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Privacy Policy

This Web site is operated by the San Mateo County Association of REALTORS®, an organization in San Mateo, California, USA. SAMCAR takes user privacy very seriously because we know that your privacy on the web is very important to you. That's why protecting your personal information is of the utmost importance to SAMCAR. We may collect the e-mail addresses of those who send us e-mail messages, however, we will not share those addresses with any other company or send unsolicited e-mail to any of the addresses we collect, except in very limited circumstances as set forth below. SAMCAR has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized SAMCAR personnel are provided access to personally-identifiable information and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, however, SAMCAR cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information.

When you request information from SAMCAR and supply information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you, you are agreeing to share that information with SAMCAR, its agents, representatives and affiliates. SAMCAR may aggregate personally identifiable information and may disclose such information in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. We may use cookies and obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses www.samcar.org. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our site may use cookies to store pertinent user information during a session to speed navigation and keep track of your session. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies and how to disable cookies altogether. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with law or comply with legal process served upon us or our agents, representatives and affiliates, (2) protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users or (3) protect the personal safety of our users or the public. SAMCAR would like to keep your personal information accurate. Therefore, SAMCAR allows you to correct or change personal identifiable information collected by us by replying to any SAMCAR email message.

This Site is not directed at children 13 years of age or younger. SAMCAR, therefore, will not intentionally collect information about any user under the age of 13.


Member Communication & Data Privacy

One of the conditions of your REALTOR® Association membership is that we have a valid e-mail address for you and are able to contact you periodically regarding Association programs and important alerts. As long as you are a current SAMCAR member, we do not offer an "unsubscribe" option. SAMCAR will only send you emails regarding Association membership and programs (usually no more than once per week in the form of our Relay e-newsletter). You can control visibility of your email address and phone number on your public member profile. Learn more

We do not sell or distribute member email address or other contact information to third parties. Anyone other than staff or an officer of the association communicating about association programs or services is considered to be a third party.


California Association of REALTORS® Privacy Policy

To opt out of having your preferred contact information provided to third parties, please email us at: contactus@car.org or write us at: 525 South Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020, Attn: Third Party Opt Out Request.  To insure your request is processed timely and accurately, please provide the following information with your request: first name, last name, office name, office telephone number, DRE license number, and NRDS or C.A.R. member number.  C.A.R. will process your request as quickly as possible; however, you may continue to receive third party communications until the request is ultimately processed.  C.A.R. apologizes in advance for any inconveniences this may cause.


National Association of REALTORS® Privacy Policy

3. Email contact information. NAR 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 REALTOR®.org. NAR 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 NAR 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 REALTOR®.org.

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