Terms of Service

Welcome and thank you for your interest in THE SIMPLE LIFE (THE SIMPLE LIFE, LLC. and its affiliated brands, collectively, “THE SIMPLE LIFE,” “us,” “our,” or “we” ). By clicking a registration or new account submission button, or by otherwise using our websites, networks, mobile applications, or other services provided by THE SIMPLE LIFE (collectively, the “Services”), or accessing any content provided by us through the Services, you agree to be bound by the following terms of use, as updated from time to time (the “Terms of Use”).

1. THE SIMPLE LIFE Role. THE SIMPLE LIFE, and the Services, may assist you in performing the various tasks in a real estate transaction. However, unless explicitly specified by the terms of use for a particular Service (each a “Product’s Terms”), THE SERVICES ARE NOT INTENDED TO provide you with any financial, real estate, or related advice of any kind. You understand and agree that the Services may include advertisements. To help make the advertisements relevant and useful to you, THE SIMPLE LIFE may serve advertisements based on the information we collect through the Services. See our Privacy Policy for more details.

A.THE SIMPLE LIFE, LLC. has a real estate broker license in certain states (see Section 21). However, unless provided for in your Product’s Terms, THE SIMPLE LIFE assumes no responsibility for any result or consequence related directly or indirectly to any action or inaction that you or any consumer takes based on the Services or any other information available through or in connection with the Services.

2. THE SIMPLE LIFE Brands and Businesses. Services offered by each of our sister companies, brands, businesses, and partners may be subject to additional terms of use as available on their respective websites, networks, mobile applications, or otherwise.
   
   

• B. THE SIMPLE LIFE Home Loans. THE SIMPLE LIFE doesn’t provide or utilize any information for use in loan-related decisions, and you acknowledge and agree not to use any information obtained from THE SIMPLE LIFE’s services for loan-related decisions.

3. Eligibility; Accounts and Registration. You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Services. By agreeing to these Terms of Use, you represent and warrant that:
   (a) you are at least 18 years of age
   (b) you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Services; and
   (c) your registration and your use of the Services comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
   
   To access some features of the services, you may be required to register for an account and agree to a Product’s Terms, to the extent applicable to that service, which may be incorporated on THE SIMPLE LIFE site. When you register for an account you will be asked to provide us with some information about yourself, such as email address, phone number, or other contact information. You agree that the information you provide is accurate and that you will keep it accurate and up-to-date at all times. When you register, you will be asked to provide a password. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, and you are responsible for all actions taken via your account. You may not share your user account(s) with others. Unless you have entered into a commercial agreement with us permitting you to use the Services for transactions on behalf of another person, you may use the Services only for transactions on your own behalf.
4. Use of the Services and Restrictions of the Services.

• A. Use of the Services. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, we grant you a non-exclusive, limited, revocable, personal, non-transferable license to use the Services and to download and use any App (as defined in Section 4(B) below) on your mobile device in object code form, for your personal use. If you are a real estate or mortgage professional acting in your professional capacity, you may additionally use the Services to provide information, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to your clients and to take actions on behalf of your clients. You represent and warrant that you have obtained all required authorizations and consents from your client. Except as expressly stated herein, these Terms of Use do not provide you with a license to use, reproduce, distribute, display or provide access to any portion of the Services on third-party websites or otherwise. The Services may include software for use in connection with the Services. The Services may not be used for transactions in commercial real estate, which includes, without limitation, commercially zoned properties and vacation rentals.
  
  
• B. Mobile Applications. To use any mobile application feature of the Services (each, an “App”), you must have a compatible mobile device. We do not warrant that any App will be compatible with your mobile device. You may use mobile data in connection with an App and may incur additional charges from your wireless provider for using an App. You agree that you are solely responsible for any applicable charges. We may update any app and may automatically electronically update the version of any App that you have installed on a mobile device. You consent to all automatic upgrades and understand that these Terms of Use will apply to all updated versions of an App. Any third-party open source software included in an App is subject to the applicable open-source license and may be available directly from the creator under an open-source license. These Terms of Use do not apply to your use of software obtained from a third-party source under an open-source license.
  
  
• C. Use of Content. Subject to the restrictions outlined in these Terms of Use, you may copy information from the Services without the aid of any automated processes and only as necessary for your personal use to view, save, print, fax, and/or e-mail such information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aggregate level data provided may be used for non-personal uses, e.g., real estate market analysis. You may display and distribute derivative works of the Aggregate Data (e.g., within a graph), only so long as THE SIMPLE LIFE is cited as a source on every page where the Aggregate Data are displayed, including “Data Provided by THE SIMPLE LIFE.” Such citation may not include any of our logos without our prior written approval or imply any relationship between you and THE SIMPLE LIFE beyond that THE SIMPLE LIFE is the source of the Aggregate Data. You are prohibited from displaying any other THE SIMPLE LIFE’s data without our prior written approval.

