Privacy
Policy
OUR COMMITMENT TO
PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
ILOANS understand how important
it is to protect your personal information. This document
sets out our privacy policy commitment in respect of personal
information that you may provide us.
Our privacy policy ensures
your right to privacy as we recognise that any personal information
we may collect about you will only be used for the purpose
indicated in our policy. It is important to us that you are
confident that any personal information that we collect from
or is received by us will be treated with the appropriated
respect ensuring protection of your personal information.
Our commitment in respect
of your personal information is to abide by the National Privacy
Principles for the protection of personal information, as
set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant law.
ILOANS MORTGAGES
The following privacy policy
covers ILOANS and all its independent consultants representing
the company.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
When we refer to personal
information we mean that information from which your identity
is apparent. This information may include information or an
opinion about you, from which your identity can reasonably
be ascertained.
WHY WE COLLECT YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information
about you in order to conduct our business. This includes
the following:
• assessing you for
mortgage or other finance
• completing a loan application to our panel lenders
• communicating with you
• internal administration and financial control
HOW DO WE COLLECT
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect personal information
from you through our consultants, our website or by you contacting
our office. Where reasonable and practical, we will collect
your personal information directly from you.
TO WHOM WILL WE DISCLOSE
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your personal information
may be disclosed between ILOANS Mortgages and its consultants
to enable us to conduct our business.
In the ordinary operation
of our business, we may disclose your personal information
with other associated organizations, such as our panel lenders,
valuers, lenders mortgage insurers, surveyors, accountants,
credit reporting agencies and lawyers. We will only disclose
to these associated organizations that information necessary
for them to perform their service. Otherwise, we will not
disclose your personal information unless required by law.
We do not sell customer lists to third parties.
Prior to disclosing any of
your personal information to another organization, we will
take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that the organization
is similarly committed to protecting your personal information.
KEEPING IN TOUCH
WITH YOU
As a valued client, we would
naturally like to keep in touch with you. From time to time
we may use your personal information to provide you with current
information about market conditions, mortgage loans and other
related areas of interest.
UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION
It is important to our relationship
that the personal information we hold about you is accurate
and up to date. During the course of our relationship with
you we will ask you to inform us if any of your personal information
has changed.
If you wish to make changes
to your personal information, you may contact us. We will
generally rely on you to assist us in informing us if the
information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION
We will provide you with
access to your personal information that we hold about you.
You may request access to any of your personal information
we hold about you at any time. To access personal information
that we hold about you please use the contact details specified
above.
HOW SAFE IS YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take reasonable steps
to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure
environment, and when this information is no longer needed
for any purpose, for which the information may be disclosed,
it will be destroyed or permanently de-identified. We will
also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information
from misuse, loss and unauthorized access, modification or
disclosure.
CHANGE IN OUR PRIVACY
POLICY
We may change this privacy
policy from time to time, as the need arises to comply with
new laws or changing market conditions. This privacy policy
came in to existence when ILOANS commenced business in June
2003. This privacy policy was written in accordance with changes
to the Privacy Act in December 2001.
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