We respect your personal information, and this Privacy Policy explains how we handle it.
The policy refers to MSP Group Pty Ltd, Direct Plumbing & Building Supplies Pty Ltd, Kara Resources Pty Ltd, Hallett Resources Pty Ltd, Hallett Concrete Pty Ltd, MSP Nominees Pty Ltd and their associated and related entities (all of which are hereinafter referred to as "the Company").
We will comply with the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 which amends the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and which came into effect on 12th March 2014 including Division 3 of Part IIIA and the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Act as well as the Credit Reporting Privacy Code (CR Code) and are committed to protecting personal information (including credit information and credit eligible information) we may hold at any time in respect of any individual, in accordance with those requirements.
This Policy also includes our credit reporting policy, that is, it covers additional information on how we manage your personal information collected in connection with a credit application, or a credit facility. We refer to this credit-related information below as credit information.
General Information
The types of information that we collect and hold about you could include:
When we're checking your credit worthiness, and at other times, we might collect information about you from and give it to credit reporting bodies. This information can include:
ID information: a record of your name(s) (including an alias or previous name), date of birth, gender, current or last known address and previous addresses, name of current or last known employer and driver's license number.
Information request: a record of a lender asking a Credit reporting body for information in relation to a credit application, including the type and amount of credit applied for.
Default information: a record of your consumer credit payments being overdue.
Consumer credit is credit that is intended to be used wholly or primarily:
Serious credit infringement: a record of when a lender reasonably believes that there has been a fraud relating to your consumer credit or that you have avoided paying your consumer credit payments and the credit provider can't find you.
Personal insolvency information: a record relating to your bankruptcy or your entry into a debt agreement or personal insolvency agreement Court proceedings information: an Australian court judgment relating to your credit.
Publicly available information: a record relating to your activities in Australia and your credit worthiness.
Consumer credit liability information: certain details relating to your consumer credit, such as the name of the credit provider, whether the credit provider has an Australian Credit License, the type of consumer credit, the day on which the consumer credit was entered into and terminated, the maximum amount of credit available and certain repayment terms and conditions.
Repayment history information: a record of whether or not you've made monthly consumer credit payments and when they were paid. Consumer credit liability information and repayment history information: These information types can only be provided to credit reporting bodies on and 12 March 2014 in connection with a consumer credit facility.
Payment information: If a lender gave a credit reporting body default information about you and the overdue amount is paid, a statement that the payment has been made.
New arrangement information: If a lender gave credit reporting body default information about you and your consumer credit contract is varied or replaced, a statement about this.
We base some things on the information we get from credit reporting bodies. Information that we get from a credit reporting body or information we derive from such information is known as credit eligibility information.
Sensitive information is information about a person's racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association or trade union, sexual preferences or practices, criminal record, health information, genetic or biometric information.
Sometimes we need to collect sensitive information about you. Sensitive information is information about a person's racial ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association or trade union, sexual preferences or practices, criminal record, health information, genetic or biometric information.
We may collect information about because we are required or authorized by law to collect it.
Unless required by law, we will only collect sensitive information with your consent.
We monitor your use of our website to identify ways we can improve our services for you.
lf you start but don't submit an on-line application, we can contact you using any of the contact details you've supplied to offer help completing it. The information in applications will be kept temporarily then destroyed if the application is not completed.
We also know that some customers like to engage with us through social media channels. We may collect information about you when you interact with us through these channels. However for all confidential matters, we'll ensure we interact with you via a secure forum.
To improve our services and products, we sometimes collect information from web users. That information could include IP addresses or geographical information.
We use cookies on our websites to provide you with a better and more effective website experience.
A "cookie" is a small text file placed on your computer by a webpage server which may later be retrieved by webpage servers. In common with most other websites, our website uses cookies to collect information about your use of that website.
Cookies allow website operators to assign a unique identifier to a computer, which can be used to associate requests made to the website by that computer.
Cookies indicate to a website that a computer has been there before and can be used to record things such as what parts of a website or other websites have been visited from that computer.
We use cookies for various purposes. A cookie is allocated to each internet browser that visits a website belonging to us.
This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you, but is used:We also use cookies to personalise your web browsing experience, including your access to services that we provide on our website.
Cookies do not store customer identifiable information and are not used for marketing or tracking of individuals. If these cookies are of concern they can be turned off.
If you wish, you can generally configure your browser so that it does not receive cookies, but if you do so some of the functionality of our website may not be available. If cookies are disabled a service may not recognise you or not operate effectively.
We understand that your personal information needs to be looked after and isn't something you leave lying around for just anybody to take. So unless it's unreasonable or impracticable, we will try to collect personal information directly from you (referred to as 'solicited information'). For this reason, it's important that you help us to do this and keep your contact details up-to-date.
There are many ways we seek information from you. We might collect your information when you fill out a form with us, either in paper or electronic format, when you've given us a call, used our websites or visited one of our branches. We also find using electronic means, such as email or SMS, a convenient way to communicate with you.
Sometimes we collect information about you from other sources. We do this only if it's necessary to do so.
Instances of when we may need to include where:
If you don't provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to:
We will collect your credit information from details included in your application for credit (whether paper based, phone or electronic). In addition to what we say above about collecting information from other sources, other main sources for collecting credit information are:
People sometimes share information with us we haven't sought out (referred to as 'unsolicited information'). Where we receive unsolicited personal information about you, we will check whether that information is reasonably necessary for our functions or activities. If it is, we'll handle this information the same way we do with other information we seek from you. If not, we'll ensure we do the right thing and destroy or de-identify it.