5. Prohibited Use.
   BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE NOT TO:

• reproduce, modify, distribute, display, or otherwise provide access to, create derivative works from, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any portion of the Services, except as explicitly permitted by any Product’s Terms to the extent applicable to that product’s Services;
• provide/post/authorize a link to any of the Services (including but not limited to an agent profile page) from a third-party website that is not a real estate-related website owned or operated by a real estate or lending professional or institution;
• remove or modify any copyright or other intellectual property notices that appear in the Services;
• use the Services in any way that is unlawful, or harms THE SIMPLE LIFE, its service providers, suppliers, affiliates, or any other user;
• use the Services in any way to discriminate against any individual or class of individuals protected under federal, state, or local laws, or which may have a discriminatory impact against any individual or class of individuals, or which otherwise promotes illegal, racist, or discriminatory activities or outcomes;
• distribute or post spam or other unsolicited messages, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or similar communications through the Services;
• impersonate another person, misrepresent your affiliation with another person or entity, or make any representation to any third party under false pretenses;
• reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise make accessible on or through any other website, application, or service any reviews, ratings, or profile information about real estate, lending, or other professionals, underlying images of or information about real estate listings, or other data or content available through the Services, except as explicitly permitted by us for a particular portion of the Services;
• upload invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents to the Services;
• post, reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise make accessible any content, which we, in our sole judgment and discretion, consider illegal, offensive, or objectionable including without limitation content that harasses, discriminates, demeans, threatens, or disparages any individual or class of individuals;
• interfere with, or compromise the system integrity or security of the Services, or otherwise bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;
• conduct automated queries (including screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers, bypassing “captcha” or similar precautions, or any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) on the Services;
• use any of THE SIMPLE LIFE’s trademarks as part of your screen name or email address on the Services;
• access or use any of the Services to develop competitive products or services; or
• attempt to, permit, or encourage any third party to do any of the above.

6. Fees.

• A. Generally. You may be required to pay fees to access certain features of the Services. All fees are in U.S. dollars and are non-refundable. If we change the fees for all or part of any of the Services, including by adding fees or charges, we will provide you advance notice of those changes. If you do not accept the changes, we may discontinue providing the applicable part of the Services to you. Our authorized third-party payment processors will charge the payment method you specified at the time of purchase or as agreed to as part of the selected Service. You authorize us to charge all fees as described in these Terms of Use for the Services you select to that payment method. If you pay any fees with a credit card, we may seek pre-authorization of your credit card account before your purchase to verify that the credit card is valid and has the necessary funds or credit available to cover your purchase.
  
  B. Subscriptions. The Services may include features that allow for automatically recurring payments for periodic charges (“Subscription Service”). If you decide to activate a Subscription Service, you authorize us to periodically charge, on a going-forward basis and until cancellation of either the recurring payments or your account, all accrued sums on or before the payment due date for the accrued sums. The subscription will continue unless — and until — you cancel your subscription, or we terminate it. You must cancel your Subscription Service before it renews to avoid billing the next periodic subscription fee to your account. We will bill the periodic subscription fee to the payment method you provide to us during registration (or to a different payment method if you change your payment information). We may change the subscription fee for any subsequent subscription period but will provide you advance notice of any increase before it applies. Unless otherwise stated in your Product’s Terms, you may cancel a Subscription Service through the settings page in your account, by contacting us at info@thesimplelife.com, or, if applicable by contacting your business consultant.

7. User Materials.

• A. UGC Definition; License Grant. Certain portions of the Services may allow users to upload or otherwise provide THE SIMPLE LIFE images, photos, video, data, text, listings, and other content (“User Materials”). Absent any additional terms provided in your Product’s Terms, by uploading or otherwise providing User Materials to the Services, you grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free worldwide license to: (i) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, prepare derivative works of or incorporate into other works, and translate your User Materials, in connection with the Services or in any other media; and (ii) sublicense these rights, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. We will not pay you for your User Materials or to exercise any rights related to your User Materials outlined in the preceding sentence. We may remove or modify your User Materials at any time. You are solely responsible for all User Materials made through your user account(s) on the Services or that you otherwise make available through the Services. For all User Materials, you represent and warrant that you are the creator and owner of the User Materials, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions (including all permissions required under applicable privacy and intellectual property law) to authorize THE SIMPLE LIFE and other users to access and use your User Materials as necessary to exercise the licenses granted by you under these Terms of Use. We will not use client contact information that is uploaded by agents into THE SIMPLE LIFE’s agent portal for any purpose, unless that client contact information is otherwise provided to us directly by the client.
• B. UGC Disclaimer. We are under no obligation to edit or control your User Materials or the User Materials of any other User and will not be in any way responsible or liable for any User Materials. We may, however, at any time and without prior notice, screen, remove, edit, or block any User content on the Services, including User Materials, that in our sole judgment violates these Terms of Use or we find otherwise objectionable, including any violation of our Good Neighbor Policy, described in Section 13(B). You understand that when using the Services, you may be exposed to User Materials of other users and acknowledge that User Materials may be inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable. You agree to waive, and do waive, any legal or equitable right or remedy you may have against us concerning User Materials. We expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with User Materials. If notified by a user or content owner that User Materials allegedly do not conform with these Terms of Use, we may investigate the allegation and determine in our sole discretion whether to remove those User Materials, which we reserve the right to do at any time and without notice. For more information on our handling of infringing content, please see Section 11 below.

8. Third Party/Linked Services/Sent Information.

• A. Generally. The Services include links to third-party products, services, and websites, as well as materials provided by third parties, and may include functionality that allows for the distribution of your User Materials or your personal information (collectively, your “User Information”) to third parties not under our control (each, a “Third-Party Provider”). Third-Party Providers are solely responsible for their services. You are responsible for your use and submission of User Information to any third party, and your dealings or business conducted with any third party arising in connection with the Services are solely between you and such third party. Your use of third-party sites, services, or products may be subject to associated third-party terms of use and privacy policies or other agreements, which you are solely responsible for complying with. We do not endorse, and take no responsibility for such products, services, Web sites, and materials, or a Third-Party Provider’s use of your User Information. By using a tool that allows for User Information to be transferred, you agree that we may transfer the applicable User Information or other information to the applicable third parties, which are not under our control. If you submit a contact form or otherwise indicate your interest in contacting a Third-Party Provider, you may receive telemarketing calls from the Third-Party Provider using the contact information you provided. Third-party Providers may keep your contact information and any other information received by the Third-party Provider in processing a contact or other request form. We are not responsible for any damages or costs of any type arising out of or in any way connected with your dealings with these third parties.
  
