Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 12, 2024

1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITE OR DATA ON OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS TERMS OF USE AND OR PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY OR ANY SUBSEQUENT POLICY UPDATES, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE.

2. PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to Whisp.IO Whisp.IO is an interactive online service operated by TapText, LLC (“Whisp.IO”, “us”, “we”, or “our”). Whisp.IO is a free to the public online social media and marketing/advertising program that helps our users capture limited consumer information from our proprietary online technology system. We understand and respect your concerns about privacy and security, and will do our best to provide a convenient and safe online experience. Your information is the information that’s required when you sign up for the Website, as well as the information you choose to share. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect, how we may use that information, how we share that information, and how we protect that information on our website, which is located at www.whisp.io (the “Website”). We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, and we therefore encourage you to check this section periodically for any changes.

We have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions with other third party websites. We generally keep this Privacy Policy posted on our Website and you should review it frequently, as we reserve the right to change it from time to time without prior notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Whisp.IO will not use your personally identifiable information, however, in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected without your consent.

3. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, which includes name, address, email address, and/or telephone number. Our definition of personally identifiable information includes any information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, address, phone number, and email address. As a general policy, we do not automatically collect your personally identifiable information when you visit our Website. In certain circumstances, we or our third party vendors may request, allow or otherwise provide you an opportunity to voluntarily submit your personally identifiable information in connection with the information you provide to our online contact sheet. For instance, you may: (a) provide your name, e-mail address, and phone number when registering with or filling out our contact sheet on our Website by using our online; (b) provide certain information about you (e.g., property purchase preference, property financing, etc.) when participating in a survey, poll or joining a club; or (c) post a product rating and recommendation on our Website or to third party websites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.. Whether or not you provide this information is your choice; however, in many instances this type of information is required to participate in the online technology system.

4. WHAT NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT

Our definition of non-personal information is any information that does not personally identify you. Non-personal information can include certain personally identifiable information that has been de-identified; that is, information that has been rendered anonymous. We and/or our third party service providers obtain non-personal information about you from information that you provide us, either separately or together with your personally identifiable information. We and/or our third party service providers also automatically collect certain non-personal information from you when you access our Website. Non-personal information is information about an identifiable person which includes but is not limited to: whether or not you are currently working with a real estate sales professional, whether or not you are currently pre-approved for a mortgage, when you plan on moving, and/or whether or not you would like a free home evaluation. When you voluntarily submit your information, which includes signing up for the Whisp.IO service, we may use and/or share your personal and non-personal information you submitted through the online contact form and our registration sign up page to our third party advertisers, and/or others with whom we have marketing, advertising, or other relationship with, you agree to allow us and our vendors to contact you via telephone or email. Even if you do not register and submit your information with us, we may automatically collect certain information concerning your visit to our website, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and browser information, which will allow us to track your use of the Website. Upon your return to the Website and/or subsequent registration, we will update your profile with your previous search history in order to create a more complete user profile. See section below entitled “What are cookies and web beacons?” We may also use a third party to help us gather and analyze information about the areas that you visit on the Website to evaluate and improve the client experience and the convenience of the Website, and to help us analyze some or all of the information that you provide to us. If we collect personal information from you, whether provided to us voluntarily or involuntarily, you are giving us permission, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, to use and disclose that information in any manner desired, including without limitation to contact you or allow our third party vendors to contact you regarding the services offered by our third party advertisers, to improve or enhance Website performance, to communicate to you about other marketing offers or matters that may be of interest to you, and/or to respond to any inquiries that you may initiate by phone.

5. WHO DO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH

We use Website Navigational Information to operate and improve our Sites and Services. Moreover, we use User Data in a number of different ways to improve our Services, develop new features, and to market and promote our Services. We use User Data

- to perform the services requested. For example, if you fill out a contact form on our Sites, we will use the information provided to contact you about your interest in our Services.

- for marketing purposes. For example, we may use information you provide to contact you to further discuss your interest in our Services or to send you information about us, promotions, and events.

We use robust security measures to protect User Data from unauthorized access and maintain data accuracy. While we utilize electronic and physical security to reduce the risk of improper access to or manipulation of data, we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of the data and shall not be liable for breaches of security or integrity, third-party interception in transit, or any damage caused to your computer or other property by visiting TapText, LLC sites.

We never share information obtained from you via text messaging and/or SMS with third parties.

6. ARE EMBEDDED SCRIPTS USED

An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Website, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Computer from our web server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Website, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter. Information collected through passive means may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. In the latter case it will be treated as personally identifiable information.

We use non-personal information in a variety of ways, including helping analyze website traffic, understand customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities and to improve our services. We may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from others. We may share your non-personal information with our affiliated companies and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify you. We may provide our analysis and certain non-personal information to third parties (who may in turn use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests), but this will not involve disclosing any of your personally identifiable information.

7. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE ABOUT A THIRD PARTY

If you send someone else a communication from the Website, such as sending Website content to a friend, the information you provide (names, e-mail addresses, etc.) is used to facilitate the communication and is not used for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person or we explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use any send-to-a-friend functionality on our Website, your e-mail address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.

8. INFORMATION THIRD PARTIES PROVIDE ABOUT YOU

We also may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information we collect through the Website. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any personal identifiable information received, unless otherwise specifically disclosed by us at the time you provide your personally identifiable information.

9. WHAT ABOUT CHILD SAFETY

This Website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not collect or maintain personal information, via the Website or otherwise, from those we actually know are children under 13 years of age. If you are under 13, you should not submit any personal information to us. If you are the parent of a child under 13, please help us protect your child’s privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this Website or any other without your permission.). If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at admin@whisp.io. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) may review and request deletion of such child’s personally identifiable information as well as prohibit the use thereof.

10. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

To enhance your experience on the Website, we and some of our third party service providers use “cookies.” Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our Website. However, once you choose to register with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Website. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience on the Website (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Website) and to save your password in password-protected areas. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs or services.

“Web beacons” are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web beacons or similar technology can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. We may use web beacons or similar technology on the Website from time to time for this and other purposes. In addition, when you visit the Website, third party vendors and advertisers also place or read cookies on your Internet browser. This is a common practice on the Internet; these cookies may be used to determine whether you have viewed other web websites, to measure the effectiveness of advertising and links on other web websites, and to provide you with information of potential interest to you, among other purposes. This is not an exhaustive list of all uses of cookies on our Website.

Most Web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can, however, set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. In addition, cookies can be easily and safely deleted from your system. See your browser’s help section for instructions. Should you choose to disable any cookies associated with the Website, you will not be able to take full advantage of all the Website’s features, but you should be able to navigate the Website without difficulty.

11. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We have in place what we believe to be reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect and help prevent unauthorized access and use of such data. Unfortunately, no collection or transmission of information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any such information.

12. CONTACT AND OPT OUT INFORMATION

You can opt out of receiving promotional email from us by following the “unsubscribe” instructions at the bottom of any emails we may send you, by emailing us, or by following the links on our Website to remove yourself from our mailing list. Unless you register and submit a new account, register and submit your information on another property using the online contact input form, contact us in any way, or otherwise subsequently sign up to receive newsletters, emails or personalized online advertisements, you will not receive anything further from Whisp.IO. The Website may include subscription and registration management tools that allow you to make changes regarding your preferences for receiving communications. Regardless of whether these tools are available through the Website, you may contact us at admin@whisp.io if: (a) you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided to us; (c) want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including e-mails, from us (we may continue to send you transactional messages such as responding to your inquiries); or (d) wish to withdraw your consent to our future sharing of your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please, note that we may not be able to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features of our Website. Also, please note that it is not always possible to completely change, remove or delete all of your information from our databases and that residual data may remain on backup media or for other reasons. Also, if you have made any public postings on the Website such as in forums or blogs, these communications are generally not removed by us.

13. PUBLIC FORUMS

We may offer access to chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards or similar public forums where you and other users of our Website can communicate. The protections described in this Privacy Policy do not apply when you provide information (including personally identifiable information) in connection with your use of these public forums. We may use personally identifiable and non-personal information about you to identify you with a posting in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our Website.

14. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS

Our Website may link to or contain links to other third party websites that we do not control or maintain, such as in connection with purchasing products referenced on our Website and banner advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third party website. We encourage you to note when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of all third party websites before submitting any personally identifiable information. Third party applications may be available via the website. The owners of these applications (“Third Party Owners”) may collect personally identifiable information from you and may have their own policies and practices. We are not responsible for how Third Party Owners or their applications use your personally identifiable information. These Third Party Owners may have their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies and ask you to agree to the same. We are not responsible for these policies or the practices of Third Party Owners. Be sure to review any available policies before submitting any personally identifiable information to a third party application or otherwise interacting with it.

15. CONSENT TO TRANSFER INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES

The Website is operated in the United States and intended for users located in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States please be aware that information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Website or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer and processing of your information in the United States.

16. UPDATES AND EFFECTIVE DATES

We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy from time to time for any reason. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon posting, unless otherwise indicated. We have no duty or obligation to inform prior visitors that changes have been made, regardless of the scope and importance of the changes. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it and to whom we disclose it. Your continued use of the Website after such changes are posted will be deemed to constitute your agreement to and acceptance of such changes.

17. CONTACT US

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if you wish to update the personal information you have provided to us, you may do so by emailing us at admin@whisp.io.

THESE WEB Privacy Policy ARE EFFECTIVE FOR ALL ORDERS ENTERED INTO ON OR AFTER March 12, 2024.