Privacy Policy for
CALMLS (www.calredd.com)
Effective February 1, 2009
The California MLS, Inc. (CALMLS) has created this Privacy
Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and so
that you, as a visitor to this website, www.calredd.com,
(Site), will be aware of the uses made of information that
may be generated as a result of you using our Site.
What information is generated
when you visit our Site?
Depending on how you use our Site, certain types
of personal and nonpersonal information may be generated and
collected.
For example, you may give us your name or e-mail address when
you complete a registration screen, respond to a questionnaire
or submit an e-mail to us. Any personal information that
you provide to us will be used by us primarily to fulfill the
stated objective for which the information was requested or collected
(e.g. if information is provided as a result of you e-mailing
us, we will use the information provided, such as e-mail address,
to respond to you).
Other types of information that may be generated
and collected when you use our Site is information that we consider
nonpersonal in nature. For example, we may collect the
name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example,
aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account),
the date and time you access our site or the Internet address
of the site from which you linked directly to our Site. We
use this information to measure the number of visitors to the
different sections of our Site and to help us make our Site more
useful to visitors.
Use of Cookies
What is a cookie? A cookie is a data file
that is created and stored on your computer's hard drive when
you visit a site. The typical purposes of a cookie is to
make your use of the site easier and more convenient and to assist
the site in tracking your use of the site. For example,
a cookie may save the registration information, passwords, purchases
or preferences that you create when using a site so you don't
have to reenter this information. Cookies may also tell
the site which areas of the site are popular and which aren't. Cookie
technology is used by most major sites and is considered an industry
standard for the Internet.
Our Site uses cookie technology to verify user
information. (Please see the section titled 'Advertisements'
for more information concerning advertisers.). Also, most
Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If
you prefer, you may set your browser so that it refuses cookies
or alerts you when cookies are being created on your hard drive.
You should be aware though that by not accepting cookies, you
may impair your ability to use certain password protected areas
of web sites.
Directors and Committee
Members
We may make available on the Site the names of
individuals who are serving as directors or committee members
of CALMLS.
"Contact Us" Feature
Like most sites on the Internet, our Site contains
a feature that allows you to contact us with your comments or
questions. Not surprisingly, we call this feature "Contact
Us." To use this feature, there is an icon at the
top of each page on our Site which you can click onto. When
you do click this icon, a screen will prompt you to provide us
with certain information, such as your first and last name, email
address, phone and fax number and your address, including your
city and state.
The information collected through the "Contact
Us"
feature is used to investigate and respond to your inquiries.
Links to Other Sites
In many areas of our Site, we have included links
to other Internet sites which we feel add to or improve the quality
of our Site. While we hope you find these links helpful,
we cannot assume responsibility for the privacy practices or
the content of any linked site. Therefore, we encourage
you to investigate and determine the privacy policy and practices
of any linked site prior to providing information to the linked
site.
Surveys
We may from time to time create and use surveys
on our Site. Most surveys are simple “click box” surveys
where you click a box on the screen to indicate your response.
However, we may from time to time ask you for your name, email
address or demographic information. If a survey does ask
you this information, we will use the information to complete
the survey, compile statistics and may contact you for further
information related to the survey.
Contests
We may from time to time run contests on our Site.
If our contests require you to provide personal or demographic
information, we will use this information primarily to complete
the contest.
Advertisements
Like many other sites on the Internet, we may sell
advertising space on our Site to other companies. Such
advertising space is usually in the form of an electronic
"advertisement banner." An advertisement banner
is essentially a graphic link to the actual Internet site of
the advertiser.
While we hope you find our advertiser's products
helpful, we cannot assume any responsibility for the privacy
practices of our advertisers. Therefore, like any other
Internet site you may visit, we encourage you to become knowledgeable
of the privacy policies and practices of our advertisers prior
to providing information on their sites.
Public Chat Rooms or Forums
From time to time a discussion forum, bulletin
board, blog, chat area, news group, community, or other feature
designed so that users of the Site may upload data and images
or communicate with others ("Forum") may be made available
to users on this Site. CALMLS, in its sole discretion, reserves
the right to review, control or edit any text, data, images,
files, or other materials that may be uploaded, posted or submitted
in any Forum ("Submissions") as well as the right to
refuse to post any such Submission. All Submissions are
subject to the Terms of Use.
Please remember that any information you disclose on these types
of features will be accessible to the public and you should exercise
caution prior to disclosing any personal information on these
features.
Required by Law
We may disclose information provided by you if
we are legally required to do so, such as by court order or subpoena.
Security
We have adopted what we consider to be reasonable
security measures to protect against the loss, theft, misuse
and alteration of information collected through our Site. However,
if you are concerned about the security of the Internet or our
Site, you should not provide information to our Site.
Other Products and Services
Although we generally collect and use information
to fulfill the stated objective for which the information was
requested or collected, we may also provide the information to
our parent and affiliate companies so that they may send you
information regarding other products or services that may be
valuable or interesting to you.
Children's Guidelines
Our Site does not currently attempt to collect
or solicit information from persons who are under the age of
eighteen.
However, given the anonymous nature of the Internet, it is possible
that someone under the age of eighteen may access our Site and
provide us with personal information. If this situation
occurs and it is brought to our attention, we will not use the
information in any way without prior parental consent and we
will take all reasonable steps to prevent it from occurring again.
Contacting our Web site
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy, the practices of our Site, or your dealings with our Site,
please feel free to contact us at (800) 925-1525 or 909-859-2040.”
Changes to Privacy Policy
Statement
With the ever-changing environment of the Internet
and to maintain our ability to improve the quality and safety
of our Site, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy
at any time. In the event we make any material changes
to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the Policy's
Effective Date.
As you use our Site, we encourage you to periodically check back
with this Privacy Policy for changes that we may make. Your
continued use of our Site will constitute your agreement to any
changes we make and if you do not agree with a change, please
refrain from using our Web site. Thank you! |
