The information we collect varies depending on how you interact with us or others:
Information You Provide to Us. You may provide information to us online or in person for any number of reasons. For example, you may request information about our communities, talk to us via videoconference, submit a job application, interact with our Mobile Applications, or subscribe to promotional emails. In such cases, we, or our Third-Party Service Providers, will collect the information that you provide, which may include your name, telephone number, email address, physical address, name of your present community or a community in which you are interested, certain demographic information, such as your age range and areas of interest, and, in the case of a job application, your resume and social security number. Unless prohibited by applicable law, we may combine information that you provide to us online with information that you provide to us in person, with publicly available information or with information provided to us by third-parties such as social media platforms and data aggregators.
Email. If you provide your email address to us and request information from us, you will receive emails from us and we will collect your email address, other information that you provide, as well as Automated Information that we may collect. You may revoke your consent to receive commercial emails from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in email communications to you. We will implement your changes as quickly as practicable, but in all cases, in accordance with timeframes required by applicable law and in no more than 30 days.
Our Mobile Applications. This Privacy Policy is displayed, in whole, on all of our Mobile Applications and is applicable to our collection, use and sharing of the information, including the Personal Information, that we may collect when you use your mobile devices to interact with our Mobile Applications. When you interact with our Mobile Applications, we collect the information that you provide to us, Automated Information and location information that is provided by your mobile device interacting with our Sites, if you consent to share such location information with us.
Information from Third Parties. We may collect or purchase information from third parties, including marketing companies, digital advertising agencies, third-party ad servers, third-party email servers, data aggregators, analytics providers, investor relations firms, or third party advertising networks. Certain of this information may be Automated Information that these third parties have gathered as they have tracked you across the Internet and over time.
Your Online Accounts. Visitors to our Sites may have the ability to create online Accounts and use certain functionality, such as searching for a home. When you provide information to us to perform those functions and others that are available through your Accounts, we collect that information subject to this Privacy Policy or the privacy policy of our Third-Party Service Provider.
Location Information. We collect location information that you may enter when using our Sites such as your physical address, including your zip code. We may also collect Automated Information, including your location indicated by your IP Address, that may be provided by your internet service provider or ISP. Finally, we may collect your location from your mobile device when you interact with our Mobile Applications, if you consent to sharing your location with Forestar. If you reside in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we only process your location information from your mobile device with your consent.
Automated Information. We and our Third-Party Service Providers have automated means of collecting information from you when you visit our Sites, or otherwise interact with us online. The information that is collected using these automated technologies does not identify you personally, but instead is linked to an anonymous numerical identifier. Consequently, except as otherwise required by applicable law, we use and disclose this Automated Information as Anonymous Information rather than Personal Information.
Through the Use of Cookies. Cookies, pixels, clear GIFs, or other tracing and tracking technologies are small data files that a website or its service providers may place on your browser when you visit a website. They are widely used across the Internet to make websites work more efficiently and effectively, and for a variety of other purposes, such as to assist in sending you interest-based advertisements, to provide personalized content, and to provide a safer experience. We provide more information about Cookies, including the different types of Cookies that you may encounter on the Internet, elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
You can reject certain Cookies by visiting our Cookie Consent Tool and using the controls provided, as well as through your browser or device settings, but in some cases doing so may affect your ability to use our products and services. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, only essential cookies are used, without your consent, when you visit our Sites.
Through the Use of Adobe Flash Cookies. Forestar and its Third-Party Services Providers may use Flash Cookies, otherwise called Flash Local Stored Objects, to display content based on what you have viewed on our Sites in order to personalize your visit, to store your preferences or information that you have input or to collect and store Automated Information about you. Flash Cookies are different than browser Cookies and will not be affected by changes in browser settings. Please visit helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html to learn more about Adobe Flash Cookies and how to prevent such Adobe Flash Cookies from being stored on your computer or device. If you reside in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we will only employ Adobe Flash Cookies with your consent. Please remember that if you do not consent to the placement of Adobe Flash Cookies, you may not be able to enjoy certain of the functionality on our Sites.
Through the Use of Web Beacons and Other Similar Technologies. Forestar and its Third-Party Service Providers may use Web Beacons (also known as GIFs or clear GIFs) and similar technologies that are electronic images that may recognize cookies on your browser when you view a website or an email. The use of data collected by such technologies assists us in measuring the success of our advertising campaigns, understanding how many viewers open an email message, and understanding the use of our Sites, including compiling analytics about its use. We may allow our Third-Party Service Providers to collect and compile Anonymous Information and Aggregate Information from the use of Web Beacons on our Sites to determine the efficiency of our Sites and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. You may disable some Web Beacons by disabling certain Cookies from your browser. See Through the Use of Cookies, above. If you reside in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we only use Web Beacons and similar technologies with your consent.
Through Your Browser. Some information is collected automatically from your browser, such as your Media Access Control or “MAC” address, your computer type, operating system and version number, device manufacturer, Internet browser and version number, and the name and version of the websites you visit and applications you are using. We use this information to assist us in enhancing and correcting the performance of our Sites. To the extent any of this information is collected through the use of "non-essential cookies," if you reside in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we only collect this information with your consent.
Through Your Use of Your Mobile Device. If you are using a mobile device to interact with our Mobile Applications, we may collect information about your online behavior utilizing your device's Mobile Advertising Identifier or other temporary numeric identifier. This allows us to follow your online behavior without accessing your mobile device's permanent identifier. As part of the collection of Automated Information from your mobile device, we may collect information about your physical location. We use this information to provide you with geographically based material, such as when you search for a home on a mobile device. We will provide information to you regarding Forestar communities that are close to you. We may share your physical location with our Third-Party Service Providers so that they may combine this information with other information about your browsing behavior such as the advertisements that you viewed. This allows us and our Third-Party Service Providers to share with you information that is of interest to you. This information may also be used by Third-Party Service Providers to track you across the devices that you use. Most mobile devices contain built in privacy controls that will allow you to opt-out of interest-based advertising or cross application advertising. Most also have functionality that will allow you to change your Mobile Advertising Identifier.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, without your consent we will not collect location information from your device, use that information to provide you with geographically based material, or share your physical location with our Third-Party Service Providers so that they may combine that location with other information about your browsing behavior to share information of interest with you, or track you across different devices.
Through Our Server Logs. Your IP Address is automatically logged to our server logs whenever you visit our Sites, together with the date and time of your visit and the pages on our Sites that you visit. Your IP Address is a unique numerical identifier that is assigned to your device by your ISP. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice for website operators across the Internet. We use IP Addresses to assist us in enhancing and correcting the performance of our Sites. We use and disclose IP Addresses in accordance with applicable law.
Through an Application That You Use. You may use a program or service that we operate or that one of our Third-Party Service Providers operates on our behalf that is displayed on any one of our Sites. When you use the application, we or our Third-Party Service Providers may collect information about your usage of the application. We use this information for a variety of purposes, including to improve the functionality of our applications and to determine usage patterns.