PRIVACY POLICY:

DREAMCHOICE REALTY (ABN# 57 614 229 944), its franchisees, licensees and its related body corporate (AUSTRALIAN SERVICES ORGANISATION PTY LTD (ACN#614 229 944)), understands and respect protection of your personal information. We are committed to protecting your privacy as defined pursuant to the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). This document explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain and manage your privacy information and how we comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

DREAMCHOICE REALTY collects personal information from you to help in regards to real estate services related to buying, selling and leasing properties (both commercial and residential) and to respond to your requests, questions, comments, also in the process of suggesting and guiding you and while advertising\marketing and promoting our business. We collect information from you during rental and sale open for inspections, during direct meetings and from referrals  and also while your visit to DREAMCHOICE REALTY website.

The main reason we collect your personal information is to assist you with the information you needed from us. Without your personal information, we may only disclose you with limited information and may not be able to provide you with full details related to any property for rent or sale, and\or to provide you with access to inspect such properties.

DREAMCHOICE REALTY, its team and related bodies may disclose your personal information to each other to effectively provide our services to you. For example we may disclose your personal information to other service providers who are working with us and who are involved to assist in related to DREAMCHOICE REALTY Services when needed. By using our services and continuing to use our website you consent to us collecting, maintaining, using and disclosing your personal information in the way described in this Privacy Policy.  

  • In this policy:

    • Credit Assistance Provider means a person or entity that provides credit assistance (for example, mortgage and finance broking) for the purposes of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth).

    • Credit Related Information means information about your current relationship and debts with credit providers, your credit history and other information pertaining to your credit worthiness, which may be derived from a credit report about you.

    • Related Bodies Corporate has the same meaning as under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

    • Related Entity has the same meaning as under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

    • Sensitive Information has the same meaning as under the Privacy Act.

    • Website means www.dreamchoice.com.au or any other website we may establish or operate from time to time.

    • The meaning of any general language is not restricted by any accompanying example, and the words 'includes', 'including', 'such as', 'for example' or similar words are not words of limitation.

  • Why do we collect personal information and how do we use it?

    •  We offer a range of services including, without limitation, providing appraisals of properties acting as a real estate agent for the buying and selling of properties, leasing properties, advertising properties, acting as a Credit Assistance Provider, business broking, providing conveyancing and property settlement agents, and aggregation, connection and disconnection of utility services (Services).

    • We collect personal information to enable us to provide our Services to you.  This includes:

      • processing inquiries; facilitating the sale, purchase, advertising of properties and businesses; during appraisal and open for inspections;    facilitating the leasing of properties (including advertising the properties) and acting as property manager; providing conveyancing and property settlement services; providing financial advice and services; for our internal business operations; complying with our legal obligations;     advising clients of additional services or information which may be of interest; providing your contact details to our partners and contractors who provide us with services; maintaining and updating our business infrastructure and systems; statistical purposes; promoting and advertising our business, products and services; franchise purposes, including assessment of franchise applications and management of our franchises; and insurance and governance purposes.

    • If we do not collect the personal information or if any of the personal information you provide is incomplete or inaccurate, we may not be able to provide the services in full.

    • This privacy policy applies to all situations in which we collect personal information directly from you. This includes, but not limited to, telephonic communication, communication by email and post, in person and through individuals accessing our websites.

    • Our call centre may record our conversations for quality, compliance and training purposes. Please advise our operators in case you are not comfortable with this.

  • What personal information do we collect?

The personal information we collect will depend on the Service or Services we provide to you.  It may include:

    • your name, residential or business address, contact phone numbers, email address, family details; employment details, financial information, including assets, liabilities, income, outgoings, spending patterns and credit reference reports, the value of your property, insurance details, credit card and banking details, Sensitive Information, Credit Related Information, information in respect to a will or estate, references (e.g. to support rental arrangements), copies of photo identification (e.g. driver's licence, passport, student ID), or any other personal information relevant to the Service we are providing to you.

  • How do we collect personal information?

    • We aim to collect personal information directly from you. 

