Heather Chua Realtor® respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how we collect, use, share, and protect the personal information you provide to us when you access our website, purchase our goods or services, or engage with us on social media, as well as your own rights to the information we collect.

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Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We will alert you to any changes to this Policy by changing the “last updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on our website, and you waive specific notice of any changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access our site(s). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, when you use our website for any purpose or engage with us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.

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WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

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We collect a variety of information from you when you subscribe to my e-mail list or interact with me on social media. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are specifically consenting to our collection of the data described below, to our use of the data and to the processing of this data. The information we collect may include:

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Personal Data: Personal Data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, email address, telephone number. You may also provide this information by participating in various activities associated with our site, including responding to social media or contacting us with questions. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but your refusal may prevent you from accessing certain benefits from my website.

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Social Networking Data: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include your name, your social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture and any other public information. If you do not want us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change your privacy settings.

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Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site or social media we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Other data: On occasion, you may give us additional data in order to enter into a contest or giveaway or to participate in a survey. You will be prompted for this information and it will be clear that you are offering this kind of information in exchange for an entry into such a contest or giveaway.

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HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

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Your information allows us to offer you certain products and services, including the use of our website, to fulfill our obligations to you, to customize your interaction with our company and our website, and to allow us to suggest other products and services we think might interest you. However, to the extent we process your data, we do so to serve our legitimate business interests (such as providing you with the opportunity to purchase our goods or services and interact with our website or mobile app).

Specifically, we may use the information and data described above to:

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Create and administer your account; and

Deliver any products or services requested by you to you; and

Correspond with you; and

Process payments; and

Contact you about new offerings that we think you will be interested in; and

Interact with you via social media; and

Send you a newsletter or other updates about our company or website; and

Deliver targeted advertising; and

Request feedback from you; and

Notify you of updates to our product and service offerings; and

Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems; and

Administer contests or giveaways; and

Generate a profile that is personalized to you, so that future interactions with our website will be more personal; and

Compile anonymous statistical data for our own use or for a third party’s use; and

Assist law enforcement as necessary; and

Prevent fraudulent activity on our website or mobile app; and

Analyze trends to improve our website and offerings.

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By Law: We may share your data as required by law or to respond to legal process, including a subpoena, or as necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others. This includes sharing information with other parties to prevent or address fraud and to avoid credit risks.

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To Protect Our Company: We may use your information to protect our company, including to investigate and remedy any violations of our rights or policies. We may also disclose your information as reasonably necessary to acquire and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice, or to exercise or defend against legal claims.

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Advertisers: We may use third party advertising companies to run and manage our ads, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and Google to produce ads that appears when you visit our Website or mobile app. These companies may use information about your visit to our website and other websites that are contained in web cookies (as described below) to offer you personalized advertisements about goods and services that might interest you. We cannot control the activities of such other advertisers or web sites. You should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party advertisers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

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Online postings: When you post online, your posts may be viewed by others, and we may distribute your comments outside the website.

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External Links: Our website may include hyperlinks to other websites not controlled by us. We suggest you exercise caution when clicking on a hyperlink. Although we use reasonable care in including a hyperlink on our own web page, we do not regularly monitor the websites of these third parties, and are not responsible for any damage or consequences you suffer by using these hyperlinks. We are not bound by the Privacy Policies of any third party website that you access by a hyperlink, nor are they bound by ours. We encourage you to read the Policies of those third party websites before interacting with them or making purchases. They may collect different information and by different methods than we do.

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Other purposes: We may disclose your personal data as necessary to comply with any legal obligation or to protect your interests, or the vital interests of others or our company.

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PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION

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For the most part, we do not process your information in-house, but give it to third party processors for processing. For example, when PayPal takes your payment information, they are a third party processor. They process your payment and remit the funds to us. So in many instances, it will be necessary for us to transmit your information to a third party processor, as we do not have the capability to perform these functions. More detail on third party processing is detailed below.

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HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR DATA?

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We retain personal data as long as it is needed to conduct our legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations, or until you ask us to delete your data. For example, we will retain certain personal information indefinitely for the purposes of maintaining your account, unless and until you delete your account. Data that we gather for a specific and particular purpose, such as assisting law enforcement or analyzing trends, will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that particular purpose. Data that is no longer needed by us for any of the purposes listed above will be permanently deleted.

You may request that we delete your data at any time. However, note that we cannot control the retention policies of third parties. If you wish to have any third parties, including those to whom we’ve transmitted your data, delete that data, you will need to contact those third parties directly. You may request from us a list of all third parties to whom we have transmitted your data.

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YOUR RIGHTS

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You have certain rights with respect to your personal data, as outlined below. In addition, we reserve the right to request that you provide us with evidence of your identity before we take any action with respect to the exercise of your data rights. Further, your rights may be restricted or nullified to the extent they conflict with our compelling business interests, the public interest, or the law.

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Update Account Information: You have the right to update or change any information you have provided to us. To update or delete your information, contact me at heather@heatherchua.com

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Confirm Personal Data and Its Use: You have the right to request that we confirm what data we hold about you, and for what purposes. You also have the right to confirmation of whether we process your data or deliver your data to third party processors, and for what purposes. We will supply you with copies of your personal data unless doing so would affect the rights and freedoms of others.

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Change Consent: You have the right to change your consent to our use of your information. In such cases, we may require you to delete your account with us, as described above, and you may not have full access to our website.

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Request a Copy of Data: You have the right to request a digital copy of the data that we hold about you. Your first request for a copy of your personal data will be provided free of charge; subsequent requests will incur a reasonable fee.

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Transfer Your Data: You have the right to request that we gather and transfer your data to another controller, in a commonly used and machine readable format, unless doing so would cause us an undue burden.

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Delete All Data: You have the right to request that we delete all data that we hold about you, and we must delete such data without undue delay. There are exceptions to this right, such as when keeping your data is required by law, is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, is required for compliance with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the exercise or defence of legal claims. Such a request may result in a termination of your account with us and you may have limited or no use of our website.

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Emails And Communications: You may opt out of receiving future email correspondence from us by checking the appropriate box when you register for the account.

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Marketing Communications: You may opt out of receiving any third party marketing communications or having your personal information used for marketing purposes. You may do this by contacting me at vittoriasystems@gmail.com.

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Complaints: You have the right to complain to a supervising authority if you believe we are misusing your data or have violated any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or applicable law.

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SEVERABILTY

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If any part of these terms, conditions and privacy policy is deemed unlawful and/or unenforceable, all other provisions contained herein will remain in full force and effect.

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ENTIRE AGREEMENT

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Before you register with our website, you will be asked to consent to our Privacy Policy. If you have consented, or once you do consent, the terms of the Privacy Policy together with these Terms and Conditions, the information contained herein constitutes the entire agreement between site users and our company relating to the use of this website.

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LAW AND JURISDICTION

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These terms, conditions, and privacy policy are governed by and construed in accordance with Canada law. Any dispute arising out of or related to the information contained herein is subject to adjudication in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

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Heather Chua | Realtor®
Email: heather@heatherchua.com
Phone: (778) 388-1436

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