Invest Realty Limited in the course of dealing with clients and customers collects various forms of information that identifies parties. This policy statement explains the treatment by Invest Realty Limited of such information and explains when we will collect such information, what information will be collected, the storage of information collected, and the use by Invest Realty Limited of such information.
Information collected:
In providing our services we will collect information from you including:
- Name
- Contact information
- Information required to meet legal obligations, including but not limited to, IRD numbers, and information required pursuant to “Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism” (AML/CFT) legislation, and any other required information to identify parties to a transaction.
- Your professional advisers such as lawyer, accountant, or any other professional adviser.
- Details of property you currently own that is available on a public register.
- Information collected from your use of our website on an aggregate basis as you and others browse or interact with our website.
Use of your personal information:
- For our internal record keeping and general business purposes.
- Contact customers re a property they may have visited.
- Ensure the security of our clients property.
- Communicate with clients and customers for information they have opted to receive.
- To improve and to promote and measure the performance of our services.
- To periodically send promotional email material unless you have unsubscribed from such.
- To contact you for “market research”.
- To meet legal and statutory obligations including but not limited to Inland Revenue and AML/CFT legislation.
- For Australian transactions the relevant State or Federal Government Agency, including but not limited to, Australian Taxation Office, ASIC, Fair Trading NSW
Sharing of your information:
- All of the staff, employees, and independent sales contractors of Invest Realty Limited may have access to your information.
- We may share information with third party suppliers in order to publish materials for the purpose of marketing our clients property.
- For any use specifically allowed for in our Agency Agreement with you for the property.
- For provision of sales statistics data to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).
- Your personal information will only ever be shared on a confidential basis for the purpose of our business and promotions and will not be sold or shared with a third party for that third parties promotional purposes.
- We may share personal information with Government agencies or companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation when permitted or required by law, to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud and/or unauthorised transactions, or to investigate fraud that has already occurred.
- To meet legal and statutory obligations including but not limited to Inland Revenue and AML/CFT legislation.
- For Australian transactions the relevant State or Federal Government Agency, including but not limited to, Australian Taxation Office, and Fair Trading NSW.
- To relevant Industry regulators investigating a complaint, or other requisition. New Zealand – Real Estate Agents Authority (REA), New South Wales – Fair Trading New South Wales.
Protection of personal information:
- By ensuring all information is kept in a secure location, both physically and digitally.
- By ensuring only staff, salespersons dealing with you, and appropriate administrators, have access to and permission to access, your stored information.
- By having company policies and procedures in place to protect, and limit the use/access, of your information.
Right to access your personal information:
- You have the right to access your personal information held by us, and if necessary to request correction of the information held.
- To access your personal information please contact our office by email to admin@investrealty.co.nz .
