Privacy Policy 

 
 

Effective November 1, 2018


This is the Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) for USProperties.ca.  Your privacy is very important to us. The purpose of this Policy is to disclose what Personal Information (as defined below) and other information we may collect from you, how we may collect it, with whom we may share it, as well as the choices you have regarding our collection of information and our use and disclosure of that information to other parties.

“Personal Information” is information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as their name, mailing address, email address, or phone number, whether used alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual.


Certain areas and features of USProperties.ca are available to you without registration or the need to provide to us any information. However, other features of the Site may require registration, which involves providing USProperties.ca with Personal Information.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT


We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. In doing any of these, you may be asked to enter Personal Information such as your name, email, address and any other Personal Information required on the registration form. We primarily use this information to provide information you have requested, manage and correspond with you about your inquiry, send you information and newsletters, and/or other information we think may interest you, and for other matters described in this Policy.


COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES


Our Site use cookies, which are small, commonly-used files that are transferred to your computer by us or a third party when you allow your browser to accept cookies. Similarly, we, our third party service providers or advertisers may also use “web beacons,” “pixel tags” or other tracking technologies, which are typically small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor behavior and collect certain data regarding the actions of our guests online. These cookies and other technologies may be used to track your online traffic patterns, to enhance your experience when using our Site, to store information during your session, to personalize the Site for you based on your preferences and selections, to target advertising or content to you (as described further below) and to collect Information about you and your visit to our Site for other marketing and business purposes. You can adjust your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. However, disabling cookies may impair your user experience and disable certain features of our Site.


Our Site may use cookies or other technologies provided by website analytics Site such as Google Analytics to help us better understand how our Site are used. By tracking how and when you use our Site, these technologies help us determine which features and content on our Site are most important to our visitors. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can turn off cookies using your browser’s settings menu; however, this may eliminate our ability to provide a personalized or user-friendly experience. To learn more about, or to opt-out of Google’s analytic and marketing Site, visit Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Google Privacy Policy, or Google Analytics Opt-out.


Data about your activities online may be collected for use in providing advertising tailored to your individual interests, either by us, our affiliates, or third parties. We may use third parties such as network advertisers and ad exchanges to serve advertisements across the internet and may use third party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us and/or third parties with information about the use of these ads on third party websites and viewing of ads and of our content. The information collected may include information about your visits to our Site, such as the pages you have viewed. These third-party tracking technologies may be set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the effectiveness of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. This collection and ad targeting takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites or Site that participate in the ad network, such as websites that feature advertisements delivered by the ad network. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad Site, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad Site are related to visits to our Site.


LOCATION; IP ADDRESSES; AND CLICK-STREAM DATA


Our Site and servers may collect other Information from you. The Information collected cannot typically be used to identify you personally. However, if you have registered on the Site, it may be possible for us to link certain information to information that identifies you personally. Information collected through our Site includes: information sent to us automatically by your web browser, the address of the web page you were visiting when you accessed our Site, information about your operating system, the browser you are using; the date and time of your visit; and online traffic patterns and content accessed throughout our Site. If you allow the use of location Site, we may also collect location information through our Site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to visitors’ needs, to localize and personalize content, and helps us and certain third parties to better understand our audience.


IF YOU CONTACT US THROUGH THE SITE.


You may contact us with questions about our Site, real estate, our business or other matters.  Any information you provide through our Site will be used in the context of resolving your request or answering your inquiry, or to provide additional information related to that inquiry. We may also place you on our marketing list for information related to your inquiry or which we otherwise believe would be of interest to you, and we may otherwise use your information as described in this Policy.


HOW WE USE INFORMATION


We use collected information to make available and to improve our high standard of reliable Site. We use such information to:

  • respond to inquiries or service requests and monitor such responses;
    provide information about and market our products or Site

  • resolve problems;
    manage the Site and assess usage;
    enhance or personalize your experience using our Site;
    inform you of offers or new features that we believe may be of interest to you;
    provide information or Site you have requested;
    process or maintain your subscription to a newsletter or mailing list;
    facilitate various programs, promotions or contests in which you participate;
    target advertising or content, or for other advertising, promotional or marketing purposes;
    study the use and popularity of various areas of our Sites and to improve our Site; and
    analyze general locations where our content is viewed (by reviewing IP addresses). 


We may also use such information for other purposes related to our business or that of our related entities, as well as for any other purpose described in this Policy or any other agreement you may enter with USProperties.ca or otherwise as we may disclose to you or to which you consent from time to time.


HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION


Information we collect may be shared with a variety of parties, depending upon the purpose for and context in which that information was provided. If you request to be contacted by an agent or office or otherwise request information from us, we will disclose the Personal Information you provide to appropriate affiliates of USProperties.ca to satisfy your request.


