PRIVACY
Updated: October 19, 2022
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for (https://elementsre.com). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise.
It will notify you of the following:
- What information we collect
- With whom it is shared
- How it can be corrected
- How to request deletion of your information
- How it is secured
- How policy changes will be communicated
- How to address concerns of misuse of personal data
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
Personal information collected on https://elementsre.com may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your phone number
- Any additional comments you wish to submit
This information is collected through our contact forms, which are filled out by the user. If you have not filled out a contact form on our website with your information, we do not have any of the above information about you.
We collect this information for the sole purpose of contacting our users when they have submitted a request for us to do so.
Technical information, such as cookies, are collected for the purpose of tracking
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for the purpose of 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 profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
CONTACT FORMS
When you fill out a contact form on our website, your information is transmitted directly to Elements Real Estate. Your information will be used by Elements to contact you regarding your inquiry. Any contact or other information submitted through a contact form on our website will never be shared with any third parties outside of Elements Real Estate, and we will not contact you outside of your inquiry without your express advance permission.
COOKIES
A “cookie” is a small file stored on your device that is sent by websites, mobile apps, and advertisements that you access. These tiny files are stored on your device to remember your preferences to improve your experience while browsing.
Cookies are important because parts of the site rely on them to work correctly; limiting their use or other similar technologies might affect the functionality of the website.
By using this site, you agree to these activities, including information collected by our vendors. If you do not want cookies to be placed on your device, most web browsers permit you to opt-out of cookie-based advertising. Click here for more information – http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Our site uses a third party service to match browser cookies to your mailing address. We then use another company to send special offers through the mail on our behalf. Our company never receives or stores any of this information and our third parties do not provide or sell this information to any other company or service.
To opt-out of receiving our direct mail, you may send us an email at connect@elementsre.com, call us at (310) 577-8777, or send a written request to 1730 E Holly Ave #809, El Segundo CA 90245. We will honor those requests, but please understand that it may take up to 10 business days for such mailings to end.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (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.
ANALYTICS
Elements Real Estate collects analytics information about its visitors. We collect certain demographic information (i.e., what city our visitors are browsing from, or what search terms were used to locate our website). None of the analytics information we collect is personally identifiable, and the information collected is used for the purpose of helping us determine what types of content to feature on our website that will offer the most value to our visitors.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
Elements Real Estate respects your privacy and does not share our users’ information with any third-party entities, with the exception of instances where it is required in order to fulfill a request by the client (i.e., to ship an order). We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email, contact forms, or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
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. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
YOUR ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OVER INFORMATION
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time.
You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
- See what data we have about you (if any)
- Learn why we collected the data, how it was collected, and what it is used for
- Change or correct any data we have about you
- Request for us to delete any data we have about you
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION
Any contact information collected on elementsre.com is utilized to fulfill requests from the user. We do not share or sell contact information to outside parties.
SECURITY
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon in your web browser, or by looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (i.e., billing or customer service) are granted access to Personally Identifiable Information. The computers/servers on which we store PII are kept in a secure environment.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Whenever material changes are made to this Privacy Policy this page will be updated, and a notification may be sent out via email to our users.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA) REQUIREMENTS
Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires that businesses allow the following rights to all consumers:
- Right to access; consumers may see what information was collected by businesses within the past 12 months.
- Right to know; consumers may find out what specific categories of personal information will be collected, and how this information will be used.
- Consumers may also request to see a list of third parties with whom their data is shared.
- Right to deletion; consumers may request deletion of personal information by the business.
- Right to sue; consumers may sue a company if privacy guidelines have been violated. Consumers may also file a class action suit in the event of a data breach.
If you feel that there has been a violation of this Privacy Policy, you should contact us immediately at (310) 577-8777 or connect@elementsre.com. You can also contact us by filling out the form on our Contact Us page.