  B. Certain Third-Party Services.
  • (i) Referrals and Lead Sales. As part of the Services, you may be connected with a real estate professional. You authorize us to make such referral or lead sale and acknowledge that we may be paid valuable consideration for facilitating such connection. As part of the Services, you may be connected to a party that provides mortgage loan origination services, title and escrow services, or other settlement services. If any of these parties have an affiliated relationship with THE SIMPLE LIFE, then THE SIMPLE LIFE may receive a financial or other benefit from the referral between such affiliates
    
    (ii) Non-Affiliated Financial Products. If you choose to contact a non-affiliated bank, mortgage lender, financial institution, mortgage loan originator, loan broker, or other mortgage professional through the Services by filling out a contact, or other request form or otherwise indicating your interest in contacting (or being contacted by) a Third-Party Provider (including requests for mortgage rate quotes) on the Services, you authorize THE SIMPLE LIFE, in particular to provide the information you submit to the Third-Party Provider. If you include your name, contact information, and other information in a request, your identity will no longer be anonymous to the Third-Party Provider. Your submission of information and any request for quotes through the Services is not an application for credit. In the case of non-affiliated financial products, THE SIMPLE LIFE is only providing an administrative service to consumers and participating Third-Party Providers. Loan approval standards are established and maintained solely by individual Third-Party Providers. Decisions in any related non-affiliated transactions are made by participating Third-Party Providers and are not made by THE SIMPLE LIFE is not responsible for the underwriting activities or credit decisions of any Third-Party Provider. Any non-binding quotes provided by THE SIMPLE LIFE for Third-Party Providers’ financial products are not intended to be official Loan Estimates as defined in the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act or the Truth in Lending Act or to otherwise serve as a disclosure of any specific loan terms or conditions under any state or federal law. Interest rates displayed through the Services are for informational purposes only and reflect non-binding quotes of the terms a Third-Party Provider might offer an applicant fitting a consumer’s anonymous profile. Actual interest rates may vary. Consumers should rely on their own judgment in deciding which available loan product, terms, and Third-Party Provider best suit their needs and financial means. Except as outlined in Section 8(b)(i) above or as otherwise disclosed to you or provided in other Product’s Terms, THE SIMPLE LIFE: (a) are not a Third-Party Provider, loan originator, loan processor or underwriter; (b) do not aid or assist applicants in obtaining loans, soliciting applicants or Third-Party Providers for loans, or offer or negotiate terms of applications or loans; (c) do not take mortgage applications, make loans or credit decisions, or pre-qualify or pre-approve applicants for loans; (d) are not an agent of either any consumer or any Third-Party Provider; (e) do not endorse, refer, or recommend any Third-Party Provider that pays THE SIMPLE LIFE, or the products of any Third-Party Provider that pays THE SIMPLE LIFE; (f) are not responsible for any errors or delays caused by consumers or any Third-Party Provider in the loan process; and (g) do not guarantee offer of, or acceptance into, any particular loan program or specific loan terms, conditions, or rates with any Third-Party Provider, or that any rates or terms will be the best available.
    (iii) Rental Products. If you choose to submit your information to submit a background or credit check, you are subject to the CIC and Experian terms as described in Section 8(C) below. We do not process, or store background or credit check information related to our rental products and do not control how a landlord uses background or credit check information in evaluating applications submitted to them. We do not guarantee any acceptance by a landlord of an application but do require all landlords using the Services to comply with the Fair Housing Act and other applicable laws.
    
    C. Additional Terms for Third Party Services.
    Certain aspects of the Services include Third-Party tools that are subject to additional Third-Party terms, including, but not limited to, the following:
    
    (i) Windows Live Virtual Earth. Windows Live Virtual Earth imagery is supplied by Microsoft Corporation, and use is subject to the Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use.
    
    (ii) Google Maps. Some of the Services implement the Google Maps web mapping service. Your use of Google Maps is subject to Google’s Terms of Use.
    
    (iii) Stripe. Some of the Services allow you to use Stripe Connect to make payments to other users and may include additional processing or application fees detailed when you choose to connect to Stripe. Your use of Stripe is subject to Stripe’s terms of use. Additionally, by using Stripe, you agree not to use Stripe (and the Services generally) for any Prohibited Business purposes.
    
    (iv) CIC. Some of the Services allow users to use our Third-Party background check partner CIC’s services to submit an application and background check to a landlord. If you are a Renter using the CIC services, you authorize THE SIMPLE LIFE to obtain your background check report, including criminal and housing court records, and to share that information with Landlords to whom you submit an application, and agree to the CIC Legal and Privacy Policy. If you are a Landlord using the CIC services, you agree to use the background check reports in compliance with the law, and agree to the CIC Legal and Privacy Policy linked above. Further, you understand and acknowledge that the reporting of criminal and housing court records may be restricted in accordance with federal, state, and local legislation/regulations on reporting and/or use restrictions, government agency guidance, and industry best practices.

