EXPRESS AND IMPLIED CONSENT

We collect and use your personal information for the purpose of providing customer referrals and contacts between real estate agents and potential buyers and sellers of real estate.

The information that we collect is that which is voluntarily provided to us by you, or in circumstances where your choice of service makes the gathering of personal information necessary to provide those services. We limit the personal information that we collect to that which is necessary for the purposes identified. We limit the use and disclosure of your personal information and will only use and retain it for the purposes for which it was collected unless we receive your consent for other uses.

INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY GATHERED AND STORED

When anyone visits our website, our web server automatically gathers and stores certain information about the use of our site. This information does not personally identify the visitor, nor is the visitor’s email address collected. Information that is automatically collected and stored includes:

• The visitor’s domain or Internet Protocol (IP) address.
• The type of browser used to access our site.
• The date and time of the visit to our site.
• The webpages or services accessed at our site.
• The URL or IP address of the website from which the visitor came to our site.
• Whether a form, publication, or document was downloaded.

This information is used to evaluate and improve the content of our site and to make our site more useful. It is also used to diagnose problems with our server, to keep our server running smoothly, and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology they use. Information that is automatically gathered by our web server does not identify or track any visitor personally.

We may use cookies in some areas of this website to improve the overall usability of the site. Electronic “cookies,” or simple text files may be stored on your computer by your web browser, to collect and temporarily store information. Cookies may be used on our site when needed to maintain the functionality of an interactive application. Cookies created on your computer by using this Website do not contain personal information and do not compromise your privacy or security. The Cookie is temporary and will be deleted when you exit your browser. Cookies may be refused but refusing them may impact the usability of our site.

We use Google Analytics to help improve our website. We use Google Analytics to help understand how visitors interact with our website so that the site can be improved. You can read Google's security and privacy policies for Google Analytics. You can choose not to have your data used by Google Analytics by downloading their opt-out browser add-on.

SECURITY SAFEGUARDS

We use reasonable safeguards to protect personal information that we have collected or maintained against loss, theft, unauthorized access, illegal use, disclosure, copying or modification. Your personal information is stored in secure locations. Our staff is trained on procedures for the management of personal information, including limitations on the release of information. Access to your personal information is limited to those of our staff whose work requires access and to the agents to whom a referral is made. We require that those agents to whom we send referrals represent to us that they have reasonable safeguards for the protection of your personal information including storage in a secure location.

INDIVIDUAL ACCESS

You may request access to your personal information, and we will respond in accordance with the law.

OPENNESS

We are open about how we manage your personal information, and our Privacy Policy is updated from time to time, so please re-visit this site periodically to see if anything has changed about how we will manage your personal information.

CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE

If you have a concern or complaint about how we have collected or managed your personal information please send an email outlining your concerns to: PREFERREDAGENT INC. dave@preferredagent.ca. We will respond to your email and address your concerns and deal with them in an appropriate fashion.