Privacy of your personal information is an important part of our office providing you quality real estate service. We understand the importance of protecting your personal information. We are committed to collecting, using and disclosing your personal information responsibly. We also try to be as open and transparent as possible about the way we handle your personal information. It is important to us to provide this service to our clients and customers. In our office, Diana Russo acts as the Privacy Information Officer. All staff members who come in contact with your personal information are aware of the sensitive nature of the information that you have disclosed to us. They are all trained in the appropriate uses and protection of your information. Attached to this consent form, we have outlined what our office is doing to ensure that: - only necessary information is collected about you; - we only share your information with your consent; - storage, retention and destruction of your personal information complies with existing legislation, and privacy protection protocols; - our privacy protocols comply with privacy legislation, standards of our regulatory body, the Real Estate Council of Ontario. Do not hesitate to discuss our policies with me or any member of our office staff. Please be assured that every staff person in our office is committed to ensuring that you receive the best quality real estate service. HOW OUR OFFICE COLLECTS, USES AND DISCLOSES CLIENT/CUSTOMERS' PERSONAL INFORMATION Our office understands the importance of protecting your personal information. To help you understand how we are doing that, we have outline here how our office is using and disclosing your information. This office will collect, use and disclose information about you for the following purposes: - to enable us to contact you - to establish and maintain communication with you - to communicate with other real estate professionals in order to assist you with your real estate needs for the purpose of listing and marketing the Property including, but not limited to: listing and advertising the Property using any medium including the Internet; disclosing property information to prospective buyers brokers, salespersons and others who may assist in the sale of the Property; - such other use of the Seller's personal information as is consistent with listing and marketing of the Property. The Seller consents, if this is an MLS® Listing, to placement of the listing information and soles information by the Broker into the database(s) of the appropriate MLS® systems(s' and acknowledges that the MLS® database is the property of the board(s) and can be licensed, resold, or otherwise dealt withby the board(s). The Seller further acknowledges that the board(s) may: distribute the information to any persons authorized to use such service which may include other brokers, government departments, appraisers, municipal organizations and others; market the Property, at its option, in any medium, including electronic media; compile, retain and publish any statistics including historical MLS® data which may be used by licensed board members to conduct comparative market analyses; and make such other use of the information as the board deems appropriate in connection with the listing, marketing and selling of real estate. - to forward your information to lawyers relating to the sale of your property to communicate with the local township office and other local regulatory offices to forward information to other clients/customers in order to sell your property to communicate with banking and mortgage professionals relating to your real estate needs to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including Real Estate Council of Ontario, Ontario Real Estate Association, Canadian Real Estate Association, Toronto Real Estate Board, York Region Real Estate Board to deliver your information and records to the real estate insurance carrier to enable the insurance company to assess liability and quantify damages, if any to prepare materials for the Real Estate Arbitration or Professional Standards Cases, if any to invoice for goods and services - to collect unpaid accounts - to assist this office to comply with all regulatory requirements - to comply generally with the law