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This Policy does not apply
to any other site accessed by a link located on this Site.
Please review the privacy policy of the other site before
providing any personal information.
To protect your privacy, the WRA provides a link to this
Policy on all pages that collect and transmit information from
the user to the WRA.
 Definitions.
"Content" shall mean all information or images
contained on the Site, including but not limited to, trademarks,
copyrights, advertisements, data, text, graphics, photos,
software and video. “Financial information” shall mean a
User’s social security number, credit card number or
expiration date, or the number of any account held by User in
any financial institution. “General information” is all
information related to Users other than “financial
information”, whether provided by the User on the Site or
otherwise obtained by the WRA. "Site" shall mean the
Internet site located at the URL address http://www.wra.org.
"User" shall mean any person or entity that accesses
or uses the Site in any manner. "WRA" shall mean the
Wisconsin REALTORSŪ Association, Inc., its employees, officers,
directors, and all other persons or entities affiliated with WRA
responsible for creating, maintaining, and publishing this Site.
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What the WRA does with the
information it gathers. We use information about our
Users, members and non-members, for administrative, operational
and financial purposes. Databases are maintained to store
information regarding: 1) membership records; 2) course
registration, attendance and completion; 3) product purchases,
and other financial and general information.
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Distribution of
Information Gathered on the Site. The WRA will not
release a User’s financial information to anyone outside the
WRA without first obtaining the User’s consent, except for
information that we are legally required to gather and/or report
to government agencies. General information may be released to
third parties without the User’s consent. General information,
may also be distributed publicly in various articles and
reports.
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Cancellation of
communications or services. Some general information
gathered on the site is used to identify persons to whom various
communications or advertisements may be sent by the WRA or third
parties. In the event that a User wishes to cancel future
communications or advertisements from the WRA, they may do so
by:
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This Site's Policy on
Correcting, Updating and Deleting Information. WRA
members* and non-members may correct, update or delete**
financial or general information previously provided to the site
or otherwise maintained in WRA databases by:
- Sending an email to wra@wra.org
- calling the following telephone number: (608) 241-2047
- writing to: Membership Department, Wisconsin REALTORSŪ
Association, 4801 Forest Run Road Madison, WI 53711
* See the WRA Member Information Change Form area on this
Site for an explanation of how membership records may be
modified.
** Records that the WRA is required by law to maintain may be
corrected or updated by members or non-members, but may not be
deleted.
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Online Order, Registration
and E-mail Security. The WRA uses the Internet standard
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for cryptographic security on all
information transactions that feature sensitive information such
as credit cards and financial information. E-mail transmissions,
once received by the WRA, are secured through the use of the
WRA’s virtual private network.
Financial and general information collected from Users via
online registration and order forms is used to process and send
orders, bill credit cards, verify WRA membership, when
applicable, and to accurately maintain pre-license and
continuing education records (as required by Department of
Regulation and Licensing rules). You may be asked to provide
contact information (i.e., e-mail address, phone number, firm
name), unique identifiers (i.e., WRA member number (social
security numbers may be volunteered, as an alternative, by a
member who does not have his/her membership number)), and/or
financial information (i.e., credit card number). Financial
information supplied via online order forms and registration
forms is used only by the WRA. It is not sold or provided to
third party vendors, direct mail concerns, email list services,
etc.
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Contacting the Web Site.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you
may contact us
by:
- Sending an email to wra@wra.org
- calling the following telephone number: (608) 241-2047
- writing to: Webmaster Wisconsin REALTORSŪ Association
4801 Forest Run Road Madison, WI 53711.
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Computer Data/Cookies.
The WRA uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are
placed on User’s computer's hard drive. Essentially, cookies
are identification cards for the WRA computers, or servers, that
placed them there. Cookies are only read by the server that
placed them there and are unable to execute any code or virus.
The WRA uses cookies on member’s computers to identify that
User as a member when that User accesses the Site in the future.
Cookies may also be used to provide personalized service to
Users of the Site.
The WRA may also monitor the packets of information that are
sent to our webserver from the computers of Users that visit the
Site. This information is automatically imbedded in the
communication packets that go back and forth between the two
computers as a result of the standards that have been created
for most computer networks. The information collected in this
manner is generic information relating to the User’s software,
internet service provider and the User’s interaction with the
Site. Information that would identify the individual User is not
collected in these packets of information. The types of
information that are sent in these communications packets are
the: -type of operating system (Windows 3.11, MacOS, Windows 95,
etc.); -type of browser being used (IE 4.0, Netscape, Mosaic
etc.); -the Internet Protocal (IP) address of the computer while
it is connected to the Site; -the region of the country; -the
internet service provider (ISP) being utilized by the user; -the
time of day the User connects to the Site and the duration of
the connection time; -the pages of our Site that the User
visits; -the search engines used to get to the Site and the
words used in for the search request.
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WRA Member Information
Change Form. WRA members may change membership records
on the WRA Member Information Change Form page. Change requests
made on this page are submitted to the WRA membership department
to be verified and entered into the WRA membership database.
This is a manual process, WRA staff will adjust your records at
our earliest possible convenience upon receipt of your request.
Membership information may also be changed by calling: (608)
241-2047 and asking for the membership department.
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WRA Member Legal Hotline
Question Form. WRA members may submit their legal
hotline question to the WRA legal department using this page of
the Site. The Site will collect the information and deliver it
to the WRA legal department for entry into the Legal Hotline
database. This E-mail transmission is secured through the use of
the WRA’s virtual private network. The database information
will be used to relay the question to the Legal Hotline attorney
who will use the information to respond to the User’s inquiry.
The response to the User’s inquiry will also be maintained in
the Legal Hotline database. All information received by the
Hotline which may identify individual members will be kept
confidential, except that responses to the sales associates may
be copied to the sales associate’s supervising broker
(Designated REALTORŪ). After all information which may identify
individual members has been removed, Hotline questions and
answers may be published in the weekly Designated REALTORŪ
Hotline Hottips Service, The Best of the Legal Hotline Legal
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