    • We also collect personal information:

      • from your representatives (e.g. solicitor, accountant or financial adviser),     through our website and by other electronic communication channels, when sent to us by email or other communication from third parties,     from publicly available sources of information including social media,     when you transact with our franchisees or if you apply to become a franchisee, when we are required to do so by law, from Strata or Bodies Corporate, Strata or Body Corporate Managers and On-Site Managers,     when you enter into a competition or promotion with us or participate in a survey including an 'after sales service' follow-up, and from our own records, from our employees, from our suppliers or partners, and from private vendors.

    • If you supply personal information to us about another person, you represent and we accept it on the basis that you are authorised to do so and that the relevant person has consented to the disclosure to us.

    • Each time you visit our website our server collects personal and non-personal information. This information may be gathered from both mobile and static devices. This information may include, but is not limited to: the type of browser you use, your operating system, your internet service provider, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your mobile service carrier, the online address of a previously visited site etc. We may use Cookies and log files to monitor and improve our online presence.

    • A cookie is a piece of information that our web server may send to your machine when you visit our websites. The cookie is stored on your machine, but does not identify you or give us any information about your computer.  A cookie helps us to recognise you when you re-visit the website and to co-ordinate your access to different pages on the website. You can erase cookies from your computer hard drive if you would like to, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you want to do this, refer to your browser instructions or help screen. Any information we seek to collect via cookies etc is used to better understand our customer needs and the services they are seeking from us. Cookies assist us in providing better and faster services.

    • Links on our Website may take you outside our network.  These links are provided in good faith.  However, we are not responsible for third party sites and accept no responsibility for the content, accuracy, security or function of third party sites

  • Considerations when you send information to us

    • While we do all we can, to protect your privacy, including investing in specialist security software, no data transfer over the Internet is 100% secure.

    • If you provide personal information to us electronically, there are ways you can help maintain the security of the information.  These include:

      • always close your browser when you have finished your user session.

      • do not provide personal information by using a public computer.

      • never disclose your username and password to another person.

    • You are responsible for all actions taken using your username, email or password.  If at any time you believe your username or password have been compromised, change your password and contact us immediately.

  • Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in certain circumstances including:

    • if you agree to the disclosure, when we use it for the purpose for which it was collected, for e.g. as part of a sale or leasing process or in the provision of another Service, to employees, contractors, franchisees and service providers who assist us in operating our business and providing our Services; in circumstances where you would reasonably be expected to consent to information of that kind being passed to a third party; where disclosure is required or permitted by law; to our Related Entities and franchises; if  disclosure will prevent or lessen a serious or imminent threat to someone's life or health; or where it is reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the criminal law, a law imposing a pecuniary penalty or for the protection of public revenue.

All third parties with whom personal information is shared are required to meet our standards of personal information protection. However, we are not responsible for the conduct of third parties with respect to the handling of your personal information and we recommend that you check their privacy policies. You consent to us using your information for marketing purposes which include our Services as well as our business partners.

We do not trade or sell your personal information however we may share your data with our clients for the purposes of facilitating real estate related services on your request. We always seek your consent prior to sharing your data with our clients, vendors and partners.

  • When we act as a Credit Assistance Provider

    • When we act as a Credit Assistance Provider, we may disclosure personal information to our:

      • Related Bodies Corporate; Credit Reference Providers; brokers;    approved panel of lenders; service providers; persons taking an interest in the property either as a co-owner, insurer or security provider; agents;     aggregators; and mortgage managers.

    • We will use and disclose the personal information disclosed to us in our capacity as Credit Assistance Provider to:

      • assess whether you may qualify for a loan; assist you to decide on a suitable loan; assist in the compiling of information and documentation for submission to a potential lender; obtain any additional information that may be required by a potential lender including obtaining a credit reference from a Credit Reference Provider or obtaining Repayment History Information; for administrative and compliance purposes; assess and administer commission payable by you; and advise you of other financial products and services that may be of interest to you.

  • Disclosure of personal information offshore

    • When providing our services (including purchasing or selling a property or arranging finance), we may provide services or disclose personal information in countries other than Australia.  This may include Sensitive Information.

