Privacy Statement from the Properties in Victoria Professionals
The Properties in Victoria Professionals respect your rights
to privacy. We value your business and hold all the
information you provide us in the strictest confidence
in accordance with the Personal Information Protection
Act (PIPA).
We will at times ask clients and future clients for
personal information. You may wonder why your personal
information is collected, used and disclosed?
Your information may be collected, used and disclosed
for some or all of the following purposes:
- To allow members of real estate boards (including
REALTORS and appraisers) to appraise your property.
- To list your property with the Multiple Listing
Service® in
order to market your property.
- To market your property for sale through any
other media (both print and electronic).
- To help you locate a suitable property to purchase.
- To facilitate the purchase and sale transaction
(by cooperating with financial institutions, legal
advisors and government departments and agencies).
- To allow the Boards and other real estate boards
and their members (including REALTORS and appraisers)
to compile current and historical statistics on
sales and property prices, and to conduct comparative
market
analyses.
Information about your property will be retained
in the Multiple Listing Service® for these purposes
after your property has sold or your listing has
expired (if you are a seller) and after you have
purchased
your property (if you are a buyer).
- To enforce codes of professional conduct and
ethics for members of real estate boards (by cooperating
with
real estate boards, the British Columbia Real Estate
Association, the Real Estate Council of British
Columbia, The Canadian
Real Estate Association and other regulatory bodies).
- To comply with legal requirements and to act
pursuant to legal authorizations.
The above-mentioned collections,
uses and disclosures are a necessary part of your
relationship with us.
Your information may also be collected, used and disclosed
for the following additional purposes:
- We may communicate with you in future to determine
whether you require additional real estate services.
- We may communicate with you to provide information
about other products or services which may interest
you.
- Other REALTORS may communicate with you to determine
whether you require additional real estate services.
These additional purposes are optional. If you do
not want your personal information disclosed or used
for these purposes, please contact the Board’s privacy
officer. Contact information for all real estate boards
within BC can be found at the British Columbia Real
Estate Association (BCREA) website: www.bcrea.bc.ca or telephone 604.683.7702, or toll free 1.877.361.3626.
The Properties in Victoria Professionals will take all possible
steps to keep your personal information confidential.
This includes limiting access to client information
databases, and communicating our privacy Statement
to all employees who work for us. Liz Grambart and
Anders
Treiberg will not sell, lease / rent, or disclose our
clients' personal information to other companies for
use in selling products and services.
Most personal information will be collected directly
from you through the contracts and other documents
you fill out (e.g., Multiple Listing Contract, Contract
of Purchase and Sale, seller’s Property Disclosure
Statement) and through discussions you have with us.
Some information may be collected from other sources
such as government departments and agencies (e.g.,
Land Title Offices, BC Assessment), financial institutions
and mortgage brokers.
Your information may be disclosed to (or may be accessible
by) the Boards and their staff and members, other real
estate boards and their staff and members, other REALTORS
and their clients, government departments and agencies,
financial institutions, legal advisors, service providers,
the British Columbia Real Estate Association, the Real
Estate Council of British Columbia, the Canadian Real
Estate Association and members of the public, for the
purposes described under "When and Why we ask
for information" (see above).
Not all of your information will be accessible to
each of the above-mentioned entities. For example,
once the listing term has ended, the general public
will not have access to your information unless it
is otherwise available through public registries (e.g.,
BC Assessment, Land Title Offices).
If you have any questions or concerns regarding
this privacy statement, the practices of this website,
or your dealings with The Properties in Victoria Professionals please
contact our Privacy Officer Bill Ethier
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