Beechwood Real Estate Advisors, Brokerage Inc.

Privacy Policy

Last Update: October 28, 2020

Beechwood Real Estate Advisors, Brokerage Inc. (“Beechwood”) appreciates the care needed in the collection, use and sharing of information when you (the “User”) interacts with our websites, social media platforms and email, as well as any other professional interactions with professionals employed by Beechwood.

The terms and conditions outlined in the following Website Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) apply to Users, including all people who have access to the Beechwood websites (the “Website”) and all people who have provided their personal information. By using this Website, you signify that you understand and accept the terms and conditions outlined below. The Privacy Policy outlines the principles that govern Beechwood’s collection, use and disclosure of certain personal information of a User that may be collected through the Website.

Information we Collect

Beechwood may collect the personal information (the “Personal Information”) provided by the User including User contact information and client relationship data.

How we Collect and use Personal Information

We collect your personal information through your use of our Website. By providing Personal Information through the use of our Website, the User agrees to receive communications from us.

We may use your Personal Information to:

  • Provide information related to our services and offerings

  • Provide general information

  • Respond to inquiries or concerns

  • Notify you about company updates, news and events

  • Provide technical support

  • Enforce our legal rights

Methods of communication (“Communications”) include:

  • Newsletters

  • Marketing announcements

  • Direct Mail

  • Phone calls

  • Emails

  • In person meetings

To provide our users with the best experience possible, we use Google Analytics, a third-party service provided by Google, Inc. to automatically gather and store certain information about your visit to our Website. This information is anonymous and used to provide general statistics about our Website for analysis. This information may include, but is not limited to:

  • IP address

  • Type of device and browser

  • Pageviews

You can opt-out of having your Website activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. 

Additional information about Google’s privacy policy can be found by following this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy. More information regarding Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager policies can be found here: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.

Disclosures of Personal Information to and by Third Parties

Please note Beechwood may share Personal Information with a third party who may track your demographic information for their business and analytical purposes. Otherwise, user privacy is important to us, and we adhere to strict privacy protocols to ensure your Personal Information is stored securely and safely. Any Personal Information collected by Beechwood is kept strictly confidential and is not shared with any third parties. 

Users may request their Personal Information be removed from our database at any time by unsubscribing from our Communications by contacting our office directly at info@beechwoodadvisory.com. Users can access, correct and remove any personal information they provide and register complaints about the use of Personal Information by contacting our office directly.

Protection and Retention of Personal Information

Beechwood will employ commercially reasonable safeguards to protect Personal Information that is collected and retained from the Website on its secure server. Beechwood will retain Personal Information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or as may be required by law. 

The User acknowledges that Beechwood cannot guarantee that due to the openness of the Internet that there is no potential for unauthorized access to Personal Information stored on its server or when information is transferred to and from Beechwood and the User. The User understands that by using the Website it has agreed to assume this risk and releases Beechwood of any liability of such unauthorized access to the User’s Personal Information.

Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). To learn more or to opt-out of tailored advertising please visit Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada Opt-Out Tool for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways[, that you provide to us,] or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

  • Speed up your searches.

  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. 

  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Legal Disclosure

Beechwood will disclose your Personal Information when it is legally compelled to do so through a court order, subpoena or any other legal obligation.

Dispute Resolution

If you encounter any issues or questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact Beechwood’s Privacy Officer Deborah Borotsik at deborah@beechwoodadvisory.com directly and we will attempt to resolve the issue.

Future changes to the Privacy Policy

Beechwood reserve the right to make changes to the outlined Privacy Policy at any time. We recommend users familiarize themselves with the Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Any changes to the Privacy Policy which affect the outlined policy protocols detailed above will be communicated directly with users in advance, and users will have the option to opt out of the new protocols by formally requesting removal of personal data from our database.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using this Website, the User acknowledges their understanding and acceptance of the terms of our Privacy Policy. 

Thank you for your understanding. Should you have any questions, please reach out to Beechwood’s Privacy Officer Deborah Borotsik at deborah@beechwoodadvisory.com directly and we will be happy to assist you.