1. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SITE
This site is a commercial site intended for use by commercial real estate companies and their representatives. It provides a way for commercial real estate professionals to obtain information about, and to access GE Real Estate products and services on-line. This is not a consumer site.
It is not a site intended for the use of children under the age of 18 and it will not collect information on children who identify themselves as being under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not use this site and, mostly, do not fill in the registration form or send an email to GE Real Estate.
Consumers who are interested in home financing or other GE home products should visit the GE Company sites offering these products by linking to http://www.ge.com/.
2. DATA COLLECTED BY WEB SERVER
The access and use of this site constitutes consent by you and your Company to the collection of data by web server in the manner described in this paragraph.
The web servers that serve this site, like web servers at many websites, collect the domain names of users who visit the site as well as their site navigation information.
This information is aggregated so that the number of visits to the site, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed, etc., can be measured and analysed to improve GE Real Estate product offerings and marketing and to improve site functionality.
Specifically, to collect navigation information, this site may make use of "cookie" technology.
A cookie is a tiny element of data that a website can send to your computer's browser so that this computer will be recognised by the site on your return.
Cookies allow our web server to recognise your computer on connection to our website, which in turn allows the server to make downloading of pages faster than on first viewing. In addition, cookies may also be used by GE Real Estate to establish statistics about the use of this website by Internet users by gathering and analysing data such as: most visited pages, time spent by users on each page, site performance, etc. By collecting and using such data, GE Real Estate hopes to improve the quality of this site.
The data collected by our servers and/or through cookies that may be placed in your computers will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information may not be kept for longer than one year.
Navigation data about site viewers is automatically collected by our servers. If you do not wish to have this navigation data collected, we recommend that you do not use this website.
You can also set your browser to block the recording of cookies on your hard drive to minimise the amount of data that may be collected about your navigating on this site. The browser on your computer can be set to notify you when a cookie is being recorded on your computer's hard drive. Most browsers can also be set to keep cookies from being recorded on your computer. However, for optimal use of this website, we recommend that you do not block the recording of cookies on your computer.
All GE Real Estate servers and computer systems are protected from outside intrusions. As a result, all data that may be collected about site viewers through the use of cookies will be protected from unauthorised access.
3. DATA COLLECTED ON SENDING OF AN EMAIL TO GERE
In addition to the information collected by this site's web servers and the information you may choose to submit upon registration, you may want to send an email to GE Real Estate through this site. To do so, you will be asked to submit basic information about yourself, some of them mandatory and others optional, such as your name or email address, so that GE Real Estate can contact you and answer your query.
The sending of an email constitutes consent by you and your Company to the collection of data in the manner described in this paragraph.
GE Real Estate will not use the information you provide on this occasion for purposes other than responding to your message.
In addition, only the information fields followed by a star (*) on the email page must be filled in for your email to be sent successfully. The information fields not preceded by a star (*) are optional. It is necessary for you to fill in the mandatory fields so that GE Real Estate will be able to provide you with the requested information. If the mandatory fields are not properly filled in, you will not receive an answer to your email.
The information you supply to GE Real Estate when you send an email through this website will not be kept by GE Real Estate for longer than is necessary for GE Real Estate to provide you with the requested information.
In addition, the supplied data will be kept on GE Real Estate's secured servers and computer system and will not be accessible to unauthorised individuals or organisations.
4. DATA COLLECTED UPON REGISTRATION TO EXTRANET SERVICES
You may choose to provide additional information to GE Real Estate through this site by registering your Company to our Extranet Services.
If you decide to register your company, you will be asked to give your consent explicitly to the data collection as described in this paragraph.
Our Extranet Services allow the registered entities to have closer contact with GE Real Estate and to use the Customer Collaboration special services.
The registration process will request basic information from you concerning your Company, the contact person for your Company and contact information.
