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Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this statement explaining our online information practices and our policies
regarding the collection and use of information about you which we obtain through your use of this web site. To make this statement easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested. This statement applies only to your online interactions and communications with us through our web site at dwightandrus.com.
Collection and Use of Customer Information
We collect, retain and utilize information about you to operate our business and to make
products, services and other opportunities
available to you. When you visit our web site, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose, which is collected on an individual basis, and web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.
Our Use of Personal Information Disclosed by You
If you submit a request through our web site to be shown a particular property listed on our site, we need to obtain certain personal information, including your name, address, phone number and email address.
We use this information to
provide the services you request. We may also use this information to make you aware of other services or products that we offer from time to time, but we will give you the opportunity to request that such services or products not be offered
to you in the future. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial web sites, our site may
from time to time utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and web
server logs may include the date and time of visits, the web pages viewed, time spent at our web site, and the web site visited just before and just after our web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis,
and assists us to design and
arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our web site to better meet your needs. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
What Are "Cookies"? "Cookies" are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to
recognize the computer used to access a web site.
Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web site by the
same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should
make your online experience easier and more personalized. Moreover, most browsers allow its users to block cookies.
For example, many browsers allow a user to specify that they
be prompted before a site puts a cookie on their hard drive so that the user can choose to allow or disallow the cookie. Additionally, most users can prevent their browser from ever accepting any cookies.
Disclosure of Information
Without your consent, we do not sell or provide your name, your address or any other personal information provided to us online to third parties for their independent use, unless we are required by law to do so.
By providing personal information to us in
connection with a service, such as requesting to be shown a particular property listed on our site, you are deemed to have consented to our transmitting the information to those specific persons who will provide the services.
In the case of a request
to be shown a property, those persons may include one or more Dwight Andrus sales associates and employees and one or more sales associates or employees of the real estate broker who listed the property if Dwight
Andrus is not the listing broker.
Similarly, if you request that we provide information to a third party, such as a lender, inspector, appraiser, attorney or an advertiser on our site, you are deemed to have consented to our providing the information
to those persons.
Protection of Children
We do not knowingly solicit data from nor knowingly market to children. While nothing on
our site is believed to be harmful to children in any way, our web site is intended for commercial use, and is directed solely to adults, our potential clients and customers. We will not knowingly use any information
submitted to us by children.
Parents can use various readily available software packages to prevent their children from accessing web sites which they deem to be inappropriate. Parents can choose to utilize this and other methods to limit the web
sites to which their children have access.
Accuracy of Information
We want your information to be accurate, and have established procedures to correct
inaccurate information in a timely manner.If you have any reason to believe that any personal information submitted through our site is incorrect, and you are unable to correct it yourself online, we should be contacted
in writing: Customer Service,
Dwight W. Andrus Real Estate, L.L.C., 500 Dover Boulevard, Suite 110, Lafayette, Louisiana 70503, or by e-mail:
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. You may also call us at 337-989-1112. We will investigate the situation and, when appropriate, update our records accordingly. Protection of Information
We maintain procedures to protect the security of your information. Employees and technology vendors receive training on the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. In addition, all employees and technology contractors
sign a confidentiality agreement that states, among other things, that all customer information that our employees or contractors come in contact with will be used solely in connection with the performance of their authorized job functions.
Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith,
believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. Other Web Sites Linked to the dwightandrus.com Web Site
We are not responsible for the information practices and policies employed by web sites linked to or from our web site. Links to non-dwightandrus.com web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics or services that may be useful to the users of our
web site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, Dwight Andrus's Online Privacy Statement is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other
web site, including web sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Consent to Collection and Use By using our web site and
in particular by submitting personal information associated with your registration, property listing, offer or home buying or selling transaction, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change its online
privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Questions about our Privacy Policy If you have any questions about our privacy policy or the use of your personal information,
please contact us using by phone at 337-989-1112 or via e-mail at
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