Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of how LISTINGS SYNC PTE LTD manages personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("the Act"). Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy so that you know and understand the purposes for which we collect, use and disclose your Personal Data.

By interacting with us, submitting information to us or signing up for any promotions or services offered by us, you agree and consent to LISTINGS SYNC PTE LTD, its related corporations and affiliates, (collectively referred to herein as "listings.sg", "us", "we" or "our"), as well as our respective representatives collecting, using, disclosing and sharing amongst themselves your Personal Data, and disclosing such Personal Data to listings.sg's authorised service providers and relevant third parties in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy supplements but does not supersede nor replace any other consents you may have previously provided to listings.sg nor does it affect any rights which listings.sg may have at law in connection with the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data. Listings.sg may from time to time update this Privacy Policy to ensure that this Privacy Policy is consistent with our future developments, industry trends and/or any changes in legal or regulatory requirements. Subject to your rights at law, you agree to be bound by the prevailing terms of the Privacy Policy as updated from time to time on our websites. Please check regularly for updated information on the handling of your Personal Data.

For avoidance of doubt, this Privacy Policy forms a part of the Website Terms and Conditions ('Website Conditions'). In the event of any conflict, inconsistency or conflict between this Privacy Policy and the Website Conditions, the Privacy Policy shall prevail. All defined terms contained in the Website Conditions shall apply to this Privacy Policy unless otherwise specifically stated.

Your Personal Data

In this Privacy Policy, "Personal Data" refers to any data or information about you from which you can be identified either (a) from that data; or (b) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access. Examples of such Personal Data which you may provide to us include (depending on the nature of your interaction with us):

  • your name, NRIC, passport or other identification number, telephone number(s), mailing address, email address and any other information relating to you which you have provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or in other forms of interaction with you;
  • information about your use of listings.sg's website and services, including cookies, IP address, subscription account details and membership details, but only to the extent that listings.sg may identify you from such information;
  • your employment history, education background, and income levels;
  • your payment related information, such as your bank account or credit card information, and your credit history; and
  • details about your own home or other properties that you own, rent or may be interested in;
  • information about your usage of and interaction with our website and/or services including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from our website.

CEA Salespersons and B2B Information

Where the Customer is a CEA (Council for Estate Agencies) licensed salesperson or where CEA salespersons are operating under the Customer's account, such arrangements are considered business-to-business (B2B) relationships. The Customer acknowledges and agrees that:

  • Information relating to CEA salespersons, including but not limited to their names, license numbers, contact details, and professional credentials, are considered public information as they are licensed professionals operating in the real estate industry;
  • Such public information may be displayed, shared, or distributed through our Services as part of property listings, marketing materials, and other business-related communications;
  • The collection, use, and disclosure of such public information is necessary for the proper conduct of real estate business and compliance with CEA regulations and industry standards;
  • CEA salespersons operating under Customer accounts are deemed to have consented to such use of their public professional information for business purposes related to our Services.

Collection of Personal Data

Generally, listings.sg collects your Personal Data in the following ways:

  • when you submit forms relating to any of our products or services;
  • you register for or use any of our services on websites owned or operated by us or when you register as a member of websites owned and/or operated by us, or use services on such websites;
  • you interact with our customer service officers or sales teams, whether that be by email, telephone or face to face;
  • you use some of our services, e.g. our subscription service;
  • you establish any online accounts with us;
  • you request that we contact you;
  • you are contacted by, and respond to, our marketing representatives and agents;
  • you respond to our request for additional Personal Data;
  • you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list;
  • you respond to our promotions and other initiatives;
  • you submit a job application;
  • you choose to carry out transactions with us on or in relation to our Websites or Apps;
  • you complete other forms or transactions, such as calculators, or applications for products or services;
  • you correspond with a real estate professional (such as a real estate agent or broker, mortgage lender or loan officer, property manager, investor, homebuilder, or others) via the Services;
  • we receive references from business partners and third parties, for example, where you have been referred by them;
  • when you submit your Personal Data to us for any other reason.

When you browse our website, you generally do so anonymously but please see the section below on cookies.

You may also provide information about a third party through the Services, for example, if you choose to share a real estate listing with a friend or family member via SMS, WhatsApp, email or other sharing services.

If you provide us with any Personal Data relating to a third party (e.g. information of spouse, children, parents, employees and/or authorised representatives), by submitting such information to us, you represent to us that you have obtained the consent of the third party to you providing us with their Personal Data for the respective purposes.

