5. Respecting and responding to your privacy concerns

We will explain your options for refusing or withdrawing consent to the collection, use and release of your information, and we will record and respect your choices. We will investigate and respond to your concerns about any aspect of our handling of your information.

In our Privacy Code, we will explain how we fulfill each of these important principles.

PRA's online Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information is fundamental to the way we do business with you, whether over the Internet, on the telephone or at our office.

Many of you have questions about how we are handling the information we obtain from you when you visit our websites. This online Privacy Policy will answer your questions about the information we collect when you visit PRA's website, and how we use it.

Visiting our information sites

When you go directly to the information portion of our websites and move from page to page, read pages or download content onto your computer, we can learn which pages are visited, what content is downloaded, and the address of websites that you visited immediately before coming to our websites. However, none of this is associated with you as an individual. It is measured only in aggregate.

We are able to use this information to find out how many people visit our websites and which sections of the sites are visited most frequently. This helps us to know what type of information is most useful to you so that we can improve our websites and make it easier for you to access information. We record the statistical information on the numbers of visitors to our websites, but no information about you in particular will be kept or used.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file containing certain pieces of information that a website creates when you visit the site. It can track how and when you use a site, which site you visited immediately before, and it can store that information about you.

There are two common types of cookies, "session cookies" and "persistent cookies". Session cookies store information only for the length of time that you are connected to a website - they are not written onto your hard drive. Once you leave the website, the originator of the cookie no longer has the information that was contained on it.

Pocrnic Realty Advisors Inc. uses session cookies as an additional security feature for its online services.  For example, when you login to any future web services and are authenticated through your login ID and password, a cookie will store the identification number of your browser. Throughout your session, the cookie acts as a type of digital signature to identify your current session to the web server.