We recognize the importance of protecting your personal information. We maintain the following privacy policy:
1. We gather the following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill your requests and maintain our membership records:
- Contact information you provide (e.g., your personal and business addresses, phone and fax numbers, firm affiliations and titles);
- Tracking information that our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our sites or communicate with us by email (e.g., your domain name, your email address and which pages you visit); and
- Information you volunteer via applications or surveys (e.g., education, designations, specialties, affiliations with other real estate organizations and general demographic data).
2. We use this information to:
- Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites and other communications tools both online and in print;
- Notify you of updates to our sites, relevant products and services, and upcoming events and programs;
- Compile specialty directories;
- Track use of our sites;
- Assist our local REALTOR® associations and affiliated institutes, societies and councils in membership tracking and for their use for purposes similar to those listed above.
3. We do not share, sell or trade email addresses. We may use your email address to send you information or provide you with approved informational or marketing messages.
4. Forms of contact information other than email address (e.g., street address) may be listed in membership directories or committee rosters. We will not share, sell or otherwise provide this contact information, with the following exceptions:
- To partners in our REALTOR Benefits® Program for the limited purpose of notifying you of MAR-approved promotions;
- To other vendors for the limited purpose of contacting targeted groups of members, through marketing vehicles approved by MAR;
- When required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the public.
5. Credit information that you and credit authorizers provide when you make payments by credit card or electronic check for dues or other services via the REALTOR® Electronic Commerce Network (“E-Commerce Network”) will be used to process only the transactions you request. This information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting databases, but will never be sold, shared or provided to other third parties.
6. We maintain security procedures and standards that we believe are as safe as today’s technology permits. We test these procedures and modify them regularly as new technologies become available.
7. You may edit your personal contact information directly by visiting www.ims.morealtor.com or by contacting your local REALTOR® association.