Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. values you as a customer and strives to address any privacy concerns that you may have. Below is our privacy policy for handling the information you share with us online.
When you visit our consumer applications, including the Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. web site (the “Site”), you may share information about yourself by using our consumer applications. This identification information typically includes your name, electronic mail address, and telephone number. You are not required to provide this information in order to use the Site. If you would like for a broker member of our real estate brokerage network to be permitted to share with you additional non-public information about properties listed for sale or lease that would otherwise not be available to you, you may be required to register on the Site.
By supplying your name, electronic mail address, and telephone number, you create a non- binding default consumer-broker relationship with Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. that permits us to provide you with non-public information about real properties for sale or lease for your personal and non-commercial use. You may elect to establish searches and email alerts to notify you when new or updated property listings matching your criteria become available.
As is a common practice on many consumer web sites, the Site may collect data involving your usage through the use of small files placed on your computer by certain consumer applications, commonly known as “cookies,” web server logs, and other web tools. The Site may also collect data through other tracking services including, but not limited to, Google Analytics. These technologies allow us to customize your experience as well as track your use of the Site in order to improve your experience. The tracking data the Site may collect may include, but is not limited to, the date, time and location of your visit, the duration of your visit to the Site, the pages viewed, consumer applications accessed, search queries, and basic information about your computer, such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, domain name, browser type, and the name of your internet service provider. By continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies and other data collecting tools.
Web browsers typically automatically accept cookies, but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. Consult your browser’s privacy settings for instructions on doing so. If you choose to delete cookies, some settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and subsequently may need to be recreated. To avoid tracking of your browsing, you may deactivate cookies, but doing so may affect your online experience on the Site.
Third-party sites: When visiting the Site’s consumer applications, you may be directed to third party consumer applications that are beyond the control of Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. Furthermore, when you are visiting our consumer applications, other companies, such as third- party advertisers and sponsors, may be gathering information about you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection of information by those other companies and consumer applications. Although we encourage third parties to provide their own privacy policies, we are not responsible for their activities, including, but not limited to, the manner in which they collect and protect your collected information.
Please note that Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. will retain the information we collect from you for as long as needed to provide the services you request and to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Whenever you are online or on our applications, you run the risk that the information you provide may be obtained by unauthorized persons or entities. We implement and maintain commercially reasonable security procedures and practices to safeguard your privacy, but cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you provide to us. Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. is not responsible or liable for the actions of third parties. By using our consumer applications and applications, you agree to our Terms of Use and accept risks inherit with sharing information online.
Anti-Fraud Disclosure
Electronic communications, including, but not limited to, email, text messages, and those accessed through social media platforms, are neither secure, nor confidential. While Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. has adopted policies and procedures to aid in fraud avoidance and prevention, security protections can be bypassed by unauthorized parties. A Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. broker or agent will never send you any electronic communication with instructions to transfer funds or to provide nonpublic personal information, such as credit card or debit numbers, bank account and/or routing numbers, or other personal financial information.
DO NOT TRANSMIT NONPUBLIC PERSONAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION, SUCH AS CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD NUMBERS OR BANK ACCOUNT OR ROUTING NUMBERS, BY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION THAT ATTEMPTS TO INDUCE FRAUDULENT WIRE TRANSFERS ARE COMMON AND MAY APPEAR TO COME FROM A TRUSTED SOURCE.
If you receive any electronic communication directing you to transfer funds or provide nonpublic personal and financial information, EVEN IF THAT ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION APPEARS TO BE FROM YOUR REAL ESTATE BROKER OR AGENT, do not respond and immediately contact your real estate agent by telephone or another means. DO NOT RESPOND TO THE CONTACT INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN THE COMMUNICATION YOU RECEIVED. Such requests, even if they may otherwise appear to be from your real estate agent or another person connected with your property transaction, are likely part of a scheme to defraud you by theft of funds or identity theft.
Updating Our Privacy Policy
Ward Kellner Properties, Inc. may, from time to time, change its Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any changes by posting our updated Privacy Policy on our consumer applications and displaying a new “Effective Date.”
Contacting Us
If you would like to send us a request as indicated above, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, contact us via the link(s) provide on the Site.
Effective Date:
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1, 2019.