We believe strongly in providing you notice of how we collect and use your data, including personally identifying information, collected from the Site. We have adopted a Privacy Statement to which you should refer to fully understand how we collect and use personally identifying information.
IP Address - Your IP or "Internet Protocol" address and other site usage data may be used to gather broad demographic information. This data helps us serve you by allowing us to understand how visitors use our web sites.
Cookies - Our sites may use a technology called "cookies," small files stored by your browser to help keep track of your user profile. Our cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, nor do we share them with anyone. We use cookies to remember your personal profile for your convenience, to deliver content specific to your needs and interests, and to ensure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to track user trends and improve areas of our sites that our users find valuable.
Registration – (submit form) Some of our sites include registration ( submit ) forms that require users to give us contact information (like your name), unique identifiers (such as your email address), and demographic information (like your Zip code or age). Customer contact information is shared among the www.online-michiganrealestate.com family of web sites so that, when possible, you can enjoy benefits without having to register more than once.
We use customer contact information from registration forms to send you information related to our products and services if you consent to receiving such mailings. Your contact information may also be used to contact you when necessary for administrative purposes related to your account. We use your email as a unique identifier in our record system, to verify communications from you, and to send you newsletters and promotion offerings that you ask to receive or to tell you about changes to the online-michiganrealestate.com family of web sites.
Demographic information and site usage data is also collected on our sites. We use this data to tailor your experience, allowing us to provide content related to your preferences and information on products or services we think you may be interested in.
Email Services - E-mail: Using the e-mail addresses provided by registrants 18 years of age and older, www.online-michiganrealestate.com, its advertisers, affiliates, partners, or third parties may periodically send promotional e-mail. In any case where we might use an email address for this purpose, you will be able to indicate at registration that you do not wish to receive such promotional e-mails from www.online-michiganrealestate.com , its advertisers, affiliates, partners or third parties. However, by registering, you agree that www.online-michiganrealestate.com may contact you by e-mail regarding your request, changes to the registrant agreement, and to confirm your request. In addition, if you provide your email address or other contact data in connection with a request for product information, online-michiganrealestate.com , an advertiser, affiliate, partner or third parties, as applicable, will use that information to contact you. If you take advantage of any email notification features on our sites, you will receive email updates as described in the service. The www.online-michiganrealestate.com family of sites provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners. Users can remove their personal information from the database of a particular site by sending a request by email to the contact for the particular site listed below or for www.online-realestate.com Real Estate & Mortgage, by typing "unsubscribe" in a response to the email received.
Contests and Surveys - Online, we may also survey visitors for contact information, unique identifiers and demographic information. You are never required to answer these questions. The information you submit may be used for analyzing overall site demographics, user preferences and tastes, and similar "getting to know our customers" purposes. We may disclose this data to third parties in an aggregated form (such as summary reports for our advertisers) but never with user data or identification assigned to the information provided.
When you enter a contest, we will require that you submit a limited amount of personally identifiable data such as contact information. The information you submit may be used to analyze site demographics and user preferences, and for similar "getting to know our customer" purposes. We may share this data with third parties in aggregate form only (as in summary reports to advertisers), and never in the form of personally identifiable information.
Your Security – www.online-michiganrealestate.com, and its affiliates have taken the following important measures to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. First, we store no financial information or social security information on our sites. You will never be asked to enter your credit card number or social security number.
The personal data we do store on our system is protected by firewall and password. Our network firewall is a combination of hardware and software designed to keep unauthorized users from accessing our network. The password you select, along with your unique email address, prevents others from accessing your information. We suggest that you do not disclose your password to anyone.
Transaction Processing. We will disclose personal information to third parties as necessary to complete transactions you have requested and to perform services for you on our behalf. As stated above, your personal information is forwarded to one or more third party service providers (such as real estate agents, brokers, lenders and other real estate professionals) in order to provide you with the services you request. If a particular service provider is unable to fulfill your request within a reasonable time, we may forward your information to an alternate service provider to ensure that your request is fulfilled. Service providers may contact you to complete the transactions you have requested by any methods available to him or her including via e-mail, telephone, regular mail, in person visits or other means . We do not regulate how these third party service providers use or disclose your personal information and are not responsible for removing your information from any third party lists. Please contact the third party service providers directly to be removed from their lists.
LINKS
Please be aware that we may provide links to third party Web sites from our Sites as a service to our users and we are not responsible for the content or information collection practices of those sites. We have no ability to control the privacy and data collection practices of such sites and the privacy policies of such sites may differ from that of Online - Michigan real estate. Therefore, we encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of such sites before providing them with any information. And Online - Michigan real estate is not responsible for the content available on any other internet sites linked to the web site. online-michiganrealestate.com is providing these links to other internet sites as convenience to users, and access to any other internet sites linked to the web site is at the users own risk. The inclusion of any link does not imply a recommendation or endorsement by online-michiganrealestate.com of the linked site.
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
We may use cookies to identify users and customize their experience on our site based on information they give us. Cookies are small pieces of information or files that are stored on a user's computer by the Web server through a user's browser for record keeping purposes. A cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any information from your computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather, it is an identifier used by the Web site that originally placed it your hard drive. The actual contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same site's Web server in order to personalize, monitor, or regulate the use of the site. We do not use Web beacons, or similar technology on our Sites. However, we permit third parties to place Web beacons on our Sites to monitor the effectiveness of advertising and for other lawful purposes. A Web beacon, also known as a "Web bug," is a small, graphic image on a Web page, Web-based document or in an e-mail message that is designed to allow the site owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a site. Web beacons collect non-personally identifying information such as the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from and the time it was viewed. We do not use (or permit third parties to use) Web beacons to collect personally identifying information about you.
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