Last modified on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 20:50
Introduction
Calusa Associates, LLC dba McGregor Palms Realty operates the web site at http://mcgregorpalms.calusa.us/ ("Site"). We respect the privacy of each and ever user of or Site (herein after referred to as "you" or "a user"), whether you are just starting a real estate search or have previously visited our Site. This Privacy Statement is intended to give you specific information about how we protect your privacy, how our company treats any information we collect on the Site that identifies an individual user's ("Personal Information"). It also explains how we use aggregated information.
BY REGISTERING FOR OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF OUR SITE, YOU INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE OUR SITE. We reserve the right to modify any part of this Statement at any time by posting a notice on our Site's home page. (If we consider it appropriate and necessary, we may provide additional notices of any significant changes to this Statement.) Any use of this Site after the date of last modification listed at the beginning of this Privacy Statement indicates to us that you agree to any and all changes.
Location of Servers and Transfer of Information to the United States
The Site is hosted on servers located in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, your Personal Information will be transferred electronically to the United States. By submitting your Personal Information, you, the user, consent to its transfer to the United States and to its storage, processing, and use there in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Scope of this Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement applies to your use of this Site only. We do not own, operate or control the web sites of our sales associates. Accordingly, this Statement does not apply to a sales associate's web site or to a sales associate's collection, use, storage and disclosure of your Personal Information.
1. Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We collect Personal Information on our Site in order to improve the services we offer our you. We will collect Personal Information from you only if you voluntarily submit it in order to obtain certain services or information, including (A) registrations for special communications, such as saving a search for you and, but only if you request it, sending you new listings that fit the profile of your saved search; (B) requests to contact us; (C) requests to locate a property for you, to list your property, and to locate a sales associate; (D) requests to email a listing to a another party; (E) requests to receive periodic real estate related updates; (F) any applications for employment; and (G) requests to obtain mortgage financing information.
Requests to Find or List a Property OR REQUESTS to LOCATE a Sales Associate
If you submit a request through our Site to find or list a property or to locate a sales associate, you will be asked to provide Personal Information. This information is reffered to a sales associate in order to respond to your request.
Contacting Us
If you contact us, we collect your Personal Information, which is retained or referred to a sales associate depending on the nature of your inquiry. If you are looking to purchase a property or are trying to locate a sales associate, it is referred to a sales associate; if your inquiry or complaint requires a response from us, it is referred to the appropriate company representative. The information we collect is not used in any other way and is not retained after one year.
Refer a Listing to a Friend
If you choose to email a listing to another person, you will be asked to provide the other person's name and email address. We do not store this type of information, and the information is used only to send the one-time referral email to the other party.
Employment Inquiries
If you are seeking employment with our company, you will be asked to provide Personal Information about yourself. We will retain information pertaining to employment inquires for a period of one year after the information is received by our company.
Mortgage Financing Inquiries
If you are seeking to obtain mortgage financing information, you will be asked to provide Personal Information about yourself. We may share this Personal Information with trusted third-parties for the purpose of referring you to a licensed mortgage specialist in order to assist you in obtaining financing. By submitting this Personal Information you are consenting to be contacted, at the phone number and email you provided, by these trusted third parties.
2. Collection of Non-Personal Information
We may collect information about how your use of our site ("Non-Personal Information"). This information cannot be used to identify you personally and is explained in more detail below under "Non-Personal Information".
Cookies
An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing. A web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences are set to allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser permits a web site to access only the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites which you may have visited. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is transmitted. You can set your browser to either refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent to you. But if you refuse cookies, some parts of our Site may not function properly and may not provide you with the services or information you have requested. For example, without cookies enabled, we will not be able to provide you with searches that you have asked us to save.
Non-Personal Information
We obtain Non-Personal Information such as IP (internet protocol) addresses, the type of browser in use, the name of your ISP (internet service provider), information about where a user comes from before arriving at our Site, what pages a user visits on our site, the order that those pages are accessed, and the amount of time spent browsing each page. This service is done by sending a cookie to gather the information, compile it, and report it back to us. We use Non-Personal Information to customize the advertising and content you see on our site, improve our services to you, conduct research, and to provide us with anonymous aggregated reporting.
Advertising Networks
We do not allow other unrelated third-parties, to serve advertisements within our site.
3. Use of Information
We use the Personal Information and the Non-Personal Information we collect on the Site (A) to provide you with the services that you ask to receive through the Site, including saving searches and, if you request it, sending you updates about those searches; (B) to receive, if you choose, to receive periodic real estate related updates; (C) to answer your questions or complaints; (D) to refer you to sales associates about finding or listing a property or to locate a specific sale associate; (E) to refer a listing to a friend; and (F) for analytical purposes to help us improve the Site and for our general business use. We may also use the Personal Information we collect to inform you about other services and products that may be available through us or an affiliated company, and to provide you with a customer survey to assess your satisfaction with our services. We use Google Analytics and other such tracking mechanisms to collect information about the use of the Site. More information on Google Analytics – including how you can control the information sent to Google – can be found here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
4. Sharing Your Information
We reserve the right to share your Personal Information with our affiliated companies, as permitted by law, in order to fulfill our commitment of providing you with full service real estate brokerage services. We do share your Personal Information under the following circumstances:
A. Third party vendors we engage to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting, web-site development, and support, have access to Personal Information, but they have agreed not to disclose the Personal Information or to use it for any purpose other than providing the requested services.
B. There may arise special circumstances where it is necessary for us to disclose and use Personal Information and Non-Personal Information, such as: to enforce this Privacy Statement or any other part of our Terms & Conditions to protect our property or rights; to protect the safety of anyone; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or improper activities; to carry out a merger or consolidation with another entity, a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, or any similar transaction; or for other reasons we determine in good faith are necessary, appropriate, or required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal or administrative process.
The Site may contains links to third-party web sites. When you click on those links, you will go to a third-party site where you will be subject to that site's privacy statement. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other web sites and we expressly disclaim any liability for their actions, including actions relating to the use and disclosure of Personal Information by those third parties.
5. Security
Our hosting services maintains its systems in accordance with reasonable industry standards to secure the information of its customers. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure ever. "Perfect electronic security" does not exist, and your use of this Site is at your own risk.
6. Correction/Updating Personal Information
If your Personal Information changes or if you no longer wish to use the Site, you may correct or update your Personal Information or unsubscribe from any industry updates you have requested by modifying or deleting your profile on the Site, or by writing to us at:
Calusa Associates, LLC dba McGregor Palms Realty
1222 SE 47th Street, Suite 307
Cape Coral, FL 33904
or by sending an email to info@mcgregorpalms.com
7. Children
This Site is not directed towards children under the age of 13 ("Children"), and we do not knowingly collect any information, including Personal Information, from Children.
