General Notice

PRIVACY ACT 1988

Patterson Real Estate 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 organizations directly relating to personal information of current or former employees contained in employee records are not covered by the Principles.

Vendor/Prospective Vendors and Purchasers/Prospective Purchasers

In our agency business we use personal information collected from vendors and prospective vendors to perform our obligations under our agreement with vendors, or to provide market appraisals to prospective vendors.We use personal information collected from purchasers and prospective purchasers to inform them of properties for sale.We may use the 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 differently.

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.

General

We will only disclose the abovementioned 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 require some of the above-mentioned information to be collected. If information is not provided, we may not be able to act effectively or at all.

If you would like access to this information you can do so by contacting us at 76 Horton Street, Port Macquarie NSW, ph. 02 65846400, at www.pattersonrealestate.com.au or info@pattersonrealestate.com.au. You can also correct this information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.