Last Updated: 2/10/21

Nielsen Development Group, LLC. operates the web site at www.ndghometeam.com (“Site”). We respect the privacy of each user of the Site (referred to as “you” or “a user”), whether you are just beginning your real estate search or have previously visited our Site. This Privacy Policy gives you specific information about how we protect your privacy, how we treat information we collect on the Site that identifies an individual user (“Personal Information”), and how we use aggregated information.

BY REGISTERING FOR OR USING THE SITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, YOU CANNOT USE THE SITE. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time by posting a notice on the Site’s home page. (If we consider it appropriate, we may also provide additional notice of significant changes.) Your use of the Site after the date of the last modification listed at the beginning of this Privacy Policy indicates to us that you agree to the changes.

Location of Servers and Transfer of Information to the United States

The Site is hosted by servers in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, your Personal Information will be transferred to the United States. By submitting your Personal Information, you consent to its transfer to the United States and to its storage, processing, and use there in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of this Site only.

  1. Collection and Use of Your Personal Information

We collect your Personal Information on the Site in order to enhance the services we offer you. We collect Personal Information from you only when you voluntarily submit it in order to obtain certain services or information, including (A) registrations for special communications, such as saving a search for you and, but only if you request it, sending you new listings that fit the profile of your saved search; (B) requests to find a property or to list your property; (C) requests to contact us; (D) requests to receive periodic industry updates; and (E) requests to email a listing to a friend.

Requests to Find or List a Property

If you submit a request through this Site, via the Contact Us form, to find or list a property, you will be asked to provide Personal Information and we refer this information to a sales associates of the NDG Home Team to respond to your request.

 

 

Contacting Us

If you contact us, we collect Personal Information, which is retained and referred to a sales associate depending on the nature of your inquiry. The information we collect is not used in any other way other than to assist and guide you in regards to the request that you submitted.

Registering for an Account to Save Searches and Subscribe to Property Updates

You will be invited to register for an account if you wish to save property searches and to subscribe to automated updates to those saved searches.  The Personal Information collected will be retained and an account created so that you can return to the site and review or change existing searches, perform and save new searches and invite friends or family to your Search Party.   The search information will be saved and can be viewed by the NDG Home Team.  Your search information may be used by the NDG Home Team to better understand your real estate needs and preferences and to assist you in your property search.  This assistance may include sending your property listings to the email address you provided at the time of registration.  You may delete your account or unsubscribe at anytime.

Inviting a Friend to Your Search Party

If you choose to invite a friend to your Search Party, you will be asked to provide the friend’s email address in order to send the email. We do not store this information, and the information is used only to send the one-time Invite email.  If the friend chooses to accept the invite and join your Search Party, they will be asked to create an account

  1. Collection of Non-Personal Information

Even if you do not send us any Personal Information, we collect information about how you use our site (“Non-Personal Information”). This information cannot be used to identify you personally and is explained in more detail below under “Non-Personal Information”.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file, often including an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent from a web site’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Use of cookies is common on the Internet. A web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser permits a web site to access only the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. But if you refuse cookies, some parts of the Site will not function properly and may not provide services or information you have requested. For example, without cookies, we will not be able to provide you with searches that you have asked us to save.

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

– First party, persistent cookies to recognize you when you use our IDX search and personalize it to you. These cookies are: sidx_token. These cookies expire after 2 years.

Non-Personal Information

Like many sites, we obtain Non-Personal Information such as IP (internet protocol) addresses, browser types, the name of your ISP (internet service provider), information about where a user comes from before arriving at our Site, what pages a user visits, the order of those pages, and the amount of time spent on each. A vendor performs this service for us by sending a cookie to gather this information, compile it, and report to us. We use Non-Personal Information to customize the advertising and content you see, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous aggregated reporting for internal audits and third-parties.

  1. Use of Information

We use the Personal Information and the Non-Personal Information we collect on the Site (A) to provide you with the services that you ask to receive through the Site, including saving searches and, if you request it, sending you updates about those searches; (B) to receive, if you choose, to receive periodic industry updates; (C) to answer your questions or complaints; (D) to refer you to sales associates about finding or listing a property; (E) to invite a friend to your search party; and (F) for analytical purposes to help us improve the Site and for our business generally. We may also use the Personal Information to inform you about other services that may be available through us, or other Nielsen Development Group divisions, and to provide you a customer survey to assess your satisfaction with our services and products. We may allow others to provide audient measurement and analytics services for us, to serve advertisements on our behalf, and to track and report on the performance of those advertisements. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other technologies to identify your device when you use the Site, as well as when you visit other online sites and services, and such services will be covered by the privacy policy of the respective third parties. We use Google Analytics and other such tracking mechanisms to collect information about the use of the Site. More information on Google Analytics – including how you can control the information sent to Google – can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

