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Overview
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under
the domain and sub-domains of http://www.lasvegasrealestatecentral.com
(LVREC) By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or
access our Site.
This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part of the normal operation
of our services; we collect from you and what may happen to that information.
Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because
we believe you should know as much as possible about LVREC's practices so that
you can make informed decisions.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you
expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of the LVREC User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is
effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is
otherwise effective on August, 2003 for all users. The previous amendment to
this Privacy Policy was effective for all users on April 19th, 2002.
Table of Contents
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An Important Note About Children
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Information We Collect
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Our Use of Your Information
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Our Disclosure of Your Information
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Advertisers
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LVREC Community
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External Service Providers
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Internal Service Providers for Our Operations
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Other Corporate Entities
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Legal Requests
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Your Use of Other Users' Information
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Use of Email Tools
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Control of Your Password
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Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
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Other Information Collectors
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Security
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Privacy Tools
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Notice
1. A Special Note About Children.
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site
unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to
us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction
with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a
safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide
services and features that most likely meet your real estate needs, and to
customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect
personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this
purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing
any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal
information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to use our services, we
may require you to provide contact and identity information, property
information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout
the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which
fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by
choosing not to use a particular service or feature.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site.
We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our
real estate community. This information may include the URL that you just came
from (whether this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to
(whether this URL is on the Site or not), your computer browser information,
and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on
certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow, measure portal
effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. "Cookies" are small files placed
on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". We also use
cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session.
Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your
interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are
automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that
case you may not be able to use certain features on Las Vegas Real Estate
Central and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during
a session.
If you choose to post messages in our Forum, chat rooms or other message areas
or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide
to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide
customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use
your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other
information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to:
resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe real estate
transactions; measure consumer interest in Las Vegas County properties
available, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us
against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement;
and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. At times, we may
look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in
particular we may examine your personal information to identify users using
multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare and review your personal
information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our
marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content
and product offerings, and customize the Site's content, layout, and services.
These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while
using the Site.
You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver
information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests,
administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your
use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you
expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive
these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain
communications on the notification preferences page. You may make
changes to your notification preferences at any time.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your
private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed
in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example
(without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that
they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard
practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not
expect, that your personal information or private communications will always
remain private.
5. Your Use of Other Users' Information.
By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other
users' personal information that you obtain through the Site or through any
LVREC-related communication or Noah Gamer & Associates-facilitated
transaction, LVREC hereby grants to you a license to use such information only
for: (a) LVREC-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial
messages, (b) using services offered through LVREC (e.g. escrow, property
search, request for information and fraud complaints), and (c) any other
purpose that a user expressly agrees to after you tell them the purpose you
would like to use it for. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to
remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information
you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as
defined in this Section, can you disclose personal information about another
user to any third party without our consent and the consent of that user. You
agree that other users may use your personal information to communicate with
you in accordance with this Section. Note that law enforcement personnel, VeRO
program participants, and other rights holders are given different rights with
respect to information they access.
LVREC and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the
foregoing, you are not licensed to add an LVREC user without their express
consent. To report LVREC related spam to LVREC.
6. Use of Email Tools.
You may not use the Email This Item to a Friend service or other email services
that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our
User Agreement.
If you send and email using the Email This Item to a Friend service to an email
address that is not registered in our community, we do not use that email
address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell
these email addresses.
7. Control of Your Password.
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password.
Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your LVREC password to any
third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your
personal information with third parties, you are responsible for all actions
taken with your account and therefore you should review that third party's
privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial
control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding
actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised
for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
8. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal
Information.
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the information you
submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new information
yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on your
request because it is very difficult to authenticate your account manually. You
can change your user Id, email address, contact information, financial
information, and user preferences by going the preferences and setup section in
My LVREC. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or
is inaccurate. Once posted, you may not be able to change or remove any public
postings made on the Site including our chat rooms or other message areas or
the feedback area.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account and personal information from
our active databases. To make this request, email
cancel@lasvegasrealestatecentral.com. Such information will be
deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity and
in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to
remove to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations,
enforce our User Agreement and comply with legal requirements as is permitted
by law. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personal information
will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.
However, such personal information will be deactivated from public and member
viewing and will only be available to select LVREC personal.
9. Other Information Collectors.
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document
only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Since
LVREC does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject
to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions
before you disclose your personal information to others.
10. Security.
Your information is stored on LVREC servers located in the United States. We use
procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information
against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect
your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. We
treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized
access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect
security" does not exist on the Internet.
11. Privacy Tools.
It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. We have created
easy-to-read summaries, privacy principles, a privacy chart and, are working on
privacy enhancing technology to help summarize our full privacy policy. If you
have questions about any part of this summary or if you would like more
detailed information, we encourage you to review our full privacy policy.
12. Notice.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amend terms on the
Site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are
initially posted on the Site.
Last updated: September 2003
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