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1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how The Real Brokerage, Inc. collects and uses Personal Data through our Website, mobile applications, email, text, and other electronic communications.
The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd. (collectively “Company,” or “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from individual consumers, business representatives, real estate agents, and website visitors who visit or use our website located at www.joinreal.com (our “Website”) or any of our related mobile applications (our “App”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, our Website, App and all related services and functionality that we provide or make available through them are referred to as our “Digital Services”.
This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
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 Services. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy, referenced below). Your continued use of our Digital Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2. Age Requirement
Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or through the Digital Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or in our Digital Services or on or through any of their features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 18, please email us at support@therealbrokerage.comor call us at 782-820-4098.
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Digital Services, specifically information:
Collectively, we refer to this information in this policy as “Personal Data.”
We collect this information:
The Personal Data we collect on or through our Digital Services is:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Beneficiary Information. You have the ability to designate a beneficiary for revenue share amounts we owe to you. If you provide beneficiary information, you represent and warrant to us that you have the legal right and authorization, through consent or otherwise, to provide the beneficiary’s personal information to us.
The information we collect on or through our Digital Services is:
Personal Data such as the data identified above;
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Digital Services. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Digital Services, using our services or other services available through the Digital Services, purchasing products, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Digital Services;
About your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access or use our Digital Services and usage details.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research, development and marketing purposes;
Details of transactions, including electronic signature transactions, you carry out through our Digital Services and/or of the fulfilment of your orders or services. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order or requesting certain orders or services through our Digital Services.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorised persons.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). We and our service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Digital Services through your computer or mobile device. A cookie is a small file or piece of data sent from a website and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. On your computer, you may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser, and you may have similar capabilities on your mobile device in the preferences for your operating system or browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access or use certain parts of our Digital Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser or operating system setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website or use our App.
Pixels and Web Beacons. Pages on our Digital Services, or our e-mails, may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related Digital Services statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Digital Services content and verifying system and server integrity).
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
to provide our Website and its functionality, contents and services to;
to provide our App and its functionality, contents and services;
to provide our products and services to you;
to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or that may be of interest to you;
to process, fulfill, support, and administer transactions and orders for products and services ordered by you;
to personalize your experience with our Digital Services and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests;
to provide personalized and interest-based advertising;
to provide you with notices about your Company account;
to contact you in response to a request;
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
to notify you about changes to our Digital Services or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, including through newsletters. If you wish to opt-out of receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of these communications or by visiting your Account Preferences page. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below.
We do not share, sell, share, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
to affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business. The services provided by these organizations include providing IT and infrastructure support services, advertising, marketing, and payment processing services.
to advertising and marketing partners such as Facebook, Instagram, Google and other advertising networks may receive and use your Personal Data to assist us with our advertising and marketing efforts.
to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Company about our Digital Services users are among the assets transferred;
to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
with your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
to comply with any court order, law, subpoena, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
to related affiliates and to unrelated third parties to market or advertise their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. This type of sharing may be deemed a sale of Personal Data under some laws or jurisdiction. Facebook, Instagram, Google and other advertising networks may have the ability to use your Personal Data for their own marketing, advertising or business purposes. For more information about your opt-out rights, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below;
to affiliates and third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below;
to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, located at https://www.joinreal.com/page/legal, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser or operating to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Digital Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by Company to promote our own products and services, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email or other marketing communications you receive from us or logging onto your Account Preferences page. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Company as a result of a product purchase, or your use of our services.
Disclosure of Your Information to Affiliates and Third Parties. By using our Digital Services, you consent to our sharing of your Personal Data with our affiliates and third parties for their promotional purposes. If you wish to unsubscribe from such affiliate and third parties’ promotions, you can do so by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email or other marketing communications you receive from them. If you wish to opt-out of such sharing, please change your preferences in your Account Preferences page or email us support@therealbrokerage.com.
Interest-Based Targeted Advertising. We may use your Personal Data to provide interest-based advertisements from us and that are customised to your particular preferences, including for companies that are not affiliated with us. We partner with third party advertising networks that collect IP addresses, unique device identifiers, browser type, operating system, time zone, country, referring pages, and other information through the use of cookies, pixel tags, and server logs on our Digital Services. They use this information to provide you with interest-based advertisements that are customized to your particular preferences, including for companies that are not affiliated with us.
You may contact us to access or change your Personal Data. You may also be able to review and change your personal information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page.
You can Contact Us to access and/or find out what information we have about you, and to correct that information. You can also review and change your Personal Data by logging into our Digital Services and visiting either the Settings or Account Preferences sections of our Digital Services. You may also notify us through the Contact Information below of any changes or errors in any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your account with us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Cookies. You can change the cookie settings that will be placed when you use our Digital Services by changing the settings on your Internet browser. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access or use all or areas and aspects of our Digital Services.
Personalized and interest-based advertising. You can generally opt out of receiving personalized and interest-based advertisements from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt out pages on the NAI website and DAA website. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt out rights and options on the NAI website and DAA website.
Messages. If you do not wish to have your email address used by Company to send you advertising messages and content, you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing emails you receive from us. You may have other options with respect to marketing and communication preferences through our Digital Services.
Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Digital Services confidential.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We use encryption technology for information sent and received by us.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for the use of our Digital Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to, on or through our Digital Services. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, in your operating system, or in the App.
Categories of Personal Information Company Collects
As described in more detail in other areas of our Privacy Policy, we collect and/or disclose Personal Information about you when you visit use our Digital Services, including information about you that you provide to us, and information that we automatically collect from you or your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein, for additional information and details.
Personal information does not include information that is: (a) publicly available information from government records; (b) de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or (c) certain information excluded from the scope of applicable state law (e.g., PHI covered under HIPAA and medical information may be covered under other state laws).
Categories of Sources from which Company has collected Personal Information
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we collect Personal Information directly from you, for example when you provide it to us, when you contact us through our Digital Services, when you create a Company account; and indirectly from you automatically through your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you from our advertising partners and service providers.
Use of Personal Information
We do not sell your Personal Information and have not done so in the prior 12 months from the effective date of this Policy. We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy (for example, please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Sharing Personal Information
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, Company may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for one or more business purposes. When we disclose Personal Information for a business purpose, such as to service providers, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Disclosures of Personal Information for Business Purposes:
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we may disclose your Personal Information for our business purposes, such as your contact information, other information you have provided to us and unique identifiers that identify you to us or to our service providers, such as companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein for additional information and details.
We disclose your Personal Information to certain third parties such as our vendors, business partners, service providers, including companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. For additional information please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Access Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months for the above business and commercial purposes. To submit an access request, see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights, referenced herein. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company delete your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless certain exceptions apply.
Exporting Data
If you need to export or a copy of your data, please let us know and we will assist you with your request. We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we use it and applicable legal requirements. We may retain some data for longer periods of time than other data when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.
Exercising Access and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or your legal representative authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable state law. Unless permitted by applicable law, we will not:
Other California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (California’s “Shine the Light” law) permits users of our Digital Services that are California residents and who provide Personal Information in obtaining products and services for personal, family, or household use to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. If applicable, this information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared your Personal Information with for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g. requests made in 2020 will receive information regarding such activities in 2019). You may request this information once per calendar year. To make such a request, please contact us by email at support@therealbrokerage.com.
How to Contact Us:
Telephone: 782-820-4098
Email: support@therealbrokerage.com
Last updated: April 2023
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how The Real Brokerage, Inc. collects and uses Personal Data through our Website, mobile applications, email, text, and other electronic communications.
The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd. (collectively “Company,” or “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from individual consumers, business representatives, real estate agents, and website visitors who visit or use our website located at www.onereal.com (our “Website”) or any of our related mobile applications (our “App”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, our Website, App and all related services and functionality that we provide or make available through them are referred to as our “Digital Services”.
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This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
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 Services. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy, referenced below). Your continued use of our Digital Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2. Age Requirement
Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or through the Digital Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or in our Digital Services or on or through any of their features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 18, please email us at support@therealbrokerage.com or call us at 782-820-4098.
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.
Generally
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Digital Services, specifically information:
Collectively, we refer to this information in this policy as “Personal Data.”
