This Walker & Dunlop Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains how we collect, use, share, transfer, and process information collected from or about you (“Personal Data”) by any subsidiary or affiliate of Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (collectively “Walker & Dunlop,” “we,” “our,” or “us”).
This Notice describes the types of Personal Data that Walker & Dunlop may collect or process, how we may use and disclose that Personal Data, and how you may exercise any rights you may have regarding our processing of your Personal Data. This Notice applies to Personal Data collected or processed by us online (through websites, applications, and otherwise), when we provide products or services to you, and in other situations where you interact with us, including anywhere this Notice is posted or referenced (products, services, websites, and other systems will be referred to in this Notice as “Products and Services”). This Notice also applies to Personal Data that is collected or processed when you interact with us in-person, by telephone, or by mail.
Walker & Dunlop may have other unique privacy notices that apply to certain specific situations, such as privacy notices for specific Products and Services in various specific circumstances. To the extent you were provided with a different privacy notice or policy and those policies or notices apply, those policies or notices will govern our interactions with you, not this one.
If you provide Personal Data of anyone other than yourself, please note that you are responsible for complying with all applicable privacy and data protection laws prior to providing that information to Walker & Dunlop (including obtaining consent, if necessary and required).
Please carefully review this Notice. To the extent permitted by applicable law, by providing us your Personal Data or otherwise interacting with us, you are agreeing to this Notice.
“Personal Data” is any information that can be used to identify an individual or that we can link directly to an individual, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, or credit card number, as applicable. Personal Data in some jurisdictions can include information that indirectly identifies a person.
Some examples of instances where we collect Personal Data include if you:
We will process any Personal Data we collect in accordance with applicable law and as explained in this Notice (unless, as explained above, one of our other policies or notices governs). In some circumstances, if you do not want to provide us with your information, certain Products and Services may be unavailable to you.
Below is a summary of how we collect, process, and use Personal Data and the potential recipients of your Personal Data. Some jurisdictions require us to state the legal bases for processing your Personal Data, which is included below, but please note that not all jurisdictions may recognize all legal bases.
*In limited circumstances, recipients may include, (1) in the event of a sale, assignment, or transfer, to the buyer, assignee, or transferee; and, (2) government officials, law enforcement, or others when permitted by this Notice or required by law.
When you visit Walker & Dunlop websites or applications, we may use “cookies,” web beacons, and other technologies to help us serve users better and to help us evaluate and improve the content or functions of the Products or Services. A cookie is a small piece of data (a unique numeric code) sent from a website or application and stored on a user’s device while the user is browsing the website or using the application. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like identifying previous activity so that your use of the Product or Service is more efficient and enjoyable, remembering your preferences (like language choices), and authenticating you.
Common uses for cookies include:
Web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs) are small pieces of code that may be placed on our websites or other Products and Services that allow us to obtain information about usage. Web beacons cannot identify you as an individual and are used to help display content to visitors and to generate statistics regarding web traffic and trends.
Generally, our Cookies perform these different functions:
Some Cookies are essential for the operation of our website, such as security, network management, user authentication, and accessibility. While you may be able to configure your browser to reject these Cookies, doing so would affect how the website functions.
We use other Cookies to analyze how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance Cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these Cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.
We may use Cookies to help personalize the website by remembering your preferences.
Walker Dunlop and advertisers may use Cookies to serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You might see ads that target you based on your user behavior on sites that you visit. However, we do not tell advertisers who you are. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before placing Advertising Cookies on your device.
If you would like to opt-out or withdraw consent to use non-essential cookies and related technologies, you can set your web browser to prevent the use of cookies from Walker & Dunlop websites, as well as other websites that you may visit (see www.aboutcookies.org for more information on how to do this). If you do so, you can still use Walker & Dunlop Products and Services, but it is possible that some portions of the Products and Services will not function properly or may perform more slowly.
Walker & Dunlop does not knowingly collect, maintain, disclose, or otherwise process Personal Data from minors below the age of 13 without the permission of such minor’s parents or legal guardians.
We may combine information we collect, whether Personal Data or not, with Personal Data that we may obtain from third parties.
To the extent we offer any public or group forums on our Products or Services, such as newsfeeds, blogs, message boards, or similar tools (“Interactive Features”), the posts or comments you make may be public and viewed by others. You should use care before posting information about yourself, including Personal Data. You acknowledge and understand that you have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in the content you submit to Interactive Features over the Products and Services. Except when required to do so by applicable law, we assume no obligation to remove Personal Data you post on our Products and Services, and you disclose any Personal Data at your own risk.
Our Products or Services may contain links to other websites, applications, products, or services that are not owned or operated by Walker & Dunlop, such as social media websites and applications like Facebook and Twitter. You should carefully review the privacy policies and practices of other websites, products, and services as we cannot control and are not responsible for privacy policies, notices, or practices of third party websites, applications, products, and services.
Consistent with applicable laws and requirements, Walker & Dunlop has put in place physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect Personal Data from loss, misuse, alteration, theft, unauthorized access, and unauthorized disclosure, consistent with legal obligations and industry practices. We evaluate these safeguards to help minimize risks from new security threats. However, as is the case with all websites, applications, products, and services, we unfortunately are not able to guarantee security for data collected through our Products and Services.
You may have a right under your jurisdiction’s data protection law to the following with respect to some or all of your Personal Data:
To exercise these rights, please write to us at [email protected] or Walker & Dunlop, 7272 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1300, Bethesda, MD 20814 Attn: Legal Department.
You may also reach us by:
We may, after receiving your request, require additional information from you to honor the request and verify your identity. Please be aware that we may be unable to afford these rights to you under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so.
If you are concerned about how your Personal Data is used, please email us or contact us. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To do so, contact your local data protection authority.
Please be aware that Personal Data we collect and process may be transferred and maintained outside your state, province, country, or other jurisdiction, where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your location, including the United States. Walker & Dunlop has put in place safeguards, in accordance with applicable legal requirements, to protect your Personal Data irrespective of the standards in the country where your Personal Data may be transferred. This includes entering into agreements with third parties, such as service providers, to require them to adopt standards that ensure an equivalent level of protection for data as those we adopt.
You may unsubscribe from any marketing or promotional emails. To do so, please email us at [email protected] or use the unsubscribe mechanism offered in our marketing emails or other communications, as applicable. Please note that if you already have requested our Products or Services when you decide to withdraw consent, a short period of time may elapse before we can update your preferences and ensure that we honor your request.
We will retain your Personal Data for as long as we maintain a relationship with you and/or for as long as we provide a Product or Service to you. We may retain Personal Data therefore as long as is reasonably necessary for legitimate business purposes or legal and regulatory purposes.
We may update this Notice from time to time without notice. As such, you should review this Notice periodically. Your continued interactions with us and/or the use of our Products and Services subject to this Notice constitutes your agreement to this Notice.
If you have any questions, including how to access this Notice in an alternative format, please email us at [email protected] or write to us at Walker & Dunlop, 7272 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1300, Bethesda, MD 20814 Attn: Legal Department.
Updated: September 2021
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