JAN 1 2007 At Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties, we are committed to helping protect your privacy while you use our website to view our Real Estate related services on www.weichertrp.com and in all contractual Real Estate Agency Agreements under which we are bound. We value the trust you have placed in us . . . and we intend to continue to earn your trust each day. That's why we welcome this opportunity to describe our privacy policies and the steps we take to protect your customer/client information. In this disclosure, you'll find information about our privacy policies and procedures. We want you to make an educated choice, so please read this disclosure carefully to understand the options available to you. Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties offers a wide variety of Real Estate Services products, web Sites and services. Many of these have their own privacy statements that describe the specific data collection and use practices of the particular product, or service. When you use a hyperlink to visit the web site of another person or entity, you leave our web site. The content, accuracy, and opinions expressed and other links provided by these resources are not investigated, verified, monitored or endorsed by us. You may be asked to provide personally identifying information by operators of other web sites you visit. These web site operators may also collect information through the use of cookies. Information collected by other web site operators may be used by them in accordance with the web site operator's policies and procedures. If you have any questions about a web site operator's use of your personal information, you should review that web site operator's privacy policies and/or ask the web site operator directly. We are not responsible for a web site operator's use of any information the web site operator obtains about you. Copyright Notice Relating to Web linking If you are a copyright owner, or its agent or licensee, and you have reason to believe that any of the information on one of the web sites you reach through a hyperlink on our site contains material which infringes your copyright, you may notify us pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by sending a written notice via email to:_sharrower@weichertrp.com. The notice must be signed by a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the allegedly infringed material, and must contain: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (b) identification of the hyperlink to the allegedly infringed material and information sufficient to permit us to locate the link to the infringing material; (c) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or licensee, or is otherwise permissible by law; and (d) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner, agent or licensee. Anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing in such a notice will be liable for any damages and any associated costs incurred by us, any alleged infringer, or any copyright owner or its authorized agent of licensee. Request for Information We collect information that your provide to us on our web site.In general, while on www.weichertrp.com and sub domain sites, we will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. For example, personal information is generally requested when you request: school information, more information on a property that you are interested in, when you email us requesting response to a general question, when you request an online market evaluation of your home and when you sign up for automatic email updates on listings. The amount of personal information you are required to supply will generally be limited to that which is necessary to supply the service or answer the request that you have made. . We may also collect information about your from other entities in our corporate family or other third parties who work with us to provide services to you. Children’s Information We do not knowingly collect or retain personally identifiable information about children under thirteen years old, and we comply with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Use of Your Personal Information The personal information we collect from you will be used by Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates to provide the service, answer the request that you have made, or to make you aware of helpful Real Estate related services that we may provide. This may include using the personal information for the following purposes: - To provide you with important information about one of our Real Estate Related product or service
- To make a site or service easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the site or service to your particular interests or preferences.
- To improve the product or service and to provide excellent customer service to users.
Except as described below, the www.weichertrp.com web site does not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent. Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular “Real Estate” related offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) may or may not be transferred to the third party. Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties may disclose personal information if allowed to or required to do so by law. Such disclosures may be made to: (a) comply with legal process served on Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties employees, independent contractors, affiliates, or members of the public. Personal information collected by Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties may be stored and processed in the United States. Security of Your Personal Information Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties is committed to helping protect the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures designed to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers located in controlled facilities. Use of Cookies or Web Beacons on Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties Sites may from time to time use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you or your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a property search so that homes matching your criteria may be sent to you, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as desired price range or area of interest. While some cookies contain personal information, others allow you to customize a site while remaining anonymous. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the sites or services you visit. Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties family of web sites may also contain electronic images known as "Web beacons"-sometimes called single-pixel gifs-that allow Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information. They are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Web site usage. Some of the pages in the Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties family of sites may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners, to help us determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns. Contact Information...At Weichert, Realtors® - Regional Properties, we're working hard to help protect your privacy, while delivering products that bring you the speed, power and convenience you desire, in your on and off-line search and usage of Real Estate services. If you have questions about these policies or about any information we have about you, please contact us by e-mail sharrower@weichertrp.com, by telephone at, 1-203-795-2700, or by postal mail: S. Harrower, General Manager West Haven Regional, Inc
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Orange, CT 06477 This privacy statement is merely a summary of select aspects of policies and procedures and does not constitute a contract. We reserve the right to revise the policies and procedures described in this privacy notice from time to time. | 
