ION Real Estate has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you (the customer) online.
1. Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
Your use of the ION Real Estate site and/or your registration for ION Real Estate products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the ION Real Estate site.
2. Accountability
ION Real Estate collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies you) including but not limited to your name, email address, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses). ION Real Estate has taken responsibility for your personal information to ensure compliance with the principles in this Privacy Policy.
3. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
ION Real Estate collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:
To understand customer needs regarding ION Real Estate’s services
To develop and provide our web site and our products and services for our customers
To fulfill your requests for products, services or information
To communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from ION Real Estate, its affiliates and third parties
To allow customers to access limited-entry areas of ION Real Estate’s site
To personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from ION Real Estate and third parties
To protect the services, products or rights of ION Real Estate, including but not limited to the security or integrity of the ION Real Estate site
To identify and resolve technical problems concerning ION Real Estate’s site, products and services
ION Real Estate also uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
4. Limiting the Collection of Personal Information
ION Real Estate limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. ION Real Estate does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
When you visit the ION Real Estate web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the ION Real Estate site previously. ION Real Estate uses cookies to allow ION Real Estate to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that ION Real Estate does not provide redundant information to you, and, if you are an ION Real Estate affiliate, to track ION Real Estate sales made to customers referred by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the ION Real Estate web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalized visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the ION Real Estate site.
5. Disclosure, Processing and Retention
ION Real Estate does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else.
In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that ION Real Estate or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
6. Security Safeguards
ION Real Estate will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.