NYPEN Real Estate is committed to protecting your privacy. That is why we have adopted this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe how your personal information is processed and used, and we will make every effort to ensure that our activities keep within the spirit of this Privacy Policy.

Please note that by visiting and using nypenre.org or any other of our company websites, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.



What Information is NYPEN Real Estate gathering about its visitors and how is it being used?


Every computer connected to the Internet is provided with a domain name (e.g. earthlink.net) and an IP Address (e.g. 192.164.13.145). When a visitor requests a page from within the NYPEN Real Estate website, our Web Servers automatically identify and log the HTTP request that is made to our Web Server. This information reveals nothing personal about you. In fact, the only information that we automatically gather and log is as follows:

•	The IP Address of the Site that may have Referred you.
•	Your IP Address
•	The Web Page that you may have linked to us from, if any.
•	The Product Identifier for Version and Make of Browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 4.5)
•	The Operating System platform that you may be running (e.g. Macintosh or Windows)
•	Search Words or Terms that are passed from a Search Engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo, or Lycos)

There is absolutely nothing special about the information just described, and the practice of collecting this data has been generally standardized by virtually every Web Server on the Internet today.

The purpose for this information is actually two-fold. One, NYPEN Real Estate has found it advantageous to examine visitor traffic in its aggregate, so that we can ensure maximum compatibility for the various Browsers and Operating Systems that visit our site. Additionally, as any business should attest, it is our desire to generate greater amounts of visitor traffic. By analyzing visitation patterns, referring URLs and Search Engine terms, we can strategically enhance our exposure on the Internet.



What about Cookies?


Cookies are small pieces of data that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser from our Web Server. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files that may have been created from other sites. The NYPEN Real Estate website utilizes cookies as a means of providing personalization features to our visitors. For example, we utilize cookies to remember settings that you may have made at our website.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Typically, by accessing the browser's help feature you can obtain information on how to prevent your browser from accepting all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.



What other information does NYPEN Real Estate request?


We may also request your e-mail address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey, adding you to our mailing list, or by your request to have someone contact you for additional information.

In addition, NYPEN Real Estate will not send you e-mail that you have not agreed to receive. If you are a member of our Mailing List, you will be contacted with announcements, news, account additions, and new products or services. You have the option of "Unsubscribing" from our Mailing List at any time, thereby disabling any further such e-mail communication from being sent to you. If you wish to have specific communications with a member of the NYPEN Real Estate staff, you will be required to provide specific information that will be routed to the appropriate contact within NYPEN Real Estate.



Will NYPEN Real Estate disclose the information collected to Third Parties?


NYPEN Real Estate may take your personally identifiable information ("PII") and compile it in a publicly available directory which is accessible on the Site; disclose your PII to any sponsor or potential sponsor of NYPEN Real Estate; use your PII to contact you for NYPEN Real Estate's purposes; combine your PII with PII that you provide to NYPEN Real Estate in connection with your use of NYPEN Real Estate's other services and web sites (if any); use third party web site management and advertising contractors to deliver communications to you on NYPEN Real Estate's behalf and to otherwise manage NYPEN Real Estate's site who may be supplied with or have access to your PII for the purpose of providing these services. Some activities on the site may be in conjunction with third parties which allow NYPEN Real Estate to offer you certain materials and items. You may be asked to provide your PII in order to engage in these activities, and that PII may be shared with the third parties. While NYPEN Real Estate's use of your PII will be subject to this Privacy Policy, the third parties' use of the same PII will fall under their own privacy policies.

In addition, NYPEN Real Estate will disclose your personal information or any of its log file information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such actions are necessary to:
1. Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on NYPEN Real Estate.
2. Protect and defend the rights or property of NYPEN Real Estate, or visitors of NYPEN Real Estate.
3. Identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice, or the rights of third parties.
4. Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.

NYPEN Real Estate uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. NYPEN Real Estate reserves the right to transfer information in connection with the sale of all or part of NYPEN Real Estate capital stock or assets to any third party. Furthermore, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. NYPEN Real Estate also provides "links" to a wide variety of other web sites on the Internet. We are not responsible for their Privacy Policies or how those web sites manage information about their users. We strongly urge you to check with those web sites to determine their privacy policy.

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of the information that we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.