Our Site
Agentsmith.ca is run by Kelly Smith REALTOR® and maintained by her husband Justin Smith (me). Our website address is https://agentsmith.ca. We are committed to respecting the privacy of our visitors.
Automatically Collected Information
The nature of the internet is such that web servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses are unique numbers assigned by Internet Service Providers (ISP) to all devices used to access the Internet. Similar to other websites, this site’s web server is also known to log the time that the site is accessed, and which sections (i.e., pages and posts) were visited. This information is utilized by Agentsmith.ca solely for website development purposes and is considered non-identifiable information in the absence of other specifying information that would have to be voluntarily provided by you. In fact, on our user end of the Jetpack analytics tool which conveys this information, we do not even readily see the IP addresses of visitors or the exact time they visited, but merely a count of the number of page views and unique visitors our site receives on a daily basis.
We do not automatically gather any other specific information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, or home address. We would obtain this type of information only if you supply it to us, for example, by email or by filling in buyer/seller consultation or contact forms.
Communicating with Agentsmith.ca and Kelly Smith REALTOR®
If you choose to send us an email or complete buyer/seller consultation or contact forms online, your personal information is used by Kelly Smith in order to respond to your inquiry, and possibly to follow-up with you again at a later time unless you opt out or express no interest in further communication. Your information may also be seen by Justin Smith in the maintenance and administration of the Agentsmith.ca website and email account. The information you provide will not be shared with or used by any other people, businesses, groups, or institutions.
In interacting with Kelly Smith through the scope of this website’s contact or buyer/seller consultation forms, it is never necessary for you to send sensitive personal information, such as your Social Insurance Number or your date of birth, nor would we ever recommend you do so through non-secure electronic means.
Cookies
A digital marker is a resource created by the visitors’ browser in order to remember certain pieces of information for the web server to reference during the same or subsequent visit to the website. Examples of digital markers are “cookies”. Some examples of what digital markers do are as follows:
- they allow a website to recognize a previous visit each time the visitor accesses the site;
- they track what information is viewed on a site which helps website administrators ensure visitors find what they are looking for.
Agentsmith.ca uses digital markers like cookies on certain portions of the website. During your on-line visit, your browser exchanges data with our web server. The digital markers used do not allow us to identify individuals.
You may adjust your browser settings to reject digital markers, including cookies, if you so choose. However, it may affect your ability to interact with our website.
Posts and Pages
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Google Maps API
On the “Less Stress, More Success” Welcome homepage of our website is a map outlining the Halifax Regional Municipality. This map data is provided directly by Google LLC using the Google Maps API. Google’s privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/.