Dorsey Alston REALTORS®
These Terms of Service are entered into by and between you and Dorsey Alston, LLC (“DORSEY ALSTON”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”) and you.
Please read our Terms of Service, together with any documents incorporated herein by reference (the “Terms”) carefully before continuing on with your use of this Site. These Terms shall govern your use of the website location at Dorsey Alston Realtors, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through (collectively, the “Site”) and apply to all Internet traffic visiting the Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to the Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, PLEASE CLOSE THE BROWER AND DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms at any time. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting. By using this Site after we have posted notice of such modifications, alterations or updates, you agree to be bound by such revised Terms.
These Terms contain a Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Section that requires you and Dorsey Alston to pursue any disputes independently and then in individual arbitration, and that each party waive their right to sue in court, including as part of a class action or representative proceeding. Please see the Arbitration and Class Action Waiver Section for more information.
Intellectual Property
The Dorsey Alston name, service marks, URLs and domain names, and any other trademarks, registered or not (collectively, “Marks”), appearing on the Site are the property of Dorsey Alston and/or its third-party service providers. Text, images, graphics, video clips, audio clips, software applications and code, user interface design and any other materials, design, or format (collectively, the “Content”), are the intellectual property of Dorsey Alston and/or its third-party service providers. All information, material, and Content accessible on or generated by the Site are the intellectual property of Dorsey Alston and/or its third-party service providers and are protected by United States and foreign trademark, copyright, trade secret, patent, and other intellectual property laws.
Dorsey Alston grants you a personal, noncommercial, nontransferable, nonexclusive, limited, royalty-free, revocable license during the term of these Terms to use the Site strictly as set forth in these Terms and in any Supplemental Agreement. Dorsey Alston reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny you access to the Site, or any portion thereof, without notice and without reason. You interact with Third-Party Sites and Content solely on your own discretion and at your own risk. If you breach these Terms, your license to use the Site shall immediately and automatically terminate.
ACCOUNT SECURITY AND ACCESSING THE SITE
You agree that you are solely liable for all actions taken via your password, whether or not made with your knowledge or authority. You agree to safeguard your password carefully, with the full awareness that a failure to keep it secure may enable others to engage in transactions through the Site for which you will be legally responsible. If you suspect that someone may have obtained access to your password who is not intended to have authority to act on your behalf, you agree to promptly notify Dorsey Alston immediately authorizing Dorsey Alston to deny access to anyone attempting to use your credentials.
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Site, and any service or material we provide on the Site, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict user access, including registered user access, to some parts of the Site or the entire Site.
PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
You are specifically prohibited from any use of this Site, and You agree not to use or permit others to use this Site, for any of the following: (a) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site’s infrastructure, including, but not limited to, “spam” or other such unsolicited mass e-mailing techniques; (b) disclose to, or share with, any assigned confirmation numbers and/or passwords with any unauthorized third parties or using the assigned confirmation numbers and/or passwords for any unauthorized purpose; (c) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software or HTML code comprising or in any way making up a part of this Site; (d) upload, post, emailing or otherwise transmitting any information, content, or proprietary rights that You do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; (e) violating any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, any regulations having the force of law; and, (f) using any robot, spider, intelligent agent, other automatic device, or manual process to search, monitor or copy the Site or any of its webpages, or the respective Content without our prior written consent.
LINKS
This Site may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are provided for your convenience and information only and, as such, you access them at your own risk. The content of any Linked Sites is not under Dorsey Alston’s control, and Dorsey Alston is not responsible for, and does not endorse, such content, whether or not Dorsey Alston is affiliated with the owners of such Linked Sites. You may not establish a hyperlink to this Site or provide any links that state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your website by Dorsey Alston, or its affiliates or Providers.
Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination
We reserve and may use the right to:
Take any action with respect to any content that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such content violates these Terms, including infringement of any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or could create liability for us.
Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
Take appropriate legal action, including, without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Site.
Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site for any or no reason, including, without limitation, any violation of these Terms.
Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Site. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD US HARMLESS AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
PRIVACY
Registration data and certain other information about you is subject to our <Privacy Policy>. For more information, please review our full <Privacy Policy>.
Governing Law and Venue
These Terms and any Website, product, or service provided under them will be governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions, and shall insure to the benefit of Dorsey Alston’s successors and assigns, whether by merger, consolidation, or otherwise. Except as otherwise provided in the Arbitration Section, you hereby agree that all legal proceedings shall be brought in, and you irrevocably consent to submit to the jurisdiction and venue of, the state courts of Fulton County, Georgia, and the federal courts of the District of Georgia.