We collect this information:
Information You Provide to Us
The Personal Data we collect on or through our Digital Services is:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Beneficiary Information. You have the ability to designate a beneficiary for revenue share amounts we owe to you. If you provide beneficiary information, you represent and warrant to us that you have the legal right and authorization, through consent or otherwise, to provide the beneficiary’s personal information to us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Digital Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. For example, we collect, record and store information about your activity when you access and use our Digital Services, the Internet, and other online activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Digital Services and other websites. We use various technologies to collect and store location information, including cookies, pixels or pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, session recording and replay technology, and server logs.
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Digital Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Google uses data when you visit our Website by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps”, (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/). We may also use Google Analytics Advertising Features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity. For more information regarding Google Analytics please visit Google's website, and pages that describe Google Analytics, such as www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
Intercom. We may use Intercom, a web analytics service provided by Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Intercom uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Intercom uses data when you visit our Website by visiting https://www.intercom.com/legal/privacy. We may also use Intercom to provide advertising features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, including through newsletters. If you wish to opt-out of receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of these communications or by visiting your Account Preferences page. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not share, sell, share, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
6. Commercial Charge Cards and Other Financial Products and Services
We offer real estate agents’ businesses financial products and services from our financial institution partners, such as a corporate charge card or debit card (collectively, “Financial Products”), to enable the business to purchase goods and services for a commercial purpose and conduct other financial activities. This section describes how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Data in connection with businesses’ applications for and use of the Financial Products.
7. Marketing to Real Estate Agents Affiliated with Real by Real Affiliates
We may share the personal information of real estate agents (including brokers) affiliated with our Real brokerage entities with Real affiliate businesses that offer mortgage broker (“One Real Mortgage”), title insurance (“One Real Title”) and other products and services. The shared information may include personal contact information, commission information and other information that was provided to Real brokerage entities, including information provided through the reZEN application. The Real affiliates, including One Real Mortgage and One Real Title and its affiliates, may use the information for their business and commercial purposes including to send marketing communications about their products and services. Real estate agents may elect to not have their information shared with Real affiliates at any time by contacting us at support@therealbrokerage.com or Real Broker, LLC, c/o Real Support, 39899 Balentine Dr., Suite 200, Newark, CA 94560, and stating, in the e-mail or letter, “I hereby elect to not have my information shared with Real’s affiliates, and elect to not have Real’s affiliates use my information to market to me”.
8. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Data for our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising.
We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. These third parties may aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes.
In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
You may see these interest-based advertisements on our Digital Services, as well as on third party websites and apps, and across different devices you use. We may use this process to help us manage and improve the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. It also allows to display ads to our users about Company after they leave our Digital Services, and to track users after they see or click on an advertisement, keep track of users who access our Digital Services or advertisements from different devices, and better provide advertisements to our target audiences. The data collected through these tracking technologies is also saved and processed by our advertising and marketing service provider partners.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info).
9. Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information and Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may contact us to access or change your Personal Data. You may also be able to review and change your personal information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page.
You can Contact Us to access and/or find out what information we have about you, and to correct that information. You can also review and change your Personal Data by logging into our Digital Services and visiting either the Settings or Account Preferences sections of our Digital Services. You may also notify us through the Contact Information below of any changes or errors in any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your account with us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Cookies. You can change the cookie settings that will be placed when you use our Digital Services by changing the settings on your Internet browser. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access or use all or areas and aspects of our Digital Services
Personalized and interest-based advertising. You can generally opt out of receiving personalized and interest-based advertisements from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt out pages on the NAI website and DAA website. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt out rights and options on the NAI website and DAA website.
Messages. If you do not wish to have your email address used by Company to send you advertising messages and content, you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing emails you receive from us. You may have other options with respect to marketing and communication preferences through our Digital Services.
10. Do Not Track Signals
We currently do not use automated data collection technologies to track you across websites. We currently do not honor do-not-track signals that may be sent by some browsers.
Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals.
11. Data Security
Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Digital Services confidential.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We use encryption technology for information sent and received by us.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for the use of our Digital Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to, on or through our Digital Services. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, in your operating system, or in the App.
12. PRIVACY RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA AND CERTAIN OTHER US STATES
In addition to the disclosures and rights set forth elsewhere in this Policy, you and other users may have certain rights based on applicable state law, for example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as updated by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA). Other states have passed consumer privacy laws that may be applicable to Real and your use of this Site. These supplemental disclosures and rights apply to you and your use of our Digital Services to the extent applicable state law applies to Real and your use of our Digital Services. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your rights under applicable state law.
Categories of Personal Information Company Collects
As described in more detail in other areas of our Privacy Policy, we collect and/or disclose Personal Data (termed “Personal Information” in the CCPA) about you when you visit use our Digital Services, including information about you that you provide to us, and information that we automatically collect from you or your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein, for additional information and details.
Personal information does not include information that is: (a) publicly available information from government records; (b) de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or (c) certain information excluded from the scope of applicable state law (e.g., PHI covered under HIPAA and medical information may be covered under other state laws).
Categories of Sources from which Company has collected Personal Information
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we collect Personal Information directly from you, for example when you provide it to us, when you contact us through our Digital Services, when you create a Company account; and indirectly from you automatically through your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you from our advertising partners and service providers.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy (for example, please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Disclosures of Personal Information for Business Purposes:
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we may disclose your Personal Information for our business purposes, such as your contact information, other information you have provided to us and unique identifiers that identify you to us or to our service providers, such as companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein for additional information and details.
We disclose your Personal Information to certain third parties such as our vendors, business partners, service providers, including companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. For additional information please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Access Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information for the above business and commercial purposes. To submit an access request, see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights, referenced herein. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company delete your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless certain exceptions apply.
Correction Request Rights
You may have the right to ask us to correct Personal Information that is inaccurate or out of date. You may also be able to review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page.
Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Personal Information for Targeted Advertising
As explained in the Interest-Based Targeted Advertising section above, we may share Personal Information with advertising partners that display targeted advertisements to users around the web, including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies on our Websites. This may qualify as a “sale” or “share” of Personal Information under applicable privacy laws. You can opt out of sharing for these purposes by clicking Your Privacy Choices on the footer of our website or contacting us as described below.
Exporting Data
If you need to export or obtain a copy of your data, please let us know and we will assist you with your request. We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we use it and applicable legal requirements. We may retain some data for longer periods of time than other data when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.
Exercising Access, Correction, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, correction, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or your legal representative authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Please note that applicable law limits your rights by, for example, prohibiting us from providing certain sensitive information in response to an access request and limiting the circumstances in which we must comply with a deletion request. If we deny your request, we will communicate our decision to you.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable state law. Unless permitted by applicable law, we will not:
13. Users Outside of the United States
Our Website is intended for use by residents in the United States and Canada. Our Website is not intended for use by and is not directed to residents of the European Union. All data is stored and processed in the United States. By using and accessing our site, users who reside or are located in countries outside of the United States (including users in Canada) agree and consent to the transfer to and processing of personal information on servers located outside of the country where they reside, and that the protection of such information may be different than required under the laws of their residence or location.
14. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on our Website. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may notify you of such changes through your contact information and invite you to review (and accept, if necessary) the changes.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically accessing the App or visiting our Website and reviewing this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact Us” page on or in our Digital Services.
How to Contact Us:
Telephone: 782-820-4098
Email: support@therealbrokerage.com
Last updated: January 2024
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how The Real Brokerage, Inc. collects and uses Personal Data through our Website, mobile applications, email, text, and other electronic communications. The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd. (collectively “Company,” or “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from individual consumers, business representatives, real estate agents, and website visitors who visit or use our website located at www.joinreal.com (our “Website”) or any of our related mobile applications (our “App”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, our Website, App and all related services and functionality that we provide or make available through them are referred to as our “Digital Services”. This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
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 Digital Services. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy, referenced below). Your continued use of our Digital Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2. Age Requirement
Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or through the Digital Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or in our Digital Services or on or through any of their features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 18, please email us at support@therealbrokerage.com or call us at 646-859-2368 (United States) or 782-820-4098 (Canada).
