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Privacy
Policy
Your Privacy is taken
serious by Technology Mix, Inc. This Privacy Policy
applies to the use of the Sites (as defined below) by
consumers and real estate professionals (real estate
professionals including, without limitation, REALTORS ®,
lenders and other non-consumer service professionals,
shall be referred to as “Professionals”; Professionals
and consumers shall be individually and collectively
referred to as “you”) who are customers of Technology
Mix, Inc. and its subsidiaries, affiliates and marketing
allies (collectively, "Technology Mix",
"we", "us" and "our"). We
use the Sites to provide you with information, resources,
tools, products and services specific to the real estate
industry and related markets, and to provide you with
information about us and our advertisers, and our
respective products and services. We use information that
we collect from you to improve your experience in using
the Sites and our various products and services, to aid in
communications among Technology Mix, our advertisers and
you, and to notify you of products, services and
information that we think may be of interest to you.
Please read on for more details concerning our privacy
policy. We review this Privacy Policy on an annual basis
and we welcome any suggestions you might have about
additional ideas regarding our privacy policy at
info@technologymix.com.
The Technology Mix family
of sites (individually and collectively, the “Site(s)”),
including but not limited to TechnologyMix.com,
RealtyBrokerOffice.com, RBOAgent.com, RBOResidential.com,
RBOCommercial.com, RBORental.com, and RBOIndustrial.com are committed to your privacy and
security and want to provide you with the best possible
online experience. To that end, we want you to understand
what kinds of information we gather from you, how this
information is used and safeguarded, and how you can
control its use.
To make this Privacy
Policy easy to understand, we have built it around five
simple privacy principles.
- Notice - You have a
right to know what data is collected by Technology Mix
at what part of the Sites and how in general it will
be used.
- Choice - You have a
right to choose (or choose not to) share information
with us and our marketing allies, where it is
reasonable to do so.
- Non-Use - You have a
right to know how to contact us to ask that we no
longer use your information to market to you, and to
have us reasonably comply with your request.
- Security - You have a
right to know what security measures we have
implemented in order to protect your personally
identifiable information.
Information You Give
Us: The kinds of information we collect from you will
vary, depending on how you use the Sites and what
information you may choose to provide through your
correspondence with us (whether through email or
otherwise). It's possible to browse most sections of the
Sites without submitting any personally identifiable
information (“Personal Information”) at all. However,
if you choose to take advantage of some of our products
and/or services, or to access certain of our tools or Site
functionality, you may be asked to provide Personal
Information such as a user name and password, your full
name, email address, phone number, address, and for certain
e-commerce transactions your credit card information.
Certain Professionals may also be requested to provide
your license or MLS ID#. You can choose not to provide us with certain
Personal Information, but then you may not be able to
fully take advantage of certain features of our Sites and
we may not be able to provide you with certain requested
information, products and/or services.
Automatic Collection
of Information: Like many Web sites on the Internet,
we automatically track certain information about you as
you visit and use our Sites to help us to better
understand how the Sites are being used and how we can
enhance your overall experience on each Site and improve
the information, Site functionality, products and services
that we (and our advertisers and partners) provide to you.
This information may include, for example, your
computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the
URLs and Site pages you’ve visited, the number of times
you visit each Site page, what downloads and/or search
queries you have made, how long you spent on particular
sections of each Site and on each Site generally, and your
browser type. This automatically gathered data includes
information provided through the use of
"cookies" (which is described in more detail
below).
As you visit the Sites,
be aware that third parties may at times be able to gather
information from and about you. For example, third party
advertiser servers, companies that place advertisements on
the Sites, our partners and affiliates, and other
companies offering products or services through one or
more of the Sites may use cookies to collect, store and
use information about you and may collect information that
you submit. Technology Mix affiliates, partners, service
providers and other entities that have links on one or
more of the Sites may also collect information about you
when you visit their Web sites or otherwise communicate
with them. Although we encourage such third parties to
adopt and follow their own consumer privacy policies, we
are not responsible for their collection and use of user
information. The information practices of those Web sites
linked to one or more of the Sites are not covered by this
Privacy Policy. You should refer to the privacy policies
and statements of other Web sites or contact the
respective Webmasters of those Web sites to obtain
information regarding their information collection, use
and disclosure policies.
The use of your
information depends on the context in which it is
collected. Therefore, pay special attention to the
categories below that relate to the features of the Sites
that you wish to utilize. We may share the Personal
Information we collect from you only with your consent or
under the following circumstances:
- Technology Mix
affiliates and partners. We work closely with our
affiliates with whom we may share Personal
Information. In addition, we may share Personal
Information with our partners and service providers.
- Service Providers.
We may use other companies and individuals to perform
supporting functions for the various tools,
functionality, products and services offered through
our Site on our behalf. These service providers will
not be permitted to use the information collected from
you for any other purpose other than performing the
support functions for Technology Mix and/or offering
additional services, promotions or other offers to
you. For example, from time to time, we may use a
third-party advertising company to serve ads when you
visit our Web site. Such company may use certain
information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visit to
this Web site in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services that may be of interest to you. In
the course of serving advertisements to this site, our
third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique
“cookie” on your browser.
