Privacy Policy
Most Recent Update: 8-8-2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Ryan Cate Auctions & Real Estate collects, uses and discloses personal information of its customers, prospective customers, and visitors to its website(s) at RyanCateAuctions.com
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information collected directly from you:
We may collect personal information directly from you. For example: During an online or in-person registration, during check-out, when inquiring about a current or upcoming auction or when inquiring about holding an auction. We may also collect personal information directly from you during a real estate transaction or when inquiring about real estate. Information we collect directly from you may include: First name, middle name, last name, email address, mailing address, billing address, phone number.
Information collected directly from your device:
Our website may use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information from your device, including for example: Your IP address, browser and operating system information, geographic location, referring website address and other information about how you interact with the website. Our email campaigns may use tracking technologies such as web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and email engagement statistics.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use information collected directly from you to provide you with: Ease of participation in current and future auctions, customer service and support, to market our products and services to you by email, text message and mail and to assist with our advertising and marketing efforts.
We use information collected automatically from your device to provide our website to you, to optimize our website and to assist with our advertising and marketing efforts.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use third-party service providers to assist us with providing and marketing our products and services to you and we may share your information with such third parties for these limited purposes:
-We use Constant Contact for our email marketing and text message communications. For more information about how we may use your information with Constant Contact and the information that may be collected through our email campaigns, see Constant Contact’s Customer Data Notice available at: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/customer-contact-data-notice
-We use Square as our payment processor. Square uses and processes your payment information in accordance with its privacy policy available at: https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy
-We use Better Homes & Gardens First Realty Group to process our real estate transactions. BHGFRG uses and processes your information in accordance with its privacy policy available at: https://www.bhgre.com/privacy
We may also share your personal information, if necessary, to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS
If you wish to unsubscribe from our email campaigns, please click on the UNSUBSCRIBE LINK at the bottom of any marketing email sent from us.
If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply STOP, QUIT, CANCEL OPT-OUT or UNSUBSCRIBE to any text message sent from us.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review it frequently.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Website: RyanCateAuctions.com
Email: RyanCateBHG@gmail.com
Phone: 765-960-5708