Effective On: 9/1/2021

We at the High Country Association of REALTORS® (hereafter referred to as (High Country Association) and High Country Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (hereafter referred to as “High Country MLS”) are committed to the protection and security of the information provided by the visitors to www.HighCountryREALTORS.org. Your privacy and trust are important to us and we want to honor that trust by advising you of what we do to manage your information. This document was written just for that purpose.

This privacy statement covers the site www.HighCountryREALTORS.org. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to our users’ privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed.

Our site was created to provide our visitors with information about High Country REALTOR® members, affiliates, and service providers together with general information about High Country and its environs. Most importantly, one of our missions with this site is to afford our REALTOR® members with the opportunity to connect with you, the home selling, home buying public that enjoy an online investigative method of research and might not otherwise have an opportunity to find a REALTOR®.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Generally speaking, our Web site is informational, and our visitors can browse anonymously. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from the visitors to this site unless they contact us. If a visitor contacts us, we collect your email address and your first name and last name, so that we can provide you the service. Disclosure of your email address, and any other volunteered information, to High Country Association is entirely optional.

We may collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to administer our site. When a web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called the computer’s “IP address”. This “address” does not contain any personally identifiable information.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
We will not sell, rent, or exchange any data collected through the www.HighCountryREALTORS.org Website except as provided in this Privacy Statement. Also, High Country Association and/or High Country MLS may, occasionally, use your email address to contact you for updated information, surveys or promotions. If you wish not to receive updates, surveys and/or promotions from High Country Association and/or High Country MLS pertaining to our services you may contact us by e-mail at REALTOR@HighCountryREALTORS.org and we will be pleased honor your request.

High Country Association and/or High Country MLS may disclose, transfer, sell or assign information obtained through this Web site, or otherwise in its possession, to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation of High Country Association and/or High Country MLS. You will be notified via email or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

High Country Association and/or High Country MLS may also make information available to law enforcement personnel and agencies when requested to do so or as required by law.

YOU HAVE CHOICES
If you have any concerns, please feel free to notify us by e-mail or phone and we will make every effort to correct, update or amend your information. You may contact us by e-mail at REALTOR@HighCountryREALTORS.org and we will help you in any way possible. Our phone numbe is 828.262.5437

COOKIE TECHNOLOGY
Cookie technology is employed only when you reach a certain level in the High Country Association Web site. The purpose of the use of cookies is to better serve our visitors. Cookies that are used in the High Country Association Web site are called “Session Cookies”. Session cookies are used to control the current state of the website and contain the information that is useful only to the computer memory. The information does not contain any personal information of the person visiting our web site. In case you did not know, “Cookies” are small text files sent by Web servers to be stored on the High Country Association drive of Web site visitors. These files often contain personalization settings or unique identifiers to allow for successful log in to the password-protected part of our Web site, to keep track of your information and help us understand the movements of visitors within and between Web sites. Our advertisers and information links may use their own cookies, so please refer to their Privacy Statements or Policies.

DATA SECURITY
We also want you, our visitors, to know that we take the security of your information very seriously. We use industry accepted tools and procedures that protect the files in our data system. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that communication between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.

BUSINESS & PRIVACY ISSUES WITH LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Neither High Country Association nor High Country MLS are responsible for the availability of or the business and privacy practices of other Web sites which are linked or connected to www.HighCountryREALTORS.org. We provide these links to our visitors for information and service. We do not take responsibility for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available through any other Web site nor for their data collection practices. We refer you to their Privacy Statements and Policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.

PRIVACY STATEMENT CHANGES
High Country Association and High Country MLS reserve the right to change or amend its Visitors’ Privacy Statement to address new issues of privacy and information security and to reflect changes to our Web site or business practices. Any new changes and/or amendments will be noted on our Home Page and will always be posted in this section of the High Country Association Web site. If we make material changes to this policy in how we use your personal information, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT?
If you have any questions about this Visitors’ Privacy Statement or the practices of this Web site, you can send an e-mail to REALTOR@HighCountryrRealtors.org or send a letter to 4469 Bamboo Rd. Boone, NC 28607, or call 828.262.5437.