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GDPR Compliance

Last Updated: April 30, 2025

1. Introduction to GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

At RealEstateAbroad.com, we are committed to ensuring the protection and security of your personal data in compliance with GDPR requirements. This page outlines how we comply with GDPR and what rights you have regarding your personal data.

2. Our Role Under GDPR

Under GDPR, RealEstateAbroad.com acts as a "Data Controller" for the personal data we collect from you. This means we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal data.

In some cases, we may also act as a "Data Processor" when we process data on behalf of another Data Controller, such as property developers or real estate agencies that list properties on our platform.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Your Data

Under GDPR, we process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
  • Contract: The processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
  • Legal Obligation: The processing is necessary for us to comply with the law.
  • Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

4. Your Rights Under GDPR

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • Rights Related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

5. How to Exercise Your Rights

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below. We will respond to your request within one month.

In order to verify your identity, we may ask you to provide additional information to confirm you are who you say you are. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

6. International Data Transfers

We may transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
  • Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

7. Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our DPO using the details set out below.

8. Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues in your country. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our GDPR compliance or wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at:

Data Protection Officer: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Postal address: RealEstateAbroad.com, 123 Global Avenue, Suite 456, London, UK