You acknowledge and agree that because the breach of these Terms would result in immediate and irreparable injury to Dorsey Alston, Dorsey Alston shall be entitled, without limitation of remedy, to (i) temporary and permanent injunctive and other equitable relief restraining you from activities constituting a violation, breach, or threatened breach of these Terms to the fullest extent allowed by law, and (ii) all such other remedies available at law or in equity, including, without limitation, the recovery of damages.
Dispute Resolution
Except where and to the extent prohibited by law, by using the Site, you and Dorsey Alston agree that, if there is any controversy, claim, action, or dispute arising out of or related to your use of the Site or the breach, enforcement, interpretation, or validity of this Privacy Policy or any part of it (“Dispute”), both parties shall first try in good faith to settle such Dispute by providing written notice to the other party describing the facts and circumstances of the Dispute and allowing the receiving party thirty (30) days in which to respond to or settle the Dispute. Both you and Dorsey Alston agree that this dispute resolution procedure is a condition precedent that must be satisfied before filing any demand for arbitration against the other party.
Arbitration
To the fullest extent permitted by law of the applicable jurisdiction, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from the access and use of the Site or these Terms, including the interpretation of this Arbitration Section, that cannot be resolved by the above dispute resolution procedure, SHALL BE RESOLVED SOLELY BY FINAL AND BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION. ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THESE TERMS MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ARISES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Any arbitration shall be governed by the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association and shall take place in Atlanta, Georgia, unless both parties agree in writing to a different location.
Class Action Waiver
YOU AND DORSEY ALSTON EACH FURTHER AGREE THAT EACH IS WAIVING THEIR RIGHT TO SUE EACH OTHER IN COURT, INCLUDING TO A TRIAL BY JURY, OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. You and Dorsey Alston agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a representative or part of any class or consolidated action or proceeding. If the dispute is resolved through arbitration, the arbitrator may not consolidate another person’s claims with your claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Dorsey Alston’s officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, successors, and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, awards, losses, costs, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your access to and use of the Site and Feedback you transmit through the Site, infringement of any intellectual property rights, or your violation of these Terms (collectively, “Claims”). Dorsey Alston reserves the right, in Dorsey Alston’s sole discretion and at Dorsey Alston’s own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any Claims. You agree to reasonably cooperate as requested by Dorsey Alston in the defense of any Claims and in any event may not settle any Claims without Dorsey Alston’s prior written consent.
Disclaimer of Warranties
ALL OF THE WEBSITES AND THE CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN, INCLUSIVE OF ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Dorsey Alston disclaims any duty to update the Site or to correct any errors, and it is your responsibility to evaluate the timeliness, quality, accuracy, reliability, availability, and completeness of any information and material, including Third-Party Content, contained on the Site. Dorsey Alston does not warrant or guarantee that the Site will be error-free, virus-free, or that access to the Site will be uninterrupted, or that the platform, its servers, or the Content are free of destructive features. If you download or otherwise obtain any material from the Site, you do so solely at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computing system or any loss of data that results from downloading or otherwise obtaining that material. You assume all responsibility and risk of loss resulting from your use of the Site.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL DORSEY ALSTON, INDEMNITEES, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, DELIVERING, OR MANAGING THE SITE (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SERVICE PROVIDERS”) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR DAMAGES MEASURED BY LOST PROFITS AND/OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE OR SPECULATIVE LOSS, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OMISSIONS OR INACCURACIES IN THE CONTENT, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, FORCE MAJEURE, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, EVEN IF THE DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE OR ANY OF THE SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitations of certain liabilities. Accordingly, if some of the above provisions do not apply to you, whether by statute or legal action, then you expressly agree that these Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liabilities Sections will be construed to apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. In no event shall Dorsey Alston’s total, aggregate liability for any cause of action of any kind – whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), strict liability or otherwise, even if it is foreseeable – exceed $100.
Assignment
You may not assign or otherwise transfer ownership of your rights and obligations under these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Dorsey Alston. Dorsey Alston may freely assign, transfer and delegate these Terms or any rights and/or obligations hereunder without your consent. The relationship of the parties under these Terms is that of independent contractors, and these Terms will not be construed to imply that either party is the agent, employee, or joint venture of the other.
