Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 7, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes the types of Personal Information that Van Metre Companies and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively, “Van Metre,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information from and about you, and your choices and legal rights over this information. We ask that you carefully review this Privacy Policy, as it applies to the websites (each a “Site”) as well as the services owned, operated, and/or provided by Van Metre that display or link to this Privacy Policy, including the portals that we provide for Van Metre apartment residents (collectively, our “Services”).

In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you, and includes “personal data” or similar terms as defined in applicable law.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to companies in Van Metre’s Financial Services division, including Intercoastal Mortgage Company, Atlantic Coast Mortgage, and Walker/Dominion Title.

1. NOTICE AT COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect the categories of Personal Information identified below. We “sell” or “share” (as these terms are defined under U.S. privacy laws) some types of Personal Information for marketing and advertising purposes to third parties, such as data analytics providers, advertising technology vendors, third-party advertising networks, and social media platforms.

We do not “sell” or “share” Personal Information that we collect in connection with apartment rentals or applications. We also do not “sell” or “share” Personal Information that you provide when you create an account associated with a Van Metre property.

We do not knowingly sell or share personal information about persons under the age of 18. Please click here to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information, including targeted advertising.

B. The Business and Commercial Purposes for Which We Collect and Use Your Personal Information:

• To provide, maintain, and improve our Services
• To process your applications and payments
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us
• To communicate with you and respond to your inquiries, including through the use of bots
• To monitor, protect, and maintain our legal rights and the security and integrity of our Services and our business
• To comply with applicable laws and regulations and respond to lawful requests for information
• To carry out sales and business transactions in which information held by us is among the assets transferred or is otherwise relevant to the evaluation, negotiation, or completion of the transaction
• To provide you with content or advertisements that are targeted to your interests
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your consent

C. Retention
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide you with our Services that you request, for marketing purposes unless you opt out as described in our Privacy Policy, or otherwise where permitted or required in accordance with applicable law. We will retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We obtain Personal Information in a few different ways, including through (A) information you provide to us; (B) information we automatically collect; (C) information we receive from third parties; and (D) combining information from different sources.

A. Information You Provide

We collect some types of Personal Information from you:

• When You Use our Services. We collect Personal Information from you when inquire about use the Services; purchase or rent Van Metre properties; or engage Van Metre as a broker.
• When Purchase, Rent, or Lease Property from Us. If you purchase services from us, we or our payment processors collect a payment card number or other payment information.
• When You Provide Information About a Third Party. If you provide information about another person, such as in connection with an inquiry about a property, we may communicate directly with that person.
• When You Provide Information Through Social Media. If you engage with us on social media, we may receive information from you through these interactions.

B. Information We Automatically Collect

When you visit and interact with our Services, we or our third-party advertising and analytics vendors may use a variety of technologies, such as cookies, tags, SDKs, or scripts, to collect certain information regarding your activity. To learn more about your choices regarding the automatic collection and use of your information as you browse our Services, please see the Your Privacy Choices and Rights section below.

The specific types of information that we and our vendors may automatically collect when you use our Services include:

• Device and Browser Information. This includes your device’s IP address and/or other unique identifiers, browser type, device type, internet service provider, and operating system.
• Location Information. We may collect your device’s approximate location (derived from your device’s IP address or other signals).
• Usage Information. When you interact with our Services, we and/or our vendors collect details such as the date and time of your visit, the pages you view immediately before and after you access our Services, the areas or pages of our Services that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using our Services, keystrokes, mouse movements, form field entries, recordings of chat sessions or your use of and inputs to other AI-supported tools, and other details about your use of our Services.
• Marketing Information. If you receive an email from us, we may collect information about your interactions with the message (e.g., whether you opened, forwarded, or clicked through to our Site).
• Third-party analytics technologies. We may use third-party analytics tools to better understand who is using our Services, how people are using them, and how to improve their effectiveness as well as the effectiveness of any related content.

Cookies and Other Similar Technologies: We and our third-party vendors use cookies to collect information about your use of the Services. “Cookies” are text files that are placed on your browser by the websites that you visit. Cookies have several purposes, including to distinguish you from other users, make your site navigation more efficient, help remember your preferences, enhance your browsing experience, and improve the functionality of our Sites.

Cookies can also enable the delivery of relevant and personalized advertisements to you across the internet. In particular, our advertising and advertising vendors may set cookies that store identifiers that can be used to target ads to you when you use other sites or apps.

C. Information We Receive from Third Parties

We may receive Personal Information from other sources, including:

• Our Business Partners, including companies that co-sponsor our promotions.
• Our Marketing/advertising and analytics partners, including online advertising networks and analytics providers.
• Social Media Platforms.
• Other Companies, such as lead or referral sources who believe that you are interested in doing business with us.

D. Combination of Information

We may combine Personal Information that we receive from different sources. For example, we may combine Personal Information that you provide directly to us with information that we received from third parties.

3. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose each category of your Personal Information that we collect to the following categories of recipients:

• Service Providers. We disclose your Personal Information to our service providers that provide business, professional, or technical support services to us, help us operate our business and the Services, or administer activities on our behalf.
• Research Partners. We disclose your Personal Information to our research partners, such as companies that administer surveys or conduct research projects with us or on our behalf.
• Competent Governmental, Regulatory, and Public Authorities. We may disclose your Personal Information to government and law enforcement authorities in response to lawful requests.
• Relevant Third Parties as Part of a Corporate Transaction. In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceeding), we may disclose or transfer your Personal Information to certain third parties, such as the acquiring entity and its advisers.
• Other Third Parties. We will disclose your Personal Information to other third parties at your direction or with your consent. Additionally, we will disclose your Personal Information as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) comply with applicable law; (b) enforce our legal rights and pursue available remedies; (c) protect our operations; and (d) protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or those of others.

We may de-identify or aggregate Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. Our use and disclosure such information is not governed by this Privacy Policy.

4. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

You can make certain choices about how we use your Personal Information, as follows:

A. Opt out of Interest Based Advertising

Depending on your state of residency, you may have additional choices than the ones outlined below with respect to our use and disclosure of information for sales, “shares,” and interest-based advertising (“targeted advertising”) purposes. Please see Section 4.D (“Opt-Out Requests”) for details on exercising these legal opt-out rights.

Our use of Google Analytics and Advertising technologies: Our website uses technology provided by Google to facilitate advertising and reporting. We implement Google Analytics cookies to collect Personal Information about you when you visit our website for purposes of remarketing, impression reporting, and demographic and interest reporting. Google may combine this information with other data that Google collects about you. You can opt-out of the use of this technology through Google Ad Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, the NAI’s consumer opt-out (see below), and through the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on.

In addition to those options, you may be able to opt out of receiving certain targeted or interest-based advertisements using the browser opt-out tools and consumer choice mechanisms provided by advertising industry self-regulatory groups by following the links below:

• Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
• Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): https://youradchoices.com/control

You also may be able to control whether you see interest-based advertisements on your mobile device by changing the privacy settings on your device, or by using the DAA’s AppChoices tool, which is available at www.aboutads.info/appchoices.

You will need to opt out separately on all of your browsers and devices. If you delete or reset your cookies or mobile identifiers, change browsers, or use a different device, we will need to repeat your opt-out choices.

Even if you choose to opt out of receiving interest-based advertising, you may still receive advertising, but the advertisements may be less relevant.

B. Unsubscribing from our Marketing and Promotional Communications

From time to time, we may send you marketing and promotional emails. You may tells us to stop sending these communications at any time by following the opt-out instructions in any promotional or marketing email you receive from us.

C. Privacy Rights and Requests

Depending on your U.S. state of residence, you may have certain rights in relation to your Personal Information, including:

• Right to Know: You may have the right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information, the categories of Personal Information disclosed to third parties, and the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. Please note that we may not be required to respond to your requests “to know” or access specific pieces of Personal Information more than twice in any 12-month period.
• Right to Data Portability: You may have the right to access your information in a portable format.
• Right to Delete: You may have the right to request that we delete Personal Information that we have collected from or about you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Correct: You may have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we may maintain about you, subject to appropriate verification.
• Right to Opt Out of Certain Types of Personal Information Uses and Disclosures: We use and disclose to third parties Personal Information for analytics and advertising purposes. Accordingly, you may have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information, or the use and disclosure of your Personal Information for “targeted advertising” (as these terms are defined in applicable law).

Where permitted under applicable law, we may decline a request (other than for opt outs) if we are unable to verify your identity (or an agent’s authority to make the request) and confirm the Personal Information we maintain relates to you.

If you are interested in exercising one or more of the rights outlined above, please contact us at concierge@vanmetreco.com. Please put the statement “Your Privacy Rights” in the subject field of your email. We may take steps to verify your identity before responding to your request by asking you a series of questions about your previous interactions with us.

We will not discriminate against you if you decide to exercise your privacy rights.

D. Opt-Out Requests

You may request to opt out of the sale or share of your Personal Information, or of targeted advertising, at any time by contacting us at concierge@vanmetreco.com.

Submitting an opt-out request does not require you to create an account with us.

E. Right to Appeal

Depending on your U.S. state of residence, you may have the right to appeal a decision we have made in connection with your privacy rights request. To appeal a decision, please contact us at concierge@vanmetreco.com.

5. EXTERNAL LINKS

Our Services may have links to third-party services, including any social media platforms you use to interact with us, may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for these third parties’ practices.

6. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to maintain the security, confidentiality, and integrity of your information. However, as no transmission of information over the internet is absolutely secure, we cannot guarantee the safety of your information.

7. REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise revise portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) to our Services. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. If we change the Privacy Policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you, including by posting a temporary banner on our Site, sending an email notice to users for whom we have an address, or by temporarily noting “UPDATED” next to the Privacy Policy link on the footer of our Site.

8. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us at concierge@vanmetreco.com or by mail to 9900 Main Street, Suite 500, Fairfax, VA 22031.