Learn how we safeguard your information online
www.colliers-residential.bg is owned and operated by COLLIERS International EOOD, UIC 121047004, with a seat and registered address: Sofia 1113, 73 Tsarigradsko shose Blvd., fl. 8, apt. 15 (hereinafter referred to as Colliers). For contact with Colliers regarding personal data questions, please refer to item 10 below.
In using the varied features of this website, you may occasionally provide personal information, such as your name, your contact information, or other information about yourself by which others may identify you (hereinafter “Personal Information”), to Colliers, our service providers, or other businesses which you may contact while visiting our site. Colliers and these other entities may use this information and other technical information about your use of this website to tailor their presentations to you, to facilitate your movement through this website, or communicate separately with you (subject to any applicable local laws relating to such communications).
The following describes how we are using the information that you provide to us.
1. What Personal Information does www.colliers-residential.bg collect from you?
www.colliers-residential.bg collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site.
Some Personal Information is gathered when you sign up for our newsletter, enter a site feedback form, or complete a client satisfaction survey. During the on-line registration process, for example, www.colliers-residential.bg may ask for your name, email address, telephone number, postal code, occupation, industry information and professional interests. The more Personal information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to assist you with your real estate needs.
2. What are cookies and how does www.colliers-residential.bg use them?
As part of offering customized and personalized on-line services, www.colliers-residential.bg uses cookies to store information. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow www.colliers-residential.bg to provide you with a more personalized experience when you visit our sites, to customize the information that you receive as part of the monthly newsletter and to be able to contact you when we have properties or information that you have requested.
Types of cookies we use:
Mandatory cookies
These cookies are necessary for the proper operation of the website. For example, with these cookies we show you the information on our site in the correct language.
Analytical cookies
Thanks to these cookies, we monitor the traffic to our site and we can analyze how easily our customers work with it (Google Analytics cookies). These cookies do not give us any information about your personal data. They show us which pages of our site you have viewed, whether you have visited our site via a mobile or desktop device and other anonymous data. For Google Analytics, we also use IP anonymization using _anonymizelp.
Functional cookies
These cookies allow you to use the full functionality of our site, watch videos on it, chat with us, as well as remember the preferred language in which to load the information on our site.
Precise targeting cookies
These cookies contain information about how you used our site and can be triggered by our advertising partners. They do not store personal information. Thanks to them, you will not be shown information that is irrelevant to you. These are dynamic cookies on Facebook, Google, Adform, Adwise and others.
Cookies from www.colliers-residential.bg can only be read by www.colliers-residential.bg. And, if you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you will still be able to access most of the areas on this website. However, please note that if you disable all cookies using your browser certain features of the website may not be available.
3. How does www.colliers-residential.bg use Personal Information?
Colliers will only process your Personal Information where in its legitimate interest or where necessary where it has obtained your consent for the purposes described below. www.colliers-residential.bg‘s primary goal in collecting Personal Information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalized services, interactive communications, online transactions and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide such services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing little about you, www.colliers-residential.bg is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you. www.colliers-residential.bg may conduct research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this in order to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Colliers may share aggregated user data with advertisers or business partners. However, Colliers will never intentionally provide any of your Personal Information to other companies or individuals without first notifying you and will take all reasonable steps to protect such Personal Information from perpetrators of fraud or internet piracy.
4. Who is collecting information?
When you are on a www.colliers-residential.bg site and are asked for Personal Information, you are sharing that information with www.colliers-residential.bg alone unless it is specifically stated otherwise.
5. Does www.colliers-residential.bg share my information with outsiders?
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from Third Parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these Third Parties, www.colliers-residential.bg will share your name and email address with them.
We highlight that Colliers may share your Personal Information with its subsidiaries or affiliates – entities of Colliers International Group Inc. from time to time, including to entities located outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) who do not provide a similar or adequate level of protection to that provided by countries in the EEA. By submitting your Personal Information to www.colliers-residential.bg, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to such entities and other recipients as described in this Privacy Notice that are located in countries outside of the EEA. You may withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
6. What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?
www.colliers-residential.bg may, from time to time, send you an e-mail regarding our services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from www.colliers-residential.bg, we may occasionally send you direct mail about services which we feel may be of interest to you. Only www.colliers-residential.bg (or agents working on behalf of www.colliers-residential.bg under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. At any time you can easily edit your www.colliers-residential.bg account information to no longer receive such offers and mailings.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. As mentioned earlier, by modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is about to be set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to edit your newsletter profile. So, as mentioned earlier, if you wish to edit your newsletter profile, make sure that you have not configured your browser so as to reject all cookies.
7. How does www.colliers-residential.bg protect my personal and business-related information?
Keeping your information private is vitally important to us. As with all information, www.colliers-residential.bg will never rent or sell your personal and business-related information to Third Parties without your express permission.
8. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your www.colliers-residential.bg Profile Information are accessed by the cookies on your computer so that only you should have access to this Profile Information. You may edit your www.colliers-residential.bg Profile Information by logging on to the www.colliers-residential.bg website from your computer.
We recommend that you sign out of your www.colliers-residential.bg account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This will help ensure that others cannot access your Personal Information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or an Internet cafe.
The entities of Colliers International Group Inc. have international sites and users all over the world. When you give www.colliers-residential.bg Personal Information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country or jurisdiction where you originally entered the information. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever www.colliers-residential.bg handles Personal Information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, www.colliers-residential.bg takes steps, consistent with generally acceptable industry standards, including technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us from loss, misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. This ensures that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Use Agreement and this Privacy Policy.
www.colliers-residential.bg will retain any personal information provided in accordance with any statutory periods that may apply or for so long as required to keep such data for the applicable purpose it is being used for and until such time as the limitation period for any potential legal claims may expire.
9. What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you disclose Personal Information online – for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post Personal Information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Please remember that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, www.colliers-residential.bg, Colliers and the entities of Colliers International Group Inc. cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Individuals in Europe have certain data subject rights as per Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation). For more information regarding the rights under the Regulation, please refer to Notification on data processing (it. 8 и it. 9), published on www.colliers-residential.bg.
10. Additional Information
For any questions regarding this statement, please contact us at bulgaria@colliers.com or at the address for correspondence: Sofia 1784, 115K Tsarigradsko shose Blvd., European Trade Centre, Build. B, floor 7, tel. 02/ 9769976.
