Real Estate of Distinction Byron Bay 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.

In our agency business we use personal information collected from landlords and prospective tenants to perform our obligations under our agreement with landlords.
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 tenants, 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’ corporation, government and statutory bodies, financial institutions, valuers and to third parties as required by law.

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 require some of the above-mentioned information to be collected. If the information is not provided, we may not be able to act efficiently or at all.