We at CENTURY 21 Agate Realty (referred to as "CENTURY 21 Agate Realty," "we," "us," or "our" herein) recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of individual-specific information ("Information') collected about our customers and prospective customers (referred to as "Customers," "you" or "your"). This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. At CENTURY 21 Agate Realty, it is our intention to give you as much control as possible over your privacy in regard to your Information and the use we make of it in the course of your use of our website located at www.century21agate.com (referred to as "website" or "our site").
To that end, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty gathers two types of information about Customers: data that Customers provide through registration on our site and data CENTURY 21 Agate Realty gathers through aggregated tracking, mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. Such information enables us to tailor our content to Customers'needs better. However, be assured that CENTURY 21 Agate Realty will not disclose personal Information to third parties without your consent.
How does CENTURY 21 Agate Realty collect Information?
1) Registration
Information is collected by specifically requesting it from you. Generally this occurs when you register at a site or request information or a service. Usually, Century 21 Real Estate LLC. site and its necessary service partners use your Information to operate the site and to deliver its services. Century 21 Real Estate LLC. sites also use your Information to inform you of other products or services available from Century 21 Real Estate LLC and its affiliates.
2) Usage tracking (anonymous)
Use of IP Addresses
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Internet. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and/or its affiliates may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregated information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When Customers request pages from CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and/or its affiliates'sites, our servers may log the Customers IP addresses. We normally do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a Customer's session will be logged, but the Customer remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a Customer when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
With whom does CENTURY 21 Agate Realty share my Information?
As a general rule, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty will not disclose any of your personal Information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your Information may be disclosed.
CENTURY 21 Agate Realty
CENTURY 21 Agate Realty may disclose information about you to CENTURY 21 Agate Realty brokers who would like to contact you for general marketing purposes.
Business Partners & Sponsors
CENTURY 21 Agate Realty may disclose some or all your Information to business partners or sponsors, but this use will be specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional Information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give CENTURY 21 Agate Realty permission to transfer your information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your Email address will be shared. If more Information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Third Party Data and Data in the Aggregate
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt to receive information from these third parties, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty will (with your permission) share your name and email address with such third parties. Under confidentiality agreements, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty may match Customer Information with third party data. Also, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty discloses aggregated Customer statistics (for example, 50% of our Customers are male) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Other
CENTURY 21 Agate realty may also disclose account Information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this Information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's Terms and Conditions of Use or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's rights or property, other CENTURY 21 Agate Realty Customers, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. CENTURY 21 Agate Realty may disclose or access account Information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
How can you control the usage of Information?
In case you change your mind or some Information changes (such as your zip code or Email address), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove the personal data you give us. Additionally, to keep you in control of the communications directed to you, we offer Customers the opportunity to "opt out" of having information shared with parties outside of CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and/or its affiliated companies. If a Customer wishes to update Information or objects to any usage provided herein for any reason, he/she may Email the requested change to:
brookings@century21agate.com.
Depending upon the Information at issue, the Customer may have to restrict all usage, rather than specifying only certain instances where the Information should be restricted.
What happens when you link to a third party site?
You should be aware that when you are on CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's and/or its affiliates'sites you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's and/or its affiliates'pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement on a CENTURY 21 Agate Realty search result, the "click" typically takes you off the CENTURY 21 Agate Realty site. These other sites may include sites of advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's and/or its affiliates' logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to Customers, collect data or solicit Information.
CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and its affiliates do not control such sites, and therefore, are not responsible for their contents. CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's and/or its affiliates' inclusion of hyperlinks to these sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators. CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's privacy policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, which is beyond the control of CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and its affiliates.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out Information online (for example, via message boards or chat lines), that Information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and its affiliates strive to protect their Customers Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any Information you disclose online and you disclose such Information at your own risk.
Is my Information secure from others using the CENTURY 21 Agate Realty site?
The importance of security for all Information associated with our customers is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your Information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Information, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and its affiliates can't ensure or warrant the security of any Information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, CENTURY 21 Agate Realty uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of you Information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your agreement with and acceptance of CENTURY 21 Agate Realty's Privacy Policy. If you do not accept this policy, please do not use this site in any way. Your continued use of CENTURY 21 Agate Realty and/or its affiliates' sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes, regardless of whether CENTURY 21 Agate Realty provides you with additional notice of such changes
