Privacy Policy:
West Florida Real Estate, LLC (“West Florida Real Estate“) operates westfloridarealestate.com and may operate other websites. It isWest Florida Real Estate’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators,West Florida Real Estate collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.West Florida Real Estate’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand howWest Florida Real Estate’s visitors use its website. From time to time,West Florida Real Estate may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
West Florida Real Estate also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on westfloridarealestate.com blogs/sites.West Florida Real Estate only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors toWest Florida Real Estate’s websites choose to interact with West Florida Real Estate in ways that requireWest Florida Real Estate to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information thatWest Florida Real Estate gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at westfloridarealestate. to provide a name and email address. In each case,West Florida Real Estate collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction withWest Florida Real Estate.West Florida Real Estate does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
West Florida Real Estate may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites.West Florida Real Estate may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However,West Florida Real Estate does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
West Florida Real Estate discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it onWest Florida Real Estate’s behalf or to provide services available atWest Florida Real Estate’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by usingWest Florida Real Estate’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.West Florida Real Estate will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above,West Florida Real Estate potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or whenWest Florida Real Estate believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights ofWest Florida Real Estate, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of anWest Florida Real Estate website and have supplied your email address,West Florida Real Estate may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on withWest Florida Real Estate. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.West Florida Real Estate takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.West Florida Real Estate uses cookies to helpWest Florida Real Estate identify and track visitors, their usage ofWest Florida Real Estate website, and their website access preferences.West Florida Real Estate visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using West Florida Real Estate’s websites, with the drawback that certain features ofWest Florida Real Estate’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If West Florida Real Estate, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event thatWest Florida Real Estate goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer ofWest Florida Real Estate may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies byWest Florida Real Estate and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
SMS/MMS Mobile Messaging Marketing Program
By opting in to some of our marketing messages, you are agreeing to receive automated or non-automated text messages at the phone number provided. Consent to this is absolutely not a condition to work with us. Message & data rates may apply. If at any time, you no longer wish to receive these messages, simply let us know or respond to one of your texts with the word “Unsubscribe” and you will no longer receive these messages. Further terms of service are below.
We respect your privacy. We will only use information you provide through the Program to transmit your mobile messages and respond to you, if necessary. This includes, but is not limited to, sharing information with platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of mobile messages. WE DO NOT SELL, RENT, LOAN, TRADE, LEASE, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER FOR PROFIT ANY PHONE NUMBERS OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE PROGRAM TO ANY THIRD PARTY. Nonetheless, we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, to avoid liability, or to protect our rights or property. When you complete forms online or otherwise provide us with information in connection with the Program, you agree to provide accurate, complete, and true information. You agree not to use a false or misleading name or a name that you are not authorized to use. If, in our sole discretion, we believe that any such information is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, or you have opted into the Program for an ulterior purpose, We may refuse you access to the Program and pursue any appropriate legal remedies.
This Privacy Policy is strictly limited to the Program and has no effect on any other privacy policy(ies) that may govern the relationship between you and us in other contexts.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor,West Florida Real Estate may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and inWest Florida Real Estate’s sole discretion.West Florida Real Estate encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have awestfloridarealestate.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
European Union Privacy Rights
If you reside in the European Union, you may have certain privacy rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), to the extent the GDPR does not conflict with the laws of Florida and the United States. Even if we do not have a legal obligation to do so, we may respond to your requests made per the GDPR. However, voluntary responses are not a waiver of our legal rights and obligations under the laws of Florida and United States or the arbitration provisions found within our website’s Terms and Conditions of Use.
Small Or Medium-Sized Enterprise Status:
We are a small or medium-sized enterprise (“SME”). This means that because of the size of our business, to the extent (if any) the GDPR governs our relationship with you, some of GDPR’s obligations do not apply because we are an SME.
How To Make A Request:
To make a GDPR request, please send an email to anne[at]westfloridarealestate.com or write us at the following address:
West Florida Real Estate, 3959 Van Dyke Road #253, Lutz FL 33558 United States
We will respond within thirty (30) days of receipt of your request.
Requests To Access Personal Data:
If we grant your request to access personal data, we will: (1) confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data; (2) provide you with a copy of any of your personal data that we possess; and (3) provide you with information about how we process such data (e.g. purposes, categories, recipients, etc.).
Requests To Delete Data:
If you request that we delete your personal data that we possess, we will do so unless: (1) the data is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression; (2) we have a legal obligation to keep the data; (3) we must keep the data for reasons of public interest; or (4) the data has been processed so that it is anonymized.
Any personal data we processed unlawfully will be deleted. If you were a minor when we collected the personal data, we will delete the data upon request.
If we believe any third parties have acquired your personal data through us, we will take reasonable steps to inform them that you have requested erasure of such data.
Objections To Processing Of Personal Data:
If your request is an objection to the processing of your personal data for directing marketing purposes, we will cease using your data for such purposes.
As a general rule, we will comply with objections to processing personal data except: (1) where it is not technically or commercially feasible to do so; or (2) we have a legal obligation that overrides your individual rights and freedoms.
Portability Requests:
If we collected personal data from you because of a contract between us or based on your consent, and we processed that data by automated means (in structured machine-readable format), you can request that data be transmitted by us to another company or organization.
We will provide such data to the recipient third party in a commonly used open format electronic file (e.g. CSV, JSON, XML, etc.).
Denied Requests:
If we reject your request, we will provide you with the reason(s) for doing so. You may then choose to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority and request a judicial remedy to the extent such a request is not in conflict with the laws of laws of Florida and United States or the arbitration provisions of our website’s Terms and Conditions of Use).
Processing Fees:
As a general rule, there is no fee for processing your GDPR request. However, we reserve the right to refuse your request or charge a reasonable fee for processing it if the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. For example, it would be excessive to make a repetitive second request to access your personal data one month after we provided you with the data from a prior request.
Automated Processing:
We may make decisions through automated processing (e.g. algorithms) of personal data that are legally binding or significantly affect you.
Any such automated decision-making is done per your express consent or because it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest under applicable law.
Such an automated decision may be made based on relevant law. However, if the decision is made for other reasons, we will inform you of the process’ logic and potential consequences of the decision. To the extent that the GDPR does not conflict with the laws of Florida and United States or the arbitration provisions found within our website’s Terms and Conditions of Use, you may also have a right to obtain human intervention and contest the automated decision.