Privacy & Data Protection

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Maklin Christman collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit our website or request a Realtor match.

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Maklin Christman respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through our website, inquiry forms, contact forms, communications, and Realtor referral services. By using our website or submitting information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly when you complete a contact form, submit a Realtor matching request, communicate with our team, or otherwise interact with our services.

  • Your name, email address, telephone number, and other contact details.
  • The city, state, neighborhood, or real estate market in which you are interested.
  • Whether you are buying, selling, relocating, investing, or seeking another real estate service.
  • Your estimated price range, preferred timeline, property requirements, and Realtor preferences.
  • Messages, questions, feedback, and other information you choose to provide.
  • Technical information such as browser type, device type, approximate location, IP address, referring pages, and website activity.

2. Sensitive Information

Our website is not designed to collect highly sensitive financial or identity information. Please do not submit Social Security numbers, bank account details, credit card information, government identification numbers, passwords, medical information, or other unnecessary sensitive information through our forms.

If sensitive information is required during a real estate transaction, it should be provided directly to the appropriate Realtor, lender, attorney, title company, or other authorized professional through a secure method.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to operate our website, provide our Realtor matching service, respond to inquiries, and improve the experience we provide.

  • Review and respond to your contact or Realtor matching request.
  • Understand your real estate goals, preferred market, budget, and timeline.
  • Identify and introduce you to a suitable local real estate professional.
  • Communicate with you about your inquiry, referral, or requested services.
  • Provide customer support and answer questions.
  • Improve our website, forms, content, and matching process.
  • Maintain website security, prevent fraud, and investigate misuse.
  • Comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies.

4. How We Share Information

We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to provide the services you request. We do not intend to make your personal information publicly available.

  • Selected Realtors, real estate brokers, or referral partners who may be able to assist with your request.
  • Technology providers that support website hosting, form processing, email delivery, analytics, security, and other business operations.
  • Professional advisers, including attorneys, accountants, insurers, and consultants, where reasonably necessary.
  • Government authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by law, court order, subpoena, or valid legal process.
  • A buyer, successor, or other relevant party in connection with a merger, reorganization, financing, sale, or transfer of all or part of our business.

5. Realtor Referrals

When you request a Realtor match, we may share relevant inquiry information with one or more selected real estate professionals so they can evaluate your request and contact you.

Realtors and brokerages participating in our referral network may be independent businesses. Once your information has been provided to an independent Realtor or brokerage, their own privacy practices may also apply.

Submitting a matching request does not require you to hire a particular Realtor, enter into a representation agreement, or complete a real estate transaction.

6. Cookies and Analytics

Our website may use cookies, local storage, analytics technologies, and similar tools to operate website features, remember preferences, understand website usage, maintain security, and improve performance.

Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Some website functionality may not work correctly when cookies are disabled.

Where required by applicable law, we will provide appropriate cookie notices or consent choices before using non-essential technologies.

7. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information for monetary payment as part of our ordinary Realtor matching service.

Certain disclosures involving analytics or advertising technologies may be treated as a sale or sharing under some privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged. Where applicable, we will provide legally required notices and opt-out methods.

Sharing inquiry information with a selected Realtor for the purpose of fulfilling your matching request is intended to provide the service you requested.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, provide requested services, maintain business records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the reason it was collected, our operational requirements, and applicable law.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

No internet transmission, email system, website, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through website forms or ordinary email.

10. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

  • Request access to personal information we maintain about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
  • Request information about how personal information is collected, used, or disclosed.
  • Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling where applicable.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request where applicable.
  • Exercise your privacy rights without unlawful discrimination.

11. California Privacy Rights

Where the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, applies to our business and your information, California residents may have the right to know, access, correct, or delete personal information and to opt out of certain sales or sharing.

California residents may also have the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information and to exercise applicable privacy rights without discriminatory treatment.

Where legally required and technically applicable, recognized Global Privacy Control signals may be processed as requests to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our website and Realtor matching services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 13 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through our website, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

14. Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers provide Do Not Track or other privacy preference signals. Because industry standards may vary, our website may not respond to every browser signal.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a specific opt-out preference signal, we will process that signal as legally required.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.

When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date displayed on this page. Material changes may also be communicated through an additional website notice or another appropriate method.

16. Contact Us

To ask a privacy question, exercise an applicable privacy right, or raise a concern about how your information is handled, contact us using the details below.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain privacy requests. Verification information will only be used for processing and protecting the request.

Email

hello@yourreferralnetwork.com

Phone

+1 (800) 555-1234

Mailing Address

Maklin Christman

Nationwide Realtor Referral Network

United States

Have a Question About Your Privacy?

Contact our team if you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or the way your Realtor matching request is handled.

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