Privacy Policy
We at
brokerempire.com are committed to protecting
the privacy and security of our visitors to this
website. Outlined below is our online privacy
policy. If you have questions about this policy,
please let us know. Contact information is
contained at the link at the end of this notice.
Collection and disclosure of information: To
ensure we are able to communicate effectively
with visitors to our web site, we collect some
information that can be directly associated with
a specific person. We call this "Personal
Information," and it includes, by way of
illustration, names, addresses, telephone
numbers and e-mail addresses. We collect
Personal Information from eligible individuals
who affirmatively request to receive e-mail or
other services from us. We collect this Personal
Information in order to provide these eligible
individuals with timely information via e-mail
regarding events, resources and issues. It is
our general policy not to make Personal
Information available to anyone other than our
employees, staff, and agents.
Online Comments and Personal Information: We
treat your name, city, state, and any comments
you provide as public information. We may, for
example, provide compilations of your comments
to national leaders and other individuals
participating in our efforts, without disclosing
email addresses. We may also make comments along
with your city and state available to the press
and public online.
Opting out and modifying information:
Subscribers to our e-mail list may terminate
their subscriptions via a link at the bottom of
each email sent from HUD.GOV.
Browser information collected on the web site:
We log IP addresses, which are the locations of
computers or networks on the Internet, and
analyze them in order to improve the value of
our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of
page hits in order to track the popularity of
certain pages and improve the value of our site.
We do not gather, request, record, require,
collect or track any Internet users' Personal
Information through these processes.
Cookies: A cookie is a tiny piece of data stored
by a user's browser that helps a web site or
service recognize that user's unique computer.
You can remove or block cookies by changing the
settings of your browser. Session specific
cookies may be used on HUD.GOV to improve the
user experience and for basic web metrics. These
cookies expire in a very short time frame or
when a browser window closes and are permitted
by current federal guidelines.
Videos that are visible on HUD.GOV are hosted by
third parties that may utilize "persistent
cookies." Persistent cookies are used by some
third party providers to help maintain the
integrity of video statistics. These videos are
subject to the HUD.GOV linking policy described
below. If you would like to view a video without
the use of persistent cookies, a link to
download the video file is typically provided
just below the video.
Privacy of our email lists: As noted above, we
maintain e-mail lists to keep interested,
eligible individuals informed about important
topics, and individuals must affirmatively
request to join them. We configure our list
server software to refuse to divulge the email
addresses of our list subscribers to anyone
other than those whom we authorize. However, we
are not the author of this software, and are not
responsible for any failures in the software to
preserve subscriber anonymity.
Children's privacy: Because we care about the
safety and privacy of children online, we comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying
FTC regulation establish United States federal
law that protects the privacy of children using
the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or
collect personal information from children under
13. Our site is not intended to solicit
information of any kind from children under 13.
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may
receive information pertaining to children under
13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we
verify the information, we will immediately
obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the
information from our servers.
Security: We maintain a variety of physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards to protect
your personal information. For example, we use
commercially reasonable tools and techniques to
protect against unauthorized access to our
systems. Also, we restrict access to Personal
Information to those who need such access in the
course of their duties for us. Your own efforts
to protect against unauthorized access play an
important role in protecting the security of
your personal information. You should be sure to
sign off when finished using a shared computer,
and always log out of any site when viewing
personal information.
Linking: HUD.GOV may contain links to websites
created and maintained by other public and/or
private organizations. HUD.GOV provides these
links as a service to our users. When users link
to an outside website, they are leaving the
HUD.GOV site and are subject to the privacy and
security policies of the owners/sponsors of the
outside website(s). Be sure to review the
HUD.GOV linking policy, which is the same as
USA.gov Linking Policy.
Changes to this policy: We will revise or update
this policy if our practices change, or as we
develop better ways to keep you informed about
them. You should refer back to this page often
for the latest information and the effective
date of any changes. If we decide to change this
policy, we will post a new policy on our site
and change the date at the bottom. Changes to
the policy shall not apply retroactively.
If you have any questions or concerns, please
contact us.