9. Intellectual Property. The Services are owned and operated by THE SIMPLE LIFE. The user interfaces, design, information, data, code, products, software, graphics, and all other elements of the Services that we provide are protected by intellectual property and other laws and are the property of THE SIMPLE LIFE or THE SIMPLE LIFE’s Third-Party licensors. Except as expressly allowed by these Terms of Use, you may not make use of THE SIMPLE LIFE’s Materials, and THE SIMPLE LIFE reserves all rights to THE SIMPLE LIFE’s Materials and Services not granted expressly in these Terms of Use.

Intellectual Property Notices:

Certain content on the Services is owned by ZIP+4 data and the United States Postal Service. The names of actual companies, products, and services mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. We do not assert copyrights, nor do we grant any rights to the underlying images or descriptions of real estate listings provided through the Services. Any use of these images and descriptions is subject to the copyright owner’s permission and the requirements of applicable law.

10. Feedback. If you choose to provide input and suggestions regarding the Services, including those related to any of THE SIMPLE LIFE’s Materials (“Feedback”), then you hereby grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free right to use the Feedback in any manner and for any purpose, including to improve the Services or create other products and services.
11. 11. DMCA; Claims of Copyright Infringement. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and ask that everyone using the Services do the same. Anyone who believes that their work has been reproduced on the Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement may notify our copyright agent in accordance with Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), by providing the following information:

• (i) Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  
  
• (ii) Identification of the material that you claim is infringing and needs to be removed, including a description of where it is located on the Services so that the copyright agent can locate it;
  
  
• (iii) Your address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address, so that the copyright agent may contact you about your complaint; and
  
  
• (iv) A signed statement that the above information is accurate; that you have a good faith belief that the identified use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf in this situation.
  
  
• Notices of copyright infringement claims should be sent as follows:
  • By Mail:
    • THE SIMPLE LIFE, LLC.
    • 551 S. Zerex Street, Unit 205
    • Fraser, CO 80442
    • Attention: Copyright Agent
      
      
  • By Email:
    • If relating to content on thesimplelife.com and related websites: info@thesimplelife.com
      
      
  • If you give notice of copyright infringement by email, we may begin investigating the alleged copyright infringement; however, we must receive your signed statement by mail or as an attachment to your email before we are required to take any action.

12. Deactivation/Deletion /Changes to Agreement. Except as stated in any Product’s Terms, you may deactivate your account at any time by selecting “deactivate account” in your account settings. You can delete your account and all your account data by submitting a request on our website. If you deactivate or delete your account, you remain obligated to pay all outstanding fees, if any, incurred prior to termination relating to your use of the Services. If you violate any provision of these Terms of Use, your permission from THE SIMPLE LIFE to use the Services will terminate automatically. In addition, we may, in our sole discretion, deactivate, suspend, or terminate your access to your account and the Services at any time for any reason, with or without notice. We may alter, suspend, or discontinue the Services or any portion of the Services without notice. We will not be liable whatsoever for any change to the Services or any suspension or termination of your access to, or use of the Services. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use at any time in its sole discretion on a going-forward basis, and we will make commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of any material changes to these Terms of Use. Your continued use of the Services after any updates are effective will represent your agreement to the revised version of the Terms of Use and will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to, any such changes. You further waive any right you may have to receive specific notice of such changes to these Terms of Use. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms of Use.
13. Privacy Policy/Other Terms.

• A. Privacy Policy. THE SIMPLE LIFE will collect, use, store, and disclose personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please consult your Privacy Policy for more information, which is incorporated into, and made a part of, these Terms of Use.
  
  
• B. Other Terms. Your use of the Services is subject to all additional guidelines, rules, Product Terms, and agreements applicable to the Services or certain features of the Services that we may post on, or link to, from the Services, such as rules applicable to a particular product or content available through the Services. If you are a non-affiliated Third-Party Provider who has created an industry professional account with THE SIMPLE LIFE, you are subject to all applicable terms of use. All such terms are incorporated into, and made a part of, these Terms of Use.

14. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless THE SIMPLE LIFE, our affiliates, and our respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all claims and demands made by any third party due to or arising out of:
    (a) your access to or use of the Services;
    (b) your breach of these Terms of Use;
    (c) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party;
    (d) any dispute or issue between you and any third party;
    (e) any User Materials you upload to, or otherwise make available through, the Services;
    (f) your willful misconduct; and
    (g) any other party’s access to or use of the Services using your account and password.

THE SIMPLE LIFE reserves the right, at their own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in that case, you agree to cooperate with THE SIMPLE LIFE’s defense of that claim.

15. No Warranties. THE SIMPLE LIFE PROVIDES THE SERVICES “AS IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SIMPLE LIFE AND OUR SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE SIMPLE LIFE AND OUR SUPPLIERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, STATUTORY, AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: (A) WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, ACCURACY, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, NO ENCUMBRANCES, NO LIENS, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT; (B) WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ARISING THROUGH COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE; AND (C) WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE ACCESS OR USE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES OR ANY MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY REGARDING ANY THE SIMPLE LIFE ENTITY OR SERVICES THAT ARE NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF USE. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF OR ACCESS TO THE SERVICES, YOUR DEALING WITH ANY OTHER USER, AND ANY MATERIALS, INCLUDING ALL USER AND THE SIMPLE LIFE’S MATERIALS, AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, AND USE, ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, OR OTHER OBTAINMENT OF MATERIALS THROUGH THE SERVICES AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITES OR SERVICES, ARE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR MOBILE DEVICE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES), OR THE LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF THOSE MATERIALS. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY PROHIBIT A DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
16. Limitation of Liability/Exclusive Remedy. IN NO EVENT WILL THE SIMPLE LIFE OR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS) ARISING OUT OF, BASED ON, OR RESULTING FROM THESE TERMS OF USE OR YOUR USE OR ACCESS, OR INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS, THE SERVICES OR ANY MATERIALS ON THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON:
    (A) BREACH OF CONTRACT;
    (B) BREACH OF WARRANTY;
    (C) NEGLIGENCE; OR
    (D) ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF THE SIMPLE LIFE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SIMPLE LIFE ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF MATERIALS; (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICES; (III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN; (IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICES; (V) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY; (VI) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY MATERIALS POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES; OR (VII) USER MATERIALS OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY.

THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE SIMPLE LIFE AND ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE, WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF:
(1) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO THE SIMPLE LIFE FOR THE SERVICES IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIMS; OR
(2) $100. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

ACCORDINGLY, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. EACH PROVISION OF THESE TERMS OF USE THAT PROVIDES FOR A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, OR EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES IS INTENDED TO AND DOES ALLOCATE THE RISKS BETWEEN THE PARTIES UNDER THESE TERMS. THIS ALLOCATION IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES. THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

17. Choice of Law; Disputes. These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts sitting in Grand County, Colorado for all disputes, claims, and actions arising from or in connection with the Services or otherwise under these Terms of Use. THE SIMPLE LIFE operates the Services from our offices in Colorado, and we make no representation that the Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations.
18. General. You agree not to export from anywhere any part of the Services provided to you, or any direct product thereof, except in compliance with, and with all licenses and approvals required under, applicable export laws, rules, and regulations. All Services used by the U.S. Government are provided with the commercial license rights described herein. These Terms of Use may be amended only by a written agreement signed by authorized representatives of the parties to these Terms of Use. If any part of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be replaced with a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms of Use will continue in effect. The section titles in these Terms of Use are used solely for the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance. We may assign this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice to you. You may not assign these Terms of Use, or assign, transfer or sublicense your rights, if any, in the Services. Our failure to act with respect to a breach, or our choice to otherwise waive a breach by you or others, does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. Except as expressly stated herein, these Terms of Use, and all expressly incorporated terms and agreements, constitute the entire agreement between you and THE SIMPLE LIFE with respect to the Services and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications of any kind between you and THE SIMPLE LIFE with respect to the Services. The following sections of these Terms of Use shall survive any termination of these Terms of Use: 3, 5-8, 10-12, and 14-22.
19. Consent to Communications. By using the Services, you consent to receiving certain electronic communications from us as further described in the Privacy Policy. Please read our Privacy Policy to learn more. You agree that any notices, agreements, disclosures, surveys, or other communications that we send to you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that those communications be in writing.

The Services may provide web forms, links, or contact information, including phone numbers, that can connect you with THE SIMPLE LIFE or third parties, such as real estate agents and Third-Party Providers. Communications through these methods may be routed through a third-party service (“Communications Service”). Calls may be recorded or monitored for quality assurance, training, or customer service purposes. You will be notified at the beginning of a call if it may be recorded or monitored. You consent to such recording and monitoring by THE SIMPLE LIFE or the Communications Service. We also use the Communications Service to track phone calls and text messages between you and real estate professionals so that we and the real estate professional can access certain details about the contact. As part of this process, we and the Communications Service will receive in real time, and store, data about your call or text message, including the date and time of the call or text message, your phone number, and the content of the text message. You consent to these practices by us and the Communications Service. The information is subject to the Privacy Policy.

20. Notice to California Residents. If you are a California resident, under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite S-202, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 in order to resolve a complaint regarding the Service or to receive further information regarding the use of the Service.
21. Contact Information and License Disclosures. The Services are offered by THE SIMPLE LIFE, LLC. and its affiliates, located at 551 S. Zerex Street, Unit 205, Fraser, CO 80442. You may contact THE SIMPLE LIFE by sending correspondence to that address or emailing info@thesimplelife.com.

22. Notice to Apple Users. If you are using our mobile applications on an iOS device, the terms of this Section 22 apply. You acknowledge that these Terms of Use are between you and THE SIMPLE LIFE only — not with Apple — and Apple is not responsible for the Services or related Materials. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Services. If the Services fail to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any applicable purchase price for the mobile application to you; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Services. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or any third party relating to the Services or your possession or use of the Services, including: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Services fail to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, or discharge of any third-party claim that the Services or your possession and use of the mobile application infringe that third party’s intellectual property rights. You agree to comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the Services. Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of Section 22 of these Terms of Use, and upon your acceptance of these Terms or Use, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this Section 22 of these Terms of Use against you. You hereby represent and warrant that:
    
    (i) You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that is on Title 15, Part 740 Supplement 1, Country Group E of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations; and
    (ii) You are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Why Use THE SIMPLE LIFE?

THE SIMPLE LIFE is a free online real estate site where you can search for homes for sale, find home prices, see home values, view recently sold homes, and check home rates. Contact one of our real estate professionals for all your home buying and selling needs.

• Our corporate websites that link to this Privacy Notice;
• Rental tools; 
• Connections (such as connecting you to a lender or agent); and
• Other offerings we may make available through our sites and apps.