Electronic Communications
You consent to receive communications from Dorsey Alston electronically. Dorsey Alston will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Dorsey Alston provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. If you wish to opt out of receiving our newsletter or promotional materials via electronic communication, you may unsubscribe at any time.
Entire Agreement and Severability
These Terms, including the Privacy Policy and any other document referred to in these Terms, represent the entire agreement between Dorsey Alston and you relating to the subject matter herein. If any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. The failure of Dorsey Alston to exercise in any respect any right provided for in these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of any rights hereunder. Dorsey Alston reserves all rights not expressly described in these Terms.
Section Headings
Section headings in these Terms are for convenience or reference only and shall not govern the interpretation of any provision of these Terms.
Last Updated: August 24, 2026
Introduction
This website (the "Site") offers information, products, and services related to real estate (the "Services") that Dorsey Alston REALTORS® provides. We operate this website and may use third-party contractors to support the delivery of the Services and the Site ("Service Providers").
If you are a visitor to this Site, this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use applies to you and describes the policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in connection with your use of the Site. We act as the controller of your personal data, and our Service Providers assist us in providing the Services solely in their capacities as service providers and data processors.
This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use does not apply to any websites, applications, or other online services that do not link to this Policy, including other services provided by us or by our Service Providers. If you have questions about our use of your personal information, please contact us using the information in Section 12 below.
We collect information from you in various ways when you access or use the Site or otherwise interact with the Services. This information may include:
Information You Provide to Us
Contact information that you provide, such as your first and last name, email address, home address, and phone number; feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or other correspondence; marketing information, such as your preferences and/or consents for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with such communications; and other information which you may provide voluntarily or that is necessary in connection with your interactions with us through the Site or Services.
Information We Obtain from Third Parties
Social media information: We may maintain pages on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other third-party platforms. When you visit or interact with these pages, the platform providers' privacy policies will apply to your interactions and their collection, use, and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Data enrichment sources. We may obtain additional information about you from third-party data providers and publicly available sources, including property records, other public records, contact information, and professional or business information.
We do not use enrichment data, and do not permit any third party to use enrichment data obtained through us, to make or assist in making any decision regarding your eligibility for housing, credit, insurance, employment, or any other benefit or transaction for which a consumer report would be required under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Other sources: We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as third-party analytics services, marketing partners, publicly-available sources, and data providers.
CRM and Communication Data
If you communicate with us via email, text message, or other electronic means, or if we use customer relationship management ("CRM") tools to manage our interactions with you, we may collect and process: email message content, headers, metadata, and attachments; text message content and metadata; communication timestamps, read receipts, and delivery status; contact information and communication history; and notes and records relating to our interactions with you.
Our CRM services may synchronize with email accounts to facilitate communication management. When email synchronization is enabled, information from emails exchanged with you may be processed and stored, including email content, sender and recipient information, timestamps, and attachments. This data is used to provide better service, maintain accurate records, and facilitate follow-up communications.
Automatic Data Collection
We and our Service Providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our Services, our communications, and other online services, such as: device data (including your computer's or mobile device's operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, device type, IP address, unique identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area); and online activity data (such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, browsing history, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and duration of access, and whether you have opened our marketing emails or clicked links within them).
We use the following tools for automatic data collection: cookies (text files that websites store on a visitor's device to uniquely identify the visitor's browser or to store information or settings in the browser); local storage technologies (like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data); and web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked).
Chat and Messaging Features
If the Site offers live chat, an automated chat assistant, or a similar messaging feature, your conversations may be recorded, stored, and processed by us and by the Service Providers who operate that feature on our behalf. Please do not submit sensitive personal information through a chat feature.
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
To provide and operate our Services and our Site. We use your information to provide, operate, and improve our Services and Site; communicate with you about our Services and business including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; and provide support and respond to requests, questions, and feedback.
To manage our relationship with you. We use CRM tools and services to maintain records of our communications, track your preferences and interests, and provide personalized service. This may include analyzing your interactions with us to better understand your needs and preferences.
To send you follow-up communications: If you have opted into receiving follow-up communications, we (or our Service Providers) may from time to time send you follow-up communications as permitted by law, including through phone, email, and SMS text messages, some of which may use artificial or prerecorded voices. You may opt out of receiving such communications as set forth in Section 6 below.
To send you marketing and promotional communications: If you have opted in to receive marketing and promotional communications, we (or our Service Providers) may from time-to-time send you direct marketing communications as permitted by law, including through phone, email, and SMS text messages, some of which may use artificial or prerecorded voices. You may opt out of receiving such communications as set forth in Section 6 below.
