CMBS.com Privacy Policy
1. Acceptance of Terms
CMBS.com (the "Company" or "us" or "we") respects your privacy and is committed
to protecting your personal information that you provide to us on cmbs.com and any
related sub-domains (the "Website"). This statement explains our policies and practices
regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by the Company. Please
note that the Company reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time
as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy
periodically to make sure that you are aware of how the Company collects and uses
personal information. By using our Website, you consent to the collection and use
of your personal information by the Company as explained below.
2. Personal Information
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can access
the publicly available portions our Website without providing us with any personal
information. However, we must have your personal information in order for us to
grant you full access to our Website and to assist us in delivering a superior level
of customer service. This information may include registration data (your name,
company, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), payment information,
information request data and response data ("User Information").
3. Use of User Information
We intend to use such information for purposes of supporting your relationship with
the Company by providing a Website that is suitable to your needs and alerting you
to new product and service offerings as they become available. This User Information
may be retained by Company to verify compliance with the agreement between the Company
and your employer, to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to enable
payment for services offered by the Website, to create a user profile to better
serve you, or to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise for marketing
purposes. If you decide that we should not use your personal User Information to
contact you for marketing purposes, please let us know by sending us an e-mail to
privacy@cmbs.com and we will not use that information for such purpose. Do not submit
any User Information if you are less than 18 years of age. We do not collect personally
identifiable information from any person we know is under the age of 13.
4. Monitoring
Although we are not obligated to do so, we may review your communications with respect
to the Website to determine whether you comply with our Terms of Service. The Company
will not have any liability or responsibility for the content of any communications
you provide, or for any errors or violations of any laws or regulations by you.
5. Disclosure of User Information
The Company does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties.
However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing,
advertising or product/service offering purposes. We may share with third parties
aggregated, non-personal information. Such information does not identify you individually.
We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it
in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; we respond
to a court order; you violate our Terms of Service or we otherwise suspect that
you are engaged in fraudulent or illegal activities. You may separately agree to
provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for Company
Offerings in order to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree
to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information
will be subject to their privacy policies. CMBS.com may sell, transfer or otherwise
share some or all of its assets, including User Information, in connection with
a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization or any form of sale
of some or all of our assets, we will provide notice to you before your User Information
is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
6. Accuracy and Security
The accuracy and security of User Information is important to the Company. Currently,
you may review and request updates to your User Information retained by the Company.
If you contact us to correct your User Information, we will attempt to correct such
inaccuracies in a timely manner. The Company is concerned with the security of your
User Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from
unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we put in
place the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures
designed to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement
procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information. No method
of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is one hundred
percent secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means
to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Usernames and Passwords
Access to certain content on our Website may be allowed under a written agreement
between you and the Company and will require a username and/or password. In some
cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing certain
Company web site(s) containing certain confidential information, products, services,
or promotional offers ("Company Offerings"). By accessing and using our protected
and secured web site(s) you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username
and password you selected to access such site(s) and consent to our Terms of Service.
8. Cookies
We use "cookies." A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to
a visitor's hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains
information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages
you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a
cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot
read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information
stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number
in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to
warn you before accepting cookies, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them
off in your web browser. If, however, you prefer not to enable cookies, you can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Please note that certain features of our Website may not be available once cookies
are disabled.
9. Log Data
When you visit the Website, our servers automatically record information that your
browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data"). Log Data may include information
such as your computer's Internet Protocol address, browser type or the website from
which you are visiting, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those
pages, information you search for, access times and dates, and other statistics.
We use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Website and for the Website's
technical administration, to increase the Website's functionality and user-friendliness,
and to better tailor it to our visitors' needs. We also use this information to
verify that visitors to the Site meet the criteria required to process their requests.
10. External Links
The Website provides links to other third party web sites. Even if the third party
is affiliated with the Company through a business partnership or otherwise, the
Company is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content
of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes
only and you access them at your own risk.
11. Terms of Service and Contact Information
Please also see our Terms of Service, which describes the restrictions, disclaimers,
indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the Website. If
you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service, please
contact us at info@cmbs.com. For other general questions, please refer to our Contacts
page.