Coalition for Home Equity Partnership (CHEP) Website Privacy Policy

HomeEquityPartnership.org

Last updated August 27, 2026

Our Commitment to Privacy

Coalition for Home Equity Partnership (CHEP) respects the privacy of its HomeEquityPartnership.org users. We do not trade, sell, or give away your personally identifiable information to third parties other than as set forth specifically on the website. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of personal information about our users. In order to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we have prepared this statement disclosing the privacy practices for the HomeEquityPartnership.org website.

Agreement to this Privacy Policy:

By using this website, you consent to this Online Privacy Policy, including your consent to our use and disclosure of information about you in the manner described herein.

Information Collected and Its Use

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, company name or job title (“personal information”);
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies or web beacons.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect on or through our website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our mailing list or requesting further information about our services. We may also ask you for information when you register for an event or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Your search queries on the website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
  • Web beacons. Pages of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the CHEP to, for example, count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
  • To provide you with information about events and promotional efforts in which you may be interested.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

Using Personal Information to Contact You

We or a representative of CHEP may call you and/or send you email to communicate with you, to verify your identity in order to allow access to your services, conduct online transactions and to maintain measures aimed at preventing fraud and protecting the security of your personal information. We may also contact you for marketing or promotional purposes with CHEP news, or news of our services or offers. You may unsubscribe to marketing email by following the instructions that are included in the emails that you receive.

We do not share or disclose your personal information to third parties, unless one of the following limited exceptions applies:

Service Providers

We may disclose your Personal Information to other companies that help us correspond with you.

Legal Obligations

We may disclose or report your personal information when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required or permitted under law, for example, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities or to resolve consumer disputes.

Business Transition

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

California Do Not Track Disclosures

How do we respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services?

While we use tracking and remarketing cookies to track all website visitors, we currently do not respond to DNT signals in browsers.

Notice to California Residents

With certain exceptions, residents of the State of California may request (a) disclosure of personal information collected, (b) disclosure of personal information sold or disclosed for a business purpose, (c) deletion of personal information, (d) to opt out of the sale of personal information, and (e) access and data portability. Moreover, we will not discriminate based on your exercise of such rights. If you are a California resident and want to make any such requests, please contact us through our website info@homeequitypartnership.org or at CHEP Privacy Policy, 10432 Balls Ford Road, Suite 300
Manassas, Virginia 20109. For all mailed requests, you must put the statement “California Privacy Request” in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.

Notice to Vermont Residents

In response to Vermont regulations, we automatically treat accounts with Vermont billing addresses as if you requested that we not share your information with nonaffiliated third parties, and that we limit the information we share with our affiliates. If we disclose information about you to nonaffiliated third parties with whom we have joint marketing agreements, we will only disclose your name, address, other contact information, and information about our transaction and experiences with you.

Notice to Nevada Residents

We are providing you this notice pursuant to state law. You may be placed on our internal Do Not Call List by requesting that we cease calling you by contacting us directly and making such request in writing info@homeequitypartnership.org. Nevada law requires that we also provide you with the following contact information:

Bureau of Consumer Protection
Office of the Nevada Attorney General
555 E. Washington St., Suite 3900
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Phone number: 702-486-3132
Email: BCPINFO@ag.state.nv.us

Notice to Users Outside of the United States

This Online Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website from residents of the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Notice.

Children Under 18

Our website is not intended to be used by children under 18 years old. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under age 18, you may not use the website or services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from, or target our website or services to children under the age 18. We understand that there may be exceptions to this rule, including, but not limited to children who are emancipated. If we discover that the website is being used inappropriately, we will take steps, if possible, to disable access so that the individual may no longer access our website.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links you are “clicking” to another website. CHEP is not responsible for the information privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these linked websites as their information privacy practices may differ from ours.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We will not jeopardize your privacy. The provisions contained in this privacy statement supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices with respect to this site. Any and all changes will be made here, to this privacy statement.

We encourage you to check our site frequently to see the current privacy policy to be informed of how we are committed to protecting your information and providing you with improved content on our website in order to enhance your online experience. Upon any material changes to the policy statement, we will post those changes to this privacy policy so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at info@homeequitypartnership.org.