    • In addition to Australia, if we do business in any other countries from time to time, we may disclose your information in those countries if needed only on your consent again.

    • Offshore disclosure may be through arrangements we have with entities in other countries that supply international portals which facilitate the advertising of properties and businesses for sale to overseas buyers.  

This includes a concierge service provided for Asian buyers by one of the international portal providers.  The concierge receives inquiries in respect to properties or businesses from Asian buyers and refers them to the relevant agent in Australia to progress the inquiry.  The concierge also provides an optional translation and communication service with Asian buyers who do not speak English.  

    • The overseas recipient may not be subject to any privacy obligations or to any principles similar to the Australian Privacy Principles.  The overseas recipient may also be subject to a foreign law which could compel disclosure of personal information to a third party, for example, an overseas authority.

    •  If you consent to the disclosure and the overseas recipient handles the information in breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act, may not be able to seek redress in the overseas jurisdiction and we will not be accountable under the Privacy Act.

    • By providing us with personal information, you consent to us using and disclosing your personal information offshore.  If at any time you wish to withdraw your consent, contact our Privacy Officer.  However, we may not be able to provide the Services you have requested in whole or in part or those Services may have to be modified.

  • How your information is stored

    • We take reasonable steps to securely store personal details and information. This includes electronic and physical security measures, staff training, use of password protection software. Details of our security systems are available by contacting our Privacy Officer.

    • When the personal information that we collect is no longer required, we will remove or de-identify the personal information as soon as reasonably possible.  We may, however, retain personal information for as long as is necessary to comply with any applicable law, for the prevention of fraud, for insurance and governance purposes, in our IT back-up, for the collection of any monies owed and to resolve disputes.  

  • Marketing and opting out

    • We do not use sensitive Information for marketing purposes.

    • If at any time you no longer wish to receive any additional marketing material from us or do not want your information disclosed for direct marketing purposes, contact our Privacy Officer and we will remove your details from our marketing database.  

  • How you can update, correct, or delete your personal information

    • You may request access to your personal information or correct any inaccurate or out of date information by clicking here or contacting our Privacy Officer using the details below.

    • You may request the source of any information we collect from a third party.  We will provide this at no cost, unless under the Privacy Act or other law there is a reason for this information being withheld.

    • If there is a reason under the Privacy Act or other law for us not to provide you with information, we will give you a written notice of refusal setting out the reasons for the refusal except to the extent it would be unreasonable to do so and the mechanisms available to you to complain about the refusal.

    • You should also contact us immediately if you believe:

      • someone has gained access to your personal information;

      • we have breached our privacy obligations or your privacy rights in any way; or

      • you would like to discuss any issues about our privacy policy.

  • Changes to our Privacy Policy

    • This document sets out our current Privacy Policy.

    • Our Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. You should review our Privacy Policy each time you visit our Website or provide us with personal information.

    • If you would like further information on our Privacy Policy or if you have any concerns over the protection of the information you have given to us or that we have collected from others, please contact us by contacting our Privacy Officer at:

Our contact details: 

Sudhakar Nemmatha (Principal/Director)

Phone: 0430 097 886

Email:  [email protected]

More information about your rights and our obligations in respect to privacy and information on making a privacy complaint are available from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

[email protected],GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001, www.oaic.gov.au 



TERMS OF USE:

These terms and conditions of use apply to the DREAMCHOICE REALTY 'website' (www.dreamchoice.com.au). This site is the property of body corporate AUSTRALIAN SERVICES ORGANISATION PTY LTD (ACN#614 229 944) and DREAMCHOICE REALTY (ABN#57 614 229 944). By using this site, you agree to these terms and conditions of use.

DREAMCHOICE REALTY reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms and conditions of use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions of use periodically for changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with these terms and conditions of use, DREAMCHOICE REALTY grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the site.

DISCLAIMER:

The content of this website is general and is provided for information purposes only. The material on this website should not be considered as any type of advice. All the information related to the property areas, floor size, price, address and general property description on this website is provided as a convenience to you and has been provided to DREAMCHOICE REALTY by third Parties.