This information is collected by GE Real Estate for the purpose of providing you with the requested services. The information provided will also be used by GE Real Estate to provide you with other product or service information that may also be of interest to you, and to help GE Real Estate improve its product offerings and marketing. If you do not wish to register, but would still like product or service information, all you need to do is to call the telephone number provided.
Only the information fields followed by a star (*) on the registration page must be filled for your registration to proceed successfully. The information fields not preceded by a star (*) are optional. It is necessary for you to fill in the mandatory fields so that GE Real Estate will be able to provide you with the requested services. If the mandatory fields are not properly filled in, your registration may not proceed and you will not have access to GE Real Estate's Extranet Services.
The information you supply to GE Real Estate upon registration will not be kept by GE Real Estate for longer than is necessary to provide you with the requested services.
In addition, the supplied data will be kept on GE Real Estate's secured servers and computer system and will not be accessible to unauthorised individuals or organisations.
5. TRANSFER OF THE DATA COLLECTED UPON REGISTRATION TO THIRD PARTIES
Data collected by web server and data collected on sending an email are not transferred to any third parties.
However, in order to facilitate the provision of our services to this site's users, data collected upon registration may be transferred, from time to time, to GE Real Estate offices or any of their affiliates, agents, appointed representatives, or businesses partners, in the following cases:
- The Data is transmitted at your request, on your order or subject to your prior agreement, to recipients specified by you.
- The Data is transmitted to authorised third parties in compliance with a statutory or regulatory obligation or by virtue of a legitimate interest.
- The Data is transmitted to recipients who are operators acting on behalf of GE in their capacity as agent, authorised proxy, sub-contractor, service provider or in any other capacity.
Some of our offices and those of our affiliates, agents or representatives are located in countries outside the European Economic Area that do not have well developed data protection legislation when compared to European law. While we will ensure your information is processed in accordance with this legal notice and privacy statement, you may not have rights under data protection legislation in those jurisdictions equivalent to those under European law. Please do not fill the registration form if you do not want that information to be processed by us in the ways described by this notice.
However, third parties may be hired to provide technical, upgrade, maintenance, repair and other routine support services to our website. These third parties may have access to your data in the course of carrying out their support services.
6. USER'S RIGHTS
You will permanently retain the right to access, modify, update, and delete any data that you provide to GE Real Estate through this website. GE Real Estate will make all reasonable efforts to secure this right.
If you wish to make use of your right to access, modify, update or delete the data you have provided to GE Real Estate through this website, or if you would like further information about GE Real Estate's data protection policy (nature of data collected, users' rights, judicial remedies, liability and sanctions, etc.), please direct your queries to the following person/service:
GE Capital Corporation (Funding) Ltd, a company organised under UK laws, Co number 1970191, with an authorised Share Capital of £59,250,100 divided into 59,250,100 Ordinary £1 shares, with its registered office at Clarges House, 6-12 Clarges Street, London, W1J 8DH,
Represented by Alexander Burger, Managing Director,
Privacy Officer: Beatrix Parsons
Phone Number: +44 7766 443518
Email address: Beatrix.Parsons@ge.com
GE Real Estate will make its best efforts to answer any query you may have about the collection of data through this site.
7. LINKS FROM THIS SITE TO OTHER WEBSITES
This site may contain links to the websites of our business partners, vendors, advertisers or other third parties, which we believe to be of interest to professionals in the real estate community. A link may take you off one site and onto another site. GE Real Estate does not control the privacy policies or the terms of use of the sites reached through the links from this site. Please review each such site’s privacy policy and terms of use. These may differ from the policy and terms of use of this site. You will need to determine if they are acceptable to you and your Company. GE Real Estate accepts no responsibility for the content or the privacy practices employed by such other sites.
8. NOTIFICATIONS
If GE Real Estate decides to change this Privacy Policy, it will post those changes on this homepage so that users will be informed of the current policy's provisions. Anyway, no changes will be made in violation of laws of the USA and the EU directives on data protection.
