East Coast Financial values and is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. We abide by the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988. We will not, under any circumstances, give your personal information to any other organisation for their marketing purposes. We will, with your help, keep your personal information accurate, complete and up-to-date.

 

Protecting your personal information

 

We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment, and when the information is no longer needed it will be destroyed. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

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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 personal information we hold about you may also include credit information.

 

Credit information is information which is used to assess your eligibility to be provided with finance and may include any finance that you have outstanding, your repayment history in respect of those loans, and any defaults. Usually, credit information is exchanged between credit and finance providers and credit reporting bodies.

 

The kinds of personal information we may collect about you include your name, date of birth, address, account details, occupation, and any other information we made need to identify you.

 

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. If you apply for any insurance product throughus we may also collect your health information. We will only collect health information

from you with your consent.

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Why we collect your personal information

 

We collect personal information for the purposes of assessing your application for finance and managing that finance. We may also collect your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing and managing our relationship with you. From time to time we may offer you other products and services.

 

You may opt out of direct marketing at any time by contacting us by phone (03) 8682 8900 or email:  care@eastcoastfinancial.com.au

 

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.

 

How do we collect your personal information?

 

Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information directly from you. We may also collect your personal information from finance brokers and other people such as accountants and lawyers.

 

Do we disclose your personal information?

 

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 managing or administering your finance such

as third party suppliers, printing and postal services, call centres;

 

• 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.

 

Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another person or organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that:

 

(a) the person or organisation has a commitment to protecting your personal information at least equal to our commitment, or

 

(b) you have consented to us making the disclosure.

 

We may use cloud storage to store the personal information we hold about you. The cloud storage and the IT servers may be located outside Australia.

 

We may use overseas organisations to help conduct our business, As a result, we may need to share your information with such organisations outside Australia. The countries in which those organisations are located are: India

 

Keeping in touch with you

 

As a valued client, we would naturally like to keep in touch with you and provide you with current information about market conditions, mortgage loans and other related areas of interest. If you do not wish to receive this information, you may at any time decline to do so by telephoning (03) 8682 8900 or by e-mailing us at care@eastcoastfinancial.com.au

 

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 may charge a fee for our costs of retrieving and supplying the information to you. Depending on the type of request that you make we may respond to your request

immediately, otherwise we usually respond to you within seven days of receiving your request. We may need to contact other entities to properly investigate your request.

 

There may be situations where we are not required to provide you with access to your personal information, for example, if the information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, or if your request is vexatious.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

If we refuse to correct personal information we will provide you with our reasons for not correcting the information.

 

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 lawful and 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.

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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.

 

Complaints

 

If you are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with your personal information, or you have a complaint about our compliance with the Privacy Act, you may contact our complaints officer on care@eastcoastfinancial.com.au

 

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

 

If you are dissatisfied with the response of our complaints officer you may make a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner which can be contacted on

either www.oaic.gov.au or 1300 363 992.

 

 

Further information

 

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

 

Change in our privacy policy

 

We are constantly reviewing all of our policies and attempt to keep up to date with market expectations. Technology is constantly changing, as is the law and market place practices.

 

As a consequence we may change this privacy policy from time to time or as the need arises.

 

You may request this privacy policy in an alternative form.

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This Privacy Policy came into existence on January 2011

 

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