You should ensure that all Personal Data submitted to us is complete, accurate, true and correct. Failure on your part to do so may result in our inability to provide you with products and services you have requested.

Purposes for the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Generally, listings.sg collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • responding to your queries and requests and responding to complaints;
  • managing the infrastructure and business operations of listings.sg and complying with internal policies and procedures;
  • facilitating business asset transactions (which may extend to any merger, acquisition or asset sale);
  • matching any Personal Data held which relates to you for any of the purposes listed herein;
  • verifying your identity;
  • preventing, detecting and investigating crime, including fraud and money-laundering, and analyzing and managing other commercial risks;
  • protecting and enforcing our contractual and legal rights and obligations;
  • conducting audits, reviews and analysis of our internal processes, action planning and managing commercial risks;
  • preventing, detecting and investigating crime and managing the safety and security of our premises and services (including but not limited to carrying out CCTV surveillance and conducting security clearances);
  • compliance with any applicable rules, laws and regulations, codes of practice or guidelines or to assist in law enforcement and investigations by relevant authorities; and/or
  • any other purpose relating to any of the above.

In addition, listings.sg may collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes, depending on the nature of our relationship with you:

If you have a subscription or membership account with us:

  • to process your application for Online Subscription Services;
  • to maintain your account with us;
  • to verify and process your personal particulars and payments in relation to provision of Online Subscription Service to you;
  • to provide you with the goods and services which you have signed up for;
  • sending you general commercial communications via any communication channel, not limited to email, voice call, SMS and app notifications;
  • communicating with you to inform you of changes and development to listings.sg policies, terms and conditions and other administrative information, including for the purposes of servicing you in relation to products and services offered to you;
  • sending your marketing information about our goods or services including notifying you of our marketing events, initiatives and promotions, lucky draws, membership and rewards schemes and other promotions;
  • resolving complaints and handling requests and enquiries;
  • conducting market research for statistical, profiling and statistical analysis for the improvement of services provided to you; and
  • the processing of your Personal Data in relation to any of the purposes stated above.

If you use download or use any of our Apps:

  • where the App includes App Subscription Services, to process your application for these services;
  • to maintain your account with us and to ensure your access of the App is within the scope of your subscription;
  • to verify and process your personal particulars and payments in relation to provision of goods and services connected to the App;
  • to provide you with the goods and services which you have signed up for and to push articles to you which may be relevant to you;
  • sending you general commercial communications via any communication channel, not limited to email, voice call, SMS and app notifications;
  • communicating with you to inform you of changes and development to listings.sg policies, terms and conditions and other administrative information, including for the purposes of servicing you in relation to products and services offered to you;
  • resolving complaints and handling requests and enquiries;
  • conducting market research for statistical, profiling and statistical analysis for the improvement of services provided to you; and
  • the processing of your Personal Data in relation to any of the purposes stated above.

If you are a prospective tenant or a tenant:

  • conducting appropriate due diligence checks to ensure suitability of tenant;
  • preparation of documentation, including letters of offer, other relevant leasing documentation and applications for any relevant licences which may be required; and
  • any other purpose directly relating to any of the above.

If you are a prospective seller or a seller:

  • conducting appropriate due diligence checks to ensure property ownership;
  • preparation of documentation, including letters of offer, other relevant marketing documentation and applications for any relevant licences which may be required; and
  • any other purpose directly relating to any of the above.

If you are a prospective buyer or a buyer:

  • conducting appropriate due diligence checks to ensure suitability of buyer;
  • preparation of documentation, including letters of offer, other relevant purchase documentation and applications for any relevant licences which may be required; and
  • any other purpose directly relating to any of the above.

If you submit an application to us as a candidate for employment or an internship:

  • processing your application including pre-recruitment checks;
  • providing or obtaining employee references or other references where relevant for background screening/vetting;
  • collecting information about your suitability for the position applied for;
  • organising training and staff development programs;
  • assessing your performance;
  • administering benefits and payroll processing;
  • conducting appropriate due diligence checks to ensure suitability of tenant;
  • communicating with you as required by listings.sg to comply with its policies and processes, including for business continuity purposes; and
  • any other purposes relating to the aforesaid.

