Litchfield Hills Sotheby's International Realty, as providers of certain personal services, is now required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and Connecticut Public Act 08-167 to inform its clients of our policies regarding privacy of client information and social security numbers. Our firm understands your concerns as a client for privacy and the need to ensure the privacy of all information. Your privacy is important to us and maintaining your trust and confidence is a high priority. Therefore, we have always protected your right to privacy. The purpose of this notice is to explain our Privacy Policy with regard to personal information about you that we obtain and how we keep that information secure.

We collect non-public personal information about you that is provided to us by you or obtained by us with your authorization or consent.

WE DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR CLIENTS OR FORMER CLIENTS TO ANYONE, EXCEPT AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW AND ANY ACCEPTABLE CONNECTICUT STATUTES OR REGULATIONS.

We do not disclose any non-public personal information about current or former clients obtained in the course of representation of those clients, except as expressly or impliedly authorized by those clients to enable us to effectuate the purpose of our representation or as required or permitted by law or applicable provisions of the licensing regulations or ethical rules governing our conduct.

We may collect a social security number from you in order to obtain a credit report to support an offer to lease or purchase. We do not disclose this social security number to any person except as permitted or required by law. No person in this firm has authority to obtain or use the number for any purpose that you have not specifically authorized. When disposing of the social security number or credit report, the number will be shredded, and if kept electronically, erased or destroyed so it is unreadable.

We retain records relating to professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist you with your professional needs and to comply with professional guidelines or requirements of law. In order to guard your non-public information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with state laws and regulations. When disposing of the social security number or credit report, the number will be shredded, and if kept electronically, erased or destroyed so it is unreadable.

LITCHFIELD HILLS SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY