Privacy Policy for Corporate Website

Effective Date: October 2024

We are delighted that you are visiting this website and have an interest in the Tower Companies (“Company,” “we” or “us” or “our”) and our portfolio of real estate properties. It is important to note that the purpose of this website (“Site”), is primarily to provide information about the Company and not to conduct transactions. However, there may be personal information that is collected on the Site. We have a strong commitment to respecting the privacy of any personal information that we collect. For clarity, personal means any information that can be used to identify or is linkable to a specific individual.

This privacy policy (“Policy”) contains details about how the Company handles any personal information we collect from you or that we may otherwise collect. To make it easier for you to navigate this Policy, you may click on any of the following links to move to one of the sections addressed below:

  1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
  2. Changes to this Privacy Policy
  3. Our Contact Information
  4. Personal Information We Collect on this Site
  5. Google Analytics
  6. How We Use the Personal Information We Collect
  7. 10DLC (10 Digit Long Code)
  8. Sharing Your Personal Information
  9. Securing and Retaining Your Personal Information
  10. Children’s Privacy
  11. Legal

Scope of this Privacy Policy

Before proceeding you should be aware of what this Policy applies to and what it does not. This Policy explains how the Company collects, uses, shares and stores personal information:

  • on this Site; and
  • when you interact with any third-party we have engaged to collect, process, host or store personal information on behalf of the Tower Companies.

This Policy does not apply to personal information you send to the Company offline or by any other means. Please note that real estate properties owned by the Company will have their own privacy policies, and you should review those policies when visiting any of those websites.

In addition, if you choose to engage with the Company on a social media platform such as Meta (formerly Facebook), LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter) this activity is conducted at your own risk as the Company does not control these third-party platforms. Also, the Company cannot control the actions of other users of any social media platform and is therefore not responsible for any content or submissions contained on such services and platforms. Please consult the privacy policies of these social media service providers before using them to make sure you are comfortable with how they handle personal information.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our practices as set forth in this Policy, you should stop using this Site. To the extent permitted by applicable law, by accessing or using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time, and any changes will be posted on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat Site users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on this Site’s home page. The “Effective Date” at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes will be immediately incorporated into this Policy, and will be prospective only. We will not make any changes that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.

Your continued use of this Site after any changes are made to this Policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If any of the changes are unacceptable to you, you should cease using this Site.

Our Contact Information

If you ever have any questions or concerns about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via e-mail or postal mail at:

privacy@towercompanies.com

Tower Companies
Att: Legal Department
2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, Ninth Floor
Rockville, MD 20852

Personal Information We Collect on this Site

Contact Us

The “Contact Us” option is the only place on this Site when we ask for personal information. At your choice, you may request that we contact you to answer a question or provide additional information. If you request that we contact you, we will require your name and email address. You may also provide your organization name and any specific questions or request that you have.

Careers

If you click on the Careers link to explore employment opportunities with the Company, you will be forwarded to a third-party website that is branded as Tower Companies but is hosted and operated by Paychex Inc. We have contracted with Paychex to host available job postings and to collect personal information from candidates who wish to apply for employment, and/or be notified about future job openings. You will be required to provide certain personal information, including but not limited to, your email address, first and last name, postal address, main phone number, and alternative phone number. You will also be required to create an account by establishing a username, password, and security question and answer. Uploading a resume is optional. Please note that when you are exploring and/or apply for employment with the Tower Companies, the privacy policy of Paychex governs the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to review that privacy policy before providing any of your personal information. Tower Companies receives the personal information you provide on the Paychex website for the purpose of evaluating your fit for employment for the position for which you are applying.

Tower Companies will not use the personal information you provide for any purpose other than to determine your qualifications for potential employment with Tower Companies and inform you of job openings if you choose. Paychex is prohibited from using the personal information you provide for any purpose other than collecting it on our behalf and notifying you of open job postings if you choose.

Google Analytics

We collect limited data through Google Analytics, which use cookies and technologies to collect and analyze data about the use of this Site. More specifically, we may collect data about (i) what pages were visited and time spent on each page, (ii) your geographic location based on anonymized IP data, and (iii) data about your device and browser information. We will use this information to (i) analyze usage patterns (for example, most visited pages, how long/time spent on each page), (ii) measure success of our marketing campaigns, and (iii) improve the design of this Site. You can learn about Google’s practices at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How We Use the Personal Information We Collect

We use the personal information you provide on this Site only for the purposes of (i) contacting you as you requested; and (ii) if you choose to explore and/or apply for employment with the Tower Companies, we will use your personal information for the purposes described in the Careers section of the Policy.

10DLC (10 Digit Long Code)

We use a third-party service provider for our corporate telephone services, including sending short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages. Our service provider has registered our telephone numbers. We do not sell or share anyone’s telephone numbers with anyone other than our third-party service provider who is prohibited from using that information for any purpose other than for facilitating SMS and MMS messages, telephone services, and online meetings.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell or share your personal information with any person or entity outside of the Company for their use. The only exception would be if we were compelled by law, court order or other legal process to do so.

Securing and Retaining Your Personal Information

We understand that the security of your personal information is important. We use, implement and maintain a variety of industry-standard administrative, technical and physical controls designed to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorized access, or disclosure, both in storage and in transmission.

While we take the issue of protecting your personal information seriously, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security as the transmitted information may be intercepted by others before it reaches us. You should exercise discretion in what information you disclose and/or transmit on or through the Site. If you are concerned about sending information to us over the internet, please send the information by mail or call us to make other arrangements. We are not responsible for the security of information sent over the internet.

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the stated purpose for which the personal information was collected or otherwise processed. We will delete your personal information as soon as the respective purpose for its use is not applicable anymore and no legal obligation to retain such data exists.

Children’s Privacy

This Site is intended for individuals 18 years of age and older located in the United States.

The Site is not directed at, marketed to, nor intended for, use by children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 18 years of age. Anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited from using this Site. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Site or on or through any of its features. If we learn that any personal information was provided on or through the Site by a person younger than 18 years of age, we will delete the personal information. Any minor, or the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) of such minor, who wishes to request the removal of the minor’s information should submit their request to privacy@towercompanies.com.

This is a United States Site subject to laws of the United States and is not intended for users outside of North America.