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R. E. Technologies, Inc. and its affiliated websites, including, without limitation, ApartmentMatching.com (collectively, R. E. Technologies) seeks to provide a multiple listing service for locating available apartment units on the internet.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
BY CONTRACTING FOR R. E. TECHNOLOGIES SERVICES, USING R. E. TECHNOLOGIES SOFTWARE OR WEB SITES ADMINISTERED OR CONTROLLED BY R. E. TECHNOLOGIES (INCLUDING APARTMENTMATCHING.COM), OR IN OTHERWISE USING R. E. TECHNOLOGIES'S INTERNET-BASED SERVICES, YOU CONSENT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT.IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE EXIT THIS WEB SITE AND DO NOT USE R. E. TECHNOLOGIES SERVICES.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to policies@ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc. or to the following address:
Attn: Privacy Guidelines Compliance Officer
APARTMENTMATCHING.COM AND R.E. TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy of Information Collected
Although R.E. Technologies websites may be browsed without registration, certain activities (such as saving your preferred list of properties, and registering a property) require registration, which involves the collection of personal data. R. E. Technologies collects information about each user who registers, including, but not limited to, user name, password, first and last name, and e-mail address. We also collect information on the pages users access or visit, and other information volunteered by users, such as survey information. Additionally, for each visitor to our website, our Web server automatically recognizes IP addresses.
R.E. Technologies endeavors to keep all personal data private. Apart from the internal use of R. E. Technologies and confirmation of use of our system to your leasing company, R.E. Technologies does not sell your personal data to anyone, and does not deliberately disclose user data to other users or parties. At your request, we may use or disclose your personal data to keep you apprised of R.E. Technologies promotions.R. E. Technologies endeavors to respect the privacy of its users and does not allow its system to be a tool for illegal or other injurious or damaging activities, nor will it tolerate attempts by users to access the data of other users. If we believe certain users are connected with unlawful activities or unauthorized attempts to view the data of other users, we may examine their user files and/or data to protect our system, ourselves, and other users.
User data collected in aggregate form is the property of R. E. Technologies, and, in aggregate form, such data, particularly demographic information, may be used and disclosed. Additionally, R.E. Technologies identifies and uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. The information R. E. Technologies collects may be used to improve the content of our website, to notify consumers about updates to our website, to contact users for marketing and promotional purposes, and as otherwise may be necessary for R. E. Technologies and our contractors to provide services to visitors to the site.
R. E. Technologies controls the storage media, which contains the user data. Thus, we reserve the right to copy, relocate, back up, and remove user data from our system.
Except as expressly provided herein or as otherwise required by law or a court order, R. E. Technologies will not disclose the contents of private user files and/or data to anyone. If our privacy policy changes at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. In the event that R. E. Technologies or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small piece of information stored by a Web server on a Web browser so it can be later read back from that browser. Cookies are useful for enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user. ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc. places both permanent and temporary cookies in your computer's hard drive. ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc.'s cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.
We also use temporary cookies (a.k.a. "per-session cookies") to improve the functionality and usability of our site. These temporary cookies are permanently erased from your computer as soon as you log out of your ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc. account or link to a different Web site from your parent browser window. In order to use ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc., you must set your browser's preferences to allow per-session cookies (most Web browsers automatically accept cookies).
Links to Other Sites
Our site links to other Web sites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. ApartmentMatching.com and R.E. Technologies, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked Web sites.
SECURITY AND RULES FOR USE
R. E. Technologies uses standard Internet technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site to ensure its security and to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access.Do not use our system for anything that might be unlawful or for illegal activities. R. E. Technologies has zero tolerance for such activity.
Respect the security of our system. Do not try to gain access to system areas private to R. E. Technologies, or to the data of other users. The user is responsible for all use of user's account and confidentiality of user's password, and user accounts may not be shared by multiple users or marketing entities.
If a user persists in usage that is contrary to any R. E. Technologies policy, or that we have previously warned him/her should not be or conducted on our system, we reserve the right to take unilateral action up to and including removing the user's user files and data from our system and disabling his/her account. Unauthorized access is illegal and R. E. Technologies will prosecute those who compromise our system or its data confidentiality policy, and R. E. Technologies explicitly reserves the right to contact legal authorities in such instances. Additionally, any user whose activities disrupt or damage the system or its function will be held financially liable for system administration costs incurred in repairing the affected systems.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY
As a subscriber, you understand that neither R. E. Technologies, nor any of the parties who supply information or services to R. E. Technologies or the system, make any warranty concerning the accuracy of any information found on or exchanged through the system.
THE MATERIALS IN AND/OR ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, R. E. TECHNOLOGIES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. R. E. TECHNOLOGIES DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS AND/OR SERVICES OF THE R. E. TECHNOLOGIES WEB SITE, SOFTWARE, OR OTHER MATERIAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT SUCH SITES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. R. E. TECHNOLOGIES DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS, FUNCTIONS, OR SERVICES IN OR PROVIDED BY SUCH SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) NEGLIGENCE, SHALL R. E. TECHNOLOGIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES) THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, THE INABILITY TO USE, OR THE CORRUPTION OF MATERIALS STORED ON, STORED IN, OR PROVIDED BY ITS SITES, EVEN IF R. E. TECHNOLOGIES OR A R. E. TECHNOLOGIES AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES) OR ANY LOSSES YOU MAY INCUR IN CONNECTION WITH OUR SYSTEM OR ANY OF THE DATA OR OTHER MATERIALS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR RESIDING ON OUR SYSTEM, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE OR LOSS.
In addition, you agree to defend and indemnify us and do hereby hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including attorney fees) relating to any acts by you or materials or information transmitted by you in connection with our system leading wholly or partially to claims against us or our system by other users or third parties.
Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. In no event shall R. E. Technologies's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.
R. E. Technologies is not liable for protection or privacy of electronic mail and information transferred through the Internet.
CHOICE OF LAW
You hereby agree that the law of R. E. Technologiess home state, Texas, will apply to all matters relating to this Agreement and to our system. In addition, you agree and consent that if you ever take legal action against us, the courts of our own state, Texas, will have exclusive jurisdiction over any such legal actions. All matters with respect to this Agreement, including, without limitation, matters of validity, construction, effect and performance shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of Texas applicable to contracts made and to be performed therein between the residents thereof (regardless of the laws that might otherwise be applicable under principles of conflicts of law).
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all disputes relating to this Agreement shall be resolved in Dallas, Texas.
Non-enforcement of any section of this Agreement does not constitute consent or waiver and R. E. Technologies reserves the right to enforce this Agreement at its sole discretion. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
This site is controlled and operated by R. E. Technologies from its offices within the State of Texas, United States of America. The user agrees to use this service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws, whether local, state, federal, national, or by international treaty. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not govern this Agreement.
Software from this site may be subject to United States export controls. No software from this site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported into countries to which the U.S. has embargoed goods, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders.
RESTRICTIONS OF USE OF MATERIALS
This site is owned and operated by R. E. Technologies, Inc. No material from R. E. Technologies or any web site owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by R. E. Technologies may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, except in the manner ordinary to use of a website. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of R. E. Technologies's copyright and other proprietary rights. Use of the websites does not transfer any right or title to the user.You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the website for use apart from R.E. Technologies.
MISCELLANEOUS
R. E. Technologies may modify these terms and conditions upon notice published on-line via R. E. Technologies at url http://www.re-technologies.com/useragreement.html. User's use of R. E. Technologies services after such notice shall constitute user's acceptance of the modifications to this Agreement.
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