Analytics

LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 15, 2022

 

 

ANALYTICS

DHI Mortgage engages the services of certain digital analytics companies to gather qualitative and quantitative measurements regarding the operation and use of our Sites in order to improve their efficiency and effectiveness and provide an optimal experience for our customers. Our analytics providers gather site data generated when you visit our Sites, through JavaScript that they have installed on the pages of our Sites. And, these digital analytics companies may also use the data that they gather about you, while on our Sites and after you leave, for other purposes.

DHI Mortgage uses Google Analytics, which collects information about your use of our Sites. If you do not wish for your visit data to be reported to Google, please click here. You can also manually delete any Cookies associated with Google Analytics from within your browser settings by looking for Cookies with “_ga” as part of their name, and deleting those Cookies.

To see the Cookies that we place on your browser, and to opt-out of such placement, you can visit our Cookie Consent Tool. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, without your consent only essential Cookies are used when you visit our Sites. In all cases, we will use, share and protect any NPPI that we have collected in accordance with our U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice, your privacy choices and applicable law.

Please note that limiting the collection of your visit information by our Third-Party Service Providers does not limit in any way the collection, analysis or use of such information by DHI Mortgage itself or our Affiliates. Moreover, limiting the collection and use of information by Google Analytics regarding your visit to our Sites will not limit, in any way, the collection and use of information by Google Analytics regarding your visit to other websites. To prevent such collection and use of information by Google Analytics regarding your visit to other websites, you must stop such collection on each website.

 

DEFINITIONS

Account – Your personal online accounts on our Sites.

Affiliates – Our Affiliates include, among others, D.R. Horton, Inc.; DHI Title, and our other title company affiliates; our insurance company, D.R. Horton Insurance Agency, Inc.; our title insurance company, DHI Title Insurance Company; Forestar Group, Inc. and other affiliated entities.

Anonymous Information – Anonymous Information is information that does not include Personal Information, or from which Personal Information has been deleted. Anonymous Information does not identify, and cannot be used to reasonably determine, the identity of an individual customer.

Automated Information – We and our Third-Party Service Providers have automated means of collecting certain information from you when you visit our Sites, or otherwise interact with us online. In many cases, the information that is collected using these automated technologies does not identify you personally, but instead is linked to an anonymous numerical identifier. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, where this information is associated with you, or could reasonably be associated with you, we treat information collected through automated means as Personal Information.

Cookies – Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers.  Cookies are widely used across the Internet, including by Us, to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones, and other devices.

European Economic Area – The European Economic Area consists of the Member States of the European Union as well as Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway.

IP Address – An IP Address is a unique string of characters that identifies each computer using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network.

Mobile Applications – Our Mobile Applications are our mobile sites, applications, and mobile interactive features.

NPPI – NPPI generally includes non-public personally identifiable financial information that we have collected from or about you, or that has resulted from a transaction for you in our delivery of financial products and services to you.  NPPI also includes any list, description, or other grouping of consumers and their publicly available information that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available.

Personal Information – Personal Information is information that identifies, relates to, describes or is reasonably capable of being associated with you.  Personal Information includes Identifiers such as your name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, user name, physical address, IP Address, phone number, driver’s license or state identification card number, email address, payment card information or other financial information, profile pictures or social media account ID.

Sites – Our Sites include this Website, our mobile sites, applications, and mobile interactive features (our “Mobile Applications”), and our social media pages such as those on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram (our “Social Media Pages”).

Third-Party Service Providers – Our Third-Party Service Providers are companies that provide services to us or on our behalf, including marketing companies,  third-party email servers, website hosting services, investor relation firms, payment processors, financial institutions, data aggregators, analytics providers, and others.