PRIVACY POLICY
Effective November 1, 2022
[goodtoshow.ca] (“ GoodToShow ”, “ we ”, or “ us ”) recognizes the importance of privacy. We want you to feel confident using our services, and this privacy policy (“ Privacy Policy ” or “ Policy ”) is to help you understand and describe how we collect, use, and disclose your information.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT IS COLLECTED
WITH WHOM WE MAY SHARE INFORMATION
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING THE INFORMATION
YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
SECURITY AND STORAGE OF THE INFORMATION
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
USERS OUTSIDE OF CANADA
CHANGES TO THE POLICY; AND
CONTACTING GOODTOSHOW
Throughout this document, we will use a few terms to describe various products and roles. All of the text, data, information, software, graphics, photographs and more that we and our affiliates may make available to you, plus our websites and any services, plug-ins, software, or applications that we may provide all together constitute the GoodToShow “ Website ”. GoodToShow “ Clients ” are the people who have created a GoodToShow account (often a REALTOR®), and GoodToShow “ Finders ” are people who have scheduled a property viewing but may or may not have registered with GoodToShow (often a REALTOR®). A GoodToShow “ Vendor ” is a person who accessing the Services, likely providing viewing availability for a property, but may or may not be a GoodToShow Client or GoodToShow Finder (usually a property owner). “ Users ” are Clients, Finders, Vendors, and Authorized Users.
Any terms defined in the Terms of Use or End User License Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy are hereby adopted by reference in this Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information about you directly from you and automatically through your use of our Website. We may combine information automatically collected with other information that we have collected about you including from publicly available sources.
In order to help you protect yourself and your information, we encourage you to provide only that information that is necessary for using our Website such as: Property Address, Default Viewing Times, Property Notes, Property Status (e.g. conditionally sold, vacant), Phone Number, Notification Preference, Brokerage. For example, to schedule a property viewing you may only need to provide us with a name, email address, phone number, date(s), and time(s).
GoodToShow is not directed to children under thirteen (13) years of age and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will promptly delete such Personal Information from our systems.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE VOLUNTARILY
GoodToShow collects the following information, either directly from GoodToShow Users or through third-parties regarding Users.
PROPERTY VIEWING INFORMATION
A GoodToShow User may voluntarily give us certain information. This can include names, email addresses, and phone numbers; email addresses of other people; the address of the property; and any other information provided to us or as required by the GoodToShow User upon scheduling, pursuant to the GoodToShow Terms of Use.
CALENDAR INFORMATION
A GoodToShow User may connect their calendar with GoodToShow. Our calendar integration only checks the duration and free/busy status of the events in your calendar so that we don’t book you when you’re busy.
BILLING INFORMATION
If you purchased a version of GoodToShow, our third-party payment processors will collect and store your billing address and credit card information. We store the last four digits of your credit card number, card type, and the expiration date.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Like many websites, we and our Service Providers use Cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device subject to your opt-out preferences (see Your Rights and Choices section below). Using these technologies helps us customize your experience with our Website, improve your experience, and tailor marketing messages. Here are some of the types of information we collect:
LOG & DEVICE DATA
When you use GoodToShow, our servers automatically record information (“ log data ”), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website. This log data may include the web address you came from or are going to, your device model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile network carrier, and time zone or location. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or PC, or an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
COOKIE DATA
Depending on how you’re accessing our services and subject to your opt-out preferences, we may use “ Cookies ” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our Website, unique to your GoodToShow account or your browser) or similar technologies to record log data. When we use Cookies, we may use ‘session’ Cookies (that last until you close your browser) or ‘persistent’ Cookies (that last until you or your browser deletes them). For example, we may use Cookies to keep you logged into GoodToShow. Some of the Cookies we use are associated with your GoodToShow account (including personal information about you, such as the email address you gave us), and other Cookies are not.
OTHER WEB SITE ANALYTICS SERVICES
Subject to your opt-out preferences (see ‘Your Rights and Choices’ below), we use third-party Service Providers such as Google Analytics to provide certain analytics and User interactions services to GoodToShow in connection with our operation of our Website, including the collection and tracking of certain data and information regarding the characteristics and activities of visitors to GoodToShow. You may opt-out of relevant cookies using opt-out features on their respective websites.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use information that we collect about you, including Personal Data, to:
PROVIDE THE GOODTOSHOW SERVICE
We will use your information to provide our Website to you; including facilitating scheduling; managing your account; responding to your inquiries; and for other customer service and support purposes. We use the payment information you provide to us in order to alert you of past, current, and upcoming charges, to allow us to present the billing history to you on your billing page in the Website, and to perform internal financial processes, such as looking at the status of a credit card charge. In the event of a credit card dispute, we also share account information with your bank to verify the legitimacy of a charge.
UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE OUR PRODUCTS
We will perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others. We do this to help make our products better and to develop new products.
COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
Service-Related Communications
We may send you service and administrative emails to ensure the service is working properly. We will also communicate with you regarding your calendar appointments. These messages are considered part of the service and you may not opt out of these messages.
Promotional
Subject to your opt-out preference, we may send you emails about new product features or other news about GoodToShow or on topics we think would be relevant to you. You may opt out of receiving these communications at any time. Visit the ‘Your Rights and Choices’ section below. For GoodToShow Finders, please be assured that we do not use the email addresses or telephone number that you enter to schedule a property viewing to send any type of direct marketing.
Responding To Your Requests
We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments.
