LuxuryRealty.com
Privacy Policy
LuxuryRealty.com, Luxury Media Inc., and its subsidiary,
LuxuryRealty.com, Luxury Media Inc., ("LuxuryRealty.com")
has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy. Effective January 1, 2004 the federal government
enacted the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents
Act (PIPEDA). The purpose of PIPEDA is to regulate the private sector's
collection, use and disclosure of personal information. This policy
is to make you aware of your rights concerning the handling of your
personal information. For more information about this legislation,
please visit the official Web site of the Privacy Commission of Canada
at http://www.privcom.gc.ca.
LuxuryRealty.com web sites do not automatically gather any specific
personal information from you, such as your name, phone number or
e-mail address. We would only obtain this type of information if
you supply it by sending us an e-mail or registering in a secure
portion of the site.
Usage tracking:
Use of IP Addresses:
An IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Internet. Web servers
automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
LuxuryRealty.com and/or its affiliates collect IP addresses for the
purposes of system administration, to report aggregated information
to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our website. When Customers
request pages from our website, our servers log the requesting Customers'
IP addresses. Except where you participate in any online transaction
LuxuryRealty.com may offer from time to time, we normally will not
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means
that Customers' sessions will be logged, but Customer identity remains
anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a Customer
when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules
or terms of service or to protect our service, website, or any person,
or where it is otherwise permitted by law.
Cookies:
LuxuryRealty.com may also use on its Internet properties a personalization
technology called a "cookie." A cookie is a small text
file placed on your computer's hard disk that identifies your browser
software to a Web site. Cookies allow us to track when you enter,
leave, and re-enter our sites and what path you take through our
sites. In doing this, we can provide you with a more personalized
experience.
Securing Your Data:
The importance of securing your Information is of the utmost concern
to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission
of your Information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Information,
LuxuryRealty.com and its affiliates cannot promise or warrant the
security of any Information you transmit to us, including through
the use of our online products or services. Any such transmission
is done so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
LuxuryRealty.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the
confidentiality of your Information, such as firewalls and Secure
Socket Layers. However, ironclad security does not yet exist on
the Internet.
What is defined as Personal Information?
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual
and includes information such as:
- home address and home telephone number, credit card and banking
information, product purchase information
"LuxuryRealty.com" commitment to the privacy
of personal information, includes the adoption of the following 10
principles of fair information practices.
THE 10 PRINCIPLES OF FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
- Accountability: An organization is responsible
for pers onal information under its custody and shall designate
an individual or individuals who are accountable for the organization's
compliance with the following principles.
- Identifying Purposes: The purposes for which
personal information is collected shall be identified by the organization
at or before the time the information is collected.
- Consent: The knowledge and consent of the individual
are required for the collection, use or disclosure of personal
information, except where inappropriate.
- Limiting Collection: The collection of personal
information shall be limited to that which is necessary for the
purposes identified by the organization. Information shall be collected
by fair and lawful means.
- Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention: Personal
information shall not be used or disclosed for purposes other than
those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the
individual or as required by law. Personal information shall be
retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those
purposes.
- Accuracy: Personal information shall be as accurate,
complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which
it is to be used.
- Safeguards: Personal information shall be protected
by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
- Openness: An organization shall make readily
available to individuals specific information about its policies
and practices relating to the management of personal information.
- Individual Access: Upon request, an individual
shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of his or
her personal information, and shall be given access to that information.
An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness
of the information and have it amended as appropriate.
- Challenging Compliance: An individual shall
be able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the above
principles to the designated individual or individuals accountable
for the organization's compliance.
Contact
If you have any queries in relation to the use and protection of
your personal data, please contact us at info@luxuryrealty.com.