Last Updated: July 1, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how ExperienceIslandLiving.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”), operated by Chelsea Oelker of the Hannah Hillyard Group at Michael Saunders & Company, collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit and use our website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data with transparency and care.
1. Who We Are
ExperienceIslandLiving.com is a real estate website operated by Chelsea Oelker, a Realtor with the Hannah Hillyard Group, part of Michael Saunders & Company. Our website focuses on real estate services, particularly for Anna Maria Island, Florida.
2. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you:
- Information You Provide Directly:
- Contact Information: When you fill out forms on our site (e.g., contact forms, property inquiry forms, newsletter sign-ups), you may provide your name, email address, phone number, and any messages or specific requests.
- Property Preferences: If you use our search tools or communicate your real estate interests, we may collect information about your desired property type, location, budget, and other criteria.
- Information Collected Automatically:
- Usage Data: When you visit our website, we automatically collect information about your device and how you interact with our site. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and clickstream data.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like pixels and web beacons) to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and understand user behavior. Cookies are small data files stored on your device.
- Information from Third Parties:
- We integrate with third-party real estate data providers (e.g., IDX/MLS systems) to display property listings. These providers may collect data related to your property searches and interactions within their integrated tools.
- We may use analytics services (like Google Analytics) that collect data about your website usage.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide Services: To respond to your inquiries, provide requested information about properties, send market updates, and facilitate your real estate search.
- To Improve Our Website: To understand how users interact with our site, identify areas for improvement, and enhance user experience.
- For Communication: To send you relevant updates, newsletters, or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you, based on your preferences.
- For Marketing and Advertising: To personalize content and advertisements, including retargeting, based on your interests and interactions with our site.
- For Analytics and Research: To analyze trends, track website performance, and conduct internal research.
- For Legal and Compliance Purposes: To comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms and conditions, and protect our rights and property.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share your information with the following parties:
- Within Our Team: Your information may be shared with Chelsea Oelker and other members of the Hannah Hillyard Group at Michael Saunders & Company to provide comprehensive real estate services.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share data with trusted third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, analytics, CRM systems, email marketing, and IDX/MLS data integration. These providers are obligated to protect your information.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we believe it’s necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.
- How We Use Them: We use cookies to remember your preferences, analyze website traffic, track user interactions, and deliver personalized content.
- Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being placed. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (e.g., for legal, tax, or accounting purposes).
8. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Last Updated” date at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Email: chelseaoelker@michaelsaunders.com
Phone: (941) 565-5481