In addition, where permitted under the Act, listings.sg may also collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes (which we may describe in our documents and agreements as "Additional Purposes" for the handling of Personal Data):

  • providing services, products and benefits to you, including promotions, loyalty and reward programmes;
  • matching Personal Data with other data collected for other purposes and from other sources (including third parties) in connection with the provision or offering of products and services, whether by listings.sg or other third parties;
  • administering contests, competitions and conducting lucky draws, including, where necessary, in order to announce the results of these contests, competitions and lucky draws and identify and contact the winners, and in order to publicise and conduct marketing strictly related to these contests, competitions and lucky draws;
  • sending you details of products, services, special offers and rewards, either to our customers generally, or of particular products and services which may be of interest to you; and
  • conducting market research, understanding and determining customer location, preferences and demographics for us to review, develop and improve our products, services and also develop special offers and marketing programmes.

Do Not Call Provisions

If you have provided your Singapore telephone number(s) and have indicated that you consent to receiving marketing or promotional information via your Singapore telephone number(s), then from time to time, listings.sg may contact you using such Singapore telephone number(s) (including via voice calls, sms, fax or other means) even if these Numbers are registered with the Do Not Call Registry, with information about our products and services (including discounts and special offers). You may however advise in writing should you wish not to be contacted by us at your Numbers for such purposes.

In relation to particular products or services or in your interactions with us, we may also have specifically notified you of other purposes for which we collect, use or disclose your Personal Data. If so, then we will collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for these additional purposes as well, unless we have specifically notified you otherwise.

Disclosure of Personal Data

Listings.sg will take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data against unauthorised disclosure. Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, this Personal Data may be disclosed, for the purposes listed above (where applicable), to the following third parties, whether they are located overseas or in Singapore:

  • listings.sg affiliates;
  • agents, contractors or third party service providers who provide operational services to listings.sg, such as telecommunications, information technology, payment, payroll, processing, training, market research, newspaper vendor services, newspaper delivery services, storage, archival or other services to listings.sg;
  • vendors or any third party business partners who offer goods and services or sponsor contests or other promotional programs on listings.sg's sites, whether in conjunction with us or not;
  • external business and charity partners in relation to corporate promotional events;
  • the Credit Bureau, or in the event of default or disputes, any debt collection agencies or dispute resolution centres;
  • any business partner, investor, assignee or transferee (actual or prospective) to facilitate business asset transactions (which may extend to any merger, acquisition or asset sale);
  • anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties;
  • banks, credit card companies and their respective service providers;
  • our professional advisors such as our auditors and lawyers;
  • relevant government regulators or authority or law enforcement agency to comply with any laws or rules and regulations imposed by any governmental authority; and
  • any other party to whom you authorise us to disclose your personal data.

Use of Cookies

When you interact with us on our websites, we may collect or analyse anonymised information from which individuals cannot be identified ("Aggregate Information"), such as number of users and their frequency of use, the number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the website and common entry and exit points into website.

Listings.sg uses "cookies", where a small data file is sent to your browser to store and track Aggregate Information about you when you enter our websites. The cookie is used to track information such as the number of users and their frequency of use, profiles of users and their preferred sites.

Third Party Market Research

Listings.sg may use an independent company (the "Third Party Market Research Company") to measure and analyse the Internet usage across listings.sg web sites. Listings.sg uses the Third Party Market Research Company's services to collect the following core information on the usage of our web sites, including:

  • The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on listings.sg web sites;
  • The number of unique visitors to listings.sg web sites;
  • How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on listings.sg web sites when they do visit; and
  • Common entry and exit points into listings.sg web sites.

This information is aggregated by the Third Party Market Research Company and provided to listings.sg to assist in analysing the usage of listings.sg web sites. Such data is also accessible by media organizations and research companies, for the purpose of conducting industry comparisons with other Internet portals.

Pages on listings.sg web sites may be coded with software which enables the Third Party Market Research Company to track visitors to our web sites.

Should you wish to disable the cookies associated with these technologies, you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. However, you may not be able to enter certain part(s) of our website.

Third-Party Sites

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties, such as our business partners. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our website. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of such third party websites. Some of these third party websites may be co-branded with our logo or trademark, even though they are not operated or maintained by us. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable terms, conditions and policies of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.

Access and Correction of your Personal Data

We store data until it is no longer necessary to provide our services, or until your account is deleted - whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things such as the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal and operational retention needs.

We may also refuse to disclose, delete or amend any Personal Data for the reasons set out in the PDPA.

As far as reasonably possible, we will respond to your request within fourteen (14) working days from the date of receipt of the request. If that is not possible, you will be so notified within fourteen (14) working days from the date of receipt of the request.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Singapore.

Disclaimer

We shall not be liable for any voluntary disclosure or personal data made by you to other users in connection with the use of our Websites or Apps.

Contact Us

Should you require further information about the treatment of your Personal Data by us, please do not hesitate to contact our email at hello@listings.sg