This Privacy Notice does not cover or address:

• Our business-facing brands all have their own Privacy Notices;
• Disclosures or rights we may provide to you in relation to the United States Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or 
• the United States Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA);
• Disclosures or rights we may provide to you in relation to U.S. state-specific financial privacy laws;
• Offerings that we provide solely on behalf of our business partners; and
• Personal data and privacy practices relating to job applicants, employees, and other The Simple Life personnel.

For offerings provided on behalf of our customers who are real estate professionals (such as real estate agents, builders, third-party lenders, and landlords), please refer to the privacy notice of the real estate professional with whom you have a relationship for information on how they engage us to process your personal data. For individuals based outside the United States and Canada, this Privacy Notice applies solely to their browsing and actions on our website(s).

What is Personal Data?

When we use the term “personal data” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual or household. It does not include aggregated or de-identified information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to an individual.

Our Collection and Use of Personal Data

The personal data we collect, the way we collect it, and how we use it will depend on how you are interacting with us and the type of services you use.

Information We Collect As You Use Our Services

Collection of Personal Data

As is true of most digital platforms, we and our third-party providers collect certain personal data automatically when you visit or interact with our websites, mobile apps, and other online services. This includes things like your home search history, homes you view, purchase activity, what you’ve clicked on and other uses of our websites, and the amount of time you spend looking at different parts of our websites.

Specifically, we and our third party partners may use tracking technologies to automatically collect commercial information, preferences, and internet, network, and device information, including: 

• Information about how you access our services, such as the website from which you came and the website to which you are going when you leave our websites, how frequently you access the services, when and whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access the services from multiple devices, and other actions you take on the services.
• Information about how you use the services, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, the ads you view and click on, purchase information and your checkout process, your location when you access or interact with our services, and other similar actions. 
• Information about the computer, tablet, smartphone or other device you use, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, platform type, device type/model/manufacturer, operating system, date and time stamp, a unique ID that allows us to uniquely identify your browser, mobile device, or your account (including, e.g., a persistent device identifier or an Ad ID), and other such information (referred to herein as “Log Data”).
• Analytics Data, such as information about your activity when you visit our sites or use our apps; this can include clicks, mouse movements, forms you fill out, and similar information. We use this to better understand what features and parts of the website are most useful, and which ones may need to be improved.

• Cookies, pixels, and other tracking: We and our partners use various tools to collect data when you visit our sites and apps, including cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies. Cookies are bits of electronic data that can be transferred to your computer or other device to identify your browser. When you use The Simple Life, we and our partners may use cookies and other tools to gather information about how you view and use our services and content, and to connect your activity with other data we store about you. The use of cookies helps us serve you better by understanding what you’re interested in, tracking trends, measuring the effectiveness of ads, saving your preferences, and storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis, such as your favorite homes. We also allow approved partners to collect data from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar tools; these are categorized as “Advertising Cookies,” and you can choose whether to disable them via either our Privacy Center or the “Cookie Preference” link at the bottom of our websites.

This information allows us to improve your customer experience. For example, we may use this information to enhance and personalize your user experience, to monitor and improve our websites and services, and for other internal purposes.  We may also use this information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content, and information; (c) identify and contact you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our services; (e) perform analytics and detect usage patterns on our services; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; (g) detect or prevent fraud or other harmful activities; and (h) otherwise to plan for and enhance our services.

We and our third party partners may collect information through tracking technologies for personalized advertising purposes. 

Information You Give Us or Create Using Our Services 

Collection of Personal Data

When you use our services, websites, or apps, we collect personal data from you. We might also collect personal data about you from our business partners, payment processors, service providers, and other third parties who collect personal data on our behalf. This information might include:

• Account Registration and Profile Information: If you register for an account through our services or complete a The Simple Life profile, we collect account identifiers (including a username and password, as well as internal identifiers we assign to individual accounts to allow our systems to connect account information stored in different databases) and account history and records (including services you’ve used or interacted with, the date and type of account creation, account status, log in activity, transactions, the services we provide, messages received in connection with the services, and your activity on our websites and mobile applications). We use this information to create and administer your account, provide you with the relevant services and information, communicate with you regarding your account and your use of the services, for customer support purposes, and to send you communications by email, push notification, or by text message, in accordance with your preferences.
• Customer Service and Communication History: Including name, address, email, customer service requests, Account Identifiers, Account History and the contents of requests and correspondence with us (including recordings of phone calls, where permitted by law).
• Feedback Information: If you submit a review, feedback or other comments, we collect your contact information (such as first and last name, email address, and phone number) and any feedback and ratings relating to our services and products, including reviews you create of real estate pros.
• Inquiries and Communication:  If you communicate with us or otherwise submit an inquiry or question (e.g., via webform), we collect your contact information (such as first and last name, email address, and phone number), account identifiers and history (described above), and any other personal data you choose to provide in the content of your message or communication.  We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, to facilitate communication with us, to provide you with requested information, to enhance the services we offer, and to manage and grow our business.  If you represent a company or agency interested in partnering with us, we will also collect your professional and employment information in order to respond to your inquiries, communicate with you, to manage and grow our organization and to facilitate a business relationship.  Our websites and online services provide you the ability to connect with us through an online web form that collects contact information (such as first and last name, email address, phone number, company name, and title with company), area(s) of interest or concern, and a custom message.
• Location Data: Including general geographic location reflected in the Log Data we collect or more precise location when you choose to share it with us through your device or browser settings.
• Newsletters and Email Communication: Many of our websites and online services provide you an opportunity to sign up for our newsletters and email communications by providing your email address. We use your email address to communicate with you about our services and exciting developments at The Simple Life, which may include marketing communications. 
• Payment Information: We and our third-party service providers collect information relating to your transactions with us, including details regarding payments you’ve made through our sites or apps. We use third-party payment tools to process and store payment information like credit card numbers or bank account information. We don’t store this information ourselves.