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.GenerallyWe collect several types of information from and about users of our Digital Services, specifically information:
Collectively, we refer to this information in this policy as “Personal Data.” We collect this information:
Information You Provide to UsThe Personal Data we collect on or through our Digital Services is:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.Beneficiary Information. You have the ability to designate a beneficiary for revenue share amounts we owe to you. If you provide beneficiary information, you represent and warrant to us that you have the legal right and authorization, through consent or otherwise, to provide the beneficiary’s personal information to us. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection TechnologiesAs you navigate through and interact with our Digital Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. For example, we collect, record and store information about your activity when you access and use our Digital Services, the Internet, and other online activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Digital Services and other websites. We use various technologies to collect and store location information, including cookies, pixels or pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, session recording and replay technology, and server logs.
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Digital Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Google uses data when you visit our Website by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps”, (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/). We may also use Google Analytics Advertising Features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity. For more information regarding Google Analytics please visit Google's website, and pages that describe Google Analytics, such as www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. Intercom. We may use Intercom, a web analytics service provided by Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Intercom uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Intercom uses data when you visit our Website by visiting https://www.intercom.com/legal/privacy. We may also use Intercom to provide advertising features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, including through newsletters. If you wish to opt-out of receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of these communications or by visiting your Account Preferences page. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not share, sell, share, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
6. Commercial Charge Cards and Other Financial Products and Services
We may offer real estate agents’ businesses financial products and services from our financial institution partners, such as a corporate charge card or debit card (collectively, “Financial Products”), to enable the business to purchase goods and services for a commercial purpose and conduct other financial activities. If we offer Financial Products in your jurisdiction, this section describes how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Data in connection with businesses’ applications for and use of the Financial Products.
7. Marketing to Real Estate Agents Affiliated with Real by Real Affiliates
We may share the personal information of real estate agents (including brokers) affiliated with our Real brokerage entities with Real affiliate businesses that offer mortgage broker (“One Real Mortgage”), title insurance (“One Real Title”) and other products and services. The shared information may include personal contact information, commission information and other information that was provided to Real brokerage entities, including information provided through the reZEN application. The Real affiliates, including One Real Mortgage and One Real Title and its affiliates, may use the information for their business and commercial purposes including to send marketing communications about their products and services. Real estate agents may elect to not have their information shared with Real affiliates at any time by contacting us at support@therealbrokerage.com or Real Broker, LLC, c/o Real Support, 39889 Balentine Dr., Suite 200, Newark, CA 94560, and stating, in the e-mail or letter, “I hereby elect to not have my information shared with Real’s affiliates, and elect to not have Real’s affiliates use my information to market to me”.
8. Job Applicants
When you apply for one of our open positions, we collect the information that you provide in connection with your job application. This includes name, contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history, and other information that may be included in a resume or provided during interviews (which may be recorded). This may also include demographic or diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We may also conduct background checks and receive related information.We use applicants’ information to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, including evaluating candidates and monitoring recruitment statistics. We also use successful applicants’ information to administer the employment relationship. We may also use and disclose applicants’ information to improve our website and for the compliance and protection purposes described above.When you apply for a job with us, we may offer you the option to engage in SMS text conversations about your job application. Consent to receive automated SMS text messages is not a condition of for employment. Message frequency may vary depending on the status of your job application, and message and data rates may apply. If you opt in to receive SMS text messages about your job application, your consent data, mobile number, and personal information will be collected and stored solely for the purpose of providing you with updates and information related to your job application or other job opportunities at the Company. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. To stop receiving text messages regarding your job application or other job opportunities at the Company, reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help to the text message.We may also use data aggregators to collect information about potential job applicants from certain third-party publicly-available websites, and contact these individuals about employment opportunities.
9. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Data for our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising. We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. These third parties may aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes. In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
You may see these interest-based advertisements on our Digital Services, as well as on third party websites and apps, and across different devices you use. We may use this process to help us manage and improve the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. It also allows us to display ads to our users about Company after they leave our Digital Services, and to track users after they see or click on an advertisement, keep track of users who access our Digital Services or advertisements from different devices, and better provide advertisements to our target audiences. The data collected through these tracking technologies is also saved and processed by our advertising and marketing service provider partners.We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info).
10. Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information and Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may contact us to access or change your Personal Data. You may also be able to review and change your personal information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page. You can Contact Us to access and/or find out what information we have about you, and to correct that information. You can also review and change your Personal Data by logging into our Digital Services and visiting either the Settings or Account Preferences sections of our Digital Services. You may also notify us through the Contact Information below of any changes or errors in any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your account with us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.Cookies. You can change the cookie settings that will be placed when you use our Digital Services by changing the settings on your Internet browser. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access or use all or areas and aspects of our Digital Services.Personalized and interest-based advertising. You can generally opt out of receiving personalized and interest-based advertisements from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt out pages on the NAI website and DAA website. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt out rights and options on the NAI website and DAA website.Messages. If you do not wish to have your email address used by Company to send you advertising messages and content, you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing emails you receive from us. You may have other options with respect to marketing and communication preferences through our Digital Services.
11. Do Not Track Signals
We currently do not use automated data collection technologies to track you across websites. We currently do not honor do-not-track signals that may be sent by some browsers.Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals.
12. Data Security
Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Digital Services confidential.We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We use encryption technology for information sent and received by us. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for the use of our Digital Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to, on or through our Digital Services. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, in your operating system, or in the App.
13. PRIVACY RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA, CERTAIN OTHER US STATES, AND CANADA
In addition to the disclosures and rights set forth elsewhere in this Policy, you and other users may have certain rights based on applicable state and Canadian law, for example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as updated by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA) or Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Other states have passed consumer privacy laws that may be applicable to Real and your use of this Site. These supplemental disclosures and rights apply to you and your use of our Digital Services to the extent applicable state and Canadian law applies to Real and your use of our Digital Services. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your rights under applicable state or Canadian law.Categories of Personal Information Company Collects As described in more detail in other areas of our Privacy Policy, we collect and/or disclose Personal Data (termed “Personal Information” in the CCPA and PIPEDA) about you when you visit use our Digital Services, including information about you that you provide to us, and information that we automatically collect from you or your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein, for additional information and details. Personal information does not include information that is: (a) publicly available information from government records; (b) de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or (c) certain information excluded from the scope of applicable state law (e.g., PHI covered under HIPAA and medical information may be covered under other state laws).Categories of Sources from which Company has collected Personal InformationAs described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we collect Personal Information directly from you, for example when you provide it to us, when you contact us through our Digital Services, when you create a Company account; and indirectly from you automatically through your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you from our advertising partners and service providers. Use of Personal Information We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy (for example, please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”). Disclosures of Personal Information for Business Purposes:As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we may disclose your Personal Information for our business purposes, such as your contact information, other information you have provided to us and unique identifiers that identify you to us or to our service providers, such as companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein for additional information and details.We disclose your Personal Information to certain third parties such as our vendors, business partners, service providers, including companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. For additional information please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).Access Request RightsYou may have the right to request that Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information for the above business and commercial purposes. To submit an access request, see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights, referenced herein. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights You may have the right to request that Company delete your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless certain exceptions apply. Correction Request Rights You may have the right to ask us to correct Personal Information that is inaccurate or out of date. You may also be able to review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page. Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Personal Information for Targeted AdvertisingAs explained in the Interest-Based Targeted Advertising section above, we may share Personal Information with advertising partners that display targeted advertisements to users around the web, including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies on our Websites. This may qualify as a “sale” or “share” of Personal Information under applicable privacy laws. You can opt out of sharing for these purposes by clicking Your Privacy Choices on the footer of our website or contacting us as described below. Exporting Data If you need to export or obtain a copy of your data, please let us know and we will assist you with your request. We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we use it and applicable legal requirements. We may retain some data for longer periods of time than other data when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.Exercising Access, Correction, and Deletion RightsTo exercise the access, correction, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or your legal representative authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information, including requests to access your Personal Information. The verifiable consumer request must:
Please note that applicable law limits your rights by, for example, prohibiting us from providing certain sensitive information in response to an access request and limiting the circumstances in which we must comply with a deletion request. If we deny your request, we will communicate our decision to you.Non-DiscriminationWe will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable state or Canadian law. Unless permitted by applicable law, we will not:
14. Users Outside of the United States and Canada
Our Website is intended for use by residents in the United States and Canada. Our Website is not intended for use by and is not directed to residents of the European Union. All data is stored and processed in the United States. By using and accessing our site, users who reside or are located in countries outside of the United States (including users in Canada) agree and consent to the transfer to and processing of personal information on servers located outside of the country where they reside, and that the protection of such information may be different than required under the laws of their residence or location.
15. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on our Website. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may notify you of such changes through your contact information and invite you to review (and accept, if necessary) the changes.We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically accessing the App or visiting our Website and reviewing this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
16. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact Us” page on or in our Digital Services. How to Contact Us:Telephone: 646-859-2368 (United States) or 782-820-4098 (Canada).Email: support@therealbrokerage.com
Last updated: May 2024
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how The Real Brokerage, Inc. collects and uses Personal Data through our Website, mobile applications, email, text, and other electronic communications.
The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd. (collectively “Company,” or “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from individual consumers, business representatives, real estate agents, and website visitors who visit or use our website located at www.joinreal.com (our “Website”) or any of our related mobile applications (our “App”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, our Website, App and all related services and functionality that we provide or make available through them are referred to as our “Digital Services”.
This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
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 Services. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy, referenced below). Your continued use of our Digital Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2. Age Requirement
Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or through the Digital Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or in our Digital Services or on or through any of their features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 18, please email us at support@therealbrokerage.com or call us at 646-859-2368 (United States) or 782-820-4098 (Canada).
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.
Generally
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Digital Services, specifically information:
Collectively, we refer to this information in this policy as “Personal Data.”
We collect this information:
Information You Provide to Us
The Personal Data we collect is:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Beneficiary Information. You have the ability to designate a beneficiary for revenue share amounts we owe to you. If you provide beneficiary information, you represent and warrant to us that you have the legal right and authorization, through consent or otherwise, to provide the beneficiary’s personal information to us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Digital Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. For example, we collect, record and store information about your activity when you access and use our Digital Services, the Internet, and other online activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Digital Services and other websites. We use various technologies to collect and store location information, including cookies, pixels or pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, session recording and replay technology, and server logs.
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Digital Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Google uses data when you visit our Website by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps”, (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/). We may also use Google Analytics Advertising Features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity. For more information regarding Google Analytics please visit Google's website, and pages that describe Google Analytics, such as www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
Intercom. We may use Intercom, a web analytics service provided by Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) to collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Intercom uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Intercom uses data when you visit our Website by visiting https://www.intercom.com/legal/privacy. We may also use Intercom to provide advertising features or other advertising networks to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, including through newsletters. If you wish to opt-out of receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of these communications or by visiting your Account Preferences page. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, referenced below.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not share, sell, share, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
6. Commercial Charge Cards and Other Financial Products and Services
We offer real estate agents’ businesses financial products and services from our financial institution partners, such as a corporate charge card or debit card (collectively, “Financial Products”), to enable the business to purchase goods and services for a commercial purpose and conduct other financial activities. This section describes how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Data in connection with businesses’ applications for and use of the Financial Products.
7. Marketing to Real Estate Agents Affiliated with Real by Real Affiliates
We may share the personal information of real estate agents (including brokers) affiliated with our Real brokerage entities with Real affiliate businesses that offer mortgage broker (“One Real Mortgage”), title insurance (“One Real Title”) and other products and services. The shared information may include personal contact information, commission information and other information that was provided to Real brokerage entities, including information provided through the reZEN application. The Real affiliates, including One Real Mortgage and One Real Title and its affiliates, may use the information for their business and commercial purposes including to send marketing communications about their products and services. Real estate agents may elect to not have their information shared with Real affiliates at any time by contacting us at support@therealbrokerage.com or Real Broker, LLC, c/o Real Support, 39889 Balentine Dr., Suite 200, Newark, CA 94560, and stating, in the e-mail or letter, “I hereby elect to not have my information shared with Real’s affiliates, and elect to not have Real’s affiliates use my information to market to me”.
8. Job Applicants
When you apply for one of our open positions, we collect the information that you provide in connection with your job application. This includes name, contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history, and other information that may be included in a resume or provided during interviews (which may be recorded). This may also include demographic or diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We may also conduct background checks and receive related information.
We use applicants’ information to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, including evaluating candidates and monitoring recruitment statistics. We also use successful applicants’ information to administer the employment relationship. We may also use and disclose applicants’ information to improve our website and for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
When you apply for a job with us, we may offer you the option to engage in SMS text conversations about your job application. Consent to receive automated SMS text messages is not a condition of for employment. Message frequency may vary depending on the status of your job application, and message and data rates may apply. If you opt in to receive SMS text messages about your job application, your consent data, mobile number, and personal information will be collected and stored solely for the purpose of providing you with updates and information related to your job application or other job opportunities at the Company. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. To stop receiving text messages regarding your job application or other job opportunities at the Company, reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help to the text message.
We may also use data aggregators to collect information about potential job applicants from certain third-party publicly-available websites, and contact these individuals through phone calls or text messages about employment opportunities.
9. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Data for our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising.
We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. These third parties may aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes.
In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
You may see these interest-based advertisements on our Digital Services, as well as on third party websites and apps, and across different devices you use. We may use this process to help us manage and improve the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. It also allows to display ads to our users about Company after they leave our Digital Services, and to track users after they see or click on an advertisement, keep track of users who access our Digital Services or advertisements from different devices, and better provide advertisements to our target audiences. The data collected through these tracking technologies is also saved and processed by our advertising and marketing service provider partners.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info).
10. Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information and Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may contact us to access, delete, or change your Personal Data. You may also be able to review, delete, and change your Personal Data by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page. However, please note that we may retain records of your information for legal, compliance and audit purposes, even after your information has been deleted from or changed in your account.
You can Contact Us to access and/or find out what information we have about you, and to correct that information. You can also review and change your Personal Data by logging into our Digital Services and visiting either the Settings or Account Preferences sections of our Digital Services. You may also notify us through the Contact Information below of any changes or errors in any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We may not be able to delete some of your Personal Data except by also deleting your account with us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Cookies. You can change the cookie settings that will be placed when you use our Digital Services by changing the settings on your Internet browser. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access or use all or areas and aspects of our Digital Services.
Personalized and interest-based advertising. You can generally opt out of receiving personalized and interest-based advertisements from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt out pages on the NAI website and DAA website. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt out rights and options on the NAI website and DAA website.
Messages. If you do not wish to have your email address used by Company to send you advertising messages and content, you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing emails you receive from us. You may have other options with respect to marketing and communication preferences through our Digital Services.
11. Do Not Track Signals
We currently do not use automated data collection technologies to track you across websites. We currently do not honor do-not-track signals that may be sent by some browsers.
Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals.
12. Data Security
Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Digital Services confidential.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We use encryption technology for information sent and received by us.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for the use of our Digital Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to, on or through our Digital Services. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, in your operating system, or in the App.
13. PRIVACY RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA AND CERTAIN OTHER US STATES
In addition to the disclosures and rights set forth elsewhere in this Policy, you and other users may have certain rights based on applicable state law, for example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as updated by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA). Other states have passed consumer privacy laws that may be applicable to Real and your use of this Site. These supplemental disclosures and rights apply to you and your use of our Digital Services to the extent applicable state law applies to Real and your use of our Digital Services. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your rights under applicable state law.
Categories of Personal Information Company Collects
As described in more detail in other areas of our Privacy Policy, we collect and/or disclose Personal Data (termed “Personal Information” in the CCPA) about you when you visit use our Digital Services, including information about you that you provide to us, and information that we automatically collect from you or your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein, for additional information and details.
Personal information does not include information that is: (a) publicly available information from government records; (b) de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or (c) certain information excluded from the scope of applicable state law (e.g., PHI covered under HIPAA and medical information may be covered under other state laws).
Categories of Sources from which Company has collected Personal Information
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we collect Personal Information directly from you, for example when you provide it to us, when you contact us through our Digital Services, when you create a Company account; and indirectly from you automatically through your computer or device as you use our Digital Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you from our advertising partners and service providers.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy (for example, please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”). Disclosures of Personal Information for Business Purposes:
As described in more detail elsewhere in this Policy, we may disclose your Personal Information for our business purposes, such as your contact information, other information you have provided to us and unique identifiers that identify you to us or to our service providers, such as companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. Please refer to Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It, referenced herein for additional information and details.
