Privacy Policy
Last updated: 22/Dec/2020
Please review our Privacy Policy which, along with the Terms and Conditions, constitutes the Agreement between you and Realbot, which is a division of Real Search Pty Ltd.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and handle any information gathered from users of these Services. By accessing or using the Service, including browsing the site, you expressly consent to the collection, use, storage, processing, and disclosure of your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of this Policy, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Policy shall have the same meaning as defined in the Terms and Conditions.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy contains information about collecting the Personal Data of Customers, Visitors and other data subjects (like Agents or End-users). It includes other information, products and Services offered or performed by Real Search, and the manner of its processing.
We respect the right to privacy of our software users. We take reasonable steps for Visitors and Customers to be familiar with the manner in which rendered accessible information, via the following websites www.realsearch.com.au, www.realbot.com.au, and applications are processed.
Due to the implementation of comprehensive security regulations, Personal Data provided by our Services, websites and application is of the highest security standards. Please immideately notify us at [email protected] should you find cause that this is not the case.
The acceptance of the Terms and Conditions for the use of any Real Search Services, or deciding on using or purchasing any Service offered by Real Search, means accepting Real Search's Privacy Policy.
2. Scope
This Privacy Policy is effective to all information collected by Real Search, from which an individual can be identified (Personal Information/Personal Data). This Privacy Policy also applies to all Personal Data received by Real Search in Australia.
3. Notice
Real Search is responsible for the processing of Personal Data it receives under the Privacy Framework and subsequently transfers to a Third Party Service Provider acting as an agent on its behalf. We comply with the Privacy Principles for all onward transfers of Personal Data from Australia, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose Personal Data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. Please be aware we may disclose Personal Data to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may also disclose Personal Information if it is necessary in order to prevent, investigate or take action regarding illegal activities, or as otherwise required by law.
4. Questions and concerns
If you have any questions or concerns, or if you wish to access, update, amend, correct or delete, any of your Personal Information we store and process, please contact us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use) or by postal mail at:
Real Search, Attn: Privacy Officer Suite 904,
84 Pitt Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000.
5. What information we collect
5.1. Provided data
The scope and purpose of gathering and processing Personal Data and other information by Real Search is:
5.1.1. to provide, maintain and facilitate the Services as well as to ensure safe and guaranteed Service performance, upgrade and improve the functionality of the Services,
5.1.2. to provide Customer with access to its Personal Data and maintain this access via standard API methods for the duration of paid usage of Services (active subscription) as well as after the subscription is expired (inactive subscription), until the Service is fully terminated by a written request (in accordance with the Agreement),
5.1.3. to secure (establish, investigate or defend) Customer’s, as well as Company’s claims that may arise due to the Services,
5.1.4. to stay connected with the Customer to present up-to-date offer of Services and instructions or tips related to the Service.
5.2. Personal Data and other Customers information
Personal Data and other Customers information collected by Real Search is used in order to complete registration (create an account) and at the same time to ensure Customers access to Real Search’s Services.
5.2.1. While registering on one of our websites related to our Services ([www.realsearch.com.au](https://www.realsearch.com.au) and [www.Realbot.com.au](https://www.Realbot.com.au/)), we request that you provide us with such information as first name, last name, company business name, address, website address, e-mail address and credit/payment card information in the event when a Customer continues to use our Services after free of charge trial period. Unless the Customer decides to use our Services after free of charge trial period, credit/payment card information is not required.
We also collect other information provided by the Customer while using our Services. Some of the provided Customers information such as your IP address, domain, browser type, operating system type, etc. may be automatically acquired when a user visits our websites.
5.2.2. When contacting Real Search, the Customer may be requested to render accessible analogical data to those provided while registering on our website. We may also collect information (including Personal Data) provided by you and related to your Agents (people you employee to operate the Service) and End-users Personal Data provided in a Pre-chat survey. We also store your chat content. Please note you are fully responsible for lawfully obtaining such data in accordance with the applicable law, as well as a lawful processing such data to Real Search. Details of your liability for the aforementioned data you can find in Terms and Conditions.
5.2.3. Personal Data provided in connection with the correspondence between the Customer or Visitor and Real Search shall be used strictly to reply to inquiries or to transfer information.
