Privacy Policy

Information you give us. When you contact us by email, phone, or text, or send an inquiry about buying, selling, a listing, a condominium building, or a neighborhood, we receive what you choose to include: typically your name, email address, phone number, the property or area you are asking about, your timeline, and any details you share about your situation.

Technical information. Like any website, this site is delivered by web servers and a content delivery network that process standard request data such as IP address, browser and device type, referring page, and the pages requested. This is used to deliver, secure, and troubleshoot the website.

Website preferences. Your cookie choice is stored in your own browser (see Cookies and Similar Technologies below). We do not collect financial account numbers, Social Security numbers, or transaction documents through this website; information of that kind is handled outside the site through the brokerage's transaction systems.

We use the information you provide to respond to your inquiry, answer questions about properties, buildings, and neighborhoods, arrange showings and consultations, provide real estate brokerage services, and meet professional, licensing, recordkeeping, and legal obligations.

We use technical information to operate, secure, and maintain the website. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We share information only as needed to operate. Today that means: the hosting and content-delivery provider that serves this website; Google Fonts, which serves the website's typefaces and therefore receives the standard request data described above; email and phone providers used to communicate with you; and Windermere Mercer Island, the brokerage with which Luke Bartlett is affiliated, where required for a transaction or by brokerage policy.

We may also disclose information where required by law, court order, or professional obligation, or to protect legal rights and the security of the website.

No analytics provider, advertising network, data broker, marketing platform, or lead-sale service receives information from this website at this time.

We and certain service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website usage, improve performance, measure marketing effectiveness, and provide features such as property search, saved searches, maps, videos, and other embedded content. Some technologies are necessary for the website to function, while others may be optional depending on your preferences and applicable law. You may manage non-essential technologies through the Cookie Settings available on our website.

Accurate to this website today: only strictly necessary first-party technologies are in use. Specifically, the website stores your cookie preference in your browser's local storage so your choice can be remembered, and uses technical information needed to deliver and secure the pages you request. No analytics, advertising, retargeting, or cross-site tracking technologies are active on this website at this time, and no third-party property search, map, or video technologies are currently embedded. Because there is nothing non-essential to consent to, the website does not currently ask you to accept optional cookies.

If optional technologies are introduced later (for example website analytics, embedded maps or video, property search and saved searches, or marketing measurement),they will appear as optional categories in Cookie Settings, will remain off until you allow them where consent is required, and this policy will be updated to name them.

This website links to third-party destinations such as the brokerage's website and social profiles. Those services have their own privacy practices, and this policy does not govern them. No third-party content is embedded inside the pages of this website today apart from the web fonts described above.

We keep inquiry and client communications for as long as needed to respond, provide services, and satisfy brokerage, licensing, tax, and legal recordkeeping obligations, and then dispose of them in the ordinary course. Some transaction records are subject to real estate recordkeeping requirements and are retained by the brokerage accordingly. Technical logs are retained for a short operational period by our hosting provider. We have not set arbitrary fixed deletion dates for correspondence; you may ask us to delete information you have given us and we will do so where no legal or professional obligation requires us to keep it.

You may decline to provide information, ask us to correct or delete information you have given us, ask to stop receiving communications from us, and manage optional cookies and similar technologies through Cookie Settings. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information; contact us and we will respond as applicable law requires.

We use reasonable measures to protect information in our care, including encrypted delivery of this website. No website or method of transmission is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please do not send sensitive financial or identity information through email or website forms.

This website is intended for adults seeking real estate services and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information, contact us and we will delete it.

We will update this policy as the website changes (including if analytics, property search, embedded media, or marketing technologies are added) and will revise the effective date above when we do.

For questions about this Privacy Policy or how information is handled, contact Luke Bartlett at luke@welcomehomeseattle.com or (206) 504-4396, Windermere Mercer Island, 2737 77th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040.