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.

Applicability of 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.

Personally Identifiable Information Provided by You

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.

MLS Realty's Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information

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's Use of Cookies

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.

Email Addresses, Usernames and Passwords may be Issued to You

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.

Security of Your Submissions and Transmissions

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.

Links to Other Internet Websites on www.mlsrealty.com

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.

Access and Use by Minors

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.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

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.

Your Questions, Comments & Complaints

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]. 

Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Venue

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.

Miscellaneous

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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