Updated August 6, 2019
Carter Group Real Estate (“Carter Group”, “we”, “our” or “us”) would like to thank you for visiting our website www.cartergroupland.com (“Site”). We recognize the importance of protecting the personal information you provide us at our Site.
This page is used to inform Site visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information.
If you choose to use our Site, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing information and improving the Site. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
Modifications
We may update our Privacy Policy at any time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page with an updated date. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. If you access or use the Site after the Privacy Policy have been modified, your continued access and use will constitute acceptance of all modifications.
Information Collection
Carter Group collects the following types of information, including but not limited to:
- Contact information you provide (for example, your name, email address, phone number and address);
- Tracking information used to analyze and categorize Site visits (for example, your computer’s Internet Protocol “IP” address, browser version, time spent on pages, and other such data);
- Information you volunteer via your profile (for example, property type, geographic location(s) of interest, size and price);
Information Use
Carter Group uses these types of information in order to:
- Improve, develop, and customize the content and layout of our Site;
- For the purpose of research, product development or advertising;
- Respond to your emails, submissions, comments, requests or complaints;
- Notify you of updates to our Site;
- Notify you of relevant products and services;
- Notify you of reduced prices or other specials;
- Create specialty directories about which you will be made aware;
- Track usage of our Site;
- To notify contest winners.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Site, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is considered Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser version, pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amounts of data that are commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our Site uses these cookies to collect information and to provide you with the information you request. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
“Email a Friend” Use
You may NOT use this email service that is offered by our Site to send spam (i.e. unsolicited commercial email) or otherwise send content that would violate our Terms of Service. We may monitor, track or save the use of this feature, but will be under no obligation to monitor, track or save these email messages sent from this service. If you send an email using the Email a Friend service to an email address that is not registered in our system, we do not use that email address for any purpose other than to send your email, and for us to automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and for tracking the performance of our referral program. We also do not rent or sell these email addresses of un-registered users.
Sharing Personal Information
We may share your personal information with our agents or third-party venders when you request us to do so or otherwise give us consent. We only do so due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate your request (for example, to allow our agent to contact you about a property you have requested more information about);
- To provide a service on our behalf (for example, to send email newsletters to subscribed users);
- To perform service-related services (for example, marketing consultants or hosting services); or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Site is used (for example, Google analytics).
- Data will not be shared with third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.
We want to inform our Site users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose. We are not responsible for the actions of such agents or service providers, nor are we responsible for any additional information you provide directly to these agents or service providers or to other third parties, and we encourage you to become familiar with their practices before disclosing information directly to them.
We may also share personal information in any manner with any company that owns, is owned by or which is under common ownership with us ("Affiliates"), who may use such information in the same way that we do (as described above). Note that nothing in this Policy restricts the sharing of aggregate information, which may be shared with third-parties without your consent.
In addition, we may disclose personal information in the good faith belief that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so, or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or with legal process or authorities, respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Carter Group, our users, our employees or the public, including without limitation to protect Carter Group or our users from fraudulent, abusive, inappropriate or unlawful use of our Site or its Services. Information about our users, including personal information, may also be disclosed or transferred as part of, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition or in any other situation where personal information may be transferred as one of the business assets of Carter Group.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, and it will be treated with the utmost regard and respect. We are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting your personal information, such as secure socket layer technology (SSL). We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect your personal information both when it is submitted to us and once it is stored. But please remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, thus we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Personal Information Changes (Update Profile)
If you have the need to update your profile to make changes or corrections you can do so by signing in and clicking on your name in the upper right hand corner to access your profile information. If at any time you have questions or concerns about your personal information, contact us at info@cartergroupland.com.
Notification Procedures
Carter Group may provide notifications, whether they are for marketing purposes, other business related purposes or required by law, to you via email, written or hard copy notice (including via fax), or through posting of such notice on our Site. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notifications as described earlier.
Email Notification
Carter Group is not responsible for any automatic filtering you or your network provider may apply to email notifications we send to the email address you provide us. We recommend that you add info@cartergroupland.com and info@cartergrouprealestate.com to your email address book to help ensure you receive email notifications from us.
Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for and does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to take necessary actions.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us or email us at info@cartergroupland.com.
Third Party Service Providers' Privacy Policies
- Google Analytics - https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Google Maps - https://policies.google.com/privacy
- MailChimp & Mandrill - https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
