This website is operated by Finders TMI. All references to our, us, or we within this policy are deemed to refer to Finders TMI, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or associates, as appropriate. We understand and respect your concerns about privacy and security, and endeavor to protect your personal privacy, while providing a convenient and safe online experience. This Privacy Notice is incorporated into, and part of the Terms and Conditions of Use that govern your use of www.finders.co.il in general. We may need to update this Privacy Notice from time to time, and we reserve the right to do so at our sole discretion and without notice. We recommend that you check this page regularly to ensure that you have read the most recent version.

By providing your personal information to us, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Notice and agree that we may collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described within this Notice. If you do not agree to this Notice, please do not provide your personal details to us. We will use your information only for the purposes set for the below.

Personal Information

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, including name address, email address, telephone number, and other identifying information as defined by applicable law. It is your choice to provide us with personal information. When you register for an Account, you will be asked to provide us with certain personal information, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, information regarding the type, price, location and features of a specific or desired property, and/or other personal information. You may also voluntarily provide us personal information if you email us, inquire about a property, call us, and/or otherwise respond to a request from us for information.

We may use personal information collected from you to provide specific services that you request, as well as to provide additional services that may be of interest to you. We may also automatically collect certain information concerning your visit to the Site, such as you Internet Protocol address and browser information, which will allow us to track your use of the Site.

Subject to the terms of this Policy, you give us permission to use personal information in any manner we desire. Some examples of how we may use personal information include without limitation, contacting you, identifying your search preferences, and/or to respond to your comments and inquiries.

We may use a third party to help us gather and analyze information regarding your use of the Site. We may also consult with a third party in order to improve or enhance Site performance and/or to help us evaluate information. We may combine information that you provide or that we collect with other publicly available information, in order to maintain the accuracy of our records.

We reserve the right to retain any personally identifiable information reasonably necessary to appropriately analyze or document our business activities and for archive and retention purposes. We will store personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary for any reason described herein.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We will not sell personal information to unaffiliated third parties for commercial use. However, we may share personal information with third parties as set forth below:

1. One or more of our real estate brokers, agents, and/or affiliates in order to service you.
2. Our associates, partners, or related companies in the real estate industry, such as a real estate management company, if we believe it may interest or be of service to you.
3. Third parties who perform services for us or with whom we contract for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site, conduct customer research, manage and analyze data, send emails, and/or print or send mailings. These third-party service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose your personal information for their own or any others’ marketing purposes.
4. When Client provides (“refers”) a Lead to Localize that includes a telephone number, Client represents, covenants, and warrants that Client or a third party has obtained from the owner of the telephone number a valid prior express written consent to be called and texted by or on behalf of Client under all applicable telemarketing laws such as a signature agreeing that “I voluntarily consent to receive text messages and calls from or on behalf of Client and its service providers at my telephone number, including messages and calls sent or initiated through automated means. I understand that these communications may include marketing and related content and that consent is not a condition of any purchase.” Client should consult with its own counsel about the exact requirements and language necessary for valid consent and agrees that the above language is not necessarily legally sufficient. If the owner of a telephone number or the customary user of a telephone number requests that calls or texts no longer be sent to the phone number, Client agrees to comply and to notify Localize immediately.
5. Owners and sponsors of listings on our Site or of other properties who may seek to sell or lease their properties through us.
6. A person or entity, including our affiliates, in the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, financing, reorganization, or liquidation whereby we transfer, sell, or assign to such third-party information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us.
7. Third parties who, in our reasonable judgment, are providing or seeking the information as your authorized or appointed legal agent; and
8. Law enforcement, governmental or regulatory agencies, or other third parties in order to comply with applicable law, or where we believe such action is necessary in order to comply with applicable law, or to detect, protect, or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud, or other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, or to audit compliance with our corporate policies, procedures, legal, or contractual obligations

Cookies

Like many other websites, we and some of our service providers use “cookies” to help us gather and store information about visitors to our websites. Such information is then used to improve the content and offering of the Site and to personalize a user’s experience on the Site.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies allow a website to recognize a user’s device, so a user can navigate between pages efficiently and will be shown online advertisements that are more relevant to the user’s interest. This is not an exhaustive list of uses of cookies. For more detailed information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Most Web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can, however, set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. In addition, cookies can be easily and safely deleted from your system and managed, in general. See your browser’s help section for instructions. Should you choose to disable any cookies associated with the Site, you will not be able to take full advantage of all the Site’s features, but you should be able to navigate the Site without difficulty

Third Party Websites

The site may contain links, references, and content from other websites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have limited or no control over these websites and our Privacy Notice does not apply to these sites. We encourage you to read the Privacy Notice and terms and conditions of any linked, referenced, or interfacing websites you enter.

