PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE
Welcome to the Mark Reys Real Estate website (hereafter
referred to as "Website"). By using this Website, you agree to be
bound by the Terms of Use as they presently exist or as they may be revised at
any time without notice or obligation. If you do not agree with the Terms of
Use or any revisions to them, please discontinue your use of this Website.
Mark Reys Real Estate is committed to respecting your
privacy and your personal information, and as such, your usage of this Website
is governed by their Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is provided to inform
you about how we collect and use the information you share with us. Please
understand that by using the real estate services and website(s) that we make
available to you, you are agreeing with the terms of this Privacy Policy. As a
result, you are encouraged to read this entire Privacy Policy. If you have
questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, about our websites,
other services or about our company in general, please contact us as indicated
below.
What does this privacy policy apply to?
This
Privacy Policy applies to all the real estate services that we make available
for your use, to our websites, and to services that may be offered through
affiliated companies with which we, directly or indirectly, share common or
partial ownership or have a contract and relationship. Examples include
residential real estate brokerage services, home related service referrals,
mortgage lending services, title insurance services, escrow services, and other
real estate related services that may be made available from t from time to
time.
What type of information is collected and how is it used?
If you
use our websites, or other real estate services we make available, we may
collect personal information from you (such as name, contact information and
depending on the service involved, more extensive financial/credit history
information). This information is only collected from you on a voluntary basis
(i.e. you are the one who decides whether to supply it or not). This
information is used by us to allow you to access and fully utilize our website
features (e.g. the “My Searches” and “My Favorites” functions), and/or to
assign a sales associate to assist you. It may be used to access the other
services and preferred partners we make available from time to time, such as
mortgage, title insurance, escrow, etc. We may also use the information you
provide us to contact you by email or telephone to confirm your satisfaction
with the services that you have utilized, or to provide you with additional
information about other services that are available to you.
Do you use passive means to collect information?
To permit
your efficient use of our websites, we do use cookies, which let us know when
and how you accessed our websites. When we know you are a prior customer, you
will not have to re-enter all of the information you previously provided to us
every time you access the sites. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we
transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our
systems to recognize your browser and to provide various features within the
system.
The
Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your
browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you
receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
What happens if I decline to provide personal information or remove
or reject passive information gathering?
If you
choose not to submit personal information, or if you choose to configure your
browser to remove or reject cookies or other passive data collection, you will
not be able to fully utilize our website features, and we will not be able to
make our services fully available to you (i.e., you will not be able to create
a “My Favorites” cache, and will not be able to obtain online settlement
services).
As
outlined below, we may also collect unique usage information related to your
use of our websites; however, this information does not include and is not
linked to your personal information. This information is collected to allow us
to provide you with the information you have requested or have asked to have
stored, and helps us understand how our customers use our websites, assisting
us in planning new features and services.
Additionally,
we collect non-personal information in the form of web-based analytics via our
HubSpot and Google, our service providers, to help us provide you with content
or services that you find most useful to your home search, sale or upkeep. To
learn more about our service providers’ privacy policies, see Third-Party
Service Providers section below.
How secure is information about me?
It is
important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and
to your computer. Whenever you are using a shared computer, be sure to sign off
from the website once you have finished using it.
We do
store, in a secure format, personally identifiable information that you provide
to us electronically. We do not collect payment-related information or
financial/credit history information through our websites.
Does the website share the information it receives?
Information
about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the
business of selling it to others.
Do you send service updates or other information?
Periodically,
we may contact our customers or visitors to our websites, requesting
information about their use of our services, or providing news, special offers
and other information relating to services that are available to them through
us. You may elect to unsubscribe to these communications by contacting us or by
clicking on the link provided at the bottom of our emails to you.
How do I learn about changes to this privacy policy?
We may
periodically update our Privacy Policy. Please understand that it is your
responsibility to review this Privacy Policy frequently to remain informed
about any changes to it. Your continued use of our websites and our services
will indicate your acceptance of any changes we do make. Our most current
Privacy Policy will always be available for your review on our websites.
How can I access or change my personal information?
You
may, at any time, ask to review, update, or delete information we have
collected about you from our records. Similarly, you may, at any time, opt out
from receiving our emails or other communications by using the “Unsubscribe”
link at the bottom of our communications. For assistance, please contact us at:
Mark Reys
Mark Reys Real Estate
2900 3rd Avenue North
Seattle WA 98109
sold@markreys.com
What should I do if I have a question or a problem?
While
we strive for error free performance, we cannot always anticipate an unintended
privacy issue. As a result, we encourage your questions and comments about
privacy concerns, about this Privacy Policy, and about our websites and other
services. Please direct them, and any exchange requests to us at:
Mark Reys
Mark Reys Real Estate
2900 3rd Avenue North
Seattle WA 98109
sold@markreys.com
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Because
California residents have access to our site and in accordance with
California’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we state the following policy:
Mark Reys Real Estate does track its customers over time
and across third-party websites to provide targeted advertising and does not
respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Some third-party sites do keep track of
your browsing activities when they serve you content. This enables them to
customize what they present to you. If you visit such sites, some web browsers
allow you to set the DNT browser signal so that third parties, such as
advertisers, know you do not want to be tracked.
Third parties that embed content on Mark Reys Real Estate
website – www.MarkReys.com – may set cookies on your browser
and/or get information about the fact that your browser visited a particular
part of our site from a particular IP address.
California
law provides California residents the right to request in writing from
businesses with whom they have an established business relationship (1) a list
of categories of personal information, such as name, address, email address,
and the type of service provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed
to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during
the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing
purposes and (2) the name and addresses of all such third parties. To request
the above information, please contact us at:
Mark Reys
Mark Reys Real Estate
2900 3rd Avenue North
Seattle WA 98109
sold@markreys.com
THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may
provide third parties that we are affiliated with access to the personal
information you share with us. We may in some cases include links in our
products or websites to third party websites. In these cases, we are not
responsible for such third parties’ privacy practices or content, and we
recommend that you review their privacy policies to understand their privacy
and information collection practices.
We do
use the personal information you provide us to facilitate our provision of
services to you, and to facilitate our affiliated companies doing the same. We
do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide access to your personal information to
any third parties, with the following limited exceptions:
When we
employ contractors to provide services on our behalf, we require them to
maintain personal information as confidential, and to only use it on our
behalf.
If we,
in good faith are required to disclose it to comply with legal processes, or we
need to do so to protect your, our or the public’s rights or property
interests.
If our
company is involved in a sale, merger or any other combination with a third
party. In such circumstances, the surviving entity will be responsible for this
Privacy Policy and the personal information collected from you.