- Protection of
rights. We will release Personal Information if we
believe that such action is appropriate to: (1) comply
with legal process, (2) enforce the Terms of Use
Agreement for the applicable Site, or (3) identify,
contact or bring legal action against persons or
entities who may be causing injury to us or a third
party, or to otherwise protect the rights, property or
personal safety of Technology Mix, its employees,
other Site users or others.
- Asset transfers.
We continue to develop our business and in doing so
might choose to buy other businesses or assets.
Personal Information is generally one of the
transferred assets acquired in such purchases. Also,
if we should choose to sell some or all of our assets,
Personal Information, including the information
collected from you through the Sites, could be
included in the transferred assets. However, should
any sale of an asset include your Personal Information
we will notify you of the event and give you an
opportunity to respond.
- Additional
Functionality. We may link information collected
from you through various means, including information
collected automatically and through the use of cookies
and purchase information, or other Personal
Information you provide to help us (or our service
providers and listing providers, partners or
affiliates) offer content (including, without
limitation, listing recommendations), advertisements,
products and services that we believe will be of
interest to you, pre-populate certain data-fields (to
assist in your registration or subsequent use of the
tools and/or services available on the Sites), and
share such information among the Sites. In addition,
we may share this information, in aggregate form, with
our current and potential advertisers and service
providers so they can present advertisements more
effectively.
- Requested
Information Exchange. If you have indicated that
you want to be contacted by third parties, we may use
the Personal Information we collect to select which
names to provide to a particular third party in order
to present you with products and services that we
believe will be of interest to you, but we will not
disclose this type of information, other than your
contact information (information that provides a means
of contacting you), to any such third party.
- Anonymous Data.
In all other circumstances, Technology Mix may use
certain anonymous data automatically gathered by our
servers so that we can understand how to make the
Sites more convenient and useful to our audience. This
information may also be shared among the Sites and
used for similar purposes. In addition, we may share
this information, in aggregate form, with our current
and potential advertisers, service providers and
listing providers, partners, affiliates and/or
marketing allies so they can try to present
advertisements and content more effectively. We may
also use aggregate information to share information
with the public regarding products, services, content
or tools that may of interest to them.
Information
from Cookies: Cookies are small files that we send
to and store on your computer so that we can recognize it
as a unique machine the next time you visit the Sites. Our
cookies are used for three purposes: (1) to keep track of
your information for your own convenience; (2) to help us
optimize your online experience by altering our content
depending on your particular needs or browsing patterns,
and to provide you with advertisements, products and
services that we believe will be of interest to you; and
(3) to help us understand the size of our audience and
their traffic patterns within the Sites. You are always
free to decline any cookies we use if your browser
permits. Some of our advertisers and third-party service
providers may also utilize their own cookies. Also,
companies offering products or services through a Technology Mix
Web site may use their own cookies.
Registration
Information: The Personal Information you provide
when you become a registered user or customer of one of
the Sites is used primarily to help us customize your
online experience, increase the convenience of accessing
new tools, products and services, and, if applicable,
provide the products and/or services you purchase. This
Personal Information may also be shared among the Sites to
make your use of the Sites more convenient by, for
example, limiting the number of times you have to register
with us. The data you give us
about your personal preferences and demographics (e.g.,
your age, ZIP code, occupation or the like) may be used to
help us offer content, advertisements, products, and
services that we believe will be of interest to you. In
addition, we may share this information, in aggregate
form, with our current and potential advertisers so that
they can present advertisements more effectively.
- Unless you specify
that you'd prefer not to hear from us, we may also use
the email address you provide at the time of
registration to contact you for promotional or other
purposes. You may have these communications terminated
at any time by opting out. If you indicate that you're
interested in hearing from other companies, we may
also share your contact information with such
companies for that purpose. We may have to contact you
from time to time to inform you of changes to the Site(s), a change in this Privacy Policy or for other
administrative purposes. These administrative emails
will not contain any advertisements.
Solicited
Information: You may occasionally see contests,
surveys and other features of the Sites that ask you to
provide us with Personal Information. When you choose to
respond to these requests, the Personal Information you
offer may be used for several purposes. These include the
uses set out in the registration section above. They also
include providing information to third parties as
necessary for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any
contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion.
Children’s
Privacy: Our Sites are general audience Web sites
targeted to the real estate markets
and neither our Sites (nor any portion thereof) are
directed to children under the age of 13. We do not
collect Personal Information from any person we actually
know is a child under the age of 13. If we become aware
that Personal Information regarding an individual under
the age of 13 has been stored, we will promptly delete it
from our records.
User-Initiated
Communication: From time to time, portions of the
Sites may enable you to send email to us or to third
parties and to participate in public bulletin boards and
discussion groups (hosted by us or one or more of our
service providers). All postings to public bulletin boards
and discussion groups become our property. Whenever you
choose to initiate these kinds of communication with us,
or anyone else, you may expect to be contacted in return.
