Privacy
Last updated: November 2, 2026
This page explains how information is used by KW Smith Lake Team, a division of Humphries Real Estate Group LLC, with brokerage Metro North LLC dba Keller Williams on this website. For privacy questions, or to request access to, correction of or removal of information held in the website workspace, contact admin@kwalabama.com.
Contact, property search and buyer accounts
KW Smith Lake Team is a division of Humphries Real Estate Group LLC, affiliated with the brokerage Metro North LLC dba Keller Williams. The brokerage is marketed as Keller Williams.
Website inquiry forms save your contact details, preferred response method, message and selected property reference in our private team workspace. A showing or service request does not book an appointment or charge for services. Direct call and text links open your own application; you choose whether to send.
Property searches retrieve authorized IDX information from Walker County Area MLS. Listing photographs come from the permitted MLS photo service. Homes and showing-list buttons ask you to sign in and finish your buyer profile. Existing browser favorites and draft showing lists are kept for migration to your account; saved searches can also be kept on this browser. After you sign in and create a buyer profile, saved homes, named searches and showing lists are stored in your account for use across devices. We try to add existing browser drafts to your account; drafts that cannot be saved are kept on that browser. Saved searches keep your filters. Email updates stay off unless you explicitly choose Daily and save that preference for an account search. When email delivery is enabled, these updates use your verified account email and check for new matching properties and price changes at most once every 24 hours. The first check sets a starting point without emailing existing results. You can turn updates off for a search in My Lake or use the confirmation link in an update email. Delivery can be paused or unavailable; the account screen shows its current status. This choice does not subscribe you to marketing or text listing alerts.
Buyer accounts store your sign-in identity, name, contact phone number, saved property references, named search criteria, showing list and tour requests. Your account email comes from the sign-in service. The account-activity notice explains that creating a profile or continuing after the notice starts automatic signed-in page and property/search activity, including normalized public-page and buyer-portal paths, listing references, repeat view counts and first/last viewed times. Page activity excludes query strings, form text and referrers; it does not prove every navigation or attention. Recently viewed uses this activity. The team uses it to help with your search and understand the website audience. Existing accounts are asked to review the updated notice before the new automatic activity policy is applied; an earlier choice to keep optional viewing activity off is not silently changed. Clear recorded account activity in Profile & settings. Clearing account activity removes recorded page visits, property views, approximate visit areas and search activity. It keeps saved homes, named searches, showing lists and submitted requests. Future signed-in activity can be recorded under the acknowledged account notice.
When mobile verification is enabled, new buyer and Pro account setup asks for a cell number and a texted verification code. Clerk sends and checks the code; the verified number and the time its verified status was observed are saved to your private account. Our team can use a buyer’s saved number to respond about their search. A Pro account-holder’s private cell is separate from the public phone number on their business profile. Requesting a verification code does not subscribe you to marketing texts. Message and data rates may apply.
To manage follow-up, our team can keep internal contact details, lead stages, assignments, tags, service notes, tasks and manually entered communication summaries in the private team workspace. A logged call, email or text records what a team member entered; this logging feature does not record calls or send communications. Requests about these records can be sent to admin@kwalabama.com.
For accounts using the current activity notice, the site can record an approximate city, state and country for a signed-in visit when available. The hosting service may provide this broad connection area. When the MapTiler location service is enabled, your browser also connects to MapTiler, which receives your connection IP address to estimate the area. MapTiler location lookups run only when the service is configured and after you continue under the current account notice; existing accounts using an earlier notice are shown the update before continuing. Our buyer location record keeps only the coarse city, state and country. It does not store the raw IP address or request GPS location. See MapTiler privacy policy. The estimate can be inaccurate or unavailable, including with a VPN or mobile network. It is not a home address, a real-time location or verified evidence of where a buyer is from. If you add an optional home city and state in your profile, those are the location details you provide, separate from the connection estimate. The team uses these broad location details for service and audience insights. Saving a profile, acknowledging the account notice or making an inquiry does not subscribe you to marketing.
Interactive maps may request imagery or map resources from MapTiler, Mapbox, ReportAll, OpenStreetMap and unpkg.com, depending on the map you open. Fonts are requested from Google Fonts. External websites have their own terms. These buyer features do not use advertising trackers. Hosting and sign-in services process technical information needed to provide access. For privacy questions, your saved information, or correction and removal requests, email admin@kwalabama.com. Do not include sensitive financial or identity documents in a website message.
Seller property details and optional maps
When you request a property evaluation, we save the contact and property details you choose to submit in our private team workspace so Lauren and our team can respond. You may optionally select a property location on the map and capture its view. Opening the finder loads aerial imagery; choosing a point sends that property location to our parcel-data service to check for a matching parcel. Available parcel-owner labels help you recognize the property. The finder does not request your device's GPS location.
A captured map stays a draft in your browser until you submit the form. With your request, we save the selected point, available parcel references, map view and captured image as a private attachment. The preview identifies an approximate point when a parcel cannot be matched. Parcel labels and outlines do not verify that you own the property. Creating an account is optional and does not send an evaluation request automatically. A saved request remains separate from account activity and account deletion controls.
