Privacy Policy

VREstate.ca is committed to clearly explaining to you what it does with your personal information. On this webpage, you’ll find information about the types of personal information we gather, how we use it, and whether we provide some of that information to anyone else.
When we say “personal information,” what we mean is any information about an identifiable individual not including:

The name, title, business email, business address, or telephone number of an individual when collected, used, and disclosed solely to communicate or facilitate communication with the individual concerning their employment, business, or profession;

Aggregated information that cannot be associated with a specific individual.

Consent and Disclosure

Consent

By providing personal information to VREstate.ca, you consent to its collection, use, and disclosure according to VREstate.ca’s privacy policies. Consent to collect and specific uses of the information may be refused or withdrawn by you subject to legal or contractual requirements. If you withdraw consent, please note that VREstate.ca may not be able to offer specific information or services to you.

Use and Disclosure Without Consent

In certain circumstances, VREstate.ca may be permitted or required by law to disclose personal information without consent. Those circumstances may include:

Where the information was public;
Where required by law;
Where it is necessary to protect the rights of an identifiable person or group;
Other circumstances are recognized by privacy legislation as permitting disclosure without consent.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement

VREstate.CA reserves the right to report to law enforcement agencies any uses of VREstate.CA websites, including but not limited to VREstate.ca, that it, in good faith, believes to be unlawful. You agree that VREstate.CA may release your personal information to law enforcement agencies where VREstate.CA has reasonable grounds to believe that such release is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of VREstate.CA or any person.

Protecting Personal Information

VREstate.CA takes reasonable steps to protect information from unauthorized access or disclosure in a commensurate with its sensitivity, value, and criticality. This applies regardless of the media on which the information is stored, the location where the information is stored, the systems used to process the information, or the processes by which information is handled.
The measures used to protect personal information include physical measures (e.g., locked filing cabinets), organizational measures (e.g., information is available to other persons only on a need-to-know basis), and technological measures (e.g., computer passwords).
While VREstate.CA puts in place reasonable precautions, we cannot guarantee the security of the information. No method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure, particularly concerning Internet applications.
VREstate.CA may charge a certain amount for costs incurred in providing the information, where reasonable and allowed by law.
Where an individual believes that the Personal Information in the VREstate.CA file is inaccurate, he or she may have appended to the record any alternative information, where VREstate.CA is of the view that the appended information is, in fact, correct.
VREstate.CA has the right to decline to provide access to Personal Information in several circumstances, including where the information:

Is subject to solicitor-client privilege;
Could interfere with law enforcement, investigative or regulatory functions;
Would disclose of Personal Information of another individual;
Would cause serious harm to another individual;
Is confidential business information that may harm VREstate.CA or the competitive position of a third party;
Any other circumstances recognized by the privacy legislation. Where the information cannot be disclosed, the individual making the request will be provided with the reasons for non-disclosure.

Third Parties

VREstate.CA doesn’t operate in a vacuum. We work with other companies (known as “third parties”) to bring you information and services. While we always strive to work with third parties operating using high privacy standards, working with third parties could impact how your personal information is handled.

Third-Party Links and Sources of Information

Many VREstate.CA products, including VREstate.ca, may include links to third-party websites. Before using those third-party websites, you should carefully examine their privacy policies because any personal information that you choose to provide to them will be subject to their privacy policies.

Storage

Many VREstate.CA products, including VREstate.ca, use third-party service providers, for example, to store information in the Cloud. Some of these service providers, and the databases where they store personal information, are located outside Canada. You should note that where personal information is located outside of Canada, it is subject to the laws of that jurisdiction in which it is located and could be subject to lawful demands for access by law enforcement agencies.

Potential Risks when Providing Personal Information to VREstate.CA

We have an obligation to tell you if there are any risks to you that could result if someone (not us!) misuses the personal information you provide us. Honestly, we’ve struggled with what to say here as most of the information we collect is not particularly sensitive.

However, one thing we wanted to flag is that whenever you share your email with another person using our websites, there is a risk that another person could misuse that email. We’ve taken legal (e.g., terms of use), technological (e.g., anti-spam filters and CAPTCHA technology), and design (e.g., designing our systems to reduce the likelihood of your email being misused) measures to try to limit such abuse, but no system is perfect. Please feel free to report any potential abuse to us.

Also, keep in mind that when you provide your personal information to a VREstate (for example, advertise your listing), the VREstate may use a variety of VREstate.CA, Board/Association, and third-party systems and software solutions to promote that property and conduct the transaction. So your personal information may end up in more places than you originally anticipated. Contact VREstate to find out just what exactly they do with your personal information, so you aren’t surprised.