Administrative
We may contact you to inform you about changes in your services, our service offering and other important service-related notices, such as changes to the Policy or about security or fraud notices.
Protecting Rights and Interests
We will use your information to protect our rights and interests as well as the rights and interests of our Users and any other person, as well as to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Use.
Legal Compliance
We may use your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including complying with requests from law enforcement or other governmental authorities, or in legal proceedings involving GoodToShow.
Other
We also may use your information to manage our business or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection subject to your consent.
WITH WHOM WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell your information to any third parties or disclose it in exchange for money or other valuable consideration. We do not share your Personal Data with others except as indicated within this Policy, or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Data shared.
We will never use Finder or Vendor data to send direct marketing via emails, SMS, physical mailings, or other similar communication channels to advertise or promote the use of our product and services or those of a third-party.
We may share information we collect about you, including Personal Data, in the following ways:
With Third-Party Service Providers, Agents, Contractors, or Government Entities
We use other companies, agents or contractors (“ Service Providers ”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with providing services to you:
We may engage Service Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods. We may also engage Service Providers to provide services such as monitoring and developing GoodToShow services; aiding in communications, infrastructure, and IT services; customer service; debt collection; analyzing and enhancing data. These Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information in order to provide these functions. In addition, some of the above-listed types of information that we request may be collected by third-party Service Providers on our behalf.
We may share information with Service Providers and government entities for legal, security, and safety purposes. This includes sharing information in order to enforce policies or contracts, address security breaches, and assist in the investigation of fraud, security issues, or other concerns.
We require Service Providers to agree to take reasonable steps to keep the Personal Data that we provide to them secure. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your Personal Data except in connection with providing their services.
Affiliates
We may disclose information to current or future affiliates or subsidiaries for research, marketing, and other purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may share your data if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal, or governmental request; to respond to a subpoena, court order, warrant, or other legal process; to enforce applicable Terms of Use or this Policy, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or GoodToShow; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address, security or technical issues, illegal, or suspected illegal activities (including fraud); or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved, as part of a judicial or regulatory proceeding.
If you are using GoodToShow as a paid member of an organization or using your organization’s email domain (thereby representing yourself as a member of the organization), we may share your email address and plan information with an authorized agent of your company upon request in order for them to administer the account for the company.
YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Account
In order to keep your Personal Data accurate and complete, you can log in to review and update your account information, including contact and billing information, via your account settings page. You may also contact us to request information about the personal data we have collected from you and to request the correction, modification or deletion of such Personal Data. We will do our best to honor your requests subject to any legal and contractual obligations. If you would like to make a request, cancel your account or request we delete or no longer use your account information to provide you our Website, contact us at contact@goodtoshow.ca or the address set forth at the end of this Policy. Subject to applicable law, we will retain and use your account information only as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional emails from us, you may opt out at any time by following the opt-out link contained in the email itself. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) days to process your request. Please also note that if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may continue to send to you service-related emails which are not available for opt-out. If you do not wish to receive any service-related emails from us, you have the option to delete your account.
Cookies
You may also refrain from providing or may withdraw your consent for Cookies via your browser settings. Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all Cookies, to notify you when a Cookie is issued, or to not receive Cookies at any time. Please keep in mind that Cookies are required to authenticate GoodToShow Users as well as perform some actions within GoodToShow (such as to pay for an event as an Invitee via GoodToShow), so in order to use the Website, some Cookies are often required. You may also manage the use of targeting, performance, and functional cookies on this website by clicking the Cookie Settings link located on the footer of this page.
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS
Subject to local law, you may have additional rights under the laws of your jurisdiction regarding your personal data, such as the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
SECURITY AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION
We have taken reasonable steps to help protect the personal information we collect.
GoodToShow takes the security of your personal data very seriously. We work hard to protect the personal data that you provide from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, or disclosure. Given the nature of communications and information processing technology, there is no guarantee that personal data will be absolutely safe from access, alteration, or destruction by a breach of any of our physical, technical, and managerial safeguards.
You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your device and account by, among other things, choosing a unique and complex password that nobody else knows or can easily guess and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
We retain the personal data we collect for so long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data was collected, to perform our contractual and legal obligations, and for any applicable statute of limitations periods for the purposes of bringing and defending claims.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites and applications. Subject to your opt-out preferences (see ‘Your Rights and Choices’), we may also use third-party advertisers, ad networks, and other advertising, marketing, and promotional companies, to serve advertisements on our Website. Any access to and use of such linked websites and applications is not governed by this Policy but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We do not endorse these parties, their content, or any products and services they offer, and we do not endorse these parties, their content, or any products and services they offer, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites or applications.
USERS OUTSIDE CANADA
If you are an individual located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, the United States or another jurisdiction outside of Canada with laws and regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from Canadian laws, please be aware that information we collect (including through the use of methods such as Cookies and other web technologies) will be processed and stored in Canada or in other countries where we or our third-party Service Providers have operations. By submitting your personal data to GoodToShow and using GoodToShow, you expressly consent to have your personal data transferred to, processed, and stored in Canada or another jurisdiction which may not offer the same level of privacy protection as those in the country where you reside or are a citizen.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Details regarding GoodToShow’s dispute resolution process are available in the GoodToShow Terms of Use.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. This Policy may change if there is a material change to the way information is handled at GoodToShow, or to clarify our Policy or adjust clerical errors. If any changes are made, we’ll post them on this page, so please be sure to check back periodically. If you continue to use GoodToShow after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised Policy.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, or otherwise please contact us at contact@goodtoshow.ca.