We disclose your Personal Information to certain third parties such as our vendors, business partners, service providers, including companies that assist us with marketing and advertising. For additional information please refer to “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Access Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information for the above business and commercial purposes. To submit an access request, see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights, referenced herein. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights
You may have the right to request that Company delete your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless certain exceptions apply.
Correction Request Rights
You may have the right to ask us to correct Personal Information that is inaccurate or out of date. You may also be able to review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Digital Service and visiting your Account Preferences page.
Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Personal Information for Targeted Advertising
As explained in the Interest-Based Targeted Advertising section above, we may share Personal Information with advertising partners that display targeted advertisements to users around the web, including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies on our Websites. This may qualify as a “sale” or “share” of Personal Information under applicable privacy laws. You can opt out of sharing for these purposes by clicking Your Privacy Choices on the footer of our website or contacting us as described below.
Exporting Data
If you need to export or obtain a copy of your data, please let us know and we will assist you with your request. We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we use it and applicable legal requirements. We may retain some data for longer periods of time than other data when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.
Exercising Access, Correction, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, correction, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or your legal representative authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Please note that applicable law limits your rights by, for example, prohibiting us from providing certain sensitive information in response to an access request and limiting the circumstances in which we must comply with a deletion request. If we deny your request, we will communicate our decision to you.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable state law. Unless permitted by applicable law, we will not:
14. Users Outside of the United States
Our Website is intended for use by residents in the United States and Canada. Our Website is not intended for use by and is not directed to residents of the European Union. All data is stored and processed in the United States. By using and accessing our site, users who reside or are located in countries outside of the United States (including users in Canada) agree and consent to the transfer to and processing of personal information on servers located outside of the country where they reside, and that the protection of such information may be different than required under the laws of their residence or location.
15. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on our Website. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may notify you of such changes through your contact information and invite you to review (and accept, if necessary) the changes.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website’s home page or the App’s home screen. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically accessing the App or visiting our Website and reviewing this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
16. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact Us” page on or in our Digital Services.
How to Contact Us:
Telephone: 646-859-2368 (United States) or 782-820-4098 (Canada).
Email: support@therealbrokerage.com
Last updated: [UPDATE] 2024
1. Your Acceptance
The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd. (collectively “REAL”) make its internet accessible websites, including www.joinreal.com, www.therealbrokerage.com, and www.onereal.com, (“Site”) and related mobile applications or mobile accessible websites (“App”), including all information, documents, communications, files, text, graphics, and software available through the Site and App (collectively, the “Content”) and any products and services, including real estate related documents, products, and services, provided and operated by REAL through the Site and App (collectively, the “Services”), available for your use subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this document, any changes to this document that REAL may publish from time to time, and any other relevant terms and conditions incorporated by REAL, including the terms and conditions applicable to REAL’s electronic signature software application, which can be viewed at https://__________________/ (collectively, “Agreement” or “Terms of Use”).
Throughout this Agreement, Site and App, and their related Content and Services, are collectively referred to as the “System”, and the words “us,” “we,” and “our,” also refer to our companies, The Real Brokerage Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Real Broker, LLC; Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.; Real Broker AZ, LLC; Real Broker NY, LLC; Real Broker CT, LLC; Real Broker MA, LLC; Real Broker NH, LLC; Real Broker Commercial, LLC; Real Broker NE, LLC; Real Broker AB Ltd.; Real Broker B.C. Ltd.; Real Broker Ontario Ltd.; and Real Broker Manitoba Ltd., and the System, as is appropriate in the context of the use of the words.
REAL believes in protecting your privacy. Please review our current privacy statement (“Privacy Policy”), which can be found at https://www.joinreal.com/page/legal, and is incorporated herein by reference, to understand and agree to our policies regarding your privacy.
You may not interfere with the security of or otherwise abuse the System or any system resources, Content, and/or Services or networks connected to or accessible through the System. You may only use the System for lawful purposes.
BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS SYSTEM, WHETHER OR NOT AS A REGISTERED USER, IN ANY WAY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES OR CONTENT, POSTING/UPLOADING OF ANY CONTENT, DOWNLOADING OF ANY CONTENT, OR MERELY BROWSING THE SITE OR APP, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND AGREE TO, AND ARE BOUND BY, THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY. YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY IS BETWEEN REAL AND YOU.
IF THESE TERMS OF USE ARE NOT COMPLETELY ACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE YOUR USE OF THE SYSTEM.
This System, including Content and Services, is directed to those individuals and entities located in the United States and Canada where REAL is offering Content and Services. It is not directed to any person or entity in any jurisdiction where (by reason of location, business decision, nationality, residence, citizenship or otherwise) REAL is not offering Content and Services or where the publication or availability of the System and its Content and Services are unavailable or otherwise contrary to local laws or regulations. If this exclusion applies to you, you are not authorized to access or use any of the information on the System. REAL makes no representation that the information, opinions, or other Content or Services, whether or not through the System, is correct, appropriate, or that the System, Content, or Services are available outside of the United States and Canada or outside of REAL’s specific operating locations. Those who choose to access this System, Content, or Services from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with applicable laws.
REAL reserves the right to update or modify the Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your continued use of any portion of the System, including any portion of the Site and/or App, whether or not as a registered user, following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms of Use as changed. For this reason, you are advised to review these Terms of Use whenever you use the System. The Terms of Use may be found at any time on the Site and App, and REAL will provide you with a copy of the Terms of Use upon written request.
2. Eligibility
In order to use our System, you must meet a number of conditions, including but not limited to:
3. Account Registration and Payment
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the System, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended to be accessed through your account or logging onto a server or an account which you are not authorized to access; or (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; or (c) accessing or using the System or any portion thereof without authorization, in violation of these Terms of Use or in violation of applicable law.
Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. REAL will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the System or any activity being conducted on the System.
In the event access to the System or a portion thereof is limited requiring a user ID and password (“Protected Areas”), you agree to access Protected Areas using only your unique user ID and password. You agree to protect the confidentiality of your user ID and password, and not to share or disclose your user ID or password to any third party. You agree that you are fully responsible for all activity occurring under your user ID. Your access to the System may be revoked by REAL at any time with or without cause. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold REAL harmless from and against all third party claims, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) against or incurred by REAL arising out of your breach of these Terms of Use or violation of applicable law, your use or access of the System, or access by anyone accessing the System using your user ID and password.
Depending on Services and Content requested, users of the System may be required to set up and maintain, keeping all user information correct and current, a unique user account for each specific user (regardless of whether that user is an employee or agent of any other user). Such user account will require user to provide and keep current a valid and working email address, where the user may be contacted. It is your responsibility to keep your email address current so that REAL can communicate with you electronically. You understand and agree that if we send you a communication but you do not receive it because your email address on file is incorrect, out of date, blocked by your service provider, or you are otherwise unable to receive electronic communications, we will be deemed to have provided the communication to you; however, we may deem your account inactive. You may not be able to use our Services until we receive a valid, working email address from you. You may update your email address or other information by logging into your user account (if applicable) or by emailing us at support@therealbrokerage.com.
We may collect personal information during the account creation process as disclosed by our Privacy Policy. Each and every unique user must agree to the Terms of Use and operate the System in accordance with the Terms of Use and instructions provided by REAL on the Site and App and as may otherwise be required by separate written contract between Real and you or the user. You may not: (i) select or use a login name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use a name subject to the rights of any other person without authorization; or (iii) use a login name that REAL, in its sole discretion, deems inappropriate or offensive. You shall notify REAL of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your account, at REAL’s sole discretion, and you may be reported to appropriate law-enforcement agencies.
You agree that your use of the System, and any Services or Content provided by or through the System, is limited to you alone, and you agree to accept full responsibility and indemnify, defend, and hold REAL harmless for any liability or use associated with any third party’s use of the System, Services, and/or Content under you or on your behalf. You agree that your limited license granted by REAL to use the SYSTEM is a non-transferable LIMITED license to use the SYSTEM.
Any “Fees” to use portions of the System and its Content and/or Services are set by REAL, from time to time, in its sole discretion, and are subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise stated, the Fees do not include taxes or duties of any kind, and all taxes and duties are responsibility of the user.
