Privacy policy

PRIVACY ACT 1988

General
McMillan Real Estate Bowral Pty Ltd respects your right to privacy. We are bound by the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988. Those Principles regulate most of our activities with respect to personal information collected, stored, used and disclosed by us. However, the activities of all organisations directly relating to personal information of current or former employees contained in employee records are not covered by the Principles.

Prospective Purchasers/Prospective Vendors and Purchasers/Vendors
To perform our obligations under our agreement with vendors and/or to provide market appraisals to prospective vendors McMillan Real Estate Bowral Pty Ltd will use personal information collected from prospective vendors and vendors.
We use personal information collected from prospective purchasers and purchasers to inform them of properties for sale. Personal information may also be collected during an open house inspection for security purposes and we may contact the prospective purchaser with respect to that property and other properties, which we believe, may interest the prospective purchaser.
We may use personal information for direct marketing purposes and to seek potential clients through the promotional activities of the agent. In providing the information the parties agree to this use unless they advise us otherwise. In the delivery or our services, personal information may be collected in a variety of ways including – responding to our Buyer’s Wishlist on our website, Market Appraisal Forms, sending us an email, applying for a job with the business, and making an enquiry.
We may disclose information to other parties including to potential purchasers or vendors, or to media organisations, on the internet, or to clients of the agent both existing and potential, as well as to parties engaged to evaluate the property, for example pest and building inspectors, etc., and to owners’ corporations, government and statutory bodies, financial institutions, valuers and to third parties as required by law.

Prospective Landlords/Landlords
We use personal information collected from prospective landlords and landlords to act as the landlord's agent and to perform our obligations under our agreements with landlords, or to provide market appraisals to prospective landlords.
We may also use that information for direct marketing purposes and to seek potential clients through the promotional activities of the agent. In providing the information the parties agree to this use unless they advise us otherwise.
We may disclose information to other parties including to potential tenants, media organisations, on the internet, or to clients of the agent both existing and potential, as well as to tradespeople, owners’ corporations, government and statutory bodies, financial institutions and to third parties as required by law.

Prospective Tenants/Tenants
Personal information is collected from prospective tenants or tenants in the course of a tenancy application and any subsequent tenancy as is necessary for the agent to verify the potential tenant’s identity, to process and evaluate the application and to manage the tenancy.
Personal information collected in the application and during the course of the tenancy, including through property inspection reports, may be disclosed to other parties, including to the landlord, employment and personal referees, as well as to tradespeople, owners’ corporations, government and statutory authorities, financial institutions and other agents and operators of tenancy reference databases and to third parties as required by law. Information already held on tenancy reference databases may also be disclosed to us. If the tenant fails to comply with their obligations under the tenancy agreement, this fact may also be disclosed to the landlord, other agents and operators of tenancy reference databases. If this information is not provided, we may not be able to process the application and manage the tenancy.

General
We will only disclose the above-mentioned information to other parties as required to perform our duties under any agreement, to achieve the purposes specified above and to provide an effective service, or as otherwise allowed under the Privacy Act 1988.
Real Estate and tax laws required some of the above-mentioned information to be collected. If the information is not provided, we may not be able to act effectively or at all.
If you would like to access this information you can do so by contacting us at 376 Bong Bong Street, BOWRAL, by telephone on (02) 4861 3555, by fax on (02) 4861 3566 or email on millan@acenet.com.au. You can also correct this information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out-or-date.