Privacy Policy

We recognize the importance of protecting the personal information you provide at Web sites owned or controlled by Howard and Hopper Real Estate. Howard and Hopper Real Estate’s website, howardandhopper.com, has posted its own “privacy policies” and “terms of use.” We maintain the following privacy policy:

Howard and Hopper Real Estate gathers the following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill your requests, and maintain our membership records:

The contact information you provide (for example, your personal and business addresses, phone, and fax numbers, firm affiliations, and titles).

Tracking information that our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our sites or communicate with us by email (for example, your domain name, email address, and what pages you visit).

Information you volunteer via applications or surveys (for example, education, designations, specialties, affiliations with other real estate organizations, and general demographic data).

Howard and Hopper Real Estate uses this information to:

Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites and other communications tools, such as Howard and Hopper Real Estate newsletters online and any print materials.

Notify you of updates to our sites.

Notify you of relevant products and services.

Notify you of upcoming events and programs.

Compile specialty directories about which you will be made aware.

Track usage of our sites.

Assist local and state Howard and Hopper Real Estate® associations and affiliated Institutes, Societies, and Councils in membership tracking and for their use for purposes similar to those listed above.

Email contact information. Howard and Hopper Real Estate does not share, sell, or trade email addresses, except that state and local association staff and leadership email addresses may be listed in the membership directories available on Howard and Hopper Real Estate.com. Howard and Hopper Real Estate may use your email address to directly send you information and provide you with online informational or marketing messages approved by Howard and Hopper Real Estate and other communications to which you have subscribed.

Other forms of contact information. Forms of contact information other than email address (for example, street address) may be listed in the membership directories available on Howard and Hopper Real Estate. Howard and Hopper Real Estate will not share, sell or otherwise provide this contact information about you except for the following purposes:

Other vendors for the limited purpose of contacting targeted groups of members through marketing vehicles approved by Howard and Hopper Real Estate.

When required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the public.

Some or all of the data collected during promotions or contests on our sites that third parties sponsor may be shared with the sponsor for the limited purpose of a one-time marketing follow-up by the sponsor. If information about you is shared with a sponsor, you will be notified before you participate in the promotion or contest, and you can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest.

Credit information that you and credit authorizers provide when you make payments by credit card or electronic check for products, dues, or other services via the Howard and Hopper Real Estate Electronic Commerce Network will only be used to process the transactions you request. This information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting databases but will never be sold, shared, or provided to other third parties.

Howard and Hopper Real Estate follows generally accepted standards to protect the information it collects and makes available via its Web sites. Howard and Hopper Real Estate tests its security procedures regularly and modifies them as new technologies become feasible.

Howard and Hopper Real Estate utilizes a strict Opt-Out policy for sending online notifications regarding services, products, and programs. You may adjust your Communication Preferences by reviewing your Howard and Hopper Real Estate.com registration. Just Login first. Then you can change your preferences.

You may edit your personal contact information directly in the Membership ID system or by contacting Howard and Hopper Real Estate directly via the contact us section on the website. 

Some of our Web sites contain advertising placed by advertising networks according to agreements between Howard and Hopper Real Estate and the advertising network. Howard and Hopper Real Estate does not control these advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our site, or their information collection practices, and Howard and Hopper Real Estate will not be responsible for the activities of these third parties. The advertising network uses cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you click on the banner ads appearing on our sites. The advertising network manages this information to measure and report on the advertising to advertisers and Howard and Hopper Real Estate. The advertising network may also aggregate the data for specific other statistical and reporting purposes.

Do-Not-Track Disclosure: Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that allows you to communicate to websites where you do not want your online activities tracked. Our system does not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers at this time.