Privacy Policy

How Zebrano collects, uses, protects and shares personal information, and the choices you have.

Effective date: October 13, 2026.

Zebrano looks after people's homes, and with that comes the details of family life. We treat that trust as the most important part of our work, and this policy explains how we handle personal information in plain terms.

1. Who we are and what this policy covers

This policy applies to Zebrano, a home management company based at 184 Davenport Rd, Toronto, Ontario ("Zebrano", "we", "us"). It covers personal information we collect through this website, from clients and prospective clients, from trades and suppliers who work with us, and from people who apply to work for us.

We handle personal information in line with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Information about a business, such as a trade's company name and business phone, is generally not personal information, but we protect it with the same care.

2. Accountability

Zebrano is responsible for the personal information in its care and has designated a person to oversee our compliance with this policy. Everyone who works for Zebrano, and every trade and service provider we engage, is expected to protect the personal information they handle for us. How to reach us is in section 15.

3. What we collect

When you contact us through the website. Your name, email address, phone number, neighbourhood, approximate home size and anything you choose to tell us about your home or what you need.

When you become a client. Depending on the work we do for you, this can include:

  • Names and contact details for you and the people you ask us to deal with, such as a partner, house manager, executive assistant or family office
  • The address of each property we look after
  • Access information for your home, such as keys and codes
  • Household information you share so we can work around it, such as travel dates, when the home is empty, pets and preferred times for trades
  • Information about the home itself: its systems, maintenance history, warranties, insurance policy details for claims we help with, and photographs taken to document work
  • Billing and payment records

When you apply to join our trade network. Your name, company, email, phone number, trade, years in business, website or social profile, whether you are licensed and insured, and what you tell us about your work. If you join our network we may also ask for licence numbers, certificates of insurance and safety clearance documents.

When you apply for a job. Your résumé, cover letter and anything you send us, plus references.

Automatically, when you use this website. Technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type and pages viewed. Our forms use a security check to block spam, which assesses your browser without asking you to solve a puzzle.

We do not ask for, and ask you not to send us, government identification numbers or full payment card numbers through the website or by email.

4. How we use it

  • To respond to your enquiry and arrange a consultation
  • To provide our services: planning and managing maintenance, booking and supervising trades, responding to emergencies and keeping records of your home
  • To bill for our time and for trade work, and to keep the accounting records the law requires
  • To assess and manage the trades in our network
  • To assess job applicants and manage employment
  • To keep our website and forms secure and working
  • To send you news or updates, only if you have agreed to receive them
  • To meet legal, insurance and regulatory obligations

We do not use your information for any other purpose without your consent, unless the law requires or permits it.

5. Consent

We collect, use and share personal information with your consent. Sometimes consent is implied: if you send us an enquiry, you consent to us contacting you about it. For more sensitive information, such as access codes, we ask for express consent.

If you give us information about someone else, such as a family member or staff member, please make sure they know you are sharing it with us.

You can withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual limits. If you do, we will explain what that means for the services we can provide. For example, we cannot manage a trade visit without being able to give the trade access to your home.

6. Keys, codes and the details of your home

We treat keys, access codes and household schedules as the most sensitive information we hold. Only the people who need them for a specific visit can use them, and when our relationship ends we return or securely destroy them. For your security, we don't publish the details of how we store or handle them.

7. Confidentiality, photographs and your name

We never name our clients or identify their homes, on this website, in marketing or anywhere else, without written permission. We take photographs of work for our records and for insurance purposes. We do not publish photographs of client homes.

8. Who we share it with

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information. We share it only as follows:

  • Trades in our network receive what they need to do a specific job, such as an address, access instructions and a contact for the day. They are expected to keep it confidential and use it only for that job.
  • Service providers that run systems for us, such as website and form hosting, email, scheduling, customer records, accounting and payment processing. They may use the information only to provide services to us.
  • Insurers and adjusters, when you ask us to help with a claim.
  • Professional advisers such as our lawyers, accountants and insurers, under a duty of confidentiality.
  • Authorities, when the law requires it, or in an emergency that threatens someone's life, health or safety.
  • A buyer or successor if Zebrano's business is sold or reorganized, subject to an agreement to protect the information.

9. Information stored outside Canada

Some of our service providers store or process information outside Canada, including in the United States. While it is outside Canada, information may be accessible to courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of that country under its laws. We choose providers that protect information to a standard comparable to ours. You can contact us for more information about where your information is held.

10. How we protect it

We use safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including:

  • Organizational: access limited to those who need it, and confidentiality obligations for staff and trades
  • Technical: password-protected and access-controlled systems, encrypted connections for this website, and multi-factor authentication where available

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so please do not send access codes or financial details by ordinary email. Your Home Manager will tell you the safest way to share them.

11. How long we keep it

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes above or as the law requires. As a guide:

  • Website enquiries that do not lead to work: up to 24 months
  • Client records and home history: for the length of our relationship, then up to 7 years for legal, tax and warranty purposes
  • Access codes: deleted when our relationship ends
  • Unsuccessful job applications: up to 12 months

When information is no longer needed, we securely destroy it or make it anonymous.

12. Your rights

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, ask how we have used it and who we have shared it with, and ask us to correct anything that is inaccurate or incomplete. Send your request using the contact details in section 15. We will respond within 30 days, and we may need to confirm your identity first. If we cannot give you access to some information, for example because it includes someone else's personal information or is legally privileged, we will tell you why.

13. Cookies and email

Cookies. This website uses cookies and similar technology that it needs to work and to protect our forms from spam. If we add analytics or advertising cookies, we will update this policy and ask for your consent where the law requires it. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, although parts of the site may not work properly.

Email. We send commercial email, such as newsletters, only to people who have agreed to receive it or where CASL otherwise permits. Every message includes a way to unsubscribe. Messages about services you have asked for are not affected if you unsubscribe from news.

14. If something goes wrong

If a breach of security safeguards involving personal information creates a real risk of significant harm, we will notify the people affected and report it to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, as PIPEDA requires. We keep a record of every breach, whatever its size.

15. Contact us

Questions, requests and concerns about privacy can be sent to:

  • Email: info@zebrano.com
  • Phone: 416-721-8655
  • Mail: Zebrano, 184 Davenport Rd, Toronto, ON

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca or 1-800-282-1376.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our services, systems or the law change. We will post the new version here with a new date, and tell clients directly about any significant change.