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Privacy Policy
Effective July 1, 2006
The Oakland Association of REALTORS® (OAR) has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and so that you, as a visitor to the OAR web site, will be aware of the uses made of information that may be generated as a result of you using our web site.
What information is generated when you visit the OAR web site?
Depending on how you use our web site, certain types of personal and non-personal information may be generated and collected. For example, you may give us your name or e-mail address when you complete a registration screen, respond to a questionnaire or submit an e-mail to us. We will use any personal information that you provide to us by us primarily to fulfill the stated objective for which the information was requested or collected (e.g. if information is provided as a result of you e-mailing us, we will use the information provided, such as e-mail address, to respond to you).
Find a REALTOR® Directory
OAR is a private trade association consisting of real estate professionals. As one of the many benefits of membership with OAR, we make available on our web site a searchable database of our members called “Find a REALTOR”. This directory can be used by the public to locate and contact our members by such characteristics as name, company or city location.
The member information made available through the Find a REALTOR directory is intended to contain only the business information of our members. Under no circumstances will we intentionally display or make available on our web site the personal home addresses or phone numbers of our members.
Directors and Committee Members
For use by the members of OAR, we make available on the web site the names of members who are serving as directors or committee members of OAR
"Contact Us" Feature
Like most sites on the Internet, our web site contains a feature that allows you to contact us with your comments or questions. Not surprisingly, we call this feature "Contact Us." To use this feature, there is an icon at the bottom of each page on our web site, which you can click onto. When you do click this icon, an e-mail message screen will appear for your use to provide OAR with comments, concerns or suggestions.
The information collected through the "Contact Us" feature is used to investigate and respond to your inquiries. If you are a member, we may also use the information you provide to update our membership records.
Links to Other Sites
In many areas of our web site, we have included links to other Internet sites, which we feel add to or improve the quality of our web site. While we hope you find these links helpful, we cannot assume responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of any linked site. Therefore, we encourage you to investigate and determine the privacy policy and practices of any linked site prior to providing information to the linked site.
Update Newsletter Service
We currently offer as a free service to our members an online version of our newsletter, “The Update”.
Surveys
We may from time to time create and use surveys on our web site. Most surveys will be simple "click box" surveys where you click a box on the screen to indicate your response. However, we may from time to time ask you for your name, email address or demographic information. If a survey does ask you this information, we will use the information to complete the survey, compile statistics and update member records.
Advertisements
In the future, we may sell advertising space on our web site to other companies. The advertising space we may sell will likely be in the form of an electronic "advertisement banner." An advertisement banner is essentially a graphic link to the actual Internet site of the advertiser.
While we hope you will find our advertiser's products helpful, we cannot assume any responsibility for the privacy practices of our advertisers. Therefore, like any other Internet site you may visit, we encourage you to become knowledgeable of the privacy policies and practices of our advertisers prior to providing information on their sites.
Public Chat Rooms or Forums
In the future, we may provide chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups on our web site. While we feel these features will be helpful to the users of our web site, we will not monitor them regularly nor will we be responsible for what is said on or done as result of them. Please remember that any information you disclose on these types of features will be accessible to the public and you should exercise caution prior to disclosing any personal information on these features.
Required by Law
We may disclose information provided by you if we are legally required to do so, such as by court order or subpoena.
Security
We have adopted what we consider to be reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, theft, misuse and alteration of information collected through our web site. However, if you are concerned about the security of the Internet or our web site, we suggest that you not provide this information.
Children's Guidelines
Our web site does not currently attempt to collect or solicit information from persons who are under the age of eighteen. However, given the anonymous nature of the Internet, it is possible that someone under the age of eighteen may access our web site and provide us with personal information. If this situation occurs and it is brought to our attention, we will not use the information in any way without prior parental consent and we will take all reasonable steps to prevent it from occurring again.
Corrections/Updates
If you are a member and there is information about you on our web site which needs to be corrected or updated, please feel free to email us at staff@oar.org or write to us at 1528 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94612, attention OAR Membership.
Contacting our web site
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our web site, or your dealings with our web site, please feel free to email us at staff@oar.org or write to us at 1528 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94612, attention OAR Privacy Policy. |
