www.mlsrealty.com Privacy Policy
The www.mlsrealty.com Internet website is
owned and operated by MLS Realty, Inc., a Florida corporation (“MLS Realty”).
MLS Realty created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to disclose our current policies regarding your privacy and the
confidentiality of your personal information.
In addition, we take further measures to enhance the protection of your
privacy and personally identifiable information, as outlined in this Privacy
Policy.
This
Privacy Policy is intended to apply to you, MLS Realty, its affiliates and all
Internet websites owned and operated by MLS Realty, including, but not limited
to, www.mlsrealty.com. This Privacy Policy is a statement of MLS
Realty's current policies with regard to how information about you is collected
from www.mlsrealty.com,
used, and potentially shared by MLS Realty.
Much of www.mlsrealty.com is accessible to you
without providing personally identifiable information. However, MLS Realty may request you to
register and provide personally identifiable information to enable you to
utilize certain features of www.mlsrealty.com,
like listing your property on www.mlsrealty.com. MLS Realty will specifically ask you for any
personally identifiable information requested, and your provision of such
information will always be on a voluntary basis.
Once you
have provided personally identifiable information via www.mlsrealty.com,
you may elect to revoke (“opt-out”) or update that information at any
time. In order to revoke, opt-out or
update personally identifiable information that you have provided, please
contact [insert contact email address].
MLS Realty will remove or update your personally identifiable
information in its records accordingly.
However, please note that your revocation or opting-out of providing
personally identifiable information may inhibit or cancel your ability to fully
utilize www.mlsrealty.com
to make property listings and to access some of www.mlsrealty.com’s
other features.
Currently,
MLS Realty shares your personally identifiable information with third parties
like credit card companies and the local Multiple Listing Service in order to
process property listings. In addition,
MLS Realty may loan, rent or sell your personally identifiable information,
including, but not limited to, contact, address, and property listing
information, to other third parties.
MLS Realty reserves the right to share or disclose your personally identifiable information when it determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of such personally identifiable information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if you may be: (i) causing intentional or unintentional injury to another; (ii) interfering with another’s rights or property, including MLS Realty’s rights or property; (iii) violating any applicable law, rule or regulation; or (iv) such disclosure is required by any applicable law, rule or regulation.
MLS Realty
utilizes “cookies” to track and store preferential information about you as you
use www.mlsrealty.com. “Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers in
the form of text files that are inserted and stored on your hard drive by your
web browser. Cookies track your
personal preferences and activities, but in no way contain or refer to any
personally identifiable information.
MLS
Realty’s use of cookies allows MLS Realty to aggregate certain information
about its users. The aggregated
information helps MLS Realty to serve you better by compiling user preferences
to improve the features of www.mlsrealty.com. MLS Realty may also share, loan, rent or
sell this aggregated information to third parties, but keep in mind that the
aggregated information contains absolutely no personally identifiable
information.
If you do
not want www.mlsrealty.com’s
cookies to be inserted into your hard drive, you can disable your hard drive’s
ability to accept and receive cookies through your web browser. However, keep
in mind that if you disable your hard drive’s ability to accept and receive
cookies, you may not be able to fully utilize all of the convenient features of
www.mlsrealty.com. For instance, you may have to log in your
username or password more than once per session.
You may be
issued an email address, username or password by MLS Realty to utilize certain
features of www.mlsrealty.com. In order to receive an email address,
username or password from MLS Realty for use on www.mlsrealty.com,
you will be required to submit personally identifiable information. You are responsible for keeping your
usernames and passwords, if any, confidential.
You are responsible for any access, use or activities on www.mlsrealty.com
under your email address, username or password.
MLS Realty
utilizes its best efforts to protect the security of any information submitted
or transmitted by you to www.mlsrealty.com,
including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information. MLS Realty uses a secure 128k server and SSL
encryption technology to help ensure that your submissions and transmissions
are kept confidential. However, in the
unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises MLS Realty’s
security system, MLS Realty is not responsible for any occurrences or damages
directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party’s ability to view,
use or disseminate your submissions or transmissions to www.mlsrealty.com,
or your personally identifiable information.
www.mlsrealty.com may contain links to other Internet
websites. This Privacy Policy applies
solely to www.mlsrealty.com,
and all Internet websites owned and operated by MLS Realty and its
affiliates. MLS Realty makes no
representations or warranties about, nor is it responsible for, the privacy
practices of other Internet websites.
When you enter a linked Internet website, MLS Realty encourages you to
read the privacy policy of that linked website, as its privacy policy may
differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.
www.mlsrealty.com is not intended to be accessed or
utilized by persons under the age of 18.
MLS Realty does not intend or purposefully attempt to gather information
from children under the age of 13.
MLS Realty
developed this Privacy Policy as a manifestation of our firm commitment to
disclose our current privacy and confidentiality policies to you. However, the Internet and real estate
industries are rapidly evolving. With
this in mind, MLS Realty reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any
time in its sole discretion and without notice. You are encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to
time in order to review any changes that have been made. Your continued access and use of www.mlsrealty.com
following the posting of any such changes shall indicate your acceptance of the
same.
MLS Realty
encourages you to provide MLS Realty with feedback regarding this Privacy
Policy. If you have questions, comments
or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact [insert contact
email address]. If you feel that
MLS Realty is not abiding by this Privacy Policy at any time, please
immediately contact [insert contact email address].
This
Privacy Policy is to be governed and construed in accordance with the internal
laws of the State of Florida, without regard for principles of conflicts of
laws. Any civil action, claim, dispute
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy shall be
referred to final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator, under
the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in
Broward County, Florida. The arbitrator
shall be selected by you and MLS Realty, and if you and MLS Realty are unable
to reach agreement on selection of the arbitrator within thirty (30) days after
the notice of arbitration is served, then the arbitrator shall be selected by
the American Arbitration Association.
Judgment
upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final, binding and
conclusive upon you and MLS Realty and your and MLS Realty's respective
administrators, executors, legal representatives, successors and assigns, and
may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, in no
event shall either you or MLS Realty be entitled to punitive damages, and both
you and MLS Realty hereby waive your rights to any punitive, special, indirect
or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, damages for any loss
of profit, revenue or business.
If any
portion of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any
arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, this Privacy Policy as a whole
shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of
this Privacy Policy that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken
from this Privacy Policy.
The
headings contained in this Privacy Policy are for convenience of reference
only, are not to be considered a part of this Privacy Policy, and shall not
limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this
Privacy Policy.
All
covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this Privacy
Policy, as may be amended by MLS Realty from time to time, shall survive your
acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the termination of this Privacy Policy.
This
Privacy Policy represents the entire understanding and agreement between you
and MLS Realty regarding the subject matter of this Privacy Policy, and
supersedes all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations
regarding the same.
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