Privacy Policy

General:

We care about providing you with tools and information to manage and protect your online privacy. We have developed this privacy policy to inform you about what information this web site collects, who may receive that information, what we may do with the information, and how long we keep it. While we have made every attempt to make this policy as clear as possible, if you have any further questions about it, feel free to contact us.

Privacy Policy | Your Information:

We may use cookies to collect information and enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small amount of data sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to augment your online experience via the information you provide. We do not use them for tracking purposes – rather they are used mainly for statistical reasons, i.e., the date and time of access, the domain from which you access the Internet, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site. Our Websites uses and stores this information to provide you with more personalized and customized on-line services and to make our site more convenient, useful, valuable and appealing to you.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

Server log information

Information collected when you visit and register an account on our website is transferred outside of the EEA and stored on the servers of our IDX search plugin provider, Showcase IDX. You can access their privacy policy here: http://showcaseidx.com/privacy-policy

Country of storage: The United States.

Safeguards used: our third party hosting provider has self-certified its compliance with the GDPR.

Section: Disclosure of your information to service providers

“We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:

• IDX Search provider, which is Showcase IDX. Their privacy policy is available here: http://showcaseidx.com/privacy-policy “

Cookies we use:

Our Websites use the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential to provide you with Services available through our Websites and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Websites to remember choices you make when you use our Websites, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make on other parts of our Websites which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Websites or use our Services.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Websites and how users use our Websites and Services. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. The information is aggregated and anonymous. The information gathered may include the number of visitors to our Websites, the websites that referred them to our Websites, the pages they visited on our Websites, what time of day they visited our Websites, whether they have visited our Websites before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Websites and Services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Websites and Services.

We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here and about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Site by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here.

Targeted and Advertising Cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show advertisements which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Websites or Services or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

We will not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13.

Most real estate websites don’t have a cookie policy. Period. Under the GDPR you need one. It’s going to be a bit of a pain the butt to create because you need to list all the cookies that your website and a lot of plugins drop cookies. Here’s a handy guide to get started and you can find our website’s cookie policy, here. Unfortunately, as much as we’d love to do all this for you, we can’t. We’re just a plugin on your site. But here are some snippets that should help you fill out the parts pertaining to Showcase IDX.

IDX DATA Cookies

Essential Cookie
Firstly, Showcase IDX’s cookies should be considered Essential Cookies on your website. This is an important distinction. Here’s a very easy to understand guide about how the EU is now treating cookies, from Wired.

Persistent Cookies
The Showcase IDX cookies are persistent.

First Party Cookies
This can be a little confusing, but it’s by which domain drops the cookie, not that it’s from a 3rd party… so the Showcase IDX cookies are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

List of Cookies

The main cookie set by Showcase IDX does not contain any personally identifiable information and just a token that we use to tell who is who based on the session. This lets us do a bunch of fancy stuff. It’s remarkably private. We do store some information about the user before they sign up, but that is in the browser cache of their own device and it’s accessed without going through or onto our servers. We also track analytics on our search pages through using Google Analytics. This lets us see how the IDX is being used, and we use this information to make educated fact-based decisions that improve the product. It is anonymized and we cannot see what individual sites or customer are doing. Only the aggregate of all instances of our product.

Name of Cookie	Essential or Non-essential?	Type of cookie	First or Third party?	Session or Persistent?	Expiry Time	Purpose
sidx_token	Essential	Session Controller	First Party	Persistent	20 years	IDX
_ga & _gid	Non-Essential	Tracking	Third Party	Persistent	24 hours	Google Analytics

In the section of your Cookie Policy about functional cookies, you can add this:

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

– First party, persistent cookies to recognize you when you use our IDX search and personalize it to you. These cookies are: sidx_token. These cookies expire after 2 years.

Disabling Cookies

If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to accept cookies from our Services for any of the purposes described above, then you can typically instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to remove or stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. In order to do this, consult your browser’s technical information (instructions are usually located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience or not be able to use all portions of the Services or all functionality of the Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Website.

Do not track signals

Some internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to do not track signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Use of Collected Information:

By registering or making an inquiry on our website, you are agreeing to receive communications from Bill McCue and/or his associates. This may include a combination of phone call, text, or email communications. There may be instances where you will have the opportunity to subscribe to an e-mail list that will send information about the site and our services. If you provide a phone number upon registration via any form on our Websites, you are authorizing Bill McCue and/or his associates to contact you by phone to discuss your real estate inquiry and needs, regardless if your phone number may be on a Do-Not-Call Registry.

Any information we collect is used for our own internal purposes to market and provide real estate or lending services to individual users on our website, to improve the content of our Websites, to enhance users’ experiences when visiting our site, or to customize the content and/or layout of our pages. We also may perform statistical analyses of aggregate (group) user behavior. This allows us to measure relative consumer interest in the various areas of our Website for future development purposes. We do not use personal identifying information for any reason that is not disclosed either in this Policy or at the time the information is requested.

Website Links:

Our site may contain links to other websites, including websites directed to children. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we may from time to time provide links from our sites. You should check the applicable privacy policy when linking to other websites.

Telephone Calls, Emails & Texts

You agree that a representative of the Sarasota Homes Group may call, email, or text you in response to a website registration or inquiry performed on our website. You also agree that any portion of a phone call with our representatives me be recorded for recordkeeping, quality, and training purposes.

Opting Out:

If at any time you choose to stop receiving information sent to you from us, or if you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please reply ‘STOP’ at anytime or click the unsubscribe link in emails. Message & data rates may apply. You may also contact us. We may also be reached at 941-265-2455.

Permission To Use Materials:

Any download, saving, reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the express written permission by the owner of this Website is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us.