Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement outlines online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to AATCNET.ORG and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.

  1. Collection of Information

By using AATCNET.ORG (herein referred to as, ‘this website’), you may be asked to provide personal information, including your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and other generalized background information. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected (without limitation), including your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We also get information from your use of our services including how you use them. Our server automatically collects data about your server's Internet address when you visit us. When you request pages from our web site, our servers may log your IP Address and sometimes your domain name. Your IP Address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our customers as a whole, but does not include personally identifiable information. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another web site or a search engine); the portions of this website you visited; any search terms you have entered on this website, or a referral site; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers.

  1. Our Use of Your Information

We use the information we gather on this website, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving this website, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications regarding updates at the this website. We additionally may employ Internet tracking and analytic tools such as Google Analytics to better understand and deliver a user experience. We also use the information that we gather for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may link this information with your Personal Information.

  1. Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of this website, except as follows; We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf, including hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of this website if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (4) Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of this website, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

  1. Use of Cookies and Local Storage

This website may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

  1. Access to, Opt-Out and/or Modification of Your Information

Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide you with access to your personal information. This website may provide account holders limited access to or the ability to modify your personal information, but will require approval. If that information is wrong, you must contact our membership staff so they can assist you, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.

If you are receiving newsletters, commercial emails or other communications from this website, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by selecting an appropriate link in those email communications as indicated for the opt out or by sending an email to info@aatcnet.org. We retain indefinitely, all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of the this website more efficient, practical, and relevant. To the extent that we utilize the Google Analytics tools available, you have options with respect to some of those tracking tools or features available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

  1. Security of the Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. We restrict access to personal information to AATC employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

  1. Children

This website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

  1. Changes to Privacy Statement

If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policy for this website, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at info@aatcnet.org.

  1. Contact Information

This website operates under the control of the Apartment Association of Tarrant County, a Texas company with its principal place of business at 6350 Baker Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76118.

Terms of Use

This page states the Terms of Use ("Terms") under which you may use AATCNET.ORG (herein referred to as, ‘this website’), an on-line trade association website. Please read these Terms carefully. If you do not accept the Terms stated here, do not use this website and its services. By using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms, including the this website’s Privacy Statement.

1. Eligibility

You must be 18 years of age or older, or the age of majority as that is defined in your jurisdiction, whichever is older, to visit or use this website in any manner. By visiting this website or accepting these Terms, you represent and warrant to this website that you have reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, and that you have the right, authority and capacity to agree to and abide by these Terms. you also represent and warrant to this website that you will use this website in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

2.  Use of this website’s content

This website authorizes you to view and access a single copy of the content available on or from this website solely for your personal use. The contents of this website, and of all other Web sites under this website's control, whether partial or otherwise (this website and such other Web sites are sometimes collectively referred to as "AATC websites") such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software and other this website content (collectively, "this website content"), are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All this website content is the property of the Apartment Association of Tarrant County or its content suppliers or clients.

You further agree to, in no other way, misuse this website or the content that appears on this site. Unless specifically permitted herein or in writing by this website, the use of the this website content on any other web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited 

3. This website's ownership rights

This website and its licensors own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all worldwide intellectual property rights in the this website, and all such rights to all derivative works or enhancements of, in and to, or relating to, the this website. By entering into this Agreement or by using this website, you will not acquire any intellectual property or similar rights in the this website other than a limited right to use the website for your personal benefit.

4. Website Restrictions

You may not use any of this website site in order to transmit, post, distribute, store or destroy material, including without limitation, this website content, (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.

You agree that you will not use the this website site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the this website site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the this website site. you may not obtain, use or access, or attempt to obtain, use or access, any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the this website site. 

5. Advertisers

If you participate as an Advertiser, you are solely responsible for all advertising content you transmit or submit to this website or through the this website Advertiser Program, whether created by or for you, including but not limited to: (i) artwork, written content, images, photos, graphics, music, animation, data, text, information, URLs, hypertext links, scripts and the content and material included in such components; and (ii) websites and content proximately reachable from such advertising content (collectively, "Ads"). Prior to providing any Ads and Participating as a Advertiser, you may be required to read and accept additional written terms and conditions governing your submission of ads to this website (the "Advertiser Agreement"). This website disclaims all liability relating to your ads and you agree to indemnify this website for all loses this website incurs associated with the ads. 

