1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognize a user's device, remember preferences, maintain secure sessions, understand how visitors use the website, and improve the overall user experience.
Cookies may collect or store information such as:
- Browser type
- Device type
- Internet Protocol address
- General geographic location
- Pages visited
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- Search preferences
- Login or session information
- Interactions with Website features and advertisements
We may also use technologies similar to cookies, including pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, software development kits, and tracking links. References to "cookies" in this policy generally include these similar technologies.
2. Types of Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by our Website. These cookies may support Website functionality, maintain secure sessions, remember your preferences, and recognize you when you return.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed by companies that provide services through or in connection with our Website. These providers may offer analytics, advertising, mapping, property-search, customer relationship management, social media, video, security, or other Website services.
Third parties may use cookies according to their own privacy and cookie policies. We do not directly control how third parties use information collected through their technologies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and generally expire when you close your browser. They may be used to maintain your session while you navigate the Website.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser and expire after a defined period or when manually deleted. They may be used to remember your preferences, login selections, saved searches, or previous interactions when you return to the Website.
3. Why We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Operate and secure the Website
- Authenticate users and maintain login sessions
- Remember property searches, filters, and preferences
- Save properties or other user selections
- Respond to property inquiries and service requests
- Understand how visitors interact with the Website
- Identify errors and improve Website performance
- Measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
- Provide relevant real estate information
- Display personalized content or advertising
- Prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
4. Categories of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Always ActiveThese cookies are required for the Website to operate properly and generally cannot be disabled through our Cookie Settings.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used to:
- Maintain Website security
- Authenticate users
- Remember privacy and cookie selections
- Support forms and account features
- Maintain browsing sessions
- Prevent fraudulent or malicious activity
- Connect users to requested Website services
Disabling these cookies through your browser may cause portions of the Website to function improperly.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
OptionalThese cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website and identify areas that may need improvement. They may be used to:
- Count Website visits
- Identify frequently visited pages
- Measure Website traffic and performance
- Understand how visitors navigate the Website
- Identify errors or technical issues
- Determine which sources direct visitors to the Website
- Produce aggregated Website usage reports
Information collected through these cookies may be aggregated or pseudonymized.
Functional Cookies
OptionalFunctional cookies allow the Website to remember selections and provide enhanced features. They may be used to:
- Remember language preferences
- Save property-search settings and filters
- Remember previously viewed or saved properties
- Maintain display and accessibility preferences
- Support maps, videos, virtual tours, and other embedded content
- Remember whether you have completed a survey or dismissed a notification
If functional cookies are disabled, some Website features may not operate as intended.
Advertising and Targeting Cookies
OptionalAdvertising and targeting cookies may be used to understand your interests, personalize advertising, limit how often advertisements are displayed, and measure campaign effectiveness. These cookies may:
- Record visits to pages or property listings
- Measure responses to advertisements
- Connect Website activity with advertising platforms
- Help display advertisements that may be relevant to your interests
- Create audience groups for marketing campaigns
- Measure whether an advertisement resulted in a Website visit or inquiry
These cookies may allow advertising providers to recognize your device across different websites or online services.
5. Third-Party Services
Our Website may integrate with third-party providers that use cookies or similar technologies. Depending on the features currently installed on the Website, these providers may include:
- Website analytics providers
- Search engine and advertising platforms
- Social media platforms
- Customer relationship management systems
- Property-search and multiple listing service platforms
- Mapping and location-service providers
- Video and virtual-tour providers
- Website hosting and security providers
- Email, telephone, and text-message service providers
Each third party processes information according to its own terms and privacy policies. You should review the policies of the applicable provider for additional information regarding its data practices.
6. Cookie Consent
Where required by applicable law, we will request your consent before placing nonessential cookies on your device.
When you first visit the Website, you may be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to accept cookies, reject nonessential cookies, select specific categories of cookies, or review additional information about our cookie practices.
Strictly necessary cookies may operate without your consent because they are required to provide the Website or a service you specifically requested.
Your cookie selection applies to the browser and device from which you made the selection. You may need to make a new selection if you use another device, use another browser, clear your cookies, or browse in private or incognito mode.
7. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
You may change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by selecting the "Cookie Settings" or similar link available on our Website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before the consent was withdrawn.
Disabling certain cookies may affect Website functionality, including your ability to:
- Log into an account
- Save properties or searches
- Remember search filters
- View embedded maps or videos
- Receive personalized Website features
- Access certain interactive services
8. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most internet browsers allow you to review, block, restrict, or delete cookies through the browser's privacy or security settings. Browser settings may allow you to block all cookies, block third-party cookies, delete existing cookies, receive notifications before cookies are placed, or clear cookies when the browser closes.
Instructions are available for common browsers:
Blocking all cookies may prevent portions of the Website from operating correctly.
9. Analytics and Interest-Based Advertising
Some analytics or advertising providers offer their own tools for controlling data collection or interest-based advertising. You may also be able to manage interest-based advertising preferences through recognized advertising-industry opt-out programs.
Using an advertising opt-out tool generally does not prevent advertisements from being displayed. Instead, it may reduce the personalization of the advertisements you receive.
10. Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals
Some browsers or browser extensions allow users to transmit privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.
Where required by applicable law, we will process recognized privacy preference signals as requests to opt out of covered data sales, sharing, or targeted advertising.
Because there is not currently one universally accepted standard for every browser privacy signal, the Website may not respond to all "Do Not Track" signals.
11. Cookie Retention
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type and purpose of the cookie.
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies may remain for a defined period unless you delete them earlier.
Retention periods may vary depending on the applicable Website feature or third-party provider. We seek to retain cookie information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
12. Children's Privacy
The Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children under 13.
A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information through the Website should contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.
13. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in Website technology, cookies or third-party services, our business practices, or legal or regulatory requirements.
Any revised Cookie Policy will be posted on the Website. Material changes may also be communicated through the Website, cookie banner, email, or another appropriate method.
14. Contact Us
Questions regarding this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies may be directed to:
Home Pro Realty of NY, LLC — Polk Commercial Real Estate
115 Main St, Suite 5
Whitesboro, New York 13492
Telephone: (315) 272-7623