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Infrastructure monitoring
This type of service allows LandSearch to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting can be improved.
Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of LandSearch.
Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.)
Sentry is a monitoring service provided by Functional Software, Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Location-based interactions
Non-continuous geolocation (LandSearch)
LandSearch may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services. If explicit authorization has been provided, the User’s location data may be tracked by LandSearch.
The geographic location of the User is determined in a manner that isn't continuous, either at the specific request of the User or when the User doesn't point out its current location in the appropriate field and allows the application to detect the position automatically.
Personal Data collected: geographic position.
Managing contacts and sending messages
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts, or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
When you contact LandSearch or a professional through our platform, we collect data about your message, including the date and time of the message, your email address, and the content of the message.
MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.)
MailChimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC.
Personal Data collected: email address, first name, and last name.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon)
Amazon Simple Email Service is an email address management and message sending service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data collected: email address.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Registration and authentication
By registering or authenticating, Users allow LandSearch to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services. In this case, LandSearch will be able to access some Data, stored by these third-party services, for registration or identification purposes.
Direct registration (LandSearch)
The User registers by filling out the registration form and providing the Personal Data directly to LandSearch.
Personal Data collected: email address, first name, last name, and password.
Remarketing and behavioral targeting
This type of service allows LandSearch and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of LandSearch by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.
Google Signals (Google LLC)
LandSearch uses Google Signals, a feature of Google Analytics, which will associate the visitation information that it collects from LandSearch with Google information from accounts of signed-in Google-account users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalization. This Google information may include User location, search history, YouTube history and Data from sites that partner with Google – and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into Users' cross device behaviors. If a User falls under the described association, they may access and/or delete such Data via My Activity provided by Google.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Social features
Public profile (LandSearch)
Users may have public profiles that other Users can display. In addition to the Personal Data provided, this profile may contain Users' interactions with LandSearch.
Personal Data collected: city, company name, country, email address, first name, last name, phone number, picture, profession, and state.
Tag Management
This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on LandSearch in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Managing support and contact requests
This type of service allows LandSearch to manage support and contact requests received via email or by other means, such as the contact form.
The Personal Data processed depend on the information provided by the User in the messages and the means used for communication (e.g. email address).
Gmelius
Gmelius is a support and contact request management service.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Interaction with live chat platforms
This type of service allows Users to interact with third-party live chat platforms directly from the pages of LandSearch, for contacting and being contacted by LandSearch support service.
If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service. Moreover, live chat conversations may be logged.
Olark Widget (Habla, Inc.)
The Olark Widget is a service for interacting with the Olark live chat platform provided by Habla, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Data communicated while using the service; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Traffic optimization and distribution
This type of service allows LandSearch to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.
Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between LandSearch and the User's browser.
Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information User are transferred.
CloudFlare (Cloudflare)
CloudFlare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by CloudFlare Inc.
The way CloudFlare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through LandSearch, i.e., communication between LandSearch and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from LandSearch to be collected.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through LandSearch (or third-party services employed in LandSearch), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use LandSearch, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User
The individual using LandSearch who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of LandSearch. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of LandSearch.
LandSearch (or this Application)
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by LandSearch as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookies
Small sets of data stored in the User's device.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
This privacy policy relates solely to LandSearch, if not stated otherwise within this document.