We recognize the importance of protecting the personal information you provide at Web sites owned and/or controlled by SAEA and maintain the following privacy policy:

1. We gather 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 recogniszes 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); and
   • Information you volunteer, via applications or surveys (for example, education, designations, specialties, affiliations with other real estate organizations and general demographic data).
     
     
2. We use this information to:
   
   
   • Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites and other communications tools (online & print)
   • Notify you of updates to our sites.
   • Notify you of relevant products & services.
   • Notify you of upcoming events & programs.
   • Compile specialty directories about which you will be made aware.
   • Track usage of our sites.
   • Assist SAEA, its associations & affiliated Institutes, Societies & councils in membership tracking and for their use for purposes similar to those listed above.
     
     
3. Email contact information. SAEA does not share, sell or trade email addresses. SAEA may use your email address to directly send you information and may provide you with online information or marketing messages that have been approved by SAEA together with other communications to which you have subscribed.
   
   
4. Other forms of contact information. Forms of contact information other than email address (e.g. street address) may be listed in the membership directories available on SAEA’s website(s). SAEA will not share, sell or otherwise provide this contact information about you except for the following purposes:
   
   
   • Partners of SAEA for the limited purpose of notifying you of SAEA-approved promotions
   • Exhibitors at SAEA trade shows for the limited purpose of contacting you before &/or after trade shows, through marketing vehicles approved by SAEA.
   • Other vendors for the limited purpose of contacting targeted groups of members, through marketing vehicles approved by SAEA.
   • 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 marketing follow-up(s) 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. Credit information that you and credit authorisers provide when you make payments by credit card or electronic check for products, dues or other services will only be used to process the transactions you request. This information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting databases, but will never be sold, shared or provided to other third parties.
   
   
6. We maintain security procedures & standards which we believe are as safe as today’s technology permits. We test these procedures and modify them regularly as new technologies become feasible.
   
   
7. We utilize a strict Opt-Out policy for sending online notifications regarding services, products & programs. You may adjust your Communication Preferences by reviewing your registration.
   
   
8. You may edit your personal contact information via SAEA or by contacting your local agency.
   
   
9. Some of our sites contain advertising placed by advertising networks. We do not control these advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our site or their information collection practices and 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. The advertising network may also aggregate the information for certain other statistical and reporting purposes.