Protecting privacy is always a priority with SKY Sotheby’s International Realty. To underscore our fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business, we have adopted a online privacy policy for this website. This policy reflects and implements---in an online setting---our corporate privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice, choice, access, security, and accountability.
I. Personally-identifiable information.
This site only collects personally-identifiable
information from you if you choose to provide
this information to us. Personally-identifiable
information collected with your consent may include,
for example, name, e-mail address, resume information,
or any inquires you may make through our Web
site. SKY Sotheby’s International Realty
does not provide personally-identifiable information
to unaffiliated third-parties in its normal course
of business. However, we will provide such information
when required by law or in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary in order to comply
with the law or legal process.
II. Cookies.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer’s hard drive. This site uses third party cookies,
however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use
of cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether
the visitor has viewed our site before. Cookies are optional and do not affect
the operability of our site.
While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser.
III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information.
This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable
information. For example, as you browse this
Web site we may collect information about your
visit, but not about you personally. Via web
server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics
such as: the number of people that visit our
site, which page(s) are visited on our site,
from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com,
hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people
use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator,
Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web site
uses an outsourcing program, Google Analytics,
to assist us in analyzing this data to better
tailor our Web site.
IV. Retention.
We reserve the right to retain personally-identifiable
information collected through this site for the
length of our business relationship with you.
In some cases, we will retain the information
for a longer period for record keeping purposes.
The information collected by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our Web sites.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding your inquiry from SKY Sotheby’s International Realty, you can reply to the e-mail or use the telephone number (941) 366-9777 with a request that we not continue to e-mail you. We do not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online.
We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web site functions, that require access to information you supply online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.
As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through this Web site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. We will provide you with access to personally-identifiable information you provide through our Web site for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our Web site.
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable information collected by our Web site. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its security on our systems.
We strictly limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. The current version of this privacy policy can always be found at http://www.skysarasota.com/privacy-policy.asp