5.2.3.1. We use the information you provide us in order to provide you with customer service, allow you to view moves made by you or your Agents.
5.2.3.2. When using the support section of our sites we may collect your e-mail address, name or openID account for the purpose of allowing contact with our support team. We do it regardless if you are a Visitor or a Customer.
5.2.3.3. When using our Services we may collect device information such as device type, operating system type and application version. We use this information in order to provide an optimized version of our applications for your device type. Please be aware we also collect and process data related to the use of our software and Services by our Customers and their customers. We use such data for statistics purposes. We may use it also to improve our Services or create and improve new services. We collect and process such data collectively and anonymously.
5.2.4. Categories of data subjects. Data subjects include Customer, Customer’s representatives and End-users, as well as employees, Agents, contractors, collaborators, and Customer’s clients. Data subjects may also include individuals attempting to communicate or transfer personal information to Customers. The data subjects exclusively determine the content of data submitted to the Company.
5.2.5. Types of Customer Personal Data. The proceeded personal data includes email address, first name and last name, address, title, contact details, username, chat history, financial information (credit card details, account details, payment information); employment details (employer, job title) and other data in an electronic form provided in the context of the Services.
5.2.6. Consent for processing and transferring Personal Data. The Customer agrees and warrants that the processing, including the transfer of its Personal Data has been and will continue to be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the applicable Data Protection Laws (and, where applicable, has been notified to the relevant authorities of the Member State where the Company is established or has its representative) and does not violate the relevant provisions of that State.
5.2.7. Profiling Personal Data. Please note that by using our Services Customer gives its consent to the profiling of its Personal Data that was given to the Company, for the purpose of proper maintenance and providing the Service and other specified in a Privacy Policy. Customer agrees that the profiling of its data shall serve, in particular, the purpose of providing Customer with content that is accurate and consistent with the scope of the Service. Customer acknowledges that it has the right not to be profiled. In such case the request can be made at any time at [email protected]. Withdrawing the consent is tantamount to the termination of the Agreement.
5.2.8. Return or destruction of Personal Data. At Customer’s election, made by written request to the Company, the Company will, and shall procure that all Sub-processors: 1. return a complete copy of all Customers Personal Data to the Customer, 2. and delete and procure the deletion of the Customers Personal Data Processed by the Company or any Sub-processor. The Company will comply with any such written request within 30 days, unless it is unworkable due to the purposes of processing or due to technical issues.
5.2.9. Retention of Copies. The Company may retain Customer Personal Data to the extent required by applicable Australia law and only to the extent and for such period as required by such laws and always provided that the Company shall ensure the confidentiality of all such Customer Personal Data and shall ensure that such Personal Data is only processed as necessary for the purpose(s) specified in such law requiring its storage and for no other purpose. The Customer agrees that after the termination or expiration of the Agreement its data may be stored as a backup for the time needed to secure (establish, investigate or defend) Customer’s and Company’s claims that may arise due to the performance of the Services (for the time it takes for the claims to be barred).
5.2.10. Data Protection Officer is Rama Dwarapudi. Suite 904, 84 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000, email: [email protected]
5.3. Geo-Location data
Please be aware Real Search may have access to your geo-location data as we collect and process IP address of all devices you use our software on. Collecting and processing your geo-location data refers to mobile devices as well as computers. It happens regardless you are a Visitor or a Customer.
5.4. Communication
We will occasionally send you push notifications in order to make you aware of any outages of Service. You may opt-out of receiving these types of communications by turning off push notifications at the device level. We may also send you some e-mails from our blog. If you wish not to receive such notification you have an option to ‘unsubscribe’ this type of communication anytime. We will also send you notifications related to some important updates of our Services. The purpose of sending you such e-mails or messages is to keep you informed of the latest improvements, features and other developments. From time to time in specific situations we may also send you some other messages, notifications or text messages. Users who leave their contact details while accessing particular sections of our website (such as reports) might receive additional messages not described above.
5.5. Royalty Free Permission
Customer gives Real Search and its affiliates a royalty-free permission to use the Customer’s company name, logos and other identifying information for marketing and promotional purposes in internal or external media (including but not limited to displaying on the Company’s websites) and other purposes connected with presenting up-to-date offers throughout the duration of the Agreement.
