Privacy Policy

Introduction

Thomson Property Group respects your right to privacy. We are bound by the current Privacy Laws in the country. Those Principles regulate how we collect, store, use and disclose personal information about you and other individuals.

If you have any queries regarding your rights, or the regulations pertaining to the Privacy Act you should call the Privacy Commissioner’s office for clarification.

Collection, Use and Disclosure

In our agency business, we collect, hold, use and disclose to third parties, personal information for a number of reasons:

·         To carry out appointments as Sales Consultants for clients selling their properties.

·         To carry out appointments as property managers for rental property owners, this includes processing tenancy applications and managing tenancy relationships and the tenanted property.

·         To promote and market our services and the products and services of third parties (we will only use your personal information for this purpose and will not disclose it to third parties).

·         To provide information on and promote properties for sale and rent to the market.

·         To reply to enquiries and information requests made by individuals.

·         For internal business processes such as market research and billing.

·         Where required by law.

We collect personal information about individuals:

·         From individuals themselves – through application forms, registration books at open inspections, appointment forms, agreements, correspondence including e-mails, our web site, and through verbal communications;

·         From third parties (including from other agents, from operators of tenancy reference database and other publicly available database and from referees) – in the course of verifying and evaluating tenancy applications and managing tenancy arrangements, and in carrying out agency services for a client, including through property searches.

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 take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if it is no longer required.

Access to Personal Information

If you would like to access or correct any personal information which we hold about you, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please note that a charge may apply to cover costs that we may incur in providing you with access to your personal information.

We will take all reasonable steps to correct any information which you show to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.