The Brokers Edge Privacy Policy

Last modified: May 1, 2008

We at the Brokers Edge recognize that privacy is both important and a growing public concern. This Privacy Policy applies to all of products and services offered by The Brokers Edge Inc. or its subsidiaries.

The Brokers Edge strictly adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's safe harbor program.

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us through our form below or write to us at Privacy Policy, c/o The Brokers Edge Inc., 1410 I-70 Drive S.W. Suite 100, Columbia Missouri, 65203.

Information We Collect and How it is Used

We offer many services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as The Brokers Edge Forum. In order to provide a full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide to us - When you sign up for an account at the Brokers Edge or other Brokers Edge services or products that requires a registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as the UltimateIDX™, TBE Website Design services, SEO Consulting or Hosting services we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on one of our secure servers.

Server Log information - When you use The Brokers Edge services, our servers will automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, referrer, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

The Brokers Edge cookies - When you visit The Brokers Edge, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your personal computer or laptop that uniquely identifies your browser. When you visit our website our server recognize only the visitor’s domain not the email address. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and the tracking of user trends, such as what types of products and services that are of interest. Most up to date browsers are set up initially to accept cookies, but can reset to refuse any or all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. There are some The Brokers Edge features and services such as our Real Estate Forums and Shopping Cart that will not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

User emails and communications - When you send email or complete a web form to The Brokers Edge, we may retain these communications in order to process your orders, inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

The Brokers Edge will never share or sell your email address or personal information.

Other linked websites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by The Brokers Edge. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed in our Real Estate Forums or Blogs that are linked from within to other websites. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

The Brokers Edge only processes personal information for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our products and services to users;
• Auditing, research and analysis in an effort to maintain, protect and improve our services;
• Development of new products and services.

The Brokers Edge processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and not other countries.

Information Sharing

The Brokers Edge only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of The Brokers Edge in the following limited circumstances:

We provide such information to credit card Merchant Account to indentify you as the card holder when ordering products or services. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) satisfy any applicable regulation, law, legal process or enforceable government request, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address possible security, fraud, or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of The Brokers Edge, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If the Brokers Edge ever becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice to your last known email address before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Please use the address below for any additional questions about the use of or management of your personal data.

Information Security

We use industry standard encryption to collect and protect your private information. Any time we collect financial information such as credit cards you will be transferred to a secure website for processing.

All private information is stored on secure servers behind firewalls with other appropriate security measures at our physical facility and monitored 24 hours every day to insure against loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration.

Changes to This Policy

In the event we change or modify this policy in any manner the changes will be immediately posted to:

• This privacy policy.

Conflict Resolution

If a conflict ever arises we are commented to resolve it within 24-48 hours of notification.

If a conflict arises please notify us with the contact form below.

Contact Information

If a user or Client has any questions about the Brokers Edge Privacy Policy they may contact our corporate headquarters at:

Phone: (573) 823-2770

Company: The Brokers Edge, Inc.

Address: 1410 I-70 Drive S.W. Suite 100

Columbia, Missouri - 65201