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Listings identified with the FMLS IDX logo come from FMLS and are held by brokerage firms other than the owner of this website. The listing brokerage is identified in any listing details. Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. If you believe any FMLS listing contains material that infringes your copyrighted work please click hereto review our DMCA policy and learn how to submit a takedown request. © [current year] First Multiple Listing Service, Inc.
3. The FMLS IDX disclosure shall be displayed separately from, and in priority to, any other disclosure, whenever any FMLS Listing Content appears on a page.
FMLS acknowledges that the above required disclosures may not be possible in displays of minimal information (e.g. text messages, tweets, etc. of 200 characters or less). Such displays are exempt from the disclosure requirements established in this rule but only when linked directly to a display that includes all required disclosures.
e) Required disclosures when only FMLS IDX Listing Content is used on a Member’s website:
1. The following text shall be displayed on any page displaying listing results in a one-line format, thumbnail, preview or other preliminary view:
Information Deemed Reliable But Not Guaranteed If you believe any FMLS listing contains material that infringes your copyrighted work please click here to review our DMCA policy and learn how to submit a takedown request.© FMLS
2. Any detail listing view shall display the following disclosure at the bottom of each page:
Listings on this website come from the FMLS IDX Compilation and may be held by brokerage firms other than the owner of this website. The listing brokerage is identified in any listing details. Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. If you believe any FMLS listing contains material that infringes your copyrighted work please click here to review our DMCA policy and learn how to submit a takedown request.© [current year] FMLS.
13.8 Technical Entity Disclosure
A statement that provides the identify and contact information of the technical entity directly responsible for providing the Electronic Means and support, thereof, must be displayed through any Electronic Means. The term “Technical Entity” is defined as the vendor company or individual person’s name that directly handles the FMLS Listing Content appearing on a website and provides the support thereof on behalf of the Member.
a) Members shall maintain a means (e.g., email address, telephone number) to receive comments about the accuracy of data or information that is added by or on behalf of the Member that relates to a specific property. The Member shall correct or remove any false data or information relating to a specific property upon receipt of a communication from FMLS or the Listing Member explaining why the data or information is false.
13.9 Branding
Except when a listing is the website owner’s own listing, a Member may not display their brokerage company or personal name, contact information or branding directly in or adjacent to another Member’s Listing Content in such a manner that could misrepresent or be misleading as to the ownership of a listing.
13.10 Prohibited Display Fields
The following fields and information are confidential Listing Content, which may not be posted or displayed, no matter how the Listing Content was obtained:
- Showing Contact Name
- Showing Contact Number
- "Security System Leased” under Security Features
- "Security System Owned” under Security Features
- Private/Confidential Remarks
- Occupant Type
- Expire Date
13.11 Display of IDX Listing Content via Social Media
Any display of IDX Listing Content via Social Media must link back to the FMLS rules-compliant page on the Members’ website.
13.12 Display of Non-FMLS Provided Content (Non-FMLS content is defined as any content provided by any source other than FMLS)
a) Content and/or features from another source or sources may appear directly in with FMLS property Listing Content as long as the source is clearly identified.
b) This requirement does not apply to “Co-mingling” of property listings from another MLS”. (See Rule 13.13)
c) Other than when displaying a Member’s own property listings, Members may not advertise or display by any other means, on the same page with FMLS IDX Listing Content, promotion of a banking, mortgage, lender, insurance company or any other ancillary business relationship, including alliances, affiliates and partnerships.
d) A Member's IDX website may not in any manner publicly identify, display or link to any commentary or reviews regarding a listing in or adjacent to any FMLS IDX listing. This Section does not prevent the display of numeric valuations via an automated valuation model.
13.13 Co-mingling of Property Listings from Another MLS
Listings from another MLS may be co-mingled and displayed with FMLS property listings in one liner, preview, thumbnail, gallery, map search results and in similar preview displays. Provided, however, that when listings from another MLS are included on the same page as FMLS listings, the actual data from another MLS may not be directly combined or intermixed with FMLS data, and a disclosure of origin that appropriately identifies that the listing content comes from another MLS must be provided.
13.14 Nothing contained in this Rule 13 prohibits any advertising, marketing or promotional materials that any Member may wish to use or distribute. Provided, however, that no Member is authorized to reproduce or otherwise use any IDX Content, FMLS logo, trademark, or service mark, whether registered or unregistered, in any such advertising, marketing or promotional materials, except as expressly permitted in these rules.
13.15 Associate Members may display IDX Content only if the Associate Member's Principal Member is contributing its listings (if any) to the IDX Content
a) The Associate Member's Electronic Means can frame or "gateway" into his/her Principal Member's Electronic Means.
b) The only other option for Associate Members to display IDX Content is through the FMLSweb program.
1. FMLSweb is an optional program, available to all FMLS Principal Members and associates of Principal Members who elect to allow their agents to participate. This program provides participating Members and agents options to have a web presence to display FMLS IDX compliant listings on their real estate websites and/or through mobile applications.
(i) FMLSweb provides pre-formatted, IDX compliant search links. These links can be framed within members’ websites for consumers to be able to search for FMLS listings that match selected criteria. The Associate Member may subscribe to FMLSweb and use the FMLS IDX Search links with written permission from his/her Principal Member.
(ii) The Approved Data Vendor program – FMLS maintains a list of “Approved Data Vendors” (ADV’s) who can provide participating members with more advanced property search capability than is available in the FMLSweb search feature. Most ADV’s provide full real estate websites and some also provide a mobile application. The Associate Member may contract with an FMLS Approved Data Vendor (ADV) in the FMLSweb program for displaying IDX Content on individual agent websites with written permission from his/her Principal Member.
c) The Associate Member's Electronic Means and the pages that display any IDX Content or search criteria that will result in the display of IDX Content must at all times identify the Associate Member's Principal Member according to the guidelines promulgated by the Georgia Real Estate Commission.
