As an initial matter, you may browse our website without submitting any personal information.

Real Estate Parade is committed to controlling the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information provided by its customers. Real Estate Parade is also committed to respecting and safeguarding your privacy through the protection of personal information you submit. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy so that you may understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings.

The Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy is modeled after the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information and is compliant with federal and provincial private sector privacy laws including the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

The application of the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy is subject to the requirements or provisions of any applicable legislation, regulations, tariffs or agreements (such as collective agreements), or the order of any court or other lawful authority. Various legal criteria independent of the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy will determine whether federal or provincial privacy legislation applies to the personal information that Real Estate Parade collects, uses or discloses in respect of its customers or employees. The Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy does not replace those criteria and nothing in these documents should be construed as indicating which privacy legislation, if any, applies to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by Real Estate Parade.

What is Personal Information?

'Personal Information' is broadly defined as information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, title, business address, or telephone number of an employee of an organization. Data collected with personal identifiers removed, so that it is impossible to determine the identity of the person to whom the information relates, is not considered personal information.

Personal information is collected by Real Estate Parade only when you specifically and knowingly choose to provide it to us such as when you subscribe to a Real Estate Parade publication, enter a Real Estate Parade promotion or choose to receive information, products or services from Real Estate Parade. We may also receive personal information from our business partners and other third parties provided that such third parties confirm to us that they have obtained your consent to the disclosure of your personal information.

Publicly available information, such as a public directory listing of your name, address, telephone number and electronic address, may not be considered personal information.

Collection and Use of Peronal Information

Real Estate Parade collects and uses your personal information primarily for the purpose of providing you with the products and services you have requested from us.

Your personal information is used to communicate with you about your account. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from selected Real Estate Parade sponsors or advertisers, your personal information would also be used to contact you or to send you e-mail materials and other mailings about products and services that might be of interest to you. You always have the option, however, to tell us not to share your personal information or to exclude you from offers for other products or services.

If you enter a contest or other promotion offered by Real Estate Parade or on the Real Estate Parade website, your personal information will be used to administer the promotion, including the use of your name and selected other information for the purposes of contacting, announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion.

Real Estate Parade may also contact you from time to time to conduct market research and surveys in an effort to continually improve our product and service offerings.

Unless you specifically authorize us to release your personal information, or release is required or permitted by law, Real Estate Parade will not sell, lease or trade your personal information to other third parties.

Anonymous or "non-personal" information gathered by Real Estate Parade through our website may be used for technical, research and analytical purposes. Such information collected through surveys, existing files and public archives may be used by Real Estate Parade to analyze their markets and to develop or enhance service offerings.

Real Estate Parade will only ask for information about you that we need and will only ask for it when we need it. When we ask you for the information, we will explain to you why we need it and what we are going to do with it.

We will seek your prior consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the information as required by applicable privacy legislation. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you can refuse to consent to our collection, use or disclosure of information about you. You may also withdraw your consent to any further collection, use or disclosure of information about you at any time by giving us reasonable notice. If our intended disclosures or uses of information change, we will notify you accordingly.

Your personal information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent.

Our Relationship With You

We want to provide you with service on an ongoing basis and to establish a long-lasting relationship with you that will grow and change to meet your needs. With your permission, we collect personal information about you to:

√ identify you

√ Establish and maintain a relationship with you, and to provide you with better service

√ Protect you, and us, against error and fraud

√ Comply with legal requirements

Links

As a convenience, our website contains links and advertisements to other sites that may not be controlled by, or affiliated or associated with Real Estate Parade.

Accordingly, Real Estate Parade does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or terms of use of such sites, nor do we control or guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials available on such sites. We encourage you to view the privacy policy and terms of use of any sites that you may visit. Additionally, the inclusion or exclusion of links or advertisements on our sites does not imply any endorsement by us of the sites, the site's provider, or the information on the sites.

Specifically, please be aware that our partners, advertisers, and other websites that have links on our website may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those partners, advertisers, and other websites linked to our website are not covered by the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy.

Disclosure

To enable us to more efficiently provide the products and services you have requested from us, Real Estate Parade may share your personal information with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers. Such other members and third party service providers are provided only with such information as is necessary in the circumstances (i.e. your residential address may be disclosed to our distributors and carriers for the purpose of delivering your bi-weekly magazine subscription). Information provided to third parties may be used only for the purpose stipulated and is subject to strict terms of confidentiality.

Use Of Cookies

Real Estate Parade uses a browser feature called a "cookie" to collect information anonymously and track user patterns on the Real Estate Parade website. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website. "Cookies" contain a unique identification number that identifies your browser, but not you, to our computers each time you visit our website. Cookies tell us which pages of our websites are visited and by how many people. As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, we use cookies to store and sometimes track the anonymous information about your visits to the website.

The use of cookies is an industry standard and many major browsers are initially set up to accept them. You can reset your browser to either refuse to accept all cookies or to notify you when you have received a cookie. However, if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features available on our websites.