Also, remember that our bulletin boards and discussion
groups are open to the public, and therefore, your
postings can be seen by anyone and are not protected by us
or any other entity. Please use your own discretion when
deciding what to post publicly and whom to contact. We
reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit or
delete inappropriate postings from our bulletin boards and
discussion groups; provided, however, the reservation of
this right shall not, under any circumstances, obligate us
to conduct such editing or deletions.
Referrals:
If you participate in any referral service we may offer:
- Consumers: we
will use the information you submit to determine which
of our participating professional(s) may be able to
serve your needs. We may then forward your name,
contact information and other responses contained on
our sign-up form to the selected professional(s), who
may then contact you using that information.
- Professionals:
you may receive information from consumers seeking
your products or services. This data may include,
without limitation, the full name and other contact
information of consumers as well as other responses.
As protecting consumer privacy is important, we
require that you treat data received from Technology Mix
consumers as if it was still on the Sites and in
accord with this Privacy Policy. You may only use the
information sent to you for the purposes of providing
products and/or services to the consumer. We require
that you otherwise not share, use or transmit this
information to or with any third party without the
consent of the consumer.
Automatically
Gathered Data: The information gathered
automatically by our system – such as your computer's IP
address, the kind of browser you're using, and a record of
your navigation (including, without limitation, your
search queries) through our site – may be used by Technology Mix
so we can understand how to make our Sites convenient and
useful to our audience, and to provide additional
functionality (i.e., additional content and
recommendations to you). This information may also be
shared among the Sites and our partners, affiliates,
service providers and listing providers, to be used for
similar purposes. In addition, we may share this
information, in aggregate form, with our current and
potential marketing allies and advertisers so they can
know how to present their advertisements more effectively.
When such data is aggregated, all Personal Information is
eliminated.
Reading this Privacy
Policy should help you understand how any information you
share with us might be used. If you feel concerned about
any of these uses, you might elect not to participate in
certain services, features or products that we offer. We
will not collect Personal Information about you without
your knowledge, so the decision whether or not to share
this information is completely up to you.
You also have the ability
to terminate email correspondence (including, for
Professionals, newsletter correspondence) from us at any
time. All of our email correspondence contains an
“Unsubscribe” link at the conclusion of the message.
To opt-out, simply click the link, or, in the case of text
messages, send an email to the “Unsubscribe” URL
listed in the email, and you will be opted-out of future
messages from that particular email service. To opt-out or
request that we not use your Personal Information to
market information to you, please email info@TechnologyMix.com
with your request.
If you feel concerned
about the cookies that are sent between our computers and
yours, you may, through your Web browser, either choose to
reject them automatically, or have your computer prompt
you before accepting them. Generally, this is done by
selecting the appropriate cookies setting on your Web
browser (usually found in "Internet Options" or
"Preferences"). Please note, however, that some
of our features and services depend on the use of cookies.
Therefore, you will be unable to take advantage of those
features and services if you choose not to accept certain
cookies.
Whenever Personal
Information about you is stored on our computers, that
information is password-protected from unauthorized access
or use. In addition, this information is kept on servers
that are located behind a firewall.
Since your financial
information and certain other Personal Information (i.e.,
your social security number) is especially sensitive, we
take special care to keep it secure. We will only transmit
or ask for this information over secure Internet
connections, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption,
the currently accepted standard for online security, and
security keys.
Of course, we appreciate
your help in safeguarding the integrity of your own and
others' privacy. We hope you'll use common sense whenever
you disclose Personal Information over the Internet. Just
as importantly, we encourage you to let us know
immediately if you suspect that the information you share
with us is being used in any way contrary to this Privacy
Policy. Finally, unfortunately no data transmission over
the Internet or the storage of information on servers can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure and while we strive to
protect your personal information (as described herein),
we cannot guarantee or warrant its complete security. To
contact us, please send an email to:
info@TechnologyMix.com.
This Privacy Policy only
applies to the Sites. The Sites contain links to sites
operated and maintained by third parties over which we
have absolutely no control. Please be aware that these
sites may collect information about you, and operate
according to their own privacy practices that may differ
from this Privacy Policy. Remember that once you're
outside the Sites, any information you submit is outside
of our control. Certain expressly identified portions of
this Privacy Policy apply only to consumers or
Professionals.
This Privacy Policy is
effective as of the date first written above and may be
updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole
discretion. Accordingly, we encourage you to
periodically review this Privacy Policy and the Sites in
order to keep apprised of our current privacy practices.
If you do not agree to any provision of this Privacy
Policy, or any update or modification thereto, please do
not use the Sites.
If you have concerns
about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices in
general, contact us at:
Privacy Administrator
Legal Department
Technology Mix, Inc.
713 W. Duarte Rd., #G 161
Arcadia, CA 91007
Email: info@technologymix.com
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