Barker’s Home Buying respects your privacy and understands that contacting a home buyer may involve sharing personal information about yourself, your property, and your circumstances.
This Privacy Policy explains how Barker’s Home Buying collects, uses, protects, and discloses information when you visit barkershomebuying.com, complete a website form, call or text us, send us an email, or otherwise communicate with our team.
Throughout this Privacy Policy, “Barker’s Home Buying,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Barker’s Home Buying. “You” and “your” refer to visitors, homeowners, and other individuals who use our website or communicate with us.
By using this website or voluntarily submitting information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We may collect information that you provide directly and certain information collected automatically when you use the website.
The information you choose to provide may include:
You are not required to provide every type of information listed above. However, we may need certain details to respond to your inquiry, review the property, or determine whether we may be able to make an offer.
When you visit the website, we or our website service providers may automatically collect limited technical information, such as:
This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, log files, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
Barker’s Home Buying may use the information we collect to:
Submitting a property inquiry does not require you to accept an offer or sell your home to Barker’s Home Buying.
Barker’s Home Buying may offer you the option to receive telephone calls and text messages related to your real estate inquiry.
Consent to receive calls or text messages is voluntary and is not required to submit a form, request information, or ask us to review a property.
When you separately agree to receive transactional or conversational communications, we may contact you by telephone or text message regarding:
Message frequency varies based on your inquiry and your communications with us. Message and data rates may apply.
You may reply STOP to opt out of text messages or HELP for assistance.
We may send marketing or promotional calls or text messages only when you have separately and expressly agreed to receive them.
Marketing communications may include property offers, promotions, follow-up messages, and other real estate-related marketing.
Your agreement to receive marketing messages is not a condition of submitting a property inquiry, requesting an offer, using the website, or entering into a transaction with Barker’s Home Buying.
You may reply STOP to opt out of marketing text messages at any time.
Barker’s Home Buying will not sell, rent, or share your mobile telephone number, text messaging originator opt-in data, or messaging consent with third parties, affiliates, lead generators, or other businesses for their marketing or promotional purposes.
Mobile information may be disclosed only to service providers that help us deliver communications, operate our systems, or support our business, and only as reasonably necessary for those purposes. These service providers are not authorized to use your mobile information or messaging consent for their own marketing or promotional activities.
Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be transferred to any other party for marketing purposes.
Barker’s Home Buying does not sell your personal information.
We may disclose limited personal information in the circumstances described below.
We may use service providers to help us:
These providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform services for Barker’s Home Buying and are expected to protect the information they handle.
When necessary to evaluate or complete a property transaction, we may share relevant information with professionals such as:
Information will be shared only when reasonably relevant to the proposed or completed transaction.
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
If Barker’s Home Buying is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business event, information may be reviewed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law and appropriate confidentiality protections.
This section does not permit the sale or transfer of mobile opt-in data or messaging consent for third-party marketing or promotional purposes.
We may disclose information when you ask us to do so or otherwise provide clear permission.
The website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate properly, remember preferences, measure website traffic, understand visitor activity, improve website performance, and support security.
Cookies are small files stored on your device by a website. Some cookies are necessary for website operation, while others may support analytics or other features.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to block, remove, or limit cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how certain parts of the website function.
We may use third-party analytics, hosting, mapping, form, communication, security, or customer relationship management tools to help operate the website and respond to inquiries.
These providers may collect or process technical information according to their own privacy policies and their agreements with Barker’s Home Buying.
The specific tools used on the website may change over time. We encourage you to review the privacy settings available through your browser and device.
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the type of information, why it was collected, and whether an inquiry resulted in a transaction.
When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, communication method, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk.
Please avoid submitting highly sensitive information through an ordinary website form unless we specifically request it through an appropriate method.
You may choose not to provide certain personal information, although this may limit our ability to respond to your inquiry or evaluate a property.
You may also:
We may need to retain certain information when required by law, connected with an existing agreement, or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights.
You may revoke consent to receive text messages by replying STOP to a message from Barker’s Home Buying.
You may also contact us directly to request that we stop calling, emailing, or texting you.
After a text opt-out request, you may receive one final message confirming that the request has been processed. Opting out of one communication method does not automatically prevent communication through another method that you have requested, permitted, or used to contact us.
We will honor valid communication opt-out requests as required by applicable law.
This website is intended for adults and is not directed to children under the age of 13.
Barker’s Home Buying does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website. If we learn that such information has been submitted, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
A parent or guardian who believes a child has provided information may contact us using the details below.
The website may contain links to websites, platforms, or services that Barker’s Home Buying does not own or control.
This Privacy Policy does not govern third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content, security, data collection, or privacy practices.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing information.
Barker’s Home Buying operates in Virginia and primarily serves property owners in its local service area.
If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These rights may include the ability to request access, correction, deletion, or information about how personal information is used or disclosed.
Not all rights apply in every circumstance. Barker’s Home Buying may need to verify your identity before processing a request and may retain information when permitted or required by law.
To submit a privacy-related request, contact us using the information below.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, business practices, communication methods, service providers, or legal requirements.
The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
Questions, requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:
Barker’s Home Buying
3959 Electric Road, Suite 105
Roanoke, VA
Phone: (540) 397-7923
Email: barkershomebuying@gmail.com