You agree to pay to REAL all Fees, as set forth on the System, at the time specified on the Site and/or App, or if there is no such time specified, all payments for Fees must be paid as directed by REAL, or prior to using such portion of the System. If Fees are not paid, Content and Services may not be provided or performed. All payments of Fees shall be made in full and without any deduction, whether by set-off, counterclaim, discount, abatement, or otherwise, unless you have REAL’s prior written approval or a valid order from a court having proper jurisdiction. You agree to abide by any terms and conditions applicable to any payment processing services available through the System, including terms and conditions of any third party payment processing services.
If you have any issues with your account or wish to cancel your account please contact us at support@therealbrokerage.com. After we have been notified of your desire to cancel your REAL account, we will verify that all transactions and obligations have been completed under your account. Once such verification has occurred you will receive a notification from us verifying that your account has been cancelled. Please be aware that once you initiate the cancellation process, your account may become immediately inaccessible.
4. Our Service
REAL is a real estate broker and a platform that assists in connecting users looking to complete a property transaction (“Buyers”) with real estate agents or other real estate professionals (“Real Estate Agents”), and provides Content and Services to support and facilitate a property transaction. REAL does not endorse or otherwise verify the reliability of any Real Estate Agents that are not affiliated with our brokerage. Users agree to assume all liability for the use of our System and agree to hold REAL harmless for any losses arising from or relating to your use of our System, whether as a Buyer, Real Estate Agent, or otherwise. No fiduciary relationship, agency, joint venture or partnership is created between any users of the System and REAL. You agree that REAL is not a party to any contracts entered between you and any other third parties encountered through our System or otherwise.
Modification of System
We reserve the right to alter, update, or remove our System at any time. We may conduct such modifications to our System for security reasons, intellectual property or other legal reasons, or various other reasons at our discretion, and we are not required to explain such modifications. For example, we may provide updates to fix security flaws, or respond to legal demands. Please note that this is a non-binding illustration of how we might exercise our rights under this section, and nothing in this section obligates us to take measures to update the System for security, legal or other purposes.
5. Our License Grant to You
We make our Content and Services available to you through our System. When you use our System, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to use our System, including accessing our Site and App. This means you may not resell our System, including any Content or Services, anywhere else, share your license to use our System with anyone else, reverse engineer, decompile, modify or otherwise attempt to copy our System.
This license may be terminated if you violate any provisions listed in this Agreement or our Privacy Policy. Additionally, this license may be terminated if you are engaged in any activities that we feel may damage the rights of REAL or if your activities are in violation of any applicable laws. If you wish to terminate this license, please simply stop using our System or notify us and cancel your account.
6. Use of REAL
You are responsible for your use of the System, and for any use of the System made using your account. Specifically, you agree that:
If you are discovered to be undertaking any of the aforementioned actions, your privileges to use our System may at our discretion be terminated or suspended. We may also suspend or terminate your access to REAL if we feel that any of your activities through our System may harm the rights of REAL. Generally, we will provide an explanation for any suspension or termination of your use of any of our System, but REAL reserves the right to suspend or terminate any account at any time without notice or explanation.
7. Your Content on the System
When submitting any Content, please ensure that such Content is accurate. We are not required to host, display, utilize, or distribute any of your Content or posts and we may refuse to accept or transmit any Content or delete your Content from the System at any time. You understand that when using the System, you may be exposed to Content from a variety of sources, and that REAL is not responsible for the accuracy, validity, or usefulness of Content created by others. You agree that you are solely responsible for any Content submitted using your account and that we cannot guarantee the absolute safety and security of any such information.
You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against REAL with respect thereto, and agree to indemnify and hold REAL, its owners/operators, affiliates, and/or licensors, harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your use of the System.
When you submit any Content to us, you grant REAL and its affiliates, users, representatives, successors and assigns a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, world-wide, unrestricted, sub-licensable, universal, transferable license to display, publicly perform, distribute, store, broadcast, transmit, reproduce, modify, translate, prepare derivative works and otherwise use and reuse all or part of your Content and anything we may make with your Content through REAL or any other medium currently invented or invented in the future. We reserve the right to display advertisements in connection with your Content, and to use your Content to advertise and promote REAL. Additionally, although you own all Content submitted by you, we own all layouts, arrangement, metadata and images that are used to render your Content through our System.
By submitting any Content to our System, you hereby represent and warrant that you own all rights to your Content or, alternatively, that you have the right to give us the license described above. You also promise that you have paid and will pay in full all fees or other payments related to the use of your post or submission of any Content. Finally, you agree that your submitted post or Content does not infringe on the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party.
Beneficiary Information and Emergency Contacts. In connection with certain REAL Services or programs, such as the willable revenue share program, you may have the ability to designate a beneficiary, designate an emergency contact, or the like. If you provide information for a beneficiary, emergency contact, or the like, you represent and warrant to us that you have the legal right and authorization, through consent or otherwise, to provide such personal information to us.
8. Public Display of Content
When submitting any Content to us, you understand that this Content may be viewable by the public or other users. It is recommended that Content that you submit to our System be tasteful and up to community standards. You agree that we at our sole discretion may remove any Content that we determine is not up to community standards.
9. Consent for Electronic Transactions
REAL may offer Services that facilitate electronic transactions, including Services that allow users to electronically sign and verify documents. Such Services are compliant with the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (the “E-SIGN Act”), which facilitates the use of electronic signatures, communications, and records in interstate and foreign commerce by ensuring the validity and legal effect of contracts entered into electronically.
By using REAL’s E-SIGN Act compliant electronic signature Services, you are consenting and agreeing (i) to receive notices and disclosures in a reasonably accessible manner from REAL in electronic form, (ii) use REAL’s electronic signature Services on the documents you elect to execute or otherwise process through REAL’s electronic signature Services, (iii) to conduct proposed transactions electronically, with the use of electronic signatures, including electronic initials, for the documents to be executed, (iv) that electronic signatures and initials contained on these documents are equivalent to hand written signatures and initials for purposes of evaluating validity, enforceability, and admissibility of such documents, and (v) that your signatures and initials are accurate and will constitute an electronic, valid, and binding representation of your signature and initials for the purpose of legal documents and contracts. By delivering to REAL documents to be executed, you are authorizing REAL to imprint thereon your signature and that of other parties who have provided us with their consent, and to distribute copies of the executed version to all parties.
REAL will initiate electronic signature transactions through its Services by requiring you to verify your identity, including by registering an account with REAL, responding to an email invitation from REAL, providing identifying documentation to REAL, obtaining your IP address, or otherwise using reasonable methods to verify your identity. REAL shall provide you the documents for execution by electronic message, such as an email, upon which to proceed you must confirm receipt of the electronic message and acknowledge that you are able to download, save, and print electronic documents. Your consent to conduct transactions electronically, including by using REAL’s electronic signature Services, applies to all documents that you receive or transact using such Services until such time as you withdraw your consent.
You may withdraw your consent to receive Records under this Notice by emailing us at support@therealbrokerage.com or writing us at 27 W 24th Street, Suite 407, New York, NY 10010. Your withdrawal will be effective within twenty (24) business hours from the time we receive your withdrawal notice. Any withdrawal request must be made to “Attn: E-Sign Consent Withdrawal.”
To access and retain electronic records, you must have a valid email address, an electronic device, such as a computer, mobile phone, tablet, or similar device with internet access and a current web browser, where such device has software making it capable of receiving, accessing, displaying, printing, saving, and storing documents and other records (with sufficient data storage to store such documents and records) received in electronic form.
Should you desire paper copies of any documents executed using REAL’s electronic signature Services, you may request such documents directly from your REAL agent, by emailing us at support@therealbrokerage.com, or by writing us at 27 W 24th Street, Suite 407, New York, NY 10010, Attn: E-Sign Document Request.”
REAL provides its electronic signature Services as a way for parties to execute agreements. REAL is not a party to any such agreement and shall not have any liability or responsibility with respect to the validity or enforceability, the breach by any party in the performance of its obligations under that agreement, or your failure to obtain the outcome you were seeking to achieve. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of REAL’s electronic signature Services complies with applicable local, state, provincial, territorial, or federal laws, and professional regulatory requirements, including with regard to identity verification in real estate transactions. REAL shall not have any obligation with respect to the performance by any party to any agreement executed using our Services. If any dispute arises between or among any parties to an agreement that has been executed using our Services, REAL shall not have any responsibility or liability with respect to that dispute. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, REAL will not have any obligation to assist in mediating any such dispute, to locate any other party to the agreement, or otherwise to facilitate a resolution of the dispute.
