PRIVACY
POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This
site is owned and operated by Cape Cod Village Realty. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At
Because
we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should
fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the
capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what
information we gather and how we use it.
Cape
Cod Village Realty gathers two types of information about users:
Optional
Voluntary Information
We
offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1.
Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We
offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Cape Cod Village Realty gathers
the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every
newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
2.
Message boards/forums policy
Users
of the site's Message Boards and Forums (Blogs) must register
separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post
messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration
the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
3.
"E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our
site users, in the future, can choose to electronically forward a link, page,
or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend".
The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient.
This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not
used for any other purpose.
4.
Polling
We
may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions
with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to
any particular user. Cape Cod Village Realty may use a system to
"tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
5.
Surveys
Cape
Cod Village Realty may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our
content to our audience. We never share any of this information about specific
individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent
with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we
will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone
under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage
tracking
Cape
Cod Village Realty tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
Cape Cod Village Realty does break down overall usage statistics according to a
user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information
from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
Cape
Cod Village Realty_ sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users
enter to Search for our web site, but this tracking is never associated with
individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We
may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cape Cod Village
Realty may use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You
can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your
browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning
message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this
site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards,
forums, polling and surveys.
USE
OF INFORMATION
Cape
Cod Village Realty uses any information voluntarily given by our users to
enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future
content based on the interests of our users.
As
stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to
send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on
a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out
special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in
something we are doing. Cape Cod Village Realty never shares newsletter mailing
lists with any third parties.
When
we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like
and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us
continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in
Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we
don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Cape
Cod Village Realty creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic
patterns. This allows us to advertise more effectively. We will not disclose
any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law
or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
SHARING
OF THE INFORMATION
Cape
Cod Village Realty uses the above-described information to tailor our content
to suit your needs. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not
share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply
with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SECURITY
Cape
Cod Village Realty operates secure data networks protected by industry standard
firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers and clients.
OPT-OUT
POLICY
We
give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
YOUR CONSENT
By
using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Cape
Cod Village Realty. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.