PRIVACY STATEMENT
Introduction
Kiwi Properties Pte Ltd operates the web site at www.kiwi.sg . We
respect the privacy of each user of the Site (referred to as you or user or
“Agent”), whether you are just beginning your real estate search or have
previously visited our Site. This Privacy Statement gives you specific
information about how we protect your privacy, how we treat information we
collect on the Site that identifies an individual user ("Personal Information"),
and how we use aggregated information.
BY REGISTERING FOR OR USING THE SITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR
ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, YOU CANNOT USE THE
SITE. We reserve the right to modify this Statement at any time by posting a
notice on the Site’s home page. (If we consider it appropriate, we may also
provide additional notice of significant changes.) Your use of the Site after the
date of the last modification listed at the beginning of this Privacy Statement
indicates to us that you agree to the changes.
Scope of this Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement applies to your use of this Site only. We do not own,
operate or control the web sites of our Franchisees or sales associates.
Accordingly, this Statement does not apply to a Franchisee’s or sales associate’s
web site or to a Franchisee’s or sales associate’s collection, use, storage and
disclosure of your Personal Information.
1. Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We collect your Personal Information on the Site in order to enhance the
services we offer you. We collect Personal Information from you only when
you voluntarily submit it in order to obtain certain services or information,
including (A) registrations for special communications, such as saving a search
for you and, but only if you request it, sending you new listings that fit the
profile of your saved search; (B) requests to find a property, to list your
property, and to find a sales associate; (C) requests to contact us; (D) requests to
receive periodic industry updates; (E) requests to email a listing to a friend; (F)
applications for employment; and (G) inquiries about franchising opportunities.
Requests to Find or List a Property and to Find a Sales Associate
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If you submit a request through this Site to find or list a property or to find a
sales associate, you will be asked to provide Personal Information and we refer
this information to Franchisees or sales associates to respond to your request.
For example, if you ask that we list your property or if you ask to see more
listings in a given area, you will be directed to a Franchisee in that area.
Contacting Us
If you contact us, we collect Personal Information, which is retained or referred
to an independent Franchisee or sales associate depending on the nature of your
inquiry. If you are looking for a property or a sales associate, it is referred to a
Franchisee or sales associate; if your inquiry or complaint requires a response
from us, it is referred to the appropriate department for research and a response.
The information we collect is not used in any other way and is not retained after
one year.
Refer a Listing to a Friend
If you choose to send a listing to a friend, you will be asked to provide the
friend’s name and email address in order to personalize the email and to send the
email. We do not store this information, and the information is used only to
send the one-time referral email.
Employment Inquiry
If you are seeking employment, you will be asked to provide Personal
Information about yourself. We refer this information to Franchisees in the
geographic area in which you live.
2. Collection of Non-Personal Information
Even if you do not send us any Personal Information, we collect information
about how you use our site ("Non-Personal Information"). This information
cannot be used to identify you personally and is explained in more detail below
under "Non-Personal Information".
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Cookies
A cookie is a small data file, often including an anonymous unique identifier,
that is sent from a web site’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Use of cookies is common on the Internet. A web site can send its own cookie
to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your
privacy) your browser permits a web site to access only the cookies it has
already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. You can
configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you
when a cookie is sent. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of
your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) You can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. But if
you refuse cookies, some parts of the Site will not function properly and may
not provide services or information you have requested. For example, without
cookies, we will not be able to provide you with searches that you have asked us
to save.
Non-Personal Information
Like many sites, we obtain Non-Personal Information such as IP (internet
protocol) addresses, browser types, the name of your ISP (internet service
provider), information about where a user comes from before arriving at our
Site, what pages a user visits, the order of those pages, and the amount of time
spent on each. A vendor performs this service for us by sending a cookie to
gather this information, compile it, and report to us. We use Non-Personal
Information to customize the advertising and content you see, improve our
services, conduct research, and provide anonymous aggregated reporting for
internal audits and third-parties.