We reserve the right to share your Personal Information with our current or future affiliated entities, subsidiaries, and parent companies. We may also share your Personal Information and other information with trusted third parties for marketing, advertising, or other commercial purposes, and we may occasionally share your Personal Information with trusted parties who may have information that we believe will interest you.


We sometimes offer promotions, such as sweepstakes or contests, in conjunction with a sponsor, and may share your information with these sponsors.  We may also occasionally share Personal Information with our affiliated entities or third parties who have offers or information we believe would be of interest to you. For example, we may share certain information with certain third parties including marketing partners, national industry organizations, and prospective affiliates. 


We may share analyses of our server logs, including details regarding usage of our Site and general information about our audience, with current or potential advertisers or business partners. Such disclosures typically aggregate usage data from these analyses and other information not generally considered to be Personal Information.

We may, without your consent, share Personal Information and other data with service providers who provide certain Site on our behalf, or in the other circumstances noted below. For example, we may share certain Personal Information we collect with third parties such as providers of data hosting or processing Site, payment processors, or other service providers. We also reserve the right to share any information we possess or data derived from it with service providers or others if such information has been reasonably de-identified.


In addition, in the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, liquidation or sale of all or a portion of our assets, Personal Information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred, or may be disclosed (subject to confidentiality restrictions) during the due diligence process. If such a transfer occurs, the acquiring company’s use of your Personal Information will still be subject to this Policy, and any privacy choices you selected in your online profile on our Site.

Finally, we may, without your consent, access and disclose your Personal Information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you as may be permitted or as we believe in good faith may be reasonably necessary to comply with any law, regulation, rule or court order; pursuant to subpoenas or other requests from governmental, regulatory or administrative agencies or law enforcement authorities; to respond to any claims, or to prevent, investigate, identify persons or organizations potentially involved in, or take any action regarding suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Service, or activity that appears to us to be illegal or we believe may expose us to legal liability. Additionally, we may disclose Personal Information in situations that we believe to be emergencies involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or property, if we believe that your information in any way relates to that threat.


YOUR CHOICES


It is possible for you to use most of our Site without giving us any Personal Information. When you do register with us or give us Personal Information, you may sometimes have an opportunity at the time we collect your information to limit e-mail communications from us or opt-out of receiving emails from third parties, or you can unsubscribe from email newsletters or similar communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in every email.  You may opt out of all information sharing with third parties for marketing purposes by contacting us at the address or email below.


If you wish to take steps to opt-out of tracking by certain online advertisers, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page here (https://youradchoices.ca/choices/), or the Network Advertising Initiative here (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1). 


HOW CAN I ACCESS OR UPDATE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?


You may access or update any Personal Information by logging into your account and updating your profile. If you need more information, you may contact us using our ‘Contact’ form. We will respond to reasonable requests for access or revision and will provide access to the extent required or allowed by law. However, we may decide not to grant access or make revisions where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual’s privacy in any given case, or when the rights of others would be violated by granting the access.


LINKS AND REDIRECTION TO THIRD PARTY SITE


The Site contain links and may redirect you to a Third Party Site (as defined in our Terms of Service)).   Third Party Sites are not under the control of USProperties.ca, and USProperties.ca is not responsible for the data privacy or security practices of such Third Party Sites, or how they may use the information you provide.  Please be aware that when you enter a Third Party Site, any information you provide, including financial information, is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of that site or service.


INFORMATION SECURITY


We have implemented reasonable security measures to safeguard the Personal Information you provide us. However, please keep in mind that we cannot be liable for the actions of third parties to whom we may transfer your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. Furthermore, please remember that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet, and accordingly we cannot provide any guarantee that your Personal Information or any other information you provide us will remain secure.


EFFECTIVE DATE; POLICY CHANGES


Each time you use the Site, the current version of the Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use the Site, you should check the date of this Policy (which appears at the top of the Policy) and review any changes since the last version. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time and without notice other than simply posting such modifications. Any such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site.


LIMITATION OF LIABILITY


By providing us with any Personal Information, you expressly and unconditionally release and hold harmless USProperties.ca and any of its related or affilitated entities, parents, service providers, licensors, and its or their respective officers, directors, employees or agents (collectively the “USProperties.ca Parties”) from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Information. In addition, while we take reasonable steps to prevent third party companies from making unauthorized use of your Personal Information, we cannot be held be held liable for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Information by those third parties.


UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ANY USPROPERTIES.CA PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS OR LOST REVENUE) THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS ON THIS SITE, EVEN IF THE RG PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  


INTERNATIONAL GUESTS.


If you are accessing our Site from outside of Canada or the U.S.A., you consent to the transfer of your information to both Canada and the U.S.A., and the processing, use, and sharing of your information in accordance with this Policy. Regardless of where your information is collected or transferred, the information will be treated in accordance with this Policy.


CONTACT US


You may contact us with your questions or comments regarding this Policy or our information collection and dissemination practices at:


USProperties.ca

214 Heath St W

Toronto, ON

M4V 1V5

voytek@usproperties.ca