  1. Sharing Your Information

We reserve the right to share your Personal Information with our affiliated companies and marketing partners, as permitted by law, in order to fulfill our commitment of providing you with full service real estate brokerage services. We do share your Personal Information under the following circumstances:

  1. Third party vendors we engage to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting, web-site development, and support, have access to Personal Information, but they have agreed not to disclose the Personal Information or to use it for any purpose other than providing the requested services.
  2. There may arise special circumstances where it is necessary for us to disclose and use Personal Information and Non-Personal Information, such as: to enforce this Privacy Policy or any other part of our Terms & Conditions to protect our property or rights; to protect the safety of anyone; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or improper activities; to carry out a merger or consolidation with another entity, a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, or any similar transaction; or for other reasons we determine in good faith are necessary, appropriate, or required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal or administrative process.

The Site may contain links to third-party web sites, including a mortgage company, other referral partners, or marketing partners.  If you hold your mouse over a link, it will indicate whether clicking the link will send you off our Site. When you click on those links, you will go to a third-party site where you will be subject to that site’s privacy statement and we encourage you to read that policy statement. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other web sites and we expressly disclaim any liability for their actions, including actions relating to the use and disclosure of Personal Information by those third parties. We remind you to be aware of when you leave our Site and enter a third-party web site, and again encourage you to read the privacy statement on any web site that collects your Personal Information.

  1. Security

Our hosting services maintains its systems in accordance with reasonable industry standards to reasonably secure the information of its customers. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. “Perfect security” does not exist on the Internet, and you use the Site at your own risk.

  1. Correction/Updating Personal Information

If your Personal Information changes or if you no longer wish to use the Site, you may correct or update your Personal Information or unsubscribe from any industry updates you have requested by modifying or deleting your profile on the Site, writing to:

Nielsen Development Group, LLC.

c/o NDG Home Team
165 CONDUIT ST.
Annapolis, MD 21401

or sending an email from the following link: https://ndghometeam.com/contact/

  1. Age Restrictions

Our services are available for purchase only for those over the age of 18. Our services are not targeted to, intended to be consumed by or designed to entice individuals under the age of 18. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal information, please contact us.

  1. Comments and Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by using the Contact Us feature at https://ndghometeam.com/contact/ or by postal mail at:

Nielsen Development Group, LLC.

c/o NDG Home Team
165 CONDUIT ST.
Annapolis, MD 21401

  1. GDPR Compliance

This website is intended solely for individuals residing outside of the European Union. By accessing and using this Site, you hereby agree and represent either (i) you are not a resident of the European Union, or (ii) if you are a resident of the European Union, that you hereby provide express consent to any personal information which may be collected from you by this Site, including, but not limited to, first name, last name, email address, phone number, physical address, IP address, and social media accounts and information. In no event shall any user cause this Site to collect personal information of any individual residing in the European Union without first obtaining the express consent of such individual.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

Information collected when you visit and register an account on our website is transferred outside of the EEA and stored on the servers of our IDX search plugin provider, Showcase IDX. You can access their privacy policy here: http://showcaseidx.com/privacy-policy

Country of storage: The United States.

Safeguards used: our third party hosting provider has self-certified its compliance with the GDPR.

Disclosure of your information to service providers

We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:

IDX Search provider, which is Showcase IDX. Their privacy policy is available here: http://showcaseidx.com/privacy-policy

  1. Disclaimers

MLS® Disclaimer

Information deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. The data relating to real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange Program of MRIS. Information provided is for consumer’s personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. NDG Home Team does not display the entire MLS database on this website. This site will be monitored for ‘scraping’ and any use of search facilities of data on the site other than by a consumer looking to purchase real estate, is prohibited. Listing brokers have attempted to offer accurate data, but buyers are advised to confirm all items.

The listing information on this web site is from various brokers who participate in IDX.

Copyright 2020 MRIS. All rights reserved.

Bright MLS Disclaimer

The real estate listing information is provided by Bright MLS is for the consumer’s personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumer may be interested in purchasing. Any information relating to real estate for sale or lease referenced on this web site comes from the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) program of the Bright MLS. This web site references real estate listing(s) held by a brokerage firm other than the broker and/or agent who owns this web site. The accuracy of all information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed and should be personally verified through personal inspection by and/or with the appropriate professionals. Properties in listings may have been sold or may no longer be available. The data contained herein is copyrighted by Bright MLS and is protected by all applicable copyright laws. Any unauthorized collection or dissemination of this information is in violation of copyright laws and is strictly prohibited. Copyright © 2020 Bright MLS. All rights reserved.