5.6. Third Party Data
5.6.1. We allow you to provide us with third party Personal Data. We mean End-users data (your visitors/customers, people who use Services to contact you) and Agents data. The information that we may collect is first name, last name, e-mail address and other contact information. We do it in order to allow you to add Agents (persons you employ while using our software) to your account and provide services to your End-users. We will not use this information for any purpose which is not compliant with our Privacy Policy. Please be aware we process Personal Data of your End-users and Agents. We will not use this data for any purpose which is not compliant with our Privacy Policy. We may also collect other information (e.g., profile picture, network, username, user ID, age range, language, country) depending on your product and your privacy settings. There are other instances where we may receive information from third parties.
5.6.2. You may separately provide registration and purchasing information to websites, apps, product or service providers through which we provide access to registration for our Service. Depending on the particular promotion, when you register for the Service through such a promotional partner of ours, that partner may provide us with a user/member name that you already use with that partner’s products or services or that you or it have otherwise pre-selected as part of the promotion. For example, when you use an external social network (like your Facebook account) to log in to the Service or to interact with us in another way, we may collect your name and other details from your social network profile and account (please see your social network’s privacy policy or support documents for more information about their sharing of information with connected accounts). information about their sharing of information with connected accounts).
5.6.3. As you are using our Services, you may click through certain links or promotions that will enable you to purchase Services or use Services provided by promotional partners or other sites or commerce providers. Some of those entities may share with us certain information that you provide to them. By clicking through to those links or promotions, you agree to allow us to receive and use any information, except for credit card information (account number, expiration date) that you may provide to such entities, under the same terms as if you provided it to us directly.
5.6.4. You may also separately share your information with other sites or entities, such as those that create professional marketing lists, to receive special offers and promotions from its partners. These entities or sites may agree to share your information with us. Whether or not any third party actually shares your information and to what extent they do share with us will depend on their agreement with us and their individual privacy policy. Real Search is not responsible and will assume no liability if another site or commerce provider collects, uses or shares, any information about you in violation of its own privacy policy, or applicable law.
5.6.5. We may purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our profiles of individual Customers, we may tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
5.6.6. Children personal data: We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. If you notice we collect and process Personal Data of anyone under the age of 13 incorrectly, please contact us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use). We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the websites or Services.
5.6.7. Using ‘cookies’: The so-called ‘cookies’ are used while using the Services or products rendered by Real Search or browsing any of the websites where our Services are installed. These are pieces of information sent by the server, stored on a user’s computer for the purpose of automatic identification of a particular user when using our Services. ‘Cookies’ enable us to quickly confirm your identity and owing to them the use of our Services becomes much easier and more widely available. ‘Cookies’ are used by Real Search solely with the purpose of personalizing a particular user. ‘Cookies’ can be used on condition that they are accepted by a browser and that they shall not be removed from the storage media. Users who removed ‘cookies’ from their storage media or have not accepted them on their browser may not have access to the Services rendered by Real Search. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any Personal Data you submit while on our site. The use of third party cookies is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies.
5.6.8. Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs): Our third party tracking utility partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We may tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our Customer’s Personal Data
5.6.9. Mobile analytics: We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your device. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We may link the information we store within the analytics software to personal data you submit within the application.
5.6.10. Social media (features) and widget: Our websites include social media features, such as the ‘Facebook Like button’ and Widgets, such as the ‘Share This button’ or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
5.6.11. Comment system: In order to post comments on our websites (i.e. our blogs) you must sign into Facebook, Twitter, Disqus or Google, as we use ‘social-media plugins’ to allow Visitors and Customers to leave comments on our blogs. No Personal Information is tied to your posts. You subscribe to our blogs by providing your e-mail address. We will only use this to send you an e-mail notification when new blogs have been posted and when users comment on a blog that you previously have commented. We will not use this information for any other purpose. You have the opportunity to opt-out from our blog e-mails by using ‘unsubscribe’ button.
5.6.12. Facebook Connect and other OpenID providers: Depending on the Service you use you may have the possibility to log in to our live chat customer support feature using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect and other OpenID providers. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain Personal Information with us, such as your name and e-mail address to pre-populate our chat form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this website to your profile page to share with others within your network.