Body corporate and DREAMCHOICE REALTY, its directors, officers, employees, agents and related entities usually receive the information that was passed on from third parties to place on the website. DREAMCHOICE REALTY and its franchisees have used their best endeavours to ensure the information contained on this website is correct. However neither DREAMCHOICE REALTY nor its franchisees, licensors or suppliers (nor their respective directors, affiliates or employees) does not guarantee or warrant the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the information on this website or its usefulness in achieving any purpose. They have no belief one way or the other as to its accuracy. They do not accept any liability (direct or indirect) for any injury, loss claim, damage to any incidental or consequential damages, including but not limited to loss of profits or savings, arising out of or in any way connected with the use of any information, or any error, omission or defect in the information contained on this website.

Information on this website should not be used without validating. You should make and rely upon your own assessments and enquiries to verify the accuracy of the information provided. 

Prices that are displayed on this website that related to the properties are current only and may modified at any time without any notification.

Also DREAMCHOICE REALTY does not warrant that the website itself is free from any computer viruses or other defects or that your access to the website will be continuous or uninterrupted.  DREAMCHOICE REALTY accepts no liability arising from your access to this website.

The results from calculators supplied on this website should be used as an indication only. Results do not represent either quotes or pre-qualifications for a product or service. It is advised that you consult your legal adviser or financial adviser before proceeding with any transaction.

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than DREAMCHOICE REALTY, such hyperlinks are provided for reference only. DREAMCHOICE REALTY does not control such websites, and is not responsible for their contents. DREAMCHOICE REALTY inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the information or material available on such websites or any association with their operators, and you use such websites, including information, material, products and services contained in them, solely at your own risk. Furthermore, because DREAMCHOICE REALTY's privacy policy is applicable only when you are on this website, once linked to another website you should carefully read that website's privacy policy before disclosing any personal information. In certain circumstances DREAMCHOICE REALTY may receive a commission, fee or reward for a hyperlink, pointer or other introduction to a third party website. DREAMCHOICE REALTY is not liable to disclose the basis of such commission, fee or reward except as may be and only to the extent required by law.

As a condition of your use of the Website or any services on the Website, you warrant to DREAMCHOICE REALTY that you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms & conditions. In particular, but without limitation, you agree not to:

use the Website to defame, abuse, harass, store, threaten or otherwise offend others;

publish, distribute, email, transmit or disseminate any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, indecent, offensive or inappropriate; use any automated scripting tools or software;

engage in or promote any unsolicited emailing or spamming via the website; impersonate any person or entity; in any way make available using the Website any material that you do not have a right to make available or which contains viruses or other computer codes, files or programmes designed to interrupt, limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware.

DREAMCHOICE REALTY and its suppliers may make improvements or changes in the information, services, products, and other materials displayed on this Website, or terminate this Website, at any time without notice. DREAMCHOICE REALTY may modify the terms and conditions of access to and use of this site at any time, and such modifications will take effect immediately upon posting of the modified terms and conditions on this website.  Accordingly, you agree to read the terms and conditions on a regular basis, and your continued access or use of this website will be deemed to be your acceptance of the modified terms and conditions.

These terms and conditions and the resolution of any dispute between DREAMCHOICE REALTY and you will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Australia, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.  DREAMCHOICE REALTY's failure to insist upon strict enforcement of any provision of these terms and conditions will not constitute a waiver of any provision or right.  Any legal action or proceeding between DREAMCHOICE REALTY and you related to these terms and conditions will be brought exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction in Australia.

*Subject to the provisions of consumer protection legislation that cannot be excluded, DREAMCHOICE REALTY accepts no liability arising from the information on this website, or on websites linked from this website, being incorrect, incomplete or misleading. To the fullest extent permitted by law, DREAMCHOICE REALTY will not be liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred in or arising by reason of any person relying on the information on this website. Where conditions and warranties implied by law cannot be excluded, DREAMCHOICE REALTY limits its liability, where it is entitled to do so, to the resupply of the relevant service and goods, or paying you the cost of that resupply.