Advertising Networks
We send to your web browser some of the advertisements you see when you use
our network of web sites. However, we also allow other companies, called
third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within our web
pages. Because your web browser must request these advertising banners from
the ad network web site, these companies can send their own cookies to your
cookie file, just as if you had requested a web page from the web site. Please
note that if an advertiser asks us to show an advertisement to a certain audience
(for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-
24 who have viewed sports content) and you respond to that ad, the advertiser
or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are
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trying to reach. As always, remember we authorize our third-party ad servers to
employ anonymous cookies only for ad delivery and anonymous targeting. Our
third-party ad servers do not collect, nor do we give them access, to any
Personal Information about you.
Opting Out of Third-Party Ad Servers
If you want to prevent a third-party ad server from sending and reading cookies
on your computer, currently you must visit each ad network’s web site
individually and opt out (if they offer this capability).
3. Use of Information
We use the Personal Information and the Non-Personal Information we collect
on the Site (A) to provide you with the services that you ask to receive through
the Site, including saving searches and, if you request it, sending you updates
about those searches; (B) to receive, if you choose, to receive periodic industry
updates; (C) to answer your questions or complaints; (D) to refer you to
Franchisees and sales associates about finding or listing a property or to locate a
sale associate; (E) to refer a listing to a friend; and (F) inquiries about
franchising opportunities. and (G) for analytical purposes to help us improve the
Site and for our business generally. We may also use the Personal Information
to inform you about other services and products that may be available through
us, our family of companies, our franchisees and/or companies with which we
have a marketing relationship, and to provide you a customer survey to assess
your satisfaction with our services and products. We may allow others to
provide audient measurement and analytics services for us, to serve
advertisements on our behalf, and to track and report on the performance of
those advertisements. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and
other technologies to identify your device when you use the Site, as well as
when you visit other online sites and services, and such services will be covered
by the privacy policy of the respective third parties. We use Google Analytics
and other such tracking mechanisms to collect information about the use of the
Site. More information on Google Analytics – including how you can control
the information sent to Google – can be found
here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
4. Sharing Your Information
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We reserve the right to share your Personal Information with our affiliated
companies and marketing partners, as permitted by law, in order to fulfill our
commitment of providing you with full service real estate brokerage services.
We do share your Personal Information under the following circumstances:
A. Third party vendors we engage to provide services on our behalf, such as
hosting, web-site development, and support, have access to Personal
Information, but they have agreed not to disclose the Personal Information or to
use it for any purpose other than providing the requested services.
B. There may arise special circumstances where it is necessary for us to disclose
and use Personal Information and Non-Personal Information, such as: to enforce
this Privacy Statement or any other part of our Terms & Conditions to protect
our property or rights; to protect the safety of anyone; to investigate, prevent, or
take action regarding illegal or improper activities; to carry out a merger or
consolidation with another entity, a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets,
or any similar transaction; or for other reasons we determine in good faith are
necessary, appropriate, or required by law, such as when we respond to
subpoenas, court orders, or other legal or administrative process.
The Site contains links to third-party web sites, including a mortgage company,
our Franchisees, our advertisers, or banner advertising. If you hold your mouse
over a link, it will indicate whether clicking the link will send you off our Site.
When you click on those links, you will go to a third-party site where you will
be subject to that site’s privacy statement and we encourage you to read that
policy statement. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of those other web sites and we expressly disclaim any liability for
their actions, including actions relating to the use and disclosure of Personal
Information by those third parties. We remind you to be aware of when you
leave our Site and enter a third-party web site, including one of our independent
Franchisees, and again encourage you to read the privacy statement on any web
site that collects your Personal Information.
5. Security
Our hosting services maintains its systems in accordance with reasonable
industry standards to reasonably secure the information of its customers.
However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. "Perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, and you use the Site at
your own risk.
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6. Correction/Updating Personal Information
If your Personal Information changes or if you no longer wish to use the Site,
you may correct or update your Personal Information or unsubscribe from any
industry updates you have requested by modifying or deleting your profile on
the Site, writing to customer service at: realestate-admin@Kiwi.sg
7. Children
This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 ("Children"), and we do
not knowingly collect any information, including Personal Information, from
Children.
8. Comments and Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement, please
contact us by using the Contact Us tab from link provided here
customerservice@kiwi.sg