The first step of the application process requires your first name, last name, industry your business operates, and your email address as mandatory information. We additionally request a contact phone number, which you are not obliged to provide.
We will not use personal information we have collected for a purpose other than that disclosed in this Information Collection Statement without your consent, or in circumstances where you would reasonably expect the use for that purpose.
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Access
The Privacy Act provides that, subject to some exceptions, you have a right to know what information we hold about you including information we have obtained from a credit reporting bodies. If you wish to access the personal information we hold about you, including information we have obtained from a credit reporting body, you should make contact with us in any of the following ways:-
It may be necessary for us to verify your identity before we can provide any information.
We will usually be able to provide this information to you within 30 days of the request. Should we require longer, we will write to you advising you a reason and seeking additional time. We may require you to pay our reasonable costs of providing this information to you. There are restrictions in relation to those costs contained in the law.
If possible, we will provide you with the personal information in the form you request. However, in some circumstances it may be necessary for you to access that information in a method determined by us, but we will always make it as easy as possible for you to access that information.
There may be occasions where we cannot provide you with that information. In such a case we will write to you and give you our reasons.
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Correction
You can request that any personal information we hold be corrected if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. If you wish to make such a request you should contact us by any of the methods set out above.
If your request relates to information that we have received from a credit reporting body, we will contact the credit reporting body and advise them of your request.
If we agree with you that your information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date we will make the appropriate changes and will write to you and tell you the changes we have made within seven days of making that change.
If we do not agree that the information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, we will write to you giving you the reasons why we have formed the opinion and tell you what steps you can take as a result of our refusal to change the information.
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Complaints
You are entitled to complain if you believe we have not dealt with your personal information in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act (including the 13 Australian Privacy Principles) or any code under the Privacy Act (including the Credit Reporting Privacy Code).
If you wish to make a complaint, you should first contact us telling us what the complaint is and we will do our best to resolve the complaint with you.
If we believe that we cannot resolve the complaint within 30 days, we will write to you telling you why and seeking further time.
If you are not satisfied with the resolution of the complaint, you have a right to refer the complaint to the office of the Australian information Commissioner (“OAIC”).
The contact details of those two bodies are as follows:
Credit & Investments Ombudsman
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
We have a written policy (“Dispute Resolution Policy”) in place under which we deal with any complaint. We can provide you with a copy of that policy on request.
We will manage your complaint, so far as we are able, under the Dispute Resolution Policy.
