Privacy Policy
Introduction
Apartments Queensland (apartmentsqueensland.com.au) is fully committed to the protection of your privacy and the privacy of those who access its business services and is committed to complying with the Privacy Act 1988 and the associated national privacy principals (“The NPP’S”).
Changes to Privacy Policy
It is important that readers of the statement acknowledge that Apartments Queensland may change its privacy statement and privacy policy from time to time as part of Apartments Queensland’s commitment to ensuring that it complies with all its obligations under the NPPS. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review if frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by Email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
Collection of Information
Apartments Queensland (apartmentsqueensland.com.au) will from time to time collect information from individuals, corporations, sellers and buyers, tenants and landlords with such information being necessary for all services connected to this website and for delivery of such services to its member representatives, sellers and buyers, tenants and landlords.
This includes such information for identifying and registering member clients, sellers, buyers, tenants and landlords, and also listing, selling and purchasing related activities, plus emailing/communication requirements.
All correspondence may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to sales, support and accounts including Email.
Any information collected by Apartments Queensland is collected via correspondence from you or your company. This may be via telephone, Email, fax of directly through our website.
Third Parties and use of Collected Information
Any details collected from Apartments Queensland customers is required in order to provide you with our web services and a high level of customer service.
Apartments Queensland (apartmentsqueensland.com.au) confirm they will only disclose your personal information to a third party either with your consent, or where we are otherwise required to do so which includes those parties participating in the use of this website and are namely all Apartments Queensland representatives (member agents), service providers, buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords, regulatory bodies and auditors.
Apartments Queensland may at its discretion use these other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Apartments Queensland does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.
Apartments Queensland (apartmentsqueensland.com.au) and their member representatives advise that they may also use personal information to market other products and services offered by Apartments Queensland including the provision of newsletters etc.
Access to Collected Information
An individual or corporation will usually be able to gain full access to personal information we hold about them.
If your personally identifiable information changes or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at info@apartmentsqueensland.com.au.
We also reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.
Storage of Collected Information
Apartments Queensland (apartmentsqueensland.com.au) and their member representatives use security procedures to protect the personal information we hold. Access to and the use of personal information is appropriately limited to prevent misuse or unlawful disclosure of the information.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When credit card details are collected we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
Internet Use and Purchases
If you purchase a product or service from us we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
Links
The Apartments Queensland internet site may contain links to other websites. These websites are conducted by third parties and Apartments Queensland does not control the content of the information collected on these websites and these external entities are not covered within this policy.
You should refer to those websites directly or to the authors of those sites to obtain details of the privacy policies relevant to those web pages. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of apartmentsqueensland.com.au.
Buyers Club
Individuals/corporations joining membership of the buyers club or individuals/corporations representing Apartments Queensland (members club) will accept the privacy conditions of those respective clubs.
Communications
Apartments Queensland uses personally identifiable information for essential communications such as Emails, accounts information, and critical service details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional Emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing us at info@apartmentsqueensland.com.au.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
