Trace Real Estate is committed to protecting your privacy and complying with its obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) in respect of that information. This Privacy Policy explains how and why Trace Real Estate collects your personal information, how we use it and what controls you have over our use of it. Please read this policy carefully. Your use of any part of our Website or our Services will constitute your consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website or our Services. In this Privacy Policy:
· “personal information”means information about you which personally identifies you or may reasonablybe used to personally identify you;
· “Services” means theservices set out on our Website, including the provision of marketing,administration, training and property management services for real estateagents;
· “we”, “us” or “Trace Real Estate” means Tracy Anne Fishburn ABN 49 849 441 386, and each of its related entities;
· “Website” means or any other website, platform or application from time to time from which the Services are promoted and/or delivered; and
· “you” means you and anyone acting on your behalf or with your implied authority
Collection of your personal information
The personal information that we collect and hold about you depends on your interaction with us. We collect and hold various types of personal information directly in connection with the provision of our Services, including:
· your name and contactdetails, including your e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number;
· photo identification;
· financial information,including banking, billing or other payment information;
· usage data includinginformation about how you use our Website and Services;
· marketing andcommunications data including your preferences in receiving marketing from usand our third parties and your communication preferences; and
· information necessary foror incidental to the provision of the Services. In addition to providing ourServices, we may also collect and hold personal information indirectly throughour authorised licensees(real estate agents)for the purposes of our licenseesproviding real estate agency and property management services within Australia
Quality and integrity of personal information
You are responsible for the quality, accuracy,and integrity of any information provided in your account details or profile oruse of our Services. If the personal information you provide to us isincomplete or inaccurate, we may be unable to provide you or your organisationwith the services you, or they, are seeking. You can update your personalinformation at any time by logging onto our website and editing your accountinformation and profile. We may still however store previously recorded data inarchive for record keeping, security and audit purposes. You can view yourupdated profile at any time to confirm your edits have been made
Use and disclosure of your personal information
We will generally collect, use and hold yourpersonal information if it is reasonably necessary for or directly related tothe performance of our functions and activities and for the purposes of:
· providing Services to you;
· communicating with youabout your use of the Services or any changes to the Services;
· providing you with marketing and promotional material and information about other services that we, our related entities and authorised licensees that we have affiliations with, offer that may be of interest to you;
· facilitating our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements;
· analysing our Services and customer needs with a view to developing new or improved services;
· to administer our Website,including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support,and reporting and hosting of data;
where we are required to do so by law; or
· for any other purposes for which you have consented from time to time.
Personal information will generally be collected directly from you in connection with our Services through the use of any of our standard forms, over the internet, via email or our Website, through a telephone conversation with you, or in person, or indirectly via our authorised licensees.
If we engage with third party contractors to perform services for us which involves handling your personal information, such as processing payment transactions, we take reasonable steps to ensure that these third parties maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information except for the purposes for which it was supplied.
Security of your personal information
Trace Real Estate is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. We store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, that are located inside our controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the internet, we protect it through SSL.
Whilst we adopt all protections over your personal information within our control, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet. As such, transmission of personal information via the internet is at your own risk and we cannot be held responsible for the security of such information.
Direct Marketing
We will only send you direct marketing communications and information via mail, email, and social media platforms about our Services in accordance with, and for the purposes set out in this policy including to inform you of other services available from Trace Real Estate and its related entities and partners. Trace Real Estate may also provide you with the option to participate in customer testimonials to allow us to evaluate our current service offerings and the potential for new services.
If you do not provide your consent to receivedirect marketing communications, you may opt-out of receiving marketingcommunications from us by contacting us at the details below or by usingopt-out facilities provided in our communications. We do not provide yourpersonal information to other organisations for the purposes of their directmarketing and will not sell, rent or lease our customer lists to third parties.
Overseas disclosure
It is unlikely that we will need to disclose your personal information to an overseas recipient or otherwise store your personal information overseas. If we are ever required to do so, we will obtain your informed consent or ensure that the overseas recipients comply with the APPs.
Using our Website and cookie
To improve your experience on our website, we may use ‘cookies’: small data files that are served by our Website and stored on your device. These are used by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalise the website. Cookies may be used for recording preferences, conducting internal analytics, conducting research to improve our offering, assisting with marketing and delivering certain website functionality. You may refuse to accept cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on your internet browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website.
Third party sites
For your convenience and to improve the usage of the Website and Services we may insert links to or utilise the services of third-party websites and applications (including the website of our authorised licensees), for which this Privacy Policy does not apply. Trace Real Estate is not responsible for those third party websites, applications or resources. If you access such websites, applications or resources, you do so at your own risk and we make no representations or warranties regarding third parties’ privacy practices.
We encourage you to read the privacy statements/policies of every website, application or resource you use. When we do link to a third party website, application or resource, this does not automatically imply that Trace Real Estate endorses that website, application, resource and their contents. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Where we anonymise your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Accessing or correcting your Personal Information
We are committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information.
Where requested, we will provide you with a copy of the personal information that we hold which relates to you, provided that the request is made in accordance with the APPs (contained in the Privacy Act).We will also update any inaccurate information about you if you inform us that the information is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading.
There are no charges for requesting access to or the correction of your personal information, however if the volume of information we hold is excessively large, we reserve our rights to charge you any reasonable administration fees (including fees for photocopying) associated with your request. You can contact our privacy officer regarding access to or correction of your information by any of the following methods:
Email: tracy@tracerealestate.com.au
Phone: 0449 141 349
We will respond to those requests within 30 days in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act. If we refuse a request to access or correct personal information, where reasonable, we will provide you our reasons for doing so and information about your ability to complain about such refusal.
In order to protect the confidentiality of your personal information, details of your information will only ever be passed onto you where we are satisfied that the information relates to you. Accordingly, we may request documentation from you which confirms your identity before passing on any personal information which relates to you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Trace Real Estate will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. If we do so, the latest version of our Privacy Policy will be available on our Website and will apply to all your personal information held by us at that time. Trace Real Estate encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Trace Real Estate is using, collecting, protecting and disclosing your personal information.
Further information
If you require any further information or have any queries regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our privacy officer at the details set out above.
Should you wish to read more information on the Privacy Act, we recommend that you visit the website of the OAIC at www.oaic.gov.au.
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