Your exclusive residential property sales specialist to the Sutherland Shire & surrounding suburbs

Dave Watkins Real Estate Privacy Policy

Dave Watkins Real Estate is committed to preserving and respecting your privacy and complying with the Privacy Act 1988.

Information we collect from you
We collect personal information including contact information, and any other personal information required to provide our services to you.

We may also collect personal information (such as contact details) about persons who are not our customers, including former customers, persons who make enquiries in relation to our units for sale and persons who provide personal information about others (for example, when referring customers to us).

Sensitive information
We do not collect sensitive information such as your race, religion, beliefs or sexual preference except where you have consented or where we are permitted or required by law to do so.

Use of personal information

We use your personal information:

to identify you so that we can provide information to you;

administer our provisions of information;

to market other services that we or third parties offer; and

to comply with our legal obligations.

Disclosure of personal information
Generally, we will not disclose personal information we collect about you to any third parties without your prior consent. Similarly, we will not sell any information we collect about you.
However, we may disclose personal information about you (subject to confidentiality agreements where appropriate):

to service providers who provide services to us, such as legal practitioners;

to credit reporting agencies;

to third parties where you have given consent to the disclosure;

to government, law enforcement and regulatory bodies where this is necessary for us

to comply with our legal obligations; and

to parties to whom we sell all or part of our assets or business.

You can correct information
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information which we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

We will correct some of the personal information (such as contact details) that we hold about you by requesting us to do so via email or in writing.

If you wish to access the information we hold about you, please send an email to ourprivacy compliance officer (see contact details below) and we will respond to you within 30 days. A handling fee may be payable so that we can obtain the information you require.

You can also request that incorrect information about you be corrected or deleted.

Security
We take all reasonable steps to protect the security of the personal information that we hold. This includes appropriate measures to protect electronic materials and materials stored and generated in hard copy.

You should be aware that the Internet is not a secure environment. If you use the Internet to send us information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk.

Updating our privacy statement
We may revise or update our privacy statement occasionally. We will inform all of our customers when this occurs via e-mail to their primary e-mail account.

Complaints and further information
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices or would like further information please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer. privacy@davewatkins.com.au