Ingress Realty Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 08/2026

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how Ingress Realty (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit our website https://ingressfirm.com (the “Site”), use our real estate services, or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”).

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a client, prospective client, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of our Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site and update the “Last Updated” date.

2. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use the information we collect to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

A. Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Basic Contact Details: Your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.

  • Account Information: If you create an account, your username, password, and security questions.

  • Property & Search Information: Details about your property search criteria, properties you view, save, or favorite on our Site.

  • Transaction Information: As you become a client, we will collect information necessary for real estate transactions, such as financial pre-qualification details, information for purchase agreements, and other data required for contracts. This is typically collected through secure channels.

  • Customer Support Information: The information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through a contact form or directly to an agent.

B. Information We Collect Automatically (Usage Data)

We automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services. To do this, we may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and similar technologies (“Cookies”). Usage Data may include:

  • Device and Browser Information: Information about how you access our Site, including your device type, operating system, browser information, network connection details, and your IP address.

  • Interaction Information: Details regarding your interaction with the Services, such as pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, and your navigation paths.

C. Information We Obtain from Third Parties

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including:

  • MLS/IDX Providers: Our website displays property listings from a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) through an IDX feed. We receive property data from these services.

  • Public Records: We may collect information about properties, ownership, and sale history from public records, such as county and tax assessment databases.

  • Transaction Partners: We may receive information from partners involved in your transaction, such as mortgage lenders, title companies, and inspectors.

  • Service Providers: We may work with service providers who collect information on our behalf to support our Site and Services (e.g., analytics providers like Google Analytics).

3. How We Use Your Personal Information

  • Providing Real Estate Services: We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you. This includes responding to your inquiries, scheduling property viewings, connecting you with an agent, sending you notifications related to your account or saved searches, and facilitating real estate transactions.

  • Marketing and Advertising: We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send communications by email, text message, or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for our services. This may include using your information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.

  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username or password with anyone. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.

  • Communicating with You: We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and to improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests to be responsive to you, provide effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, CRM systems, data analytics, customer support, and cloud storage).

  • With our agents, staff, and affiliates within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.

  • With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. These partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.

  • With real estate transaction partners when you direct us or consent to our disclosure. This includes other brokers, title companies, escrow officers, mortgage lenders, and inspectors necessary to complete a transaction.

  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas or search warrants), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Over the past 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for the purposes set out above:

Category of Personal Information
Categories of Recipients
Identifiers such as basic contact details and account information.
Vendors, service providers, agents, affiliates, transaction partners, and business/marketing partners.
Commercial Information such as records of property interest, saved searches, and customer support history.
Vendors, service providers, agents, affiliates, and transaction partners.
Internet or Other Similar Network Activity such as Usage Data.
Vendors, service providers, and business/marketing partners.

5. User-Generated Content

The Services may enable you to post comments on our blog or other user-generated content. If you choose to submit such content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information you choose to make available to others and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available.

6. Third-Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties (e.g., mortgage calculators, school district sites). If you follow links to sites not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites.

7. Data Security and Retention

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Information you send to us may not be secure while in transit, and we recommend you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors. For clients, we are legally required to retain records related to real estate transactions for a period mandated by state law (typically 4-7 years). For other information, we retain it for as long as needed to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, or resolve disputes.

8. Children’s Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of 16. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, please contact us to request that it be deleted.

9. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. These rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances.

  • Right to Access / Know: You may have a right to request access to the personal information we hold about you, including details relating to how we use and share your information.

  • Right to Delete: You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right to Correct: You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right of Portability: You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party.

  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing / Targeted Advertising: You may have a right to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information for the purpose of cross-context behavioral or “targeted” advertising. If you visit our Site with the Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out preference signal enabled, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of information for the device and browser you are using.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

Ingress Realty
Email: privacy@ingressfirm.com