Privacy Policy

The Alabama Real Estate Commission's site uses cookies to collect and store only the following information about you: browsers reaching our site, return visitor percentages, domain hit percentages, hits by operating system, hits by day of the week, and hits by hour of day. This site collects no personal identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individual.

Alabama Real Estate Commission uses the information collected to measure the number of visitors to our site, and to help make our site more useful to all visitors.

 

Internet Security Policy

Security is an important segment of the Alabama Real Estate Commission (AREC) network. Alabama Real Estate Commission considers the security of licensee and consumer information critical. AREC handles online information with commitment to ensure a secure environment that can be trusted to fulfill all confidentiality requirements. The State of Alabama Information Services Division documented steps are taken to safeguard information according to established security standards and procedures and they continually assess the newest technology for protecting information.

Sensitive information used in financial transactions, such as banking information and personal data is confidential. Alabama Real Estate Commission is committed to ensuring our licensees and consumers confidentiality through the use of state-of-the-art information security and the adoption of appropriate privacy policies and procedures:

• The entire record request transaction occurs in a password protected, secured environment.
• All of the information is exchanged via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 128-bit encryption.
• All information requests must pass through multiple hardware and software security firewalls.
• Communication with any database is encrypted over the network via Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Alabama Real Estate Commission's adopted Privacy Policy outlines access to and the display of information. Alabama Real Estate Commission does not sell or distribute user information.