PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

Ocracoke Island Realty (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website located at www.ocracokeislandrealty.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to the information we collect:

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number (“personal information”);
• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us.
• automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• speed up your searches.
• recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Consent, Ownership and Disclosure

By using our website and/or using our services, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. We are the sole owners of the information collected and will not share your personal data (e.g., e-mail address, name, or contact information) with any third party not affiliated with absent your consent. However, we will use information provided for guest screening, and identity verification and will disclose personal information when required by law, in response to any demand by law enforcement or other appropriate government authorities, or if the personal information is pertinent in a legal proceeding or court action.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to: 

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website.
• Understand and analyze how you use our website.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
• Send you emails.
• Find and prevent fraud.

Opt-Out Options

You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do the following by contacting us via the email address on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data. 

Protected Information

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 sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way.

External Links / Cookies

Our website contains links that may lead you to external websites. We are not responsible for the content of those external websites. Our website, external links, and third-party advertiser(s) may add cookies to determine targeted advertisements based on your preferences and your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options.

Marketing

The information we disseminate, such as monthly newsletters, will include a link to opt-out at any time. As soon as you opt out, we will remove your e-mail address from our marketing database.

Privacy Law Compliance

We are focused on leading our business as per these standards with a specific end goal to guarantee that the privacy of individual data is secure and maintained. We adhere to privacy laws set by the State of North Carolina, as well as all applicable Federal Laws regarding privacy of information. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Ocracoke Island Realty