How I handle your information.

What I collect

When you fill out a form — newsletter, contact, home valuation, or a guide download — I collect your email and, if you provide them, your name, phone number, and any message you typed. That’s it for forms.

The site also runs a privacy-friendly analytics ping that records page views without setting tracking cookies and without recording any personal information. The only cookie this site sets is a flag that remembers you dismissed the cookie notice at the bottom of the page. No ad networks, no remarketing pixels, no Facebook pixel.

Why I collect it

• To send you the newsletter or guide you signed up for.
• To follow up on your message or home valuation request.
• When you become a represented buyer or seller, RECA and SREB require client identification records — that’s a regulatory obligation, not a marketing one.

Where it’s stored

Form submissions are stored in a Supabase database (project ref kntgxkvgxlhrwonlfbny) hosted in Canada and the US, encrypted in transit. Newsletter sends and contact tags go through Brevo (hosted in the EU) so they can deliver email and let me unsubscribe you cleanly. If and when I wire up Lofty CRM for transaction work, that integration is documented on the Lofty side and only used for active represented clients.

Who sees it

Me. That’s the list. Your information is not shared with eXp Realty as a brokerage marketing channel, not sold to any third party, and not handed off to other agents. The only time someone else sees your details is when delivery requires it — Brevo to send the email, Supabase to store the record — and those vendors are bound by their own data agreements.

How long I keep it

Newsletter and lead records stay on file until you unsubscribe or ask me to delete them. After that, I delete the record within 30 days. Records tied to a real estate transaction (offers, deposits, contracts) have to be kept for seven years under RECA Rule 88 and SREB’s equivalent — so once you’re an actual client on a deal, that 7-year clock applies regardless of whether you later unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Your rights under PIPEDA

Canada’s federal privacy law (PIPEDA) gives you the right to:

• Ask what information I have about you.
• Correct anything that’s wrong.
• Withdraw consent — for marketing, lead follow-up, or both. Transaction records that RECA or SREB require me to keep are the one carve-out.
• Get a copy of your data in a readable format.

How to delete or opt out

Three ways:

• Click the unsubscribe link in any email I’ve sent you.
• Use the form at /email-preferences with your email.
• Email me at hasan.sharif.realtor@gmail.com with “remove me” in the subject. I handle these the same day I see them.

Contact for privacy questions

If you have a privacy concern, want a copy of your data, or want to know exactly what I’m holding on you:

Hasan Sharif — eXp Realty
hasan.sharif.realtor@gmail.com
306-850-7687

If we can’t resolve a complaint between us, you can escalate to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca.