E. Shall comply with any applicable federal, state or local laws, rules, regulations or ordinances related to real estate brokerage including fair housing and civil rights laws or regulations;

F. Has an obligation to preserve confidential information provided by the seller during the course of the relationship that might have a negative impact on the seller's real estate activity unless:

(1) The seller to whom the information pertains grants consent to disclose the information;

(2) Disclosure of the information is required by law;

(3) The information is made public or becomes public by the words or conduct of the seller to whom the information pertains or from a source other than the licensee seller agent; or

(4) Disclosure is necessary to defend the licensee seller agent against an accusation of wrongful conduct in a judicial proceeding before the commission or before a professional committee; and

G. Must be able to promote alternative properties not owned by the seller to prospective buyers as well as list competing properties for sale without breaching any duty to the client.

2. Duty to buyer. The duty of a seller agent to a buyer is governed by the following.

A. A real estate brokerage agency engaged by a seller agent shall treat all prospective buyers honestly and may not knowingly give false information and shall disclose in a timely manner to a prospective buyer all material defects pertaining to the physical condition of the property of which the real estate brokerage agency seller agent knew or, acting in a reasonable manner, should have known. A real estate brokerage agency seller agent is not liable to a buyer for providing false information to the buyer if the false information was provided to the real estate brokerage agency seller agent by the real estate brokerage agency's seller-client seller agent's client and the real estate