Before we get started we want to let you know how we are going to protect your privacy.
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We are collecting credit and personal information (information) about you, as applicable:
- To source for you, or a company of which you are a director;
- Consumer credit for personal, household, domestic or residential investment purposes;
- Commercial credit for business purposes; or
- Other services stated in this Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent (Consent); or
- To support a guarantor application, you will provide
As your broker, we require the information we collect from you to assess your credit, or guarantor, application or the credit application of a company of which you are a director, source a suitable credit provider and any required insurances and to manage the application process, where required. If you do not provide the information sought we may be unable to process your application, or the company’s application, or we may be limited in the other services we can offer you or the company
Your information – Collection and Credit Reporting Body (‘CRB’) Disclosures
When we collect information from you in the credit application process, we use that information in a number of ways to assess your credit application and to source a suitable credit provider or lessor and/or insurance provider. We may:
- Disclose your identification information to a CRB if you wish us to obtain a report on your behalf;
- Use any information the CRB provides in that report to assist us to preliminarily assess your consumer credit or guarantor application
- disclose your personal information to an insurer or insurers to source any insurances you wish to obtain
- Disclose your credit information to a credit provider or credit providers to apply for finance on your behalf
The information we obtain from you is used, subject to compliance with Australia’s privacy and credit reporting laws, only for the purposes listed in this Consent and is not disclosed to any other person except with your permission or as permitted, or required, by law.
Credit Providers
As part of providing our services to you, we may undertake tasks for a credit provider which are reasonably necessary to manage the application process. When doing so, we are acting as agent for the credit provider, with the same privacy law requirements applying to both of us. We may submit your application to one or more credit providers. Those credit providers and their website addresses are set out in the Schedule at the end of this document. A credit provider, to whom we submit an application, may disclose information about you to, and collect information about you from one or more CRBs. The website of each credit provider contains details of each CRB with which it deals and other detail about information held about you and describes your key rights. This detail may be described on the credit providers’ websites as ‘notifiable matters’, ‘privacy policy’, ‘credit reporting policy’ or ‘privacy disclosure statement and consent’, and includes:
- That the CRB may include information the credit provider discloses about you to other credit providers to assess your credit worthiness
- That, if you become overdue in making consumer credit payments or you commit a serious credit infringement, the credit provider may disclose that information to a CRB
- How you can obtain the credit provider’s and/or CRB’s policies about managing your credit information
- Your right to access and/or correct information held about you and to complain about conduct that may breach the privacy and credit reporting laws
- Your right to request a CRB not to release information about you if you believe you are a victim of fraud
- Your right to request a CRB not to undertake pre- screening for purposes of direct marketing by a credit provider
This detail will also be included by the credit provider who approves your application in the privacy disclosure statement and consent document it will provide to you. Each credit provider website includes information on how to contact the credit provider and how to obtain a copy of its privacy documents in a form that suits you (e.g. hardcopy or email).
Your rights
You have the right to ask:
- Us to provide you with all the information we hold about you
- Us to correct the information we hold if it is incorrect
- Us for copies of our privacy policy and this document, in a form that suits you (e.g. hardcopy or email)
- The CRB not to use your information for direct marketing assessment purposes, including pre-screening
- The CRB to provide you with a copy of the information it holds about you
You can gain access to the information we hold about you by contacting our Privacy Officer Michael Woods at the address above or by telephone on (03) 9775 0269 or email at enquiries@www.acquiredfinance.com. In some cases, an administration fee may be charged to cover the cost of providing the information. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website at or we will provide you with a copy if you ask us. You can contact the CRB by telephone on 1300 762 207 (Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-6pm EST) or email at assist.au@veda.com.au Disclosure and Consent by Authorising Below, you agree we may:
- Use your personal and credit information
- To assess your consumer or commercial credit and/or guarantee application and/or to assess a credit application by a company of which you are a director
- To source any finances, you required
- To source any insurances, you require
- To assess your consumer or commercial credit and/or guarantee application and/or to assess a credit application by a company of which you are a director
- To source any finances, you required
- To source any insurances, you require
- As the law authorises or requires;
- Disclose to, and obtain from, any prospective credit provider or insurer, information about you that is reasonably necessary to obtain the finance and insurances you require;
- Obtain from, and disclose to, any third party, information about you, the applicant(s) or guarantor(s) that is reasonably necessary to assist you obtain the finance and insurances required;
- Provide your information, including your credit report(s), to one or more of the credit providers specified in the Schedule of Credit Providers below so they can assess your application, or the application of a company of which you are a director, or your suitability as a guarantor Provide credit information about you to a guarantor, or prospective guarantor;
- Provide you, or the company of which you are a director, with offers or information of other goods or services we, or any of our associated entities, may be able to provide to you or the company, unless you tell us not to;
- Disclose your personal and credit information to the extent permitted by law to other organisations that provide us with services, such as contractors, agents, printers, mail houses, lawyers, document custodians, securitises and computer systems consultants or providers, so they can perform those services for us; and
- Disclose your personal information to any other organisation that may wish to acquire, or has acquired, an interest in our business or any rights under your contract with us, or the contract with us of a company of which you are a director.
You also agree and consent to, as appropriate:
- A CRB disclosing consumer credit information to one or more credit providers specified in the Schedule of Credit Providers below for the purpose of assessing your application for consumer or commercial credit or your guarantor application, and/or assessing a credit application by a company of which you are a director
- When you are a prospective guarantor, a credit provider using that information to assess your suitability as a guarantor
- A credit provider disclosing your credit information (including information obtained by it from a CRB) to a guarantor, or a prospective guarantor
- A credit provider disclosing to another credit provider, for a particular purpose, information it holds about you
Where the applicant, or guarantor, is a company of which you are a director, you consent to the use of your information, in addition to the company’s information, in each of the ways listed above.
Authorisation
By Authorising below, you also authorise us to make a request on your behalf to obtain credit reporting information about your consumer and commercial credit worthiness from a CRB. That information will assist us in providing our services to you. This authorisation ceases when we undertake a task on behalf of a credit provider.
Schedule of Credit Providers:
| Name of Credit Provide | Website |
|---|---|
| A.C.N 603 303 126 Pty Ltd | axsesstoday.com.au |
| Affordable Car Loans | affordablecarloans.com.au |
| Automotive Financial Services | afs.com.au |
| ANZ Bank | anz.com.au |
| Bank of Melbourne | bankofmelbourne.com.au |
| Capital Finance | capitalfinance.com.au |
| Commonwealth Bank | commbank.com.au |
| Firstmac | firstmac.com.au |
| Finance 1 | finone.com.au |
| Go Getta | gogetta.com.au |
| Latitude Financial | latitudefinancial.com.au |
| Liberty | liberty.com.au |
| Macquarie Bank | macquarie.com |
| Metro Finance | metrofin.com.au |
| Money 3 | money3.com.au |
| Morris Finance | morrisfinance.com.au |
| Now Finance | nowfinance.com.au |
| Pepper Money | pepper.com.au |
| Selfco | selfco.com.au |
| TL Rentals | tlrentals.com.au |
| Westpac Bank | westpac.com.au |