COPYRIGHT:

Other than the proprietary Trade Marks, business names clearly shown on this website (www.dreamchoice.com.au) are owned by commercial partners of DREAMCHOICE REALTY (ABN#57 614 229 944) or where copyright is attributed to a party other than DREAMCHOICE REALTY, all information and materials displayed on this Website (including text, graphics, video and audio files, photographs and the organisation and layout of the Website) are owned by and copyrighted to DREAMCHOICE REALTY or one of its suppliers and all rights are reserved. 

Other than as expressly permitted on this website no reproduction, distribution, or transmission of the copyrighted information and materials on this website is permitted without DREAMCHOICE REALTY written consent.  'DREAMCHOICE REALTY' and its logo are both registered for Trade Marks of the body corporate AUSTRALIAN SERVICES ORGANISATION PTY LTD(ACN#614 229 944) and are used by DREAMCHOICE REALTY under license. 

The copyright information and materials, together with the Trade Marks, displayed on this website are protected by Australian and international intellectual property laws. Dreamchoice Realty does not warrant that your use of the information and materials displayed on the website will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with DREAMCHOICE REALTY.

Use of Information:

You may access, use, download and print information and materials displayed on this website for your personal and non-commercial use only (including for the purposes of property investment or purchase or lease of commercial property through DREAMCHOICE REALTY). You may not modify, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, materials, software, products or services obtained from this website without the written permission of DREAMCHOICE REALTY.

DREAMCHOICE REALTY reserves the right to take whatever legal action it deems necessary to protect itself, the security of this website and the intellectual property rights of the information provided by DREAMCHOICE REALTY and its authorised agencies. Such action may include, but is not limited to action for breach of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth), Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), breach of contract and any obligation of confidentiality. 

In particular any unauthorised use of this information has the potential to misrepresent in a misleading fashion the involvement of DREAMCHOICE REALTY and its authorised agencies. Any such misuse will be prosecuted.

All content on this website, including text, graphics, logos, photographs, audio and video clips and data compilations belongs to DREAMCHOICE REALTY or its content suppliers and protected by Australian and international copyright laws. These trademarks, logos and other proprietary graphics may not be used in connection with any other product or service without DREAMCHOICE REALTY express prior written consent. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Body Psyche and protected by Australian and international copyright laws. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express prior written consent of DREAMCHOICE REALTY.

You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any portion or feature of this website, or any other systems or networks connected to this website or to any server used by DREAMCHOICE REALTY or to any of the services offered on or through the site, by password ‘mining/cracking/hacking’ or any other illegitimate means. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the site or any transaction being conducted on this site, or with any other person’s use of the site.

DREAMCHOICE REALTY may include links on this website to websites owned by other parties. DREAMCHOICE REALTY is not in any way responsible for the material contained on these sites, nor is DREAMCHOICE REALTY responsible for the availability of these sites. DREAMCHOICE REALTY does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, including advertising or products offered on these sites, nor is DREAMCHOICE REALTY responsible for any damage, offence or loss caused as the result of visiting these websites

Personal information provided to DREAMCHOICE REALTY via this website will be handled in accordance with DREAMCHOICE REALTY [privacy policy]

DREAMCHOICE REALTY maintains highly regulated security policies and procedures to all external and internal communications of Child & Baby. All protocols use communication techniques that employ widely accepted error detection and/or recovery mechanisms. We have a secure connection that ensures that the information transmitted is safeguarded. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to encrypt the information sent from your computer to our computer so that nobody can decode it, intercept it or read it. This way we ensure your privacy is kept. Although DREAMCHOICE REALTY engages all reasonable efforts to safeguard the security of your information, transmissions made on or through the internet cannot be guaranteed to be entirely secure. Please contact your financial institution immediately if you become aware of unauthorised use of your account.

Certain features or services offered on or through the site may require you to open an account, for e.g. setting up an username and password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information, including your password, and for any and all activity that occurs under your account.