ANY STATEMENTS MADE BY REAL ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS AND THE SIGNATURES ON AGREEMENTS THAT ARE ELECTRONICALLY EXECUTED ARE GENERAL IN NATURE AND ARE NOT INTENDED, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED, AS LEGAL ADVICE. REAL HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENSURING THAT AGREEMENTS THAT ARE ELECTRONICALLY EXECUTED THROUGH REAL’S SERVICES ARE VALID OR ENFORCEABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY PARTICULAR STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION. IF YOU WISH TO VERIFY THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF ANY AGREEMENT YOU PLAN TO EXECUTE OR HAVE EXECUTED USING REAL’S SERVICES, THEN YOU SHOULD CONSULT A LICENSED ATTORNEY FOR APPROPRIATE LEGAL ADVICE.
10. Compliance with all Laws and Regulations
REAL is not responsible for your violation of any laws while using our System. Users must comply with all local, state, provincial, territorial, or federal laws regarding your use of our System. Our System is void where prohibited.
11. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”)
REAL respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects our affiliated agents to do the same. Per the DMCA, REAL will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site or App if submitted to REAL’s Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, REAL will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials.
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by REAL or by a third party who has uploaded materials to the Site or App, please provide the following information to REAL’s designated Copyright Agent listed below:
REAL may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event REAL removes the allegedly infringing materials, REAL will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that REAL removed or disabled access to the materials.
REAL may also provide the responsible person with your e-mail address so that the person may respond to your allegations.
REAL reserves the right to terminate, limit or suspend any user’s access to the System in the event of repeated infringing activity. If you believe that a user of this System is a repeat infringer, please follow the above instructions to contact REAL’s Copyright Agent. Please include sufficient information to assist REAL in determining that the user repeatedly engaged in infringing activity.
REAL registered a designated agent with the Copyright Office pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c). REAL’s designated Copyright Agent is:
Ron Dunagan Real Broker, LLC
27 West 24th St., Ste 407
New York, New York 10010
512-777-9581
646-859-2368
ron@therealbrokerage.com
12. Intellectual Property Rights
All Content and Services of the System, and the System itself, including its design and operation, are owned by REAL and are subject to trademark, service mark, trade dress, internet domain name, copyright, patent, and/or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by REAL, one of its affiliates, or by third parties who have licensed their materials to REAL. All intellectual property rights in the System attributable to REAL, and any derivative rights, shall remain REAL’s sole property. Provided that you comply with these Terms of Use, including your obligations as to use of the System and otherwise, REAL grants to you a limited, terminable at REAL’s sole discretion, non-exclusive, and non-assignable license to use the intellectual property, excluding trademarks, logos, and service marks (“Marks”), of the System, with any such use not to exceed the scope and intent for use of the System as set forth in these Terms of Use or otherwise limited by REAL. You may not grant any sub-licenses nor transfer the benefit of the license hereby granted without the prior written consent of REAL. If this Agreement terminates and/or if you are in default of these Terms of Use, this license shall automatically terminate.
The Marks displayed on or in connection with the System are the property of REAL or other third parties. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior written consent of REAL or such third party that may own the Marks.
You may not, nor have a third party on your behalf, copy, download, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, transmit, transfer, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, improve, import, export, offer for sale, or sell the System, or any Content or Services of the System, without first obtaining written permission from REAL, and you agree to assign and do hereby assign to REAL all rights, title, and interests in any work product or other interests resulting from such actions, including intellectual property developed or derived by or from improvements or derivations of the System attributable to you.
13. Real Estate Agents
License Status Notification
Many of our Services and Content are intended for use by licensed Real Estate Agents. If you access, download, or use any such Content or Services in connection with the System, you represent and warrant that you are a validly licensed Real Estate Agent in good standing or otherwise hold a valid license allowing you to practice in real estate transactions (e.g., licensed attorney). As a Real Estate Agent using our System, you agree to notify us immediately of any changes in the status of any real estate or other licenses held by you that affect your ability to legally conduct real estate transactions or otherwise work in the real estate industry. Additionally, you will notify us of any pending actions that may affect the status of any real estate licenses. Failure of a Real Estate Agent to notify REAL may result in suspension or termination of her/his access and use of the System and/or legal action.
14. System Disclaimer
We do not guarantee that the System will always be available, work, or be accessible at any particular time. Although we aim to provide you with accurate data and content through our System, please be aware that our System and any information, including Content, found within it are offered “as-is.” Only users who are eligible to use our System may do so. We reserve the right to terminate access for anyone for any reason.
You agree that any information listed by us or a third party on our System may be inaccurate, unsubstantiated or possibly even incorrect. We cannot guarantee that using our System will give you any desired results. We do not endorse, represent, warrant, or otherwise verify any third parties who use our Service or post Content on our Site or App. We assume no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any information listed or available on our System. You assume all responsibility for any such information listed or available on our System. You agree to release us from any liability that we may have to in relation to your use of our System.
You agree that it is your responsibility to verify any credentials of any third parties you may encounter through our System. You agree that we are not responsible for verifying the licensing of any Real Estate Agents and that you are solely responsible for such verification.
15. Representations and Warranties
THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE SERVICE, CONTENT, SITE, AND APP, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, NEITHER REAL NOR ANY OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, MANAGERS, OFFICERS OR AGENTS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OR ENDORSEMENTS OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO: (A) THE SYSTEM; (B) ANY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE SYSTEM; (C) OUR CONTENT AND ANY USER CONTENT; OR (D) SECURITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION TO REAL OR VIA THE SYSTEM. IN ADDITION, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, CUSTOM, TRADE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES AND CYBERSECURITY.
REAL DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE SYSTEM WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE SYSTEM OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SYSTEM AVAILABLE IS FREE FROM ANY HARMFUL COMPONENTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, VIRUSES. REAL DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE INFORMATION (INCLUDING ANY INSTRUCTIONS) ON THE SYSTEM IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR USEFUL. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SYSTEM IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. REAL DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF REAL’S SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF A REAL ESTATE AGENT WHO WILL BE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDE YOUR DESIRED REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION, OR THAT ANY REAL ESTATE SALES OR LEASE AGREEMENT THAT YOU CONTEMPLATE OR ENTER INTO, WITH OR WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF A REAL ESTATE AGENT, WILL BE CLOSED OR BE CONSUMMATED, OR WILL OCCUR WITHOUT RISK TO YOU. WE RELY ON VARIOUS SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN IDENTIFYING THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS FOUND ON THE SYSTEM, BUT DO NOT VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF SUCH INFORMATION. OUR REFERENCE TO OR SUGGESTION THAT YOU ENGAGE ANY REAL ESTATE AGENT THROUGH THE SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE DOES NOT MEAN OR IMPLY THAT REAL IS ASSUMING ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTUAL SERVICES RENDERED TO YOU BY ANY REAL ESTATE AGENT OR OUR SPONSORSHIP OF, OR AFFILIATION WITH ANY SUCH REAL ESTATE AGENT. REAL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SYSTEM IS LAWFUL IN ANY PARTICULAR JURISDICTION, AND REAL SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY SUCH WARRANTIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED OR OTHER WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT SUCH JURISDICTION'S LAW IS APPLICABLE TO YOU AND THIS AGREEMENT. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SYSTEM YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOUR ACTIVITIES ARE LAWFUL IN EVERY JURISDICTION WHERE YOU ACCESS OR USE THE SYSTEM. REAL DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY CONTENT OR SERVICES AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE (WHETHER ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHERWISE), INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY OR OTHER CAUSE OF ANY KIND OR CHARACTER BASED UPON OR RESULTING FROM ANY CONTENT OR SERVICES FOUND ON OR THROUGH REAL. IN THE EVENT OF ANY ISSUE OR PROBLEM WITH THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING ITS CONTENT OR SERVICES, YOU AGREE THAT YOUR SOLE REMEDY, IF ANY, IS THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT.
