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Privacy Policy

Who are we?

‘We’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refer to EQUIDEL PTY LTD, and our related businesses.

Our commitment to protect your privacy

We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our policy commitment in respect of personal information we collect and hold about you and what we do with that information.

It is important to us that you are confident that any personal information we hold about you will be treated in a way which ensures protection of your personal information.

By giving us your personal information, you are consenting to our use of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about changes to this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version on our website.

Collection of Personal information

When we refer to personal information we mean information from which your identity is reasonably apparent. This information may include information or an opinion about you.
The kinds of personal information we may collect and hold about you include:• Your name, date of birth, address, account details, occupation, and any other information we made need to identify you.

  • Financial information, including proof of earnings and expenses.
  • If you are applying for finance we may also collect the ages and number of your dependants and cohabitants, the length of time at your current address, your employment details and proof of earnings and expenses.
  • When you browse this website, our Internet Service Provider makes a record of your visit. Certain information about your visit onto our website is logged for statistical purposes. We do not attempt to identify you or to monitor or chart your on-line activities from this information. The information is solely used for website analysis and improvement, and to increase the relevance and usefulness of our products and services to our customers.

Why we collect your personal information

We collect and hold personal information for the purposes of:

  • assessing your application for finance, arranging for finance to be provided to you through an external provider;
  • direct marketing and managing our relationship with you;
  • offering you other products and services;
  • establishing a customer loyalty program;
  • resolving complaints;
  • providing further information about a service; and
  • any other purpose related to the above.

Your personal information may also be used in market research and statistical studies, and improvement of our products and services. We will use de-identified information in these circumstances wherever possible.

If you do not provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to provide these services to you.

How do we collect and hold your personal information?

Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information directly from you, through a Statement Of Financial Position (SOFP). If for a valid reason we are unable to do so, we may collect your personal information from another organisation. We may also collect your personal information from finance brokers, financial institutions and other people such as accountants, financial planners and lawyers.

We hold all personal information in hard copy documents as electronic data, or in our software or systems.

Use and disclosure of your personal information

We will generally only use your information for the primary purpose for which it was collected, or a purpose related to the primary purpose. We will not sell your personal information to any third parties.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • to prospective funders or other intermediaries in relation to your finance requirements;
  • to other organisations that are involved in providing, managing or administering your property investing process such as third party suppliers, printing and postal services, call centres;
  • to associated businesses that may want to market products to you;
  • to companies that provide information and infrastructure systems to us;
  • to anybody who represents you, such as finance brokers, lawyers and accountants;
  • to anyone, where you have provided us consent;
  • where we are required to do so by law, such as under the Anti-Money or Laundering and Courter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth);
  • to investors, agents or advisers, or any entity that has an interest in our business; or
  • to your employer, referees or identity verification services.

Personal information disclosed to third parties will be dealt with in accordance with that entity’s privacy policy.

We do not disclose your personal information to overseas entities. To enable us to maintain a successful business relationship with you, we may disclose your personal information to other organisations that provide products or services used or marketed by us. We may also disclose your personal information to any other organisation that may have or is considering having an interest in your finance, or in our business.

Direct marketing

From time to time we may use your personal information to provide you with current information about finance, offers you may find of interest, changes to our organisation, or new products or services being offered by us or any company with whom we are associated.

If you do not wish to receive marketing information, you may at any time decline to receive such information by telephoning us on 8216 4111 or by writing to us at:

Level 3, 333 King William St, Adelaide, SA 5000.

If the direct marketing is by email you may also use the unsubscribe function. We will not charge you for giving effect to your request and will take all reasonable steps to meet your request at the earliest possible opportunity.

Access and correction to your personal information

We will provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you. You may request access to any of the personal information we hold about you at any time. We will respond to your request for access to your information within a reasonable time after you make the request and if access is granted, access will be provided within 30 days from your request.

We may charge a fee of $100 per hour (or part thereof) for our costs of retrieving and supplying the information to you. This fee may be reduced or increased to correctly reflect the actual costs of providing access to information, depending on the complexity of your request.

If any of the personal information we hold about you is incorrect, inaccurate or out of date you may request that we correct the information. If appropriate we will correct the personal information at the time of the request, otherwise, we will provide an initial response to you within seven days of receiving your request. Where reasonable, and after our investigation, we will provide you with details about whether we have corrected the personal information within 30 days.

There may be situations where we will refuse to provide you with access to your personal information or refuse to update your information, for example, if granting access would be unlawful.

An explanation will be provided to you if we deny you access or refuse to update the personal information we hold about you.

We may need to consult with other entities as part of our investigation.

Business without identifying you

In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully do business with you, however, where it is practicable to do so, we will offer you the opportunity of doing business with us without providing us with personal information, for example, if you make general inquiries about interest rates or current promotional offers.

Links

Our website may contain links to a number of other websites that are included on the basis of containing content relating to our business and related areas, or to sites containing general information for the personal interest of the user. When a user has clicked on a link to another site, they leave our site and are no longer protected by this Privacy Policy.

Sensitive information

We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent. Sensitive information is personal information that includes information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political persuasion, memberships in trade or professional associations or trade unions, sexual preferences, criminal record, or health.

How safe and secure is your personal information that we hold?

We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment. We may store your personal information in paper and electronic form. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We aim to achieve this through:

  • imposing confidentiality requirements on our employees;
  • implementing policies in relation to document storage security;
  • implementing security measures to govern access to our systems;
  • only providing access to information once proper identification has been given;
  • controlling access to our premises; and
  • implementing website protection measures.

By law, we may be required to hold certain information about you for a specific period of time, even after you are no longer our customer. However, after that time you can be assured we will destroy your information thoroughly and safely or permanently de-identify it.

Cookies

In addition to the above, our website collects information from website users through “cookies”. A “cookie” is a piece of information that an Internet website sends to your browser when you access information at that site. Cookies indicate to a website that you have visited it before and they can be used to record what parts of a website your computer is visiting. Cookies do not identify individual users, although they do allow identification of the type of browser used and the Internet Service Provider (ISP).

There are two types of cookies: ‘persistent’ and ‘session-based’. Persistent cookies track a visitor’s journey through the issuing website.

They are stored on your computer and allow the website provider to see which pages and information are of most interest to those browsing the site. This type of cookie does not contain personal information; only a log of your movement through the website.

Session-based cookies are short-lived, existing only for the actual time you are logged on. These cookies ensure heightened security for you, by authenticating and identifying your registration for the secure areas of the site without the need for you to constantly re-enter your information. They expire when you close your web browser.

Most browsers can be configured to refuse cookies. You may also delete cookies from your hard drive. However, doing so may hinder your access to areas of our site and others.

Complaints

If you are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with your personal information, you may contact our complaints officer using the following information:

Phone: 1300 378 433
Email: info@equidel.com.au
Mail: Equidel Pty Ltd
Level 3, 333 King William Street
ADELAIDE SA 5000

We will acknowledge your complaint within seven days. We will provide you with a decision on your complaint within 30 days.

Further information

You may request further information about the way we manage your personal information by contacting us.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in April 2017.