Privacy Policy
We may collect personal information about you for purposes relating to real estate. Our Privacy Policy applies to the information collected by the PropertyTargets Australia.
We are bound by the National Privacy Principles contained in the Information Privacy Amendment (enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 and the Privacy Regulation 2013. You may read it and all of its amendments online at http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-act/privacy-law-reform. Property Targets Australia respects your right to privacy
Collection
During the course of some of our real estate dealings, we collect, hold, use, and disclose to third parties, personal information for a number of reasons including:
* To complete actions as property managers for rental property owners, which include processing tenancy applications, managing tenancy relationships and managing the tenanted property;
* To perform as sales agents for clients selling their properties;
* To provide information on and promote properties for sale and for rent to the market;
* Verifying and evaluating sales forms and tenancy applications and forms, managing tenancy arrangements and sales processes, and in carrying out agency services for a client for sale and marketing, along with property management. This may include property searches, appointment forms, sales, rental and other agency agreements, correspondence including emails, the Property Targets Australia website and any spoken dialogue with any third party including, but not limited to, referees, tenancy reference databases and other publicly available databases, other real estate agents or any other person.
* For internal business processes such as market research and billing; and where required by law;
* To reply to enquiries and information requests made by individuals;
* For the marketing and promotion of our products and services, and the products and services of a third party.
* We collect your personal information through application forms, registration sheets or via electronic database, or any other method used in our day to day operations as a real estate agency.
Property Targets Australia respects your right to privacy.
Any personal information collected about an individual will be collected directly from that individual, or an authorised representative. Sometimes we collect information from a publicly available source or a third party, if:
* We have consent from the individual to collect such information
* Or they would reasonably expect us to collect their personal information in this way
* Or if it is necessary for an explicit reason such as to accurately complete a legal document on the individual's behalf.
Use and Disclosure
We only use personal information in our day to day running of a real estate business and may include, but not be limited to, direct marketing, calling and/or emailing you about real estate, and/or completing documents on your behalf.
We may also divulge relevant aspects of your personal information to one or more of the following:
* Financial and/or credit institutions for the purposes of finance applications and/or credit checks, or any other necessary reason.
* Government organisations including Federal, State and Local Governments and their related agencies for the purposes of assessment of stamp duty, calculation and/or payment of rates, compliance issues and to register the transfer of real estate.
* Other real estate agencies or agents within our office, potential landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers, or any other third party connected with the day to day running of our real estate business.
* Any legal representative for drafting or discussing any aspect of a contract or proposed contract, and or agreement, that you may have entered into with Property Targets Australia, or upon your authority to directly discuss an aspect to do with a transaction that you are having with our office and/or conveyancers for the purpose of effecting a transfer of real estate.
* Building, pest, pool, soil and other inspectors for the purposes of establishing suitability for sale, purchase or letting.
* In the case of tenants, to potential purchasers for due diligence.
* Tenancy databases.
* Tradesmen for the purposes of repair and maintenance
Security of Information
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is not subject to loss, misuse or unauthorised access or alteration. We will also to take reasonable steps to remove or permanently destroy personal information if it is no longer required.
Utility Connection Services
Utility providers for the purposes of connection, disconnection or repair and photographers for the purposes of marketing photography.
Storage & Data Security
We store your personal information electronically in our database. We take steps to protect that information against loss, unauthorised access, use, modification or disclosure, and against other misuse. We do not store your data in the cloud. Only employees and sales agents in our organization have access to your electronic information. When information is no longer required for the purpose for which it was obtained we may delete it from our database. We conduct an annual review of all data in our database.
Paper based information, such as draft or not proceeding contracts, tenancy applications, lapsed leases, rental references, "100 points" proof of identification and similar documents are physically destroyed when no longer required via secure shredding.
Your Choices
You may ask us to show you the personal information that we hold about you (electronic or physical), and you can ask us to correct the personal information that we hold about you.
If you receive automated emails or texts from us, you can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe option or contacting us directly and or responding to text messages.
Consequences
You may choose to not share your personal information with us, which may mean we are unable to deal with you in relation to renting, letting, buying or selling real estate.
More Information
You may read more information about your rights and our obligations at the website of the Australian Government Office of the Australian Information Commission,
