Privacy Policy

Who we are:

Steele Associates Real Estate
The policies laid out below pertain to our website at https://steelerealty.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it:

Contact forms

We collect names, phone numbers, and email addresses in our contact forms. This data is securely stored and can be completed deleted upon request. We never use this information for marketing purposes.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our site uses Google Analytics to gather and track customer data. Google uses cookies to track users IP addresses, location, browser information, device information, as well as users behavior on the site.

Who we share your data with

Steele Associates Real Estate (aka SteeleRealty.com) never shares user data.

How long we retain your data

Metadata is retained indefinitely.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor data may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third-Party Integration: iHomefinder

Our website uses an IDX service to list and feed information on available homes around the Cape. The following excerpt is taken directly from their privacy policy:

“Your privacy is very important to iHomefinder. iHomefinder treats all personal information about you with great respect and takes various measures to protect your privacy and to secure all information about you. When you visit our website(s) and use various aspects of our IDX Programs, Features and Services, we collect information such as the web browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, visit date and time, and referring website. You may visit our website(s) and use various aspects of our IDX Programs, Features, and Services without revealing any additional information. Other aspects of our IDX Programs, Features, Services, and our website(s) may allow you to provide us with personal information so that you can receive MLS® System data and additional information or customer support from iHomefinder. All personal information that you voluntarily submit or enter into the iHomefinder system is kept confidential and is used solely by iHomefinder and third parties working on our behalf and bound by our confidentiality agreements. Neither iHomefinder nor any of our third party vendors will release any of your personal information to any other party unless you expressly permit it or if we are required to do so by law, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. iHomefinder’s website and programs and/or our clients’ websites and third party vendors may provide various features, tools, and links to other websites. Any such features, tools and/or linked websites are not bound by our privacy policy, and iHomefinder cannot assume any responsibility for any of the information gathered when you use or access any of these features, tools or linked websites. Please read the details below to learn more about our privacy policy. iHomefinder reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time.”

If you would like to see the full privacy policy, you can do so here.

Plugin: Defender Pro

Third parties

This site may be using WPMU DEV third-party cloud storage to store backups of its audit logs where personal information is collected.

Additional data

This site creates and stores an activity log that capture the IP address, username, email address and tracks user activity. Information will be stored locally for 30 days and remotely for 1 year. Information on remote logs cannot be cleared for security purposes.