6. Data disclosure
6.1. Real Search’s main purpose of gathering Personal Data and other information is to maintain Services, ensure safe and guaranteed Services performance for its Customers, upgrade and improve functionality of its Services. Owing to the above process we exceed our Customers’ expectations, we provide a constant development of our Services the use of which becomes much easier and more convenient.
6.2. In order to ensure orderly and safety functioning of our Service we cooperate and use software of other entities providing services (described below).
6.3. **We do not sell or lease, your Personal Data to any third party. We will never share, sell, rent or trade your registration and Personal Information with any marketing or promotional partners without your consent.** The following are exceptions, with respect to whom we may share your Personal Information:
6.3.1 Real Search reserves the right to disclose Personal Data to any of our parent, subsidiary, affiliated or successor companies.
6.3.2. Real Search reserves the right to disclose and the Customer agrees for the disclosure and transfer its Personal Data and other information relating to the Customer to Third Party Service Provider (including Sub-processors) such as hosting, credit card processing, customer/support services, e-mail, text messages, push notifications providers or others.
6.3.3. On your request we can provide you with a list of entities which may have access to your Personal Data. We ensure these entities have access only to the minimum part of the Personal Data which is necessary for the proper service provision. Real Search shall observe due diligence to make sure the processing of data disclosed to any entities is in compliance with our Privacy Policy and the currently effective law.
6.3.5. Credit/payment card data provided by the Customer are disclosed solely to professional companies that conduct non-cash transactions and only to the extent necessary to effect the payments. Except for the above situations Real Search shall not disclose any information or personal data provided by Customer.
6.3.6. Personal Data can be disclosed to entities into which our company is merged, or to which our assets, site or operations have been transferred. Mentioned entities will be able to use your Personal Information under the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will notify you if any of these events occur by updating this Privacy Policy and, if practically possible, via other means.
6.3.7. You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as Australian Bankruptcy Courts, or governmental authorities may have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your Personal Information to be shared or transferred to third parties (other than Third Party Service Provider) without your permission.
6.4. Personal Data and other information provided by Customer shall not be disclosed to third parties unless the obligation to disclose the information to third parties results from the currently effective provisions of law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request, or if it is necessary for the Real Search’s security and its rights protection, including the protection against the claims submitted by the third parties.
6.4.1. The provided Customer’s information may be utilized in the event of breach of Terms and Conditions for the use of Services, misuse of funds, the necessity to take action against all Customer’s unlawful actions.
6.4.2. Real Search shall transfer no information or Personal Data to any third parties for marketing purposes.
6.4.3. Real Search reserves the right to use the provided Personal Data for the marketing purposes and other purposes connected with presenting up-to-date offer of Services and instructions or tips related to the Service in direct contacts with the Customer. You may opt-out from such e-mails at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of each communication or by e-mailing us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use).
7. Choice
7.1. We will always give you an opportunity to choose opt-out before your Personal Data is:
(1) disclosed to a Sub-processor (other than Real Search’s representatives doing work at our direction, or a third party affiliated or associated with Real Search and connected with providing services and its current business activity), or (2) to be used for a purpose that is materially different than that for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you.
7.2. The only exception to this choice for Personal Data would be where we are required to disclose your Personal Data pursuant to governmental or judicial order, law or regulation to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
7.3. We will enable our Customers to provide individuals with reasonable mechanisms to exercise their choices. To limit the use and disclosure of your Personal Information, please submit a written request by e-mailing us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use).
8. Accountability for Onward Transfer
We will not transfer your Personal Data originating in the Austalia to Third Party Service Provider unless we ensure such Third Party Service Provider is obliged to provide at least the same level of privacy protection to your Personal Data as required by the Principles of the AU. We will only transfer data to our Third Party Service Providers (such as consultants, accountants and Sub-processors) who need the information in order to provide services to or perform activities on behalf of Real Search, and only for a purpose consistent with this Privacy Policy. Real Search’s accountability for Personal Data that it receives under the Privacy and subsequently transfers is described in the Privacy Principles.
9. Sub-processors (service providers)
9.1. If we need to use a Sub-processor in order to provide and support the features of our Services, we may share your Personal Information for that purpose.