To comply with law: As we or our Service Providers believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety: To protect our, your, or others' rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims); enforce the terms and conditions that govern our Services; and protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity.
To create anonymous data: We may create anonymous data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve our Services, conduct research, and promote our business.
We use artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning technologies to provide and improve our Services. This section describes how AI is used in connection with the Site and Services.
AI-Generated Content
We may use AI technologies to generate, assist with, or enhance content displayed on the Site or provided through our Services, including: property descriptions and listing information; blog posts, articles, and other written content; social media posts and marketing materials; email communications and newsletters; and advertising copy and promotional content.
AI-generated content is created using large language models and other machine learning systems. While we review AI-generated content for accuracy and appropriateness, such content may contain errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. You should not rely solely on AI-generated content for important decisions, including real estate transactions, without independent verification.
AI-Assisted Communications
We may use AI to assist with communications, including: drafting and suggesting responses to inquiries, analyzing communication patterns to improve service, providing automated responses to common questions, and prioritizing and categorizing incoming communications.
When AI assists with communications, a human may review and approve messages before they are sent, though some automated responses may be sent without individual human review.
AI-Based Analysis and Recommendations
We may use AI to analyze data and provide recommendations, including: identifying potential opportunities based on your stated preferences and behavior, suggesting properties that may match your criteria, analyzing market trends and conditions, and optimizing the timing and content of communications.
These AI-based analyses and recommendations are provided for informational purposes and should not be considered professional advice. Important decisions should be made in consultation with qualified professionals. We do not use AI to make, and AI does not make, any decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect concerning you.
Your Choices Regarding AI
You may ask us whether AI was used to generate specific content provided to you, ask that a person review any significant determination made with AI assistance, and provide feedback on AI-generated content or recommendations.
To exercise these rights or ask questions about our use of AI, please contact us using the information in Section 12 below.
We do not "sell" any personal information (as defined under applicable laws), but we may share your personal information as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We may share your personal information with:
Internal Team, Partners, and Affiliates: Our employees and contractors, partners, and affiliates: Including to facilitate your interactions with us.
Our Service Providers: Companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or to help us provide the Services, the Site, or our business (such as hosting, information technology, CRM services, email delivery, text message and other messaging delivery, AI and machine learning services, advertising, and website analytics services).
Professional advisors: We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us or our Service Providers.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety: We or our Service Providers may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above.
Business transfers: We (or our Service Providers) may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our (or our Service Providers') business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution. In such a case, we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Other than as set forth herein, data will not be shared with third parties for marketing or promotional purposes. We will never disclose any personal information such as phone numbers and SMS consent with any third parties for marketing purposes, and we do not include telephone numbers in any list uploaded to an advertising platform.
We may use advertising and tracking technologies to deliver relevant advertising and measure the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
Third-Party Advertising Platforms
We may share certain information with third-party advertising platforms, including Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Google, and other advertising networks, to: deliver targeted advertisements to you based on your interests and interactions with our Site; measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns; create audiences of similar users for advertising purposes ("lookalike audiences"); and track conversions and attribute advertising performance.
When you interact with our Site, third-party advertising platforms may collect information through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies. This information may include your device identifiers, browsing behavior, and interactions with our advertisements.
Tracking Pixels and Conversion Events
We use tracking pixels (also known as web beacons or clear GIFs) on our Site to: track when you view or interact with our content, measure the effectiveness of our email campaigns, attribute conversions to specific advertising campaigns, and analyze user behavior on our Site. These tracking technologies may transmit information to third-party platforms, including information about the pages you visit, actions you take on our Site, and information about your device.
Interest-Based Advertising
We participate in interest-based advertising, which means that you may see our advertisements on third-party websites and platforms based on your browsing behavior and inferred interests. Third-party advertising platforms use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your online activities across different websites and services to provide you with more relevant advertisements. Under some state privacy laws, this activity is treated as "sharing" or as "targeted advertising," and you have the right to opt out of it as described in Section 6.
You have the following choices regarding our collection and use of your personal information:
Opting Out of Targeted Advertising, Sale, and Sharing
You may opt out of our sharing of personal information for targeted advertising at any time by selecting "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" in the footer of this Site, or by contacting us using the information in Section 12. We honor an opt-out for the browser and device on which it is submitted, and, where we can reasonably associate the request with you, across your other interactions with us.
