Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting www.RichardElias.com. We hope the information on our website is helpful to you in the sale and/or purchase of your home and overall moving experience. Following is a description of our online privacy policies. If you have any questions or comments regarding our policies, please fee free to call us at (619) 562-6800 or email us anytime.
Information Collection and Use
RichardElias.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways other than as disclosed in this statement. Information is collected from our users at several different points throughout our website. Contact information is used specifically to send communications about our company and services. Users may opt-out of receiving this information. Information regarding a user’s hardware and software is automatically collected by RichardElias.com and may be shared with a third party for traffic analysis and website improvement purposes. This information is not personally identifiable.
Cookies
RichardElias.com deposits cookies on users’ hard drives. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. By setting a cookie on our site, the user does not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. A user that rejects the cookie will still access to our site; however, the user may be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
Information collected from a user’s hardware and software may be shared with a third party for traffic analysis and website improvement purposes only. This information is not personally identifiable or sold.
Links
Our website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that RichardElias.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by RichardElias.com.
Security
This website takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect our users' information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When users submit sensitive information via the website, RichardElias.com uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect your information both online and off-line
RichardElias.com maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information against unauthorized access or use. Nonpublic personal information about you is restricted to those employees who need to know that information to perform a specific job. Our database servers used to store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, feel free to send us an email.
Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive emails from RichardElias.com may opt-out of receiving these communications by sending an email to http://www.richardelias.com/change.html.
Mail this to a Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or a home listing, we will ask them for the friend's email address. RichardElias.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The friend may contact Richard Elias at http://www.richardelias.com/change.html to request the removal of this information from our database.
Notification of Changes
Information is used in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. RichardElias.com reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
Login Security
When a user chooses a password, the password is stored on a password protected server. However, when the user sends their password across the Internet, there is a very slight possibility that an experienced hacker could steal the password by sniffing the line on the user’s property or somewhere between the user's property and our server.
Disclosures
RichardElias.com cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Agreement. As required by law, we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances. While we utilize commercially reasonable security measures, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
RichardElias.com will disclose user information in circumstances where we believe that the disclosing of this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
RichardElias.com reserves the right to disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