Although we often collect the personal data described above directly from you, we may also collect certain information through our business partners, service providers, and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers, data brokers, payment processors, payment system providers, and information technology providers.

Please note that we link the personal data we collect in connection with our services with the other personal data that we collect and may use it for the purposes we describe in more detail in the other sections of this Privacy Notice.

Other Collection of Personal Data

In addition to the personal data collected above, we may also collect personal data as follows:

• Affiliates:  We may receive information about you collected by other The Simple Life companies, businesses, brands, and affiliated entities in our family of companies, so that information you provide to one brand may be used by us to better provide you services and communicate with you.
• Business Partners: Our business partners, such as agent partners, lending partners, builders, property managers, and other real estate professionals collect personal data in connection with their services and often share some or all of this information with us. For example, we receive information about transactions you complete with partners with whom we’ve connected you through our services.
• Business Representatives: We collect professional personal data about representatives of third-party businesses, including representatives of our customers and business partners, in connection with our services and the operation of our business, which may include:
  • Contact Information: Including full name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number.
  • Professional Information: Including job title, job function, company name and characteristics, professional background, and nature of the relationship with us. 
  • Tax and Payment Information: Including a personal tax identification number, bank account information, and payment information where you are a representative of a sole proprietor or similar legal structure that uses personal tax and account information in lieu of separate business information.
  • Inquiry Information: Including the contents of emails, texts, and other communications and, where permitted by law, recordings of calls with us. 
  • Feedback Information, including information provided in response to surveys we may conduct with customers or business partners, or unsolicited feedback received regarding our services and business. 
• Office and Event Visitors: We collect personal data about visitors to our physical offices and events, which may include:
  • Contact Information: Including full name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number.
  • Professional Information: Including job title, job function, company name, professional background, and nature of the relationship with us. 
  • Visit Information: Including the purpose of the visit and any restrictions or preferences while on premise (such as dietary restrictions). 
  • Security Information: Including a copy of a government ID (such as a driver’s license) and a record of the visitor’s access to our office or event, any use by the visitor of our computer systems, and images or video recordings of the visitor while on premises (where permitted by law). 
• Service Providers: Our service providers, such as payment processors and marketing providers, collect personal data and often share some or all of this information with us. For example, we receive personal data from payment processors to confirm that an individual’s payment for the services was accepted. We use this information to comply with our legal obligations, to monitor activity to identify and provide you with promotions and offers, and to prevent fraud, protect our rights and the rights of others, to inform our marketing and advertising activities, and to help provide our services.
• Information Providers: We may from time to time obtain information from third-party information providers to correct or supplement personal data we collect. For example, we may obtain updated contact information from third-party information providers to reconnect with you.
• Publicly Available Information: We may collect personal data from publicly available sources, such as information you publicly post or tag us in on social media sites or elsewhere online, and information contained in public records databases, such as government records or public review websites, to supplement the personal data identified above. We will use this information to conduct market research, verify your identity, prevent fraud, and improve our services.

Other Uses of Personal Data

In addi

tion to the uses identified above, we use the personal data we collect to:

• Facilitate our day-to-day business operations, such as helping you find your next home, or connect with a real estate agent, lender, landlord, or other real estate professional; 
  
• Create and
  maintain the services, develop new products and services, and improve existing products and services;
• Aggregate information we receive from you and third parties to help understand individual needs, customize our services and offerings, and provide everyone better service;
• Conduct research and analytics designed to understand our customer base and improve and grow our business, products, services, and customer experience;
• Communicate with you to provide technical or administrative support;
• Prevent, investigate, and defend against fraud or unlawful or criminal activity, access to, or use of personal data and our data system services;
• Enforce, investigate, and resolve disputes and security issues and to enforce our Terms of Service and any other contracts;
• Comply with legal obligations and other governmental demands;
• Understand your preferences and interests to better serve you on your home-finding journey;
• Personalize your individual experience, including providing educational resources and pointing you to homes you might be interested in or offerings of ours that might help you find your next home; and
• For any other lawful, legitimate business purpose.

Our Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data in the instances described below.  For further information on your choices regarding your information, see the “Choices About Your Data” section below.

We disclose your personal data in the following ways:

• Within The Simple Life: We are able to offer the products and services we make available because of the hard work of the entire The Simple Life team. The Simple Life entities disclose your personal data to other The Simple Life entities for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice and applicable law. For example, one part of The Simple Life might share your personal data with another in order to ensure that all the people helping in your home journey are working together for you.
• Business Partners: At your direction, we may share your personal data with our business partners in order to provide you with our products and services. For example, if you ask us to, we’ll share your contact information with a real estate agent or mortgage lender.
• Marketing Partners: We coordinate and share your personal data with our marketing partners, including advertising networks, social networks, and marketing communication providers, in order to communicate with you about our products and services and market our products and services to you. We may also share aggregated demographic information with third parties interested in advertising on our online services to assist them in understanding the audience they would be reaching, but this information is not designed to identify any specific individual.
• Service Providers: We share information with third party vendors and service providers that perform services for or on our behalf, which may include identifying and serving targeted advertisements, providing mailing or email services, tax and accounting services, customer service, product fulfillment, payments processing, photo sharing, data processing and enhancement services, fraud prevention, web hosting, analytic services, or other online functionality, subject to appropriate contractual terms protecting the confidentiality and use of such data. We never allow service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.
• Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose your personal data to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with, or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Your personal data may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
• Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose your personal data to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
  • In connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • To comply with laws and regulations or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
  • To protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
  • To detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
  • To reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
  • To protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
  • As otherwise required by applicable law.