Opt-Out Preference Signals and Global Privacy Control
Your browser or a browser extension may be able to send an opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control ("GPC"). We treat a GPC signal received from your browser as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information associated with that browser and device.
Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" signals, but we do respond to Global Privacy Control signals as described above. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Online Tracking Opt-Out
There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected through our Services: blocking cookies in your browser (most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising; to do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings; for more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org); blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings (your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes); and using privacy plug-ins or browsers (you can block our Services from setting cookies used for third-party analytics or interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin).
Platform Opt-Outs
The following advertising partners offer opt-out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising: Google (https://adssettings.google.com/), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/about/ads), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization).
Advertising Industry Opt-Out Tools
You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies: Digital Advertising Alliance (http://optout.aboutads.info/) and Network Advertising Initiative (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/).
Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
SMS Communications Opt-Out
To opt out of receiving SMS communications, reply STOP to any SMS communication sent to you.
Email Communications Opt-Out
You may unsubscribe from email updates sent by us at any time by following the unsubscribe link in the email.
Your Privacy Rights
You have the right to submit requests about your personal information, depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with the Site and our Services. These rights may include: information about how we have collected and used your personal information (we have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use); access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you (where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format); correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date; deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide our services or for other lawful purposes; and additional rights, such as to object to and request that we restrict our use of your personal information, and where applicable, you may withdraw your consent. Sections 14, 15, and 16 describe rights available to residents of California, of other U.S. states, and of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us using the information in Section 12 below.
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, and to provide you with the Services.
The retention period for personal information depends on the context and our relationship with you: contact information and communication records are generally retained for the duration of our relationship with you and for a reasonable period thereafter to allow for follow-up communications and to comply with legal requirements; CRM data, including email synchronization data, is retained for as long as you maintain an active relationship with us, unless longer retention is required by law; transactional records may be retained to comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and marketing preferences are retained until you update them or opt out.
When personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, we will securely delete or anonymize it. In some cases, we may retain certain information in anonymized or aggregated form for analytical purposes.
How We Handle Requests to Delete
When we grant a request to delete your personal information, we delete it from our systems and direct our Service Providers to do the same. We retain a record that you made the request, together with the limited identifying information needed to recognize you, so that we can continue to honor your request and can demonstrate that we honored it. We do not use that record for any other purpose, and it is not used to contact you or to market to you. If you would prefer that we retain nothing at all, you may tell us so when you make your request, and we will remove that record as well. Copies that remain in backup or disaster-recovery systems are overwritten in the ordinary course of those systems' rotation.
The Site and Services may contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions.
We employ a number of technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures that provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal data. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal data and information submitted to us, both during transmission and in storage. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
The Services are not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Services from a child under 18 without the consent of the child's parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of any consumer under 16 years of age.
You can reach us by email at [email protected] or at the following mailing address:
Dorsey Alston REALTORS®
100 West Paces Ferry Road Northwest
Atlanta,
GA
30305
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and posting it on this website. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain your consent.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA"), permits you to request information, no more than once per calendar year, regarding the disclosure of your Personal Data by us to third parties, including for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. Furthermore, California residents have the following rights with respect to Personal Data we may have collected about them:
Categories of Personal Information Collected
In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information: identifiers (such as name, email address, phone number, and IP address); personal information described in California Civil Code section 1798.80(e) (such as name, address, and telephone number); characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (such as gender and age); commercial information (such as property preferences and transaction history); internet or electronic network activity (such as browsing history and interactions with our Site); geolocation data (such as city and state derived from IP address); audio, electronic, or visual information (such as the contents of email, text messages, chat sessions, and session recordings); professional or employment-related information (if provided); inferences drawn from the above (such as preferences and characteristics); and sensitive personal information (only if voluntarily provided, such as account credentials).
We collect these categories from you directly, from your device and browser, from our Service Providers, from social media platforms, and from third-party data providers and publicly available sources. We collect and use them for the business and commercial purposes described in Section 2. We disclose them for the business purposes and to the categories of recipients described in Section 4.
(i) Requests to Know
You have the right to request that we disclose to you: the categories of Personal Data we have collected about you; the categories of Personal Data about you we have sold or disclosed for a business purpose; the categories of sources from which we have collected Personal Data about you; the business or commercial purposes for selling or collecting Personal Data about you; the categories of Personal Data sold or shared about you, as well as the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Data was sold, by category of Personal Data for each party to whom Personal Data was sold; the specific pieces of Personal Data collected; and how long your Personal Data is retained. You may submit a request to know to the address or email address indicated in Section 12. The delivery of our response may take place electronically or by mail. We are not required to respond to requests to know more than twice in a 12-month period.