By submitting content for advertising to any public area of any this website site, you automatically grant to this website and its affiliates an irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, fully paid non-exclusive right (including moral rights) and worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, communicate to the public, perform, display, and distribute such content (in whole or in part) and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works (in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content) such content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses thereof (through multiple tiers).

This website does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of advertiser content.

6. Copyright Agent

We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and require that the people who use the site do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to this website, designated as such pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), named below:

  • your address, telephone number, and email address;
  • A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  • A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
  • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Send to:

Attn: Executive Director
AATC
860 Airport Frwy, #101
Hurst, TX 76054
Fax: 817-284-1121
info@aatcnet.org

7. This website's Liability

This website acts as a venue for on-line association management services portal and guide and may take any action with respect to content that it deems necessary or appropriate in its sole discretion if it believes that such content could create liability for this website, damage this website's brand or public image, or cause this website to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its ISPs or other suppliers. While this website reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove content or other material from this website from time to time, this website does not assume any obligation to do so and disclaims any liability for failing to take any such action.

This website content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors, and makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of any this website content. The use of all this website content is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to this website sites and may be made at any time. this website cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of this website or any this website site. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from this website or through or from this website or any other this website site shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein. 

8. Disclaimer of Warranties 

The site, including, without limitation, all services, content, functions and materials, is provided "as is," "as available," without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise, for information, data, data processing services, uptime or uninterrupted access, any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy, usefulness, or content of information, any warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and any implied warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade, and we hereby disclaim any and all such warranties, express and implied. We do not warrant, represent or covenant that the web site or the services, content, functions or materials contained therein will be timely, secure, uninterrupted or error free, or that defects will be corrected. We make no warranty that the web site will meet users' requirements. No advice, results or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the site shall create any warranty not expressly made herein. This website also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, audio or software from the site. If you are dissatisfied with the site, your sole remedy is to discontinue using the site. 

9. Limitation of liability

In no event shall this website, its affiliates or any of their directors, officers, employees, agents or content or service providers (collectively, the "protected entities") be liable, whether in an action based on a contract indemnification, obligation, tort (including without limitation negligence), collaterally or arising from any statutory duty, pre-contract or other representations, or otherwise, however arising, for any economic losses (including, without limitation, loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business, goodwill or anticipated savings) or any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages arising from, or directly or indirectly related to, the use of, or the inability to use, the site or the content, materials and functions related thereto, your provision of information via the web site, lost business or lost sales, even if such protected entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

10. Local standards

We do not represent that materials on the this website site are appropriate for use in all locations. Persons who choose to access the this website site do so on their own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

11. Links to content and other sites

This website contains links to third party websites and content. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by this website of the contents on such third-party web sites. This website is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party web sites. If you decide to access linked third-party web sites, you do so at your own risk.

This website and certain other this website sites contain links to social media sites; these links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by AATC of the content on such social media sites. This website is not responsible for the content, accuracy of such content, or manner in which such content is provided to these third party social media sites. you specifically agree that the use of these social media sites in conjunction with this website is at your own risk.

12. Indemnity

you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless this website, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from (i) any content or other material you provide to any this website site, or (ii) your breach of the terms of these Terms. This website shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding.

13. Miscellaneous

The Terms of Service and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. you agree that any cause of action that may arise under the Terms of Service shall be commenced and be heard in the appropriate court in the State of Texas, Tarrant County. you agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Tarrant County in the State of Texas. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms of Service by this website must be made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of this website specifically referencing these Terms of Service and the provision to be waived. Headings used in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and are not to be relied upon. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Service remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Service will inure to the benefit of, and are intended to be enforceable by, this website's successors, assigns and licensees.

14. Legal Disputes

If a dispute remains unsettled between you, your company and the Association, the dispute shall be submitted and settled by a qualified arbitrator located in Tarrant County.

These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and this website, and is accepted by you upon your use of the site.