• Otherwise with Consent or At Your Direction: We may disclose your personal data to certain other third parties or publicly with your consent or direction. If you post a comment or review our website or a comment on our social media sites, the information you provide may be displayed publicly online for others to view.

Choices About Your Data

Profile Access and Data Sharing. You may access and update your profile information, such as your user name, address, or billing information, and may change some of your data sharing preferences on your account page. 

Location and Device Permissions. You may control location tracking by adjusting your location services options on the “Settings” app on your mobile device.  We may continue to approximate your location based on your IP address when you access the services through a computer or device. If you would like to update your device content access permissions, such as permissions to access your camera, you can do so in the “Settings” app on your mobile device.

Promotional Messages. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by following the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in such communications.  We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests. You may still receive service-related communications, including account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the services, and technical and security notices.

Third Party Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising. We participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on your browsing history. 

Third-Party Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising. We may participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on your browsing history. We may permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies, and other third-party services to collect information about your use of our websites, including our mobile apps, over time so that they may play or display ads on our services, on other websites, apps, or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, Flash objects, web beacons, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”), which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including clickstream information, browser type, time and date you visited the site, device ID or AdID, geolocation, and other information. We may share a common account identifier (such as an e-mail address or user ID) or hashed data with our third-party advertising partners to help identify you across devices. We and our third-party partners may use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.

We, or our third-party partners, may link your various devices so that content you see on one device can result in relevant advertising on another device. We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) or work with third-party partners who use tracking technologies or statistical modeling tools to determine if two or more devices are linked to a single user or household. We, and our partners, can use this cross-device linkage to serve interest-based advertising and other personalized content to you across your devices (including to improve your user experience), to perform analytics, and to measure the performance of our advertising campaigns.

In some of our offerings, including our mobile applications, we provide you with the option of logging in using an account that you may have with a social-media service, such as Apple, Google, or Facebook. For this type of log-in, you will be directed to the appropriate social-media log-in page, where you will enter your username and password (or account credentials) for the social-media service. (Through a social-media log-in, the social media service may know when you have used our offering.) The social media-service will then send us a token, which we will use to authenticate you for access. The social-media service may also share your name and email address with us, although we will not have access to your social-media account credentials. We may keep the token and your name and email address for purposes of identifying you, which enables us to maintain your preferences in our offering across different devices. As an example, by identifying you using this information, we can present to you your previous searches and saved properties in our mobile applications, even if you access the applications from different devices.  Keeping this information also makes it possible for us to pre-populate your name and email in certain interfaces, such as log-in fields or contact forms.      

Your Choices

As noted above, depending on your browser or mobile device, you may be able to set your browser to delete or notify you of cookies and other tracking technology by actively managing the settings on your browser or mobile device. You may be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest based ads” (Android).  Please note that opt-outs are browser specific, so opting out on one browser will not affect a second browser, or device. Moreover, if you buy a new device, use a different browser, or clear all your cookies, you will have to opt-out all over again. To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, and/or the DAA’s resources at www.aboutads.info/choices. You may also be able to opt-out of some – but not all – interest-based ads served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app. Note that some of these opt-outs may not be effective unless your browser is set to accept cookies. If you delete cookies, change your browser settings, switch browsers or computers, or use another operating system, you may need to opt-out again.

Children’s Personal Data

Our websites and online services are not directed to, and we do not intend to or knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use our websites or online services or otherwise provide us with any personal data either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 13 has provided personal data to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us as described below to request that we remove the personal data from our systems. If we learn that any personal data we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that personal data.

Region-Specific Disclosures

We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of personal data about residents of certain countries, regions, or states. Please see below for disclosures that may be applicable to you:

• If you are a resident of the State of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia in the United States, please see below for additional U.S. state-specific privacy disclosures.
• If you are a resident of the State of Nevada in the United States, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt-out of potential future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. To submit such a request, please contact us at info@thesimplelife.com.

Third-Party Websites

Our websites and online services may include links to or redirect you to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications, including social media services where you may connect with us. Third-party websites may also reference or link to our websites and online services. Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal data practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal data practices of these third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices or policies.

Updates to this Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to info@thesimplelife.com.

Additional U.S. State Privacy Disclosures

These Additional U.S. State Privacy Disclosures supplement the above information by providing additional information about our personal data processing practices relating to individual residents of the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms defined in our Privacy Notice retain the same meaning in these Disclosures.

Additional Personal Data Disclosures

Sensitive Information

The following personal data elements we collect may be classified as “sensitive” under certain privacy laws (“sensitive information”): 

• Social Security number, driver’s license number, and passport number;
• Credit/debit card number plus expiration date and security code (CVV), and financial account number and routing number; 
• Username and password; and 
• Precise geolocation data. 

We do not sell your sensitive information, and we do not process or otherwise share sensitive information for the purpose of targeted advertising.

De-identified Information

We may at times receive or process personal data to create de-identified data that can no longer reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual or household. Where we maintain deidentified data, we will maintain and use the data in de-identified form and not attempt to re-identify the data except as required or permitted by law.