Privacy Policy

Medina County Board of REALTORS® (MCBOR) protects the privacy and personal identity of all individuals who share personal information with us. When you apply for membership, contact us through a form, register for one of our events or give us personal information in any other way, we will not share it with any other company, individual, or entity. If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of Medina County Board of REALTORS® please contact us.

 

Who we are

The Medina County Board of REALTORS® is located at 2530 Medina Road, Ste. 100, Medina, Ohio.
Our website address is: https://www.medinarealtors.com.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

(a) MCBOR is the sole owner of the information collected on the Site. MCBOR only has access to and collects information that you voluntarily give us.

(b) The kind of information that MCBOR collects from you will vary, depending on how you use the Site. Sometimes MCBOR will collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). For example, if you choose to fill out one of our online forms, you may be asked to provide information such as a user name and password, your real name, e-mail address, phone number, and address.

(c) In addition to the Personal Information you choose to submit, our systems are set up to gather certain data to help us to better understand how the Site is being used and how we can improve it. This data may not be linked to you personally. This automatically gathered data includes your computer’s “Internet Protocol” (“IP”) address, statistics about how visitors navigate through our Site and information provided through the use of cookies and web beacons (which is described in more detail below).

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture (if applicable) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Website.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Embedded content from other websites

This site includes embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

 

 

Data usage and sharing

(a) MCBOR uses the information to understand your needs and provide you with better services, and may use the information for purposes such as: improve and customize the content and layout of our Sites and other communications tools; send you e-mail news updates; notify you of relevant products and services; track usage of our Sites; provide more relevant advertising on other websites; notify you of upcoming MCBOR events and programs; keep internal records; and other such purposes.

(b) The use of your information depends on the context in which it is collected.

(c) Additionally, we will disclose Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures
(i) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or
(ii) will help to: enforce our policies; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our Site(s) or third parties.

(d) MCBOR will never sell your information.

(e) The Website may include links to third party websites that are controlled and maintained by others. Any link to other websites is not an endorsement of such websites and you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the content or availability of any such sites. Use of any such linked site is at the user’s own risk.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you fill out a form, that data is also retained indefinitely.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you that was obtained by your usage of this website. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.