Your privacy is important to Porch Financial Inc, and its affiliates ("Porch” “us,” “we,” “our”). This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or shared on the sites, applications, social media pages, or other platforms that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Site”). It also describes your choices about the collection, sharing, and use of your Personal Information.  

 

​By accessing the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices as described in this Privacy Notice.

 

We may modify this Privacy Notice at any time. All changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the Site. Material changes will be conspicuously posted on the Site or otherwise communicated to you.

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1. Personal Information we Collect

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We may collect a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

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• Contact Information: If you submit an inquiry to our website, sign up for our newsletters, we may collect your contact information. This may include your name, email address, company name, demographic information, mailing address, and phone number.

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• Location Data – While navigating our Site your mobile device or browser may share your location data, both through Wi-Fi and GPS. We will collect this information based on the settings of your phone and browser. 

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• Usage Information – When you use our Site, our servers may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the site you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, information on your interaction with the Site, and other such information.

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• Communication Information – We may collect audio, electronic, or visual information; any data in any files uploaded, emailed or otherwise provided by you; the contents of your communications with us, whether via e-mail, social media, telephone or otherwise, and inferences we may make from other Personal Information we collect.

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2. How we Collect your Personal Information

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We collect your Personal Information in a variety of ways:

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• We May Collect Your Personal Information Directly From You – For example, if you request information from us through our “Learn More” page.

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• We May Also Collect Personal Information From Third Parties – For example, we may work with business partners, consumer reporting agencies, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers, who may provide us with Personal Information about you.

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• Through Online Tracking Technologies – We and our service providers may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies such as pixels, web beacons, and local storage to collect usage and browser information about how you use the Site.  For more information on these technologies, please see Section 3.

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3. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

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We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of the Site, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of the Site that you and other users are most interested in. 

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Most browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable cookies, and your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of unique identifiers and location data. If you choose to reject cookies or block device identifiers, some features of the Site may not be available, or some functionality may be limited or unavailable.  Please review the help pages of your browser or mobile device for assistance with changing your settings.

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We do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals sent to us by your browser at this time. To learn more about how DNT works, please visit http://allaboutdnt.com/.

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Cookies. We collect certain data from cookies, which are pieces of data stored directly on the computer or mobile device that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect data such as browser type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, referring URL, language preferences, and other aggregated traffic data.  We use the data for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display data more effectively, to collect statistical data, to personalize your experience while using the Site and to recognize your computer to assist your use of the Site. We also gather statistical data about use of the Site to continually improve design and functionality, understand how it is used and assist us with resolving questions.

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Pixel Tags and Other Similar Technologies. We collect data from pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs), which are used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Sites, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Site.

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Analytics.  We collect data through Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, which use cookies and technologies to collect and analyze data about use of the Services. These services collect data regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can learn more about Adobe and opt out by visiting http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html.

Session Replay. We use session replay services that use cookies and similar technologies that collect your Personal Information to assist us with analyzing our Platform (as defined in our Porch Platform Terms of Use) traffic and usage to optimize, maintain, and secure our Platform and inform subsequent business decisions. Through utilizing session replay technologies, we capture how you use and interact with our Platform through behavioral metrics and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Platform usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising.

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4. How we Use Personal Information

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To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use Personal Information to:

 

• operate the Site and provide support to our business functions;

 

• respond to inquiries;

 

• protect against criminal activity, claims and other liabilities;

 

• send you information about our company, Services, and promotions;

 

• respond to reviews, comments, or other feedback provided to us;

 

• support and personalize the Site and our advertising efforts;

 

• protect the security and integrity of the Site;

 

• provide customer support;

 

• the extent required for benchmarking, data analysis, audits, developing new products, enhancing the Site, facilitating product, software and applications development, improving the Site or our Services, conducting research, analysis, studies or surveys, identifying usage trends, as well as for other analytics purposes;

 

• meet our contractual requirements;

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• comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies;

 

• market, advertise, and provide the Site and our Services;

 

• communicate with you about goods and services according to your personal preferences. We may use Personal Information to send you marketing communications and promotional offers, as well as periodic customer satisfaction, market research or quality assurance surveys; and

 

• the extent necessary for any other lawful purpose for which the Personal Information is collected.

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Aggregated Data. We may aggregate data that we have collected, and this aggregated data will not personally identify you or any other user. We may use aggregated data in any way that is permitted by law.

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5. Disclosure of Personal Information

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• For Legal or Safety Reasons – When we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Porch, its users, or the public against harm.

 

• In the Case of a Merger or Sale – If and when we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale of some or all of its business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. Personal Information may be transferred along with the business. Where legally required we will give you prior notice and if you have a legal right to do so, an opportunity to object to this transfer.

 

• To Service Providers – When we hire a service provider to help operate the Site or our business, we may give access to Personal Information as necessary to perform services on our behalf. This may include service providers that operate our Site, send our communications, or run our promotions.

 

• To Business Partners – We may share Personal Information with our trusted business partners.  For example, we may share your Personal Information with a company for marketing purposes, such as when we co-sponsor a product or service.  These partners and affiliates may use your Personal Information to, among other things, send you information or contact you about their services and products.

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6. How We Protect Your Personal Information

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We use our commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information we process. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to ensure the integrity and security of Personal Information, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third parties such as hackers from illegally obtaining access to Personal Information.

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7. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information

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We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it has been collected, as outlined in this Privacy Notice, or any longer retention period required by law.

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8. Your Rights and Choices

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Depending on where you live, you may have the right to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information. If you believe you may the right to exercise certain controls and choices, please submit a request to Contact Porch Software. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before considering a request and that we may deny certain requests, or only fulfill some in part, as permitted or required by law.

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To opt out of marketing emails, you can use the unsubscribe link found in the email communication you receive from us. You may also use the “Contact Us” option within the relevant service to opt out and elect not to receive further emails from us. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain correspondence, we may still need to contact you with important transactional or administrative information, as permitted by law.  Additionally, if you withdraw your consent or object to processing, or if you choose not to provide certain Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our services to you.

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9. International Use of the Site

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This Site is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting this Site from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information it is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United States, where our data center and servers are located and operated

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10. Children

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We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 13.  In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us at or contact us using the information listed in Section 14.

 

11. Links to Third-Party Websites

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We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from the Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be subject to the applicable third party’s privacy notice.

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12. Changes to this Privacy Notice

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Please note that we may modify or update this Privacy Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you with an updated Privacy Notice if material changes are made. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Privacy Notice will apply immediately upon posting to the Site.

 

13. Contact Us

Contact Porch Software

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