We are committed to providing our clients with exceptional service. As providing this service involves the collection, use and disclosure of some personal information about our clients, protecting their personal information is one of our highest priorities.
While we have always respected our clients’ privacy and safeguarded their personal information, we have strengthened our commitment to protecting personal information as a result of legislative and regulatory requirements introduced by various levels of government that set out the ground rules for how businesses may collect, use and disclose personal information. This Privacy Policy is designed to meet the standards prescribed by applicable privacy legislation and regulations in various jurisdictions.
This Privacy Policy outlines the principles and practices we will follow in protecting clients’ personal information. Our privacy commitment includes ensuring the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of our clients’ personal information and allowing our clients to request access to, and correction of, their personal information.
From time to time, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is current as of the last revised date.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://jamesskenderis.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal Information
We use Personal Information for the following purposes:
- to verify your identity;
- to market your real property for sale or lease;
- to assist you in finding real property for sale or lease;
- to communicate with you in order to provide you with our products and services, which includes providing you with updates about our services and offering you additional products or services that you may be interested in;
- for inclusion in documentation relating to your particular real estate transaction; and
- to monitor our level of service and report back to you to ensure your satisfaction with the provision of our services.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We will only use Personal Information for the purpose that we have disclosed to you and for which you have provided your express or implied consent, unless use for another purpose without your consent is permitted or required under applicable law. If we want to use your information for a different purpose, we will notify you and ask for your consent first.
We may collect, use or disclose personal information without the client’s knowledge or consent in the following limited circumstances:
· when the collection, use or disclosure of personal information is permitted or required by law;
· in an emergency that threatens an individual’s life, health, or personal security;
· when the personal information is available from a public source (e.g., a telephone directory);
· when we require legal advice from a lawyer;
· for the purposes of collecting a debt;
· to protect ourselves from fraud; and
· to investigate an anticipated breach of an agreement or a contravention of law.
How long we retain your data
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may retain personal information for longer where required by our legal and regulatory obligations, professional indemnity obligations, or where we believe it is necessary to establish, defend or protect our legal rights and interests or those of others. With respect to the data and files we handle as a processor, we retain this personal information in accordance with our clients’ instructions.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Who to contact for further information
James Skenderis, M.A.
c/o Right at Home Realty Inc. Brokerage
1550 16th Ave.,
Units 3 & 4, Building B
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3K9
Direct: 1-844-378-9966
Office: 905-695-0900
Additional information
How we protect your data
The following security measures will be followed to ensure that client personal information is appropriately protected:
· the use of locked filing cabinets;
· physically securing offices where personal information is held;
· the use of user IDs, passwords, encryption, firewalls;
· restricting employee access to personal information as appropriate (i.e., only those that need to know will have access); and
· contractually requiring any contracted associates or service providers to provide comparable security measures.
The Services are hosted on servers located in the United States. Note that some countries may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. If you are located, for example, in Canada, or in the European Economic Area or Switzerland (collectively, “EEA”), your personal information will be transferred to the United States and possibly to other jurisdictions (e.g., to the location of a property for which you have requested information), which may not provide the same level of protection under your local data protection laws. In such cases, we rely on suitable personal information transfer safeguards.