Privacy Policy
We recognize the importance of protecting the personal information you provide at Web sites owned or controlled by JKSNEWS. We maintain the following privacy policy:
1. JKSNEWS gathers the following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill your requests, and maintain our membership records:
- Contact information you provide (for example, your personal and business addresses, phone and fax numbers, firm affiliations and titles).
- Tracking information which our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our sites or communicate with us by email (for example, your domain name, your email address, and what pages you visit).
- Information you volunteer, via applications or surveys (for example, education, designations, specialties, affiliations with other real estate organizations and general demographic data).
2. JKSNEWS uses this information to:
- Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites.
- Notify you of updates to our sites.
- Notify you of upcoming scholarships and Real Estate Update.
- Track usage of our sites.
3. Email contact information. JKSNEWS does not share, sell, or trade email addresses, except that state and local association staff and leadership email addresses may be listed in the membership directories available on nar.realtor. JKSNEWS may use your email address to directly send you information and may provide you with online informational or marketing messages that have been approved by JKSNEWS together with other communications to which you have subscribed.
4. Other forms of contact information. Forms of contact information other than email address (for example, street address) may be listed in the membership directories available on nar.realtor. JKSNEWS will not share, sell or otherwise provide this contact information about you except for the following purposes:
- When required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the public.
- Some or all of the data collected during promotions or contests on our sites that are sponsored by third parties may be shared with the sponsor for the limited purpose of a one-time marketing follow-up by the sponsor. If information about you will be shared with a sponsor you will be notified prior to your participation in the promotion or contest and you can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest.
5. JKSNEWS follows generally accepted standards to protect the information it collects and makes available via its Web sites. NAR tests their security procedures regularly and modifies them as new technologies become feasible.
6. Our Web sites contain advertising placed by advertising networks pursuant to agreements between JKSNEWS and the advertising network. JKSNEWS does not control these advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our site, or their information collection practices, and JKSNEWS will not be responsible for the activities of these third parties. The advertising network uses cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you click on the banner ads appearing on our sites. This information is collected by the advertising network for purposes of measuring and reporting on the advertising to advertisers and JKSNEWS. The advertising network may also aggregate the information for certain other statistical and reporting purposes.
7. Do-Not-Track Disclosure: Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that allows you to communicate to websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Our system does not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers at this time.