PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to ARK Blue Bell's online leasing and resident portal! This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented by ARK Blue Bell to ensure that information is kept secure. We follow all federal and state laws regarding the protection of our residents and applicant’s information.

How information is collected. We will require you to furnish information such as social security, other governmental identification, banking and/or credit card information should you decide to make payments online, and other personal information as necessary to process your application, renew your lease, etc.

We will also collect information regarding any persons that will occupy the apartment including their name, address, social security number, date of birth, and relationship to the primary resident (leaseholder).

How do we use the information we collect. We use the information we collect to review and evaluate prospective residents to our property including, but not limited to, credit and other background checks, to process rental payments, transactions online and to communicate with you regarding our current and future services. We also use certain information we collect to improve the content of our site and the amenities offered at ARK Blue Bell.

With whom do we share our information. Our policy is not to disclose your personally identifiable information to any third parties, except in the following circumstances:

• We may disclose such information to third party vendors that we use to assist us in evaluating prospective residents, in conducting transactions through this Site (such as rental payment transactions) and in managing and providing services through this Site. We endeavor to require our third party vendors to agree to similar obligations of confidentiality to those contained in this Privacy Policy.
• We may also disclose information about you as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with laws, regulations, court or administrative orders, or other governmental authority or to prevent harm to yourself or others.
• Finally, we may disclose your personal information upon a transfer or sale to another owner or any other corporate reorganization.

We may also share aggregate demographic and other information regarding use of our site or our Properties with third parties for marketing and other purposes, but such aggregate information will not specifically identify any particular user.

Cookies: Our Site may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable through the use of cookie technology. A cookie is a small file that contains information sent by our website to your hard disk by your computer’s browser.

Links to third party sites. The Site may provide links to other web sites or resources over which ARK Blue Bell does not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by ARK Blue Bell of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that ARK Blue Bell is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that ARK Blue Bell is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the link to External Web Sites.

Amendments to policy. We reserve the right to amend this policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the updated policy. If you are concerned about how your information is being used, please check back at our Site periodically.

Access to your information. Residents may access and update their profile by logging into the Resident Portal through the link on ARK Blue Bell website, www.arkbykorman.com. To obtain log in credentials, persons must be a resident at ARK Blue Bell. Upon execution of a lease agreement, residents will be given a resident identification code which is a necessary point of authentication when creating a user profile. Residents will be required to create a username, password and provide an answer to a security question.

You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of any username or password that you are assigned. DO NOT GIVE THAT USERNAME OR PASSWORD TO ANY THIRD PARTY. In addition, you agree to be responsible for all damages or injuries suffered as a result of the unauthorized use of your username or password or access to your profile.

Security. Personal information collected by ARK Blue Bell is stored on servers protected by standard security procedures. We may employ procedural and technological measures designed to protect the security of personally identifiable information that we may collect. Such measures are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. We may use firewalls, password protection and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. You acknowledge that ARK Blue Bell will not be responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you release us from any claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

Please contact our General Manager should you have any questions on our privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated: April 2010