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We at the Mason City Board of REALTORS® (hereafter referred to as “MCBOR”) and the Mason City Multiple Listing Service (hereafter referred to as “MCMLS”) are committed to the protection and security of the information provided by the visitors to masoncitymls.com. Your privacy and trust are important to us and we want to honor that trust.
Our site was created to provide our visitors with information about Mason City REALTOR® members, affiliates and service providers together with information about properties listed for sale in Mason City & North Central Iowa. Most importantly, one of our missions with this site is to connect you, the homeselling, homebuying public with our REALTOR® members.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT:
Generally speaking, our Web site is informational and our visitors can browse anonymously. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from the visitors to this site unless they register to save their searches. If a visitor opts to save their favorite listings, we collect your email address so that we can provide you the service. Disclosure of your email address, and any other volunteered information, to a listing organization is entirely optional and is a service available for visitors who wish to receive information from a listing firm.
We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our site. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer's "IP address". This "address" does not contain any personally identifiable information.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION:
We will not sell, rent, or exchange any data collected through the masoncitymls.com Web site by way of your favorites, except as provided in this Privacy Policy. If you have chosen to receive information on properties from our web site, you are giving permission for the listing agent to contact you about your real estate needs. If you wish not to be contacted after registering to save your favorites, you must personally contact that listing agent or office and convey that information to them.
MCBOR and/or MCMLS may disclose, transfer, sell or assign information obtained through this Web site, or otherwise in its possession, to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation of MCBOR and/or MCMLS. MCBOR and/or MCMLS may also make information available to law enforcement personnel and agencies when requested to do so or as required by law.
YOU HAVE CHOICES:
MCBOR and MCMLS offer you the opportunity to correct, update and amend information at any time. Simply access your Account Settings page and change or update the information there. If you have any concerns, please feel free to notify us by e-mail or phone and we will make every effort to correct, update or amend your information. You may contact us by e-mail at privacy@masoncitymls.com and we will help you in any way possible.
DATA SECURITY:
We also want you to know that we take the security of your information very seriously. We use industry accepted tools and procedures that protect the files in our data system. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.
BUSINESS & PRIVACY ISSUES WITH LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
Neither MCBOR nor MCMLS are responsible for the availability of or the business and privacy practices of other Web sites which are linked or connected to masoncitymls.com. We provide these links to our visitors for information and service. We do not take responsibility for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available through any other Web site nor for their data collection practices. We refer you to their Privacy Statements and Policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.
PRIVACY STATEMENT CHANGES:
MCBOR and MCMLS reserve the right to change or amend its Privacy Policy to address new issues of privacy and information security and to reflect changes to our Web site or business practices. Any new changes and/or amendments will be noted on our Home Page and will always be posted in this section of the MCBOR Web site.
QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Web site, you can send an e-mail to: privacy@masoncitymls.com.
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