Companies advertising or offering products and services on our site may use their own cookies. We, however, have no access or control over these cookies. In those cases, the third parties may use your personal information according to their own policies, which may differ from this Privacy Policy.

Accuracy

Real Estate Parade will try to ensure that information about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, please inform Real Estate Parade of any change of name, address or other information. In the event you have questions about the accuracy of factual information we have collected about you, you will have access to that information in order to verify and update it. If we have disclosed inaccurate information about you to a third party, we will be pleased to contact the third party in order to correct the information.

Security

Real Estate Parade is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as restricted access and the use of passwords and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at all times and those employees with access to your personal information shall use your personal information strictly in accordance with the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.

Access

If you have any questions about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by Real Estate Parade, or if you simply want to know whether we have any of your personal information on file, you may contact our Privacy Compliance Officer. Except in limited circumstances, as specifically provided by applicable privacy legislation, members of Real Estate Parade can tell you whether they hold personal information about you. They can tell you the source of the information, allow you access to your personal information and find an account of the use that has been made or is being made of the information and the third parties to which it has been disclosed.

Real Estate Parade will only refuse access to information about you in those circumstances permitted or required by applicable privacy legislation. If Real Estate Parade refuses access to you, it will provide you with the reasons for its refusal upon request. Exceptions may include information that contains references to other individuals, information that cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, and information that is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege. Real Estate Parade will respond to your requests for access in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.

Children

The safety of children is very important to us. We maintain a general audience website that is designed for use by adults and that comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Specifically, we do not knowingly, and this website is not designed to, collect information from users under age 13. If you are under 13 years old, you should not register for our services or otherwise provide information on our website.

We encourage parents to create a safe place for children on the Internet. Parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist parents in limiting access to content that may be harmful to minors. We also encourage parents to monitor their child's use of the Internet and teach them not to disclose any personally identifiable information (including their age, appearance, school, grade, etc.) about themselves in emails, chat rooms, or on other sites, except with your knowledge and approval.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns about the personal information about you held by Real Estate Parade or about the compliance of the Real Estate Parade with the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer. Contact information for our Privacy Compliance Officer may be found on our website.

Real Estate Parade has procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about its handling of personal information. They will describe the complaint procedures to anyone who makes inquiries or lodges complaints. If you are not satisfied with the response from our Privacy Compliance Officer after making a complaint, you may have recourse to additional remedies under applicable privacy legislation.

For further information, please contact the federal Privacy Commissioner or your provincial Privacy Commissioner, as applicable.

Exceptions, Qualifications, Amendments

Although not listed in this Privacy Policy, Real Estate Parade will rely on any exemptions or qualifications that are either set out in applicable privacy legislation or used by Real Estate Parade in good faith, as permitted by law. This Privacy Policy may be amended by Real Estate Parade from time to time.

Ten Principles of Fair Information Practices

1 - ACCOUNTABILITY

Real Estate Parade is responsible for the personal information under its control and shall designate one or more individuals who shall be accountable for our compliance with the procedures and principles set out in the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy.

2 - IDENTIFYING PURPOSE

Real Estate Parade will identify the purpose for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.

3 - CONSENT

The knowledge and consent of the individual are required for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, except where consent is not required by privacy legislation as, for example, where the collection, use or disclosure of personal information is solely for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes.

4 - LIMITING COLLECTION

Real Estate Parade shall limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary for the purposes identified.

5 - LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE AND RETENTION

Personal information shall not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required or permitted by law. Personal information shall be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which it was collected.

6 - ACCURACY

Personal information shall be as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.

7 - SAFEGUARDS

Personal information shall be protected by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.

8 - OPENNESS

Real Estate Parade shall make readily available specific information about its policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

9 - INDIVIDUAL ACCESS

Upon request, an individual shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of his or her personal information and shall be given access to that information except where Real Estate Parade is permitted or required by law not to disclose personal information to the individual. An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed to him or her and have it amended as appropriate.

10 - CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE

An individual shall be able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the principles in the Real Estate Parade Privacy Policy to our Privacy Compliance Officer.

Definitions

The following defined terms are used throughout this Privacy Policy:

COLLECTION: means the act of gathering, acquiring, recording or obtaining personal information from any source, including third parties, by any means.

CONSENT: means voluntary agreement with what is being done or proposed. Consent can be either express or implied and can be provided directly by the individual or by an authorized representative. Express consent is given explicitly, either orally, electronically or in writing but is unequivocal and does not require any inference on the part of Real Estate Parade. Implied consent arises where consent may reasonably be inferred from the action or inaction of the individual.

CUSTOMER: means an individual who subscribes for, uses, or applies to use, the products or services of Real Estate Parade; corresponds with Real Estate Parade; or, enters a contest sponsored by Real Estate Parade

DISCLOSURE: means making personal information available to any other person or entity, including Real Estate Parade.

ORGANIZATION: is a term used in the model code that includes associations, businesses, charitable organizations, clubs, government bodies, institutions, professional practices, and unions.

PERSONAL INFORMATION: means information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form.

USE: refers to the treatment and handling of personal information by Real Estate Parade