(ii) Requests to Delete or Correct
You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Data about you that we have collected, or correct Personal Data that we have about you that is inaccurate. Upon receiving a verified request to delete personal data, we will do so unless otherwise authorized by law. Where we grant a request to delete, we handle it as described in Section 7.
(iii) Authorized Agents
You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. You must provide an authorized agent written permission to submit a request on your behalf, and we may require that you verify your identity directly with us. Alternatively, an agent that has been provided a power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4000-4465 may submit a request on your behalf.
(iv) Methods for Submitting Consumer Requests and Our Response to Requests
You may submit a request to know and requests to delete Personal Data about you via email at [email protected] or at the mailing address provided in Section 12.
Upon receipt of a request, we may ask you for additional information to verify your identity. Any additional information you provide will be used only to verify your identity and not for any other purpose. We will acknowledge the receipt of your request within ten (10) business days of receipt. Subject to our ability to verify your identity, we will respond to your request within 45 calendar days of receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
(v) The Right to Non-Discrimination
You have the right not to be discriminated against for the exercise of your California privacy rights described above.
(vi) Selling and Sharing of Personal Data
We may use your Personal Data for the purposes described in Section 2 of this Policy, and may share your Personal Data as further described in Section 4 of this Policy. California law places certain obligations on businesses that "sell" Personal Data to third parties or "share" Personal Data with third parties for "cross-context behavioral advertising" as those terms are defined under the CCPA.
We may "share" certain personal information (such as device identifiers and browsing activity) with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes as described in Section 5. You have the right to opt out of this sharing. To opt out, you may select "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" in the footer of this Site, transmit a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser, or contact us using the information in Section 12. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
We do not "sell" Personal Data as that term is defined under the CCPA.
(vii) Sensitive Personal Data
Some Personal Data may be considered sensitive personal information under certain privacy laws, including the CCPA. Sensitive personal information may include, for example, government-issued identification number, information relating to a person's race or ethnic origin, political opinions or religious beliefs, physical or mental health or condition, sexual orientation, or trade union membership. It may include information about an individual's criminal offenses or convictions, as well as any other information deemed sensitive under applicable data protection laws.
The CCPA provides consumers with the "right to limit" the use of their sensitive personal information to certain business purposes. We do not request sensitive personal information in connection with the use of the Site, except for account credentials which are used only to provide and secure your account. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose that would trigger the right to limit, and we therefore do not offer a separate limitation mechanism.
If you are a resident of a state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, including Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Florida, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, or Rhode Island, you may have the right, subject to the terms of your state's law, to:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information in Section 12, or, to opt out of targeted advertising, select "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" in the footer of this Site or transmit a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser. We honor recognized universal opt-out mechanisms where required by your state's law.
Appeals
If we decline to act on your request, you may appeal our decision by replying to our response or by contacting us at [email protected] with the subject line "Privacy Request Appeal." We will respond to your appeal in writing within the period required by your state's law, generally forty-five or sixty days, and will explain the reasons for our decision. If we deny your appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General to submit a complaint.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the following applies to our processing of your personal information.
Controller
Dorsey Alston REALTORS® is the controller of the personal information described in this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Our contact details appear in Section 12.
Legal Bases for Processing
We process your personal information on the following legal bases: your consent, where you have opted in to marketing communications, non-essential cookies, or similar processing; the performance of a contract with you or steps taken at your request before entering into a contract, where you engage us in connection with a real estate transaction; compliance with a legal obligation, including record-keeping and response to lawful requests; and our legitimate interests in operating, securing, and improving the Site and the Services, understanding how visitors use the Site, and marketing our services, where those interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights.
Your Rights
You have the right to request access to your personal information, rectification of inaccurate information, erasure, restriction of processing, and portability; to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests, including direct marketing; and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. To exercise these rights, contact us using the information in Section 12.
International Transfers
We and our Service Providers are located in the United States, and your personal information will be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home jurisdiction. Where we transfer personal information out of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we rely on appropriate safeguards, including the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses together with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where applicable. You may request a copy of the safeguards we use by contacting us.
Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. In the United Kingdom, that authority is the Information Commissioner's Office.