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Jodi Collins | Western New York Real Estate

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 29, 2026

Who I am

This website is operated by Jodi Collins under the Jodi Sells WNY brand. I am a real estate salesperson affiliated with Great Lakes Real Estate.

My website address is:

https://jodisellswny.com

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected through this website, how it may be used, and the choices available to you.

Information I collect

Information you provide

I may collect personal information when you:

  • Submit a contact or property inquiry form

  • Request information about buying, selling, or relocating

  • Ask to schedule a consultation

  • Request information about a featured property

  • Submit property-search criteria

  • Join a community watch or request community updates

  • Download or request a buyer, seller, or relocation resource

  • Subscribe to email updates

  • Leave a comment, if commenting is available

  • Communicate with me by email, telephone, or another method

Depending on the form or request, this information may include:

  • Your name

  • Email address

  • Telephone number

  • Current or desired address

  • Communities or properties that interest you

  • Buying, selling, or relocation preferences

  • Property-search criteria

  • Information about a property you own

  • Your preferred timeline

  • Questions, messages, and other information you choose to provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal or financial information, such as Social Security numbers, banking information, or account passwords, through a general website form.

Information collected automatically

When you visit this website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, its hosting provider, security tools, or other service providers. This may include:

  • Your IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type and operating system

  • Referring website

  • Pages viewed

  • Date and time of your visit

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Cookie and device identifiers

  • Website activity and server log information

This information may be used to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.

How I use your information

I may use the information collected through this website to:

  • Respond to your questions or requests

  • Contact you about a property or real estate service

  • Help you buy, sell, or relocate within Western New York

  • Create or refine a property search

  • Schedule a consultation or appointment

  • Send requested property, community, or market information

  • Provide buyer, seller, and relocation resources

  • Maintain records of inquiries and communications

  • Improve the website and visitor experience

  • Protect the website against spam, fraud, misuse, and security threats

  • Comply with legal, regulatory, brokerage, and professional obligations

  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights

Providing your information does not create an agency relationship, brokerage relationship, or other professional relationship. Any such relationship must be established through the appropriate agreements and disclosures.

Email updates and community watch

If you request community updates, property information, market updates, or other email communications, I may use your name, email address, and stated interests to provide those communications.

You may unsubscribe from non-transactional email messages at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in the message, when available, or by contacting me directly. Unsubscribing from marketing messages will not prevent me from responding to an active inquiry or sending information necessary for an existing transaction or professional relationship.

Telephone calls and text messages

If you provide a telephone number, I may use it to respond to your inquiry by telephone or text message when appropriate. Message and data rates may apply.

I will not use your telephone number for automated promotional text messages without obtaining any consent required by applicable law. Providing a telephone number is not a condition of purchasing any property or service.

Comments

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, the website may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user-agent information, to assist with moderation and spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address, sometimes called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. The Gravatar privacy policy explains how its associated provider handles information. After a comment is approved, a profile image connected to Gravatar may be publicly visible with the comment.

Comments and their associated metadata may be retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognized and approved.

Media

The website generally does not permit visitors to upload images publicly. If a form or feature allows you to submit images or other files, you should avoid uploading files containing embedded location information, including EXIF GPS data. People who can access an uploaded image may be able to download and extract that information.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your device that help websites function, remember preferences, understand usage, and support security.

This website may use:

  • Essential cookies needed for security, website operation, form functionality, or administrative access

  • Preference cookies that remember selections or settings

  • Comment cookies that remember a commenter’s name, email address, and website when the commenter chooses that option

  • Performance or analytics cookies, if analytics services are enabled

  • Third-party cookies associated with embedded videos, maps, social-media features, property tools, or other outside content

If you leave a comment and choose to save your information, cookies may store your name, email address, and website for approximately one year.

If you visit the website’s login page, WordPress may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal information and is removed when you close your browser.

For authorized website users, WordPress may set login and display-preference cookies. Login cookies generally last for two days, display-setting cookies may last for one year, and selecting “Remember Me” may keep a login active for approximately two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

If an authorized user edits or publishes an article, WordPress may store an additional cookie containing the post ID. It does not contain personal information and generally expires after one day.

You can control or remove cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may prevent some parts of the website from functioning properly.

Embedded content and outside websites

Pages and posts may include embedded or linked content from other websites, such as:

  • Property listing platforms

  • OneHome or MLS-powered listing pages

  • Great Lakes Real Estate

  • YouTube

  • Google Maps or other mapping services

  • Facebook, Instagram, and other social-media platforms

  • Videos, images, articles, or downloadable resources

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those websites may collect information, use cookies, employ additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interactions according to their own privacy policies.

Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience. I do not control and am not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of those websites. You should review the privacy policy of any outside service you visit.

How information may be shared

I may share personal information when reasonably necessary with:

  • Great Lakes Real Estate and its authorized personnel

  • Website hosting, maintenance, security, email, form-processing, and technology providers

  • Real estate professionals and transaction participants when necessary for a requested service or transaction

  • Lenders, attorneys, inspectors, contractors, moving professionals, title companies, or other service providers when you request an introduction or authorize the sharing

  • Government agencies, regulators, courts, or law enforcement when required by law

  • Professional advisors, such as attorneys, accountants, or insurers

  • A successor or acquiring organization if the website or related business operations are reorganized, transferred, or sold

Service providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on my behalf or as otherwise permitted by their own agreements and applicable law.

I do not sell personal information for money.

Spam detection and website security

Visitor comments and form submissions may be reviewed by automated spam-detection or security services. Website hosting and security providers may also process IP addresses, device information, server logs, and website activity to detect malicious traffic, prevent fraud, maintain backups, and protect the website.

How long information is retained

Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to inquiries, maintaining business and transaction records, meeting brokerage or legal obligations, resolving disputes, and protecting the website.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information:

  • Contact and property inquiries may be retained while an inquiry is active and afterward for business, recordkeeping, or legal purposes.

  • Email subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to records needed to honor that request.

  • Comments and their metadata may be retained indefinitely.

  • Website logs and security records may be retained according to the practices of the hosting and security providers.

  • Transaction-related information may be retained for the periods required by applicable real estate, brokerage, tax, insurance, or legal requirements.

Your privacy choices and rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Ask what personal information I maintain about you

  • Request a copy of information you provided

  • Ask that inaccurate information be corrected

  • Request deletion of certain personal information

  • Withdraw consent for optional communications

  • Unsubscribe from marketing or community-update emails

  • Object to or restrict certain uses of your information

These rights may be limited when information must be retained for legal, administrative, security, brokerage, transaction, or recordkeeping purposes.

To make a privacy request, contact me using the information below. I may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Data security

I use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, email transmission, storage system, or method of transmitting information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You submit information through the website at your own risk.

Children’s privacy

This website is intended for adults interested in real estate services and is not directed to children under 13. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information, please contact me so that the information can be reviewed and removed when appropriate.

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to the website, its services, third-party providers, or applicable requirements.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the website after an update means that you acknowledge the revised policy.

Contact information

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Jodi Collins
Jodi Sells WNY
Great Lakes Real Estate
916 Center Street
Lewiston, NY 14092

Email: jodi@greatlakesre.com
Phone: 716-417-0271
Website: https://jodisellswny.com