16. Limitation of Liability and Release
IN NO EVENT SHALL REAL, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM (I) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SYSTEM DUE TO ANY ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (II) ANY PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR SYSTEM, (III) ANY INTERRUPTION,MISINFORMATION, INCOMPLETE INFORMATION, OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM OUR SYSTEM TO YOU, (IV) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE, WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SYSTEM BY ANY THIRD PARTY, (V) ANY FAILURE OF ANY THIRD PARTY INFORMATION OR PRODUCTS LISTED AND SOLD ON OUR SYSTEM, INCLUDING ANY FAILURES OR DISRUPTIONS WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL, (VI) ANY ACTION TAKEN IN CONNECTION WITH COPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS OR (VII) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN OUR SYSTEM FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF OUR SYSTEM, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT REAL IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW IN THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.
For Jurisdictions that do not allow us to limit our liability: Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms of Use, if your jurisdiction has provisions specific to waiver or liability that conflict with the above then our liability is limited to the fullest extent possible by law. Specifically, in those jurisdictions not allowed, we do not disclaim liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence or that of any of our officers, employees or agents; or (b) fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any liability which it is not lawful to exclude either now or in the future.
IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF A JURISDICTION THAT REQUIRES A SPECIFIC STATEMENT REGARDING RELEASE THEN THE FOLLOWING APPLIES. FOR EXAMPLE, CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS MUST, AS A CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WAIVE THE APPLICABILITY OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES, “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." YOU HEREBY WAIVE THIS SECTION OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY SIMILAR PROVISION IN LAW, REGULATION, OR CODE THAT HAS THE SAME INTENT OR EFFECT AS THE AFOREMENTIONED RELEASE. REAL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES. YOUR ABILITY TO USE OUR SYSTEM IS CONTINGENT ON YOUR AGREEMENT WITH THIS AND ALL OTHER SECTIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, IN THE EVENT THAT WE MAY BE FOUND LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY ISSUES REGARDING OUR SYSTEM, YOU AGREE OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU WILL NOT EXCEED $100 USD OR THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU SPENT WHILE USING OUR SYSTEM WITHIN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.
No Liability of App Stores and Other Third Parties. Your wireless carrier, the manufacturer and retailer of your mobile device, the developer of the operating system for your mobile device, the operator of any application store, marketplace, or similar service through which you obtain the App, and their respective affiliates, suppliers, and licensors (collectively, “Third Parties”) are not parties to this Agreement and they do not own and are not responsible for the App. REAL, and not any Third Parties, is responsible for addressing any claims raised by you or any third party regarding the App or your use or possession thereof, including claims related to product liability, legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection or similar legislation. You are responsible for complying with all application store and other applicable Third Party terms and conditions. YOU AGREE (I) THE THIRD PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE APP, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUALITY OF INFORMATION, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (II) IN NO EVENT WILL THE THIRD PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE APP, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES; (III) IN ANY EVENT, THE MAXIMUM LIABILITY OF ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ALL CLAIMS (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE) OF EVERY KIND WILL IN NOT EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($500.00 USD); AND (IV) YOU WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, NOW KNOWN OR LATER DISCOVERED, THAT YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST THE THIRD PARTIES ARISING OUT OF THE APP AND THIS AGREEMENT. THE THIRD PARTIES ARE INTENDED THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF THIS AGREEMENT, CAPABLE OF DIRECTLY ENFORCING ITS TERMS. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE CONSTRUED AS MODIFYING OR AMENDING ANY AGREEMENTS OR OTHER TERMS BETWEEN YOU AND THE THIRD PARTIES WITH REGARD TO THEIR SUBJECT MATTER. In the event of any claim that the App or your possession and use of the App infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights, the Third Parties are not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, or discharge of the infringement claim.
17. Class Action Waiver
To the greatest extent permissible by applicable law, you and REAL agree that any proceedings to resolve or litigate any dispute whether through a court of law or arbitration shall be solely conducted on an individual basis, and you agree that you will not seek to have any dispute heard as a class action, representative action, collective action, or private attorney general action.
18. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless REAL, its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from:
This defense and indemnification obligation will survive this Agreement and your use of the System. You also agree that you have a duty to defend us against such claims and we may require you to pay for an attorney(s) of our choice in such cases. You agree that this indemnity extends to requiring you to pay for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements. In the event of a claim such as one described in this paragraph, we may elect to settle with the party/parties making the claim and you shall be liable for the damages as though we had proceeded with a trial.
19. Choice of Law
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws in force in the state of Texas. The offer and acceptance of this contract is deemed to have occurred in Texas.
20. Forum of Dispute
At REAL’s sole discretion, it may require you to submit any disputes arising from these Terms of Use or use of the System, including disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation, invalidity, non-performance, or termination, to final and binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association applying Texas law.
If you bring a dispute in a manner other than in accordance with this section, you agree that we may move to have it dismissed, and that you will be responsible for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements in doing so.
You agree that the unsuccessful party in any dispute arising from or relating to this Agreement will be responsible for the reimbursement of the successful party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements.
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE SYSTEM MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
21. Force Majeure
You agree that we are not responsible to you for anything that we may otherwise be responsible for, if it is the result of events beyond our control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, war, insurrection, riots, terrorism, crime, labor shortages (including lawful and unlawful strikes), embargoes, postal disruption, communication disruption, failure or shortage of infrastructure, shortage of materials, or any other event beyond our control.
22. Severability
In the event that a provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, conflicting with another provision of the Agreement, or otherwise unenforceable, the Agreement will remain in force as though it had been entered into without that unenforceable provision being included in it.
If two or more provisions of this Agreement are deemed to conflict with each other’s operation, REAL shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force. Subject to any additional written contracts entered into between you and REAL, this Agreement is deemed to be the entire Agreement between you and REAL. In the event of a conflicting provision between this Agreement and any additional written contract entered into between you and REAL, REAL shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force.
23. Non-Waiver
We reserve all rights permitted to us under this Agreement as well as under the provisions of any applicable law. Our non-enforcement of any particular provision or provisions of this Agreement or any applicable law should not be construed as our waiver of the right to enforce that same provision under the same or different circumstances at any time in the future.
24. Third Parties
REAL or its users may post links to third party websites on its Site or App, which may include information that we have no control over. Whether you access third party websites through a link on our Site or App, or as a consequence of using our System, you acknowledge that you are aware that these third party websites are not screened for privacy or security issues by us, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites. Furthermore, REAL does not endorse, verify, or otherwise ensure the accuracy of any information posted or linked through third party websites including any services or products sold by such third parties.
25. Termination
Subject to any other contracts you may have with REAL, you may stop using the System at any time. REAL may suspend or terminate the System at any time at REAL’s discretion and without notice. REAL may also terminate, limit or suspend your access to the System for any reason at any time and without notice. For example, REAL may terminate your access to this System if you are not complying with these Terms of Use or if REAL determines that you are a repeat infringer of third-party intellectual property rights.
If we determine that any of your actions may harm REAL, we may terminate or suspend your account, or your use of our System without notice, though we will strive to provide a timely explanation in most cases. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. You agree that we are not required to provide you with access to our System and may terminate our System at any time and for any reason.
26. Assignments
You may not assign your rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party at our discretion.
27. Amendments
We may amend this Agreement from time to time. When we amend this Agreement, we will update this page and indicate the date that it was last modified or we may email you or otherwise provide you with written notice. You may refuse to agree to the amendments, but if you do, you must immediately cease using our System.
28. Headings
The headings in this Agreement are included for convenience only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of any provision in the Agreement or any of the rights or obligations of the parties to these Terms of Use.
29. Electronic Communications
The communications between you and REAL use electronic means, whether you visit the System or send REAL e-mails or other electronic communications, or whether REAL posts notices on the System or communications with you via e-mail or other electronic means. For contractual purposes, you (1) consent to receive communications from REAL in an electronic form; (2) agree that all terms, conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that REAL provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were to be in writing, including electronic execution of documents. Where permitted by applicable law, by submitting your contact information to us, you consent to being contacted by email, text message, or phone to receive updates and company information and related marketing. We will user your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, if you have any questions or wish to stop receiving communications from us, please contact us at support@therealbrokerage.com. The foregoing does not affect your statutory rights.
30. California Users and Residents
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1789.3, any questions about pricing, complaints, or inquiries about REAL must be sent to our agent for notice to: support@therealbrokerage.com.
Lastly, California users are also entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.
Last Updated: May 2024
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