9.2. Advertising partners. We may partner with some third parties to display advertising on our websites or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites and may share Personal Information with them for this purpose. All third parties with which we share this information are required to use your Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.
9.3. We and our Sub-processors may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to gather information about your activities on our websites and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.
9.4. We will provide an individual opt-out or opt-in choice before we share data with third parties other than our Third Party Service Providers we use while providing our Services, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized.
9.5. To limit the use and disclosure of your Personal Information, please submit a written request by e-mailing us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use).
10. Security
We guarantee that we take reasonable and appropriate technical and operational measures to protect your Personal Information we collect and hold from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. While protecting your personal data we take into due account the risk involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Data.
11. Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation
11.1. Real Search will only collect and retain Personal Information which is relevant to the purposes for which the Information is collected, and will not use it in a way that is incompatible with such purposes unless such use has been subsequently authorized by the Customer.
11.2. Real Search will take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current. We may occasionally contact you to determine that your Personal Data is still accurate and current.
12. Access
12.1 Each data subject has the right to access, correct, amend, block or delete its Personal Data. The Company shall comply with any commercially reasonable request by the Customer to correct, amend, block or delete the Customer’s Personal Data, as required by Data Protection Laws, to the extent the Company is legally permitted to do so.
12.2. If you wish to access, amend, or confirm that Real Search has Personal Data relating to you, or if you wish to correct or delete your Personal Information if it is inaccurate, please notify us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use).
12.3. If your Personal Data changes, or if you no longer desire our Services, you may correct, update, delete inaccuracies or request deactivation of your account by making the change within the ‘my profile’ section of the site or by e-mailing us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use). We will respond to your access request within 14 days.
12.4. To request removal of your personal data from our testimonials or customer support forum, please contact us at [email protected] (or via support e-mail of the Service you use). In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
13. Recourse, Enforcement and Liability
Since we are committed to protecting your privacy as set forth in this Policy, if you think we are not in compliance with our Policy, or if you have any questions or if you wish to take any other action concerning this Policy or your Personal Information, we encourage you to contact us at [email protected] We will investigate your complaint, take appropriate action and report back to you within 14 days. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, contact us at [email protected]
14. Surveys
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in a survey within our applications or via e-mail. If you participate, we may require your name and e-mail address. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you, therefore, have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
15. Add-ons
We allow you the option to integrate your live chat with third party add-ons. Please be aware that Real Search is not responsible for any information that may be collected through these third party add-ons.
16. Data protection
16.1. Real Search applies technical safety measures of the highest standards to protect the provided Personal Data against loss, destruction, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. The used measures and technology ensure complete safety of the Personal Data provided by the Customer. The Personal Data is available solely to the Customer or to a person indicated by him provided authorized access has been granted to that person.
16.2. You control who you allow access to the LiveChat app by either selecting everyone or limited IP addresses. The security of your Personal Data is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
16.3. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Real Search takes all necessary steps to update and modernize data protection system. No data transmission via the Internet, however, can guarantee 100% safety.
16.4. When you enter information, such as credit card number, on our website or within our applications, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
17. Privacy Policy modification
We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any significant material changes we will notify you by e-mail (sent to the e-mail address specified in your ‘owner’s account’) or by means of a notice on the website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices.
18. Data gathering entity
Conducting its activity, under the business name of Real Search Pty Ltd, with its office at Suite 904, 84 Pitt St, SYDNEY NSW 2000, shall be the entity gathering Personal Data and other information.
19. Commercial transactions
Real Search reserves the right to use its Privacy Policy, Customer’s account and provided data and information for the benefit of an entity that has become either a dependent entity, an associated entity, or has come into being as a result of merger or transformation of Real Search.
20. Testimonials
We post Customer testimonials on our websites which may contain Personal Data. We use the ‘Twitter social plugin’ to display our Customers’ comments on our websites. In any other scenario we do obtain the Customer’s consent via e-mail prior to posting the testimonial to post their names along with their testimonials.
21. Community forum
Our websites may offer publicly accessible forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them.
22. Link to Other Sites
Real Search’s websites may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personal data. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Real Search.
23. Terms and Conditions
Using offered Services rendered by Real Search, the Visitor and the Customer are obliged to comply with the rules contained in the Terms and Conditions available on our websites.