Security

We take security seriously and take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. However, we have no control over the privacy of any communication while it is in transit to us. We therefore recommend that you not include confidential, proprietary, or sensitive information in any such communications.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If such a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your email address, we may notify you by email.

You are reminded that, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions for this website, which include this Privacy, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you are responsible for any activity under your account and password. It is your sole responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your password, control access to and use of your account, and notify us when you wish to cancel your account. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this obligation.

Unsubscribe, access, questions and further information

At your request and where the law requires us to do so, if you contact us using the unsubscribe details provided below we will confirm what personal information we hold about you, update your information, remove your information, fulfill specific opt-out requests (including requests where you previously opted in with respect to the use of your personal information), and/or correct any inaccuracies in such personal information.

If you would like to unsubscribe from Finders TMI, you may do so by sending an email to office@finders.co.il with a request to unsubscribe. Once your request has been processed, you will not receive anything further from us, unless you open a new account, inquire about a property, contact us or otherwise subsequently sign up to receive newsletters, emails or personalized online advertisements, you will not receive anything further from us.
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if you wish to update the personal information you have provided to us, you may do so by emailing us at office@finders.co.il

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save the information gathered about you for as long as needed for the service we offer to you or other obligations deriving from law, taken always account the time limits as set below.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

• the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
• the further Processing would not harm your interests and
• there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Our processing partners:

• Rezora

Our business partners:

• Sotheby’s Realty International

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it. Third parties will access your data only to perform tasks on our behalf in compliance with this Privacy Policy and will remain responsible for their handling of your data as per our instructions.

Where we process and store your Personal Data

Our servers are based in the European Economic Area (EEA). When we use your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy, this means that your personal data may be transferred to, processed and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When we do this, we make sure that appropriate steps are taken to protect your personal data and your rights.

All data you provide to us is stored on our computers and /or on third parties’ secure servers who provide data hosting services to us under our control.

Details are also stored locally on the devices you use to access the Services. All information you provide to us is stored on our computers, in a storage cloud and / or on third party servers that provide us with data server services under our control. The company guarantees that it takes the appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect your data.

How long can we hold your personal data

Your Personal Data will be retained until it is deleted, and for a maximum period of 4 (four) years, starting from the date of last access by the user to our site, whichever later. The retention period of your personal data is always in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the domestic legislation. If you delete your account, your Personal Data will also be deleted. You can also use the Privacy Tools or send a written request from you to the e-mail address info@sothebysrealty.gr, if so required, we will delete or destroy any personal data provided to us.But please note: (1) there may be some latency in deleting this data from our servers and back-up storage; and (2) we may retain some necessary data to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. Keep in mind that we are in line with the Data Minimization Principal and thus we require, process and store the minimum personal data possible to uninterruptedly provide our services. You may request restriction to your data processing or revocation to email address as above.

Marketing opt-in and ot-out provisions

We offer you the possibility to receive news and newsletters for services we offer through our website for which, depending on your preferences, we will communicate with you by email. Our website is in full compliance with the current legislation and the personal data regulations and is in line with a strict opt-in policy with reference to these updates, when receiving explicit consents by clicking on the box indicated in our website.

You have the right to change your mind at any time and to require that we do not use your personal data for marketing purposes anymore. In any event, we will offer you the opportunity to unsubscribe from any service or update your subscription. Whenever you receive direct marketing from us, we will tell you how to unsubscribe. Alternatively you can change your marketing preferences as far as advertising / promotional actions are concerned by sending us an e-mail to info@sothebysrealty.gr.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret. If the password has been stolen or might otherwise has been subject to misuse, it is your responsibility to notify us immediately for further action.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
• Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
• Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

Supervisory Authority
Email: complaints@dpa.gr
Phone: +30 210 6475 600

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy. If we are participating in a reorganization, merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your data may be transferred as part of that deal. We will notify you (for example, via email) of any such deal and outline your choices as appropriate. You may be required to update your consents in the context of our capabilities and the way we process your personal data.

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time and will post the most current version on our website. Any amendment in this Privacy Policy will be valid once the amended Privacy Policy is uploaded on the website. We recommend you to regularly visit our website’s Privacy Policy in order to be informed about all the amendments that have been made.

If a revision meaningfully reduces or alters your rights, we will notify you, and you might be required to update your consents in the context of our capabilities and the way we process your personal data.

Last modification was made on 01.11.2024