Privacy Policy

Overview and Scope

Welcome to The VA Real Estate Team website ("Site"). Stephen Levesque PLLC (DBA: The VA Real Estate Team) ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy ("Policy"). This Policy describes our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information, including personal information, and the choices you may have. This Policy does not apply to any third-party website you access that is not this Site.

Information Collected

When you access the Site, use our services, contact us, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect personal information about you, including:

• Account & Contact Information: Your first and last name, email address, phone number, and mailing address when you submit a form, create an account, or contact us.
• Communications: Any information you provide when you contact us with questions, requests, or inquiries about our services.
• Automatically Collected Data: Information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and details of your visits such as traffic data, location data (if enabled), and other communication data.
• Cookies & Tracking: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your online activities. You may refuse cookies through your browser settings, but some features of the Site may not function properly.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our services
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account
• To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
• To deliver relevant content, property listings, and targeted offers via email, text, or the Site
• To maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site and services
• To respond to law enforcement requests and comply with applicable law
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may disclose your information only in the following limited circumstances:

• Service Providers: With third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as data hosting or analytics. These providers are contractually required to protect the security and confidentiality of your information and may not use it for their own purposes.
• Corporate Transactions: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of the transaction.
• Legal Disclosures: When required by law, court order, or to protect our rights, safety, or property.

Terms and Conditions

1. We use SMS to confirm appointments, send reminders, and notify clients of schedule updates or important changes.
2. You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Just text "STOP". After you send the SMS message "STOP" to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time, and we will start sending SMS messages to you again.
3. If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program, you can reply with the keyword "HELP" for more assistance, or you can get help directly at stephen@vateamaz.com.
4. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
5. As always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. Message frequency may vary. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider.
6. If you have any questions regarding privacy, please read our privacy policy: Privacy Policy.

Consent to Receiving Communications

By registering or submitting your contact information, you are giving us permission to contact you via text message, email, or telephone using the email address and/or telephone number that you have provided. Such contact may, from time to time, include attempts to contact you via auto-dialing, prerecorded or artificial voice, or auto-texting technology. You may opt out of receiving these forms of communication by unsubscribing from any email communication or texting STOP as a reply to one of our text communications. There is no fee charged by us to receive text messages; however, your mobile service provider may charge you for sending and/or receiving text messages and air-time, as well as any other standard applicable rates charged by your mobile service provider.

Your Rights and Choices

• Opt-Out of Marketing: You may opt out of marketing emails via the unsubscribe link in any email. You may opt out of SMS by texting "STOP."
• Access & Deletion: Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information.
• Data Portability: You may have the right to request a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
• Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at stephen@vateamaz.com.

Information Security

We maintain organizational, physical, and technical security arrangements designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, or misuse. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Information Retention

We will only retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to websites, apps, tools, widgets, and plug-ins run by third parties. If you visit a third-party website, you should read their privacy notice, terms and conditions, and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of third parties.

Minors

Our Site and services are not intended or directed to children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Do Not Track Signals

Our website does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" signals from your web browser. When you use our website, third parties may not collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites.

Visitors From Outside the United States

This Privacy Policy is intended to cover the collection of information from residents of the United States. If you are visiting from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using our Site, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time. When we make changes, we will post the updated Policy on this page and update the effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, contact us by email at stephen@vateamaz.com or by phone at 602-554-8731.