Privacy Statement

The Texas Real Estate Research Center (Center) at Texas A&M University respects your privacy. State law requires that users of this site be informed about the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

E-Mail Communications

Personal information that you provide via e-mail will be used only for purposes necessary to serve your needs, such as responding to an inquiry or other request for information. This may involve redirecting your inquiry or comment to another person or department better suited to meet your needs.

Surveys and Other Information You Share With Us

Information that you share with us — by participating in one of our surveys, sending us e-mails, or otherwise — will not be sold or voluntarily provided to third parties. We research and report data obtained through surveys and other means only in aggregate form. We will not publish data about an individual or company without their expressed consent.

Cookies

We do not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity or other personal information of any user. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

We use the following cookies:

• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website. This helps us improve the way our website works (for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily).
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  By accepting cookies, you are helping us help Texans make better real estate decisions. Cookies can be disabled or reset at any time through your browser settings.

Links

This site contains links to other sites. The Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Server Log Information

We use server logs to collect information concerning your Internet connection and general information about your visit to our web site. This information is used to analyze trends; to create summary statistics to help determine technical design specifications; and to analyze system performance or problem areas. We do not sell our records or lists.

This means we sometimes acquire, record and analyze portions of the data that is entered into, stored on, and/or transmitted through this site by you. This information is only released — when legally required — to help law enforcement investigations, legal proceedings or internal investigations of Texas A&M University. These groups would use the information to track the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or accounts(s).

The following information is collected from server logs for analysis:

Client IP address
System date and time
HTTP status
Content sent (bytes) and time taken
Request method
Universal Resource Identifier (URI) stem
User agent
Referrer

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your use of this website, please contact us at [email protected].