Public page-load totals
Separately from optional browser analytics, we count successful public-page requests in daily and short-lived minute totals even when optional analytics is off; these counters store only the public page path, time bucket and total, without IP addresses, cookies, browser or account identifiers, query strings or referrers, and do not identify unique people.
Automatic public network reporting
From this feature’s release, we separately record the network address supplied by the hosting gateway for eligible successful public-page requests, normalized public page paths, request totals and first/last request times. Where native hosting metadata is available, we retain an approximate city, region, country and time zone; this may describe a shared network or VPN and does not verify a person or home location. Missing or invalid gateway addresses remain unavailable. This first-party reporting runs independently of optional browser analytics and advertising choices; it does not change an existing choice, set a new cookie, contact an outside analytics or location service, or join a network address to a buyer account.
Only the website owner can view raw network addresses in this report. Staff with website-analytics access can see aggregate counts. Network detail buckets expire from reports after 30 days; later requests do not extend an existing daily path bucket’s expiry. Identifier-free daily request totals remain available for up to 90 days. Cleanup runs during reads, writes and the existing processing workflow; an inactive website has no guaranteed physical deletion deadline. This dataset excludes query strings, referrers, form contents, full browser user agents, private account and team pages, and known crawler/prefetch traffic. Repeat requests count again, and distinct network addresses are not people or browsers. These records are separate from the identifier-free public page-load counters and optional browser statistics described here.
Campaign labels and optional measurement
Public pages can retain session-only cookies containing fixed website campaign labels, such as Google or Meta, and an optional numeric Google ad creative ID so our private team report can group new account registrations and submitted inquiries by their reported source and ad. A creative ID identifies an ad, not a customer or individual click; it does not establish an experiment, control or variation assignment. Unknown labels stay unknown; these visitor-supplied labels do not verify an advertising click. These cookies contain no customer, property, search-text or click identifier. Separate campaign labels apply to submitted seller consultations and professional property valuation requests. Accepted inquiries retain their original source snapshot when a request is retried.
Optional external analytics and advertising choices are separate from sign-in, saved items, account activity and email permissions. Both start off. Use the Privacy choices button at the bottom of an eligible public page to review or change them. The browser preference lasts up to 30 days. If you allow optional analytics, our private team report uses a browser reference to count visitors and public-page views, including pages active in the last five minutes. We retain those statistics for up to 90 days. These local statistics exclude contact details, IP addresses, search text, location and private account pages. Turning optional analytics off removes this browser’s local visitor records. External analytics is separately controlled. With your advertising permission and an enabled connection, we retain available Google click identifiers and share the GCLID, SHA-256 hashed inquiry email/phone, confirmed buyer-inquiry/qualification/showing milestone and timestamp, and an opaque deduplication reference with Google Ads account 778-748-7631. Hashing enables matching; it does not make contact details anonymous. Advertising personalization remains denied. We exclude messages, notes, names, property details, IP addresses and home origin. This applies only to new eligible buyer inquiries after this notice and choice, not historical contacts. An ad click without a GCLID is not currently exported. Your active browser permission expires after 30 days; a renewed or changed choice does not reauthorize old inquiry records. Revocation stops future feed disclosure; previously imported data needs separate review with Google and cannot be recalled by removing a CSV row. If the reviewed analytics connection is enabled and you allow it, limited event counts can be sent through our server to Google Analytics. Those event payloads exclude contact details, account and inquiry references, property addresses, search text and location. Revoking a choice stops future optional events; it cannot recall an event already sent. A submitted inquiry still saves when optional measurement is off or unavailable.
Buyer origin and showing outcomes
Our private team report can summarize an optional home city/state supplied in a buyer profile, or an area the buyer voluntarily gives our team. We retain the inquiry-time source separately from later staff corrections and approximate visit-area estimates. A website visit or booked appointment does not establish travel to Smith Lake. An in-person showing counts as held only after a team member records that outcome. These individual home-area and showing records are not included in the external analytics event payload.
Your choices and requests
You can browse property information without creating a buyer profile when website access allows it. Account features identify whether an item is stored on this browser or in your signed-in account. You can manage your profile and clear recorded account activity in Profile & settings. Clearing activity does not erase a submitted inquiry or showing request, or remove saved homes and named searches. Send questions about those records, corrections or removal to admin@kwalabama.com; please identify the relevant account or request without sending passwords, identity documents or financial records.
The website does not promise that a request has been completed merely because an email or website form was submitted. We may need enough information to locate the correct record and confirm the request. Third-party hosting, sign-in, map and linked services process information under their own policies. Their records and account controls are separate from this website workspace.
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Contact us
Questions about this website or these policies can be sent to admin@kwalabama.com.
KW Smith Lake Team, a division of Humphries Real Estate Group LLC, with brokerage Metro North LLC dba Keller Williams. Brokerage marketing name: Keller Williams.