We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information
to third parties for marketing
purposes without providing you with a choice to opt out from such
programs.
We allow all users to opt out at any time from receiving e-mail, telemarketing,
and direct mail
messages from TopRealEstate.com, our partners, or third parties we
work with.
By submitting your information to us in any of posting and E-mail
forms, any of our co-branded
pages or offsite partner forms, you are opting into our advertising
program.
Since this policy may change over time as we modify or expand our
service, we suggest that
you check back from time to time in order to understand how we treat
your information.
What personally identifiable information does TopRealEstate.com collect?
Posting and ad Data
During posting an ad, TopRealEstate.com may collect personal information
including
your name, address, E-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code,
phone number and
areas of interest regarding products and services. After providing
TopRealEstate.com
with this information, you are no longer anonymous.
Other data collected
From time to time, TopRealEstate.com may collect additional personal
and non-personal
information about you. This may include:
* Credit card information to process your request for products, programs,
or services.
* Information you provide when registering to receive goods or services
from one or more
of our partners.
* Information you provide when entering into promotion sponsored by
TopRealEstate.com
and/or one of our partners.
* Information you provide when filling out a user survey.
* Information you provide if you contact our customer service center.
* Data related to the areas of TopRealEstate.com that you visit and
how often you
visit those areas. This includes co-branded sections of TopRealEstate.com
that are
part of our overall service.
* Publicly available information that we obtain from third parties.
TopRealEstate.com will make an effort to include a link to the Privacy
Policy whenever we
ask you for additional personal information.
How does TopRealEstate.com use personal information?
We use the personal information you supply us, including your posting
an ad data, to enhance
the TopRealEstate.com service, fulfill your requests for products,
programs, or services,
personalize your experience and provide you or permit others to provide
you with special
offers we think you will find valuable. We also use other information
obtained from user site
traffic patterns to better provide you with a personalized experience
and special advertising
offers and promotions. We view personalized advertising as beneficial
to our users.
TopRealEstate.com uses the information described above to do, among
other things, the
following:
Personalize and enhance the TopRealEstate.com site and service such
as advertisements
we believe will be of interest to you.
Send personalized information about TopRealEstate.com and its site
features, prizes
and offers, unless you have opted out of receiving these types of
communications.
Send you advertising from third parties including selected and trusted
TopRealEstate.com
partners, unless you have opted out of receiving these types of communications.
Provide your personal information to selected 3rd parties unless you
have opted not to permit
such sharing.
Provide you with advertising and other promotional offers that we
believe will be of
interest to you.
Contact users for feedback regarding TopRealEstate.com and TopRealEstate.com's
partners
via E-mail surveys, telemarketing and Direct Marketing.
We may also use the information we collect to develop summary reports
for our advertisers.
An example of a summary report might be "100,000 people clicked
on this link and of those
people, 35% were registered users above the age of 25." We provide
this information to assist
our advertisers in determining how to promote their products. We do
not tell our advertisers
who it was that saw or clicked on their advertisements unless you
have specifically told us
this is acceptable.
Unless you have opted out of receiving special offers or E-mails from
selected third parties,
we also may provide a report to our advertiser which tells them who
responded to a particular
offer. For example, we might send you an E-mail which offers you a
discount on particular
service. If you click on that e-mail or accept an offer or discount
contained therein, we may
provide the advertiser with the information necessary to provide you
with that discount.
What choices are available to you regarding the collection, disclosure
and distribution
of personal information and how can you opt-out?
You can choose at anytime after posting an ad, to opt out of receiving
E-mails from
TopRealEstate.com or from having your personally identifiable information
shared with
selected companies. If you want to opt out, you can do so by clicking
here:
http://www.TopRealEstate.com/unsubscribe.html
However, TopRealEstate.com may continue to use your personal information
for
internal purposes, to conduct promotions, to enhance your user experience
or as
necessary to administer the site or comply with applicable law.
Who has access to your personally identifiable information?
Your data is password-protected so that only TopRealEstate.com has
access to this
personal information. TopRealEstate.com takes steps to ensure that
your information is
treated securely and in accordance with our Terms of Service and this
Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
secure. As a result,
while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee
the security of any
information you transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you use these
services at your own risk.
How and when is information disclosed to 3rd parties?
In general, TopRealEstate.com does not disclose your personally identifiable
information
to any third party without first providing you with an opportunity
to opt out except in special
situations described below, such as to comply with the law or administer
the site. Unless you
have opted out after posting an ad, TopRealEstate.com may make your
personally identifiable
information available to selected companies. You can elect not to
use certain services or
participate in certain promotions if you do not want your information
shared with the third
parties who are sponsoring or administering such promotions.
In the event that all or substantially all of TopRealEstate.com's
stock and/or assets are
transferred or sold to another entity, TopRealEstate.com may transfer
personally identifiable
information to the acquiring entity.
Administering the Site and Compliance with Law: TopRealEstate.com
may disclose
your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith
that we are required
to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, or other
legal process.
TopRealEstate.com may also disclose personally identifiable information
when we
have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms
of Service or to protect
the safety of our users and the public.
In addition, we may share your personal information under confidentiality
agreements with
certain third parties which assist us in developing, operating and
maintaining
TopRealEstate.com or for determining whether or not to provide you
with new services
or special offers. TopRealEstate.com also may disclose or access personally
identifiable
information for administrative and other purposes that we believe
are necessary to develop,
maintain and improve our products and services. This may include delivery
services,
fulfillment houses, and other similar entities.
Who can you contact with questions regarding this policy?
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to TopUSARealEstate.com
Customer Service.
Effective: 9/21/04