When we receive personal information from you directly, we'll take reasonable steps to notify you how and why we collected your information, who we may disclose it to and outline how you can access it, seek correction of it or make a complaint. Sometimes we collect your personal information from third parties. You may not be aware that we have done so. If we collect information that can be used to identify you, we will take reasonable steps to notify you of that collection.
We store Information in different ways, including in paper and electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to us and we take reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Some of the ways we do this are:
We can store personal information physically or electronically with third party data storage providers. Where we do this, we use contractual arrangements to ensure those providers take appropriate measures to protect that information and restrict the uses to which they can put that information.
We'll only keep your information for as long as we require it for our purposes. When we no longer require your information, we'll ensure that it is destroyed or de-identified.
Because we offer a range of services and products, collecting your personal information allows us to provide you with the products and services you've asked for. This means we can use your information to:
We may use or disclose your personal information to let you know about products and services from across the Company that might better serve your needs, or running competitions promotions and other opportunities in which you may be interested.
We may conduct these marketing activities via email, telephone, SMS, iM, mail, or any other electronic means. We may also market our products to you through third party channels (such as social networking sites), or based on your use of Company programs. We will always let you know that you can opt out from receiving our third party or Company program marketing offers.
On those occasions when we market to prospective customers; we are happy to let them know how we obtained their information and will provide easy to follow opt-outs.
With your consent, we may disclose your personal information to third parties such as brokers or agents, or for the purpose of connecting you with other businesses or customers. You can ask us not to do this at any time. We won't sell your personal information to any organization outside of the Company.
You can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive direct marketing offers from the Company (see "Contact Us'). We will process your request as soon as practicable.
In addition to the ways for using personal information mentioned above, we may also use your credit information to:
To make sure we can meet your specific needs and for the purposes described in 'Using your personal information', we sometimes need to share your personal information with others. We may share your information with other organisations for any purposes for which we use your information.
We may share your personal information with other Company entities. This could depend on the product or service you have applied for and me Company entity you are dealing with.
We may need to share your personal information with:
We may disclose information about you to a credit reporting body if you are applying for credit or you have obtained credit from us or if you guarantee or are considering guaranteeing the obligations of another person to us or you are a director of a company that is a credit applicant or borrower or guarantor When we give your information to a credit reporting body, it may be included in reports that the credit reporting body gives other organizations (such as other credit providers) to help them assess your credit worthiness.
Some of that information may reflect adversely on your credit worthiness: for example, if you fail to make payments or if you commit a serious credit infringement (like obtaining credit by fraud). That sort of information may affect your ability to get credit from other credit providers.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties outside of the Company, including:
As electronic or networked storage can be accessed from various countries via an internet connection, it's not always practicable to know in which country your information may be held.
We will not send your personal information outside Australia unless we are satisfied that the overseas recipient of the information has adequate data protection arrangements in place, or you have consented to the transfer of the information.
We may disclose your personal information to our third party services providers for them to help us provide services to you.
We may store your information in cloud or other types of networked or electronic storage. Overseas organisations may be required to disclose information we share with them under a foreign law. In those instances, we will not be responsible for that disclosure.
We will not share any of your credit information with a credit reporting Body, unless in Australia. We are not likely to share credit eligibility information (that is, credit information we obtain about you from a credit reporting body or that we derive from that information) with organisations unless they have business operations in Australia.
We'll always give you access to your personal information unless there are certain legal reasons why we can't. You can ask us to access your personal information that we hold by filling out the Personal Information Access Form. In some cases we may be able to deal with your request over the phone or in person.
Customers who have any concerns about the Privacy Policy or who would like a copy of the Personal Information Access Form are requested to direct them to The Credit Manager, Level 1, 468 North East Road, Windsor Gardens SA 5087.
We will give you access to your information in the form you want, where it's reasonable and practical to do so.
We're not always required to give you access to your personal information. Some of the situations where we don't have to give you access include when:
In relation to credit eligibility information, the exceptions may differ. If we can't provide your information in the way you've requested, we will tell you why in writing.
Where you request access to credit information about you that we've got from credit reporting bodies (or based on that information), you have the following additional rights. We must:
We may also restrict what we give you if it would harm the confidentiality of our commercial information. If we refuse to give access to any credit eligibility information, we will tell you why in writing. If you have concerns, you can complain to our External Dispute Resolution Scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
How we correct your information
Contact us if you think there is something wrong with the information we hold about you and we'll try to correct it if it's:
If you are worried that we have given incorrect information to others, you can ask us to tell them about the correction. We'll try and help where we can if we can't, then we'll let you know in writing.
If you ask us to correct credit information, we will help you with this in the following way.
Where we correct informationIf we're able to correct the information, we'll let you know within five business days of deciding to do this. We'll also let the relevant third parties know as well as any others you tell us about. If there are any instances where we can't do this, then we'll let you know in writing.
Where we can't correct informationIf we're unable to correct your information, we'll explain why in writing within five business days of making this decision. If you have any concerns you can access our External Dispute Resolution Scheme or make a complaint to the Office of the Australian information Commissioner.
Time frame for correcting informationIf we agree to correct your information, we'll do so within 30 days from when you asked us, or a longer period that's been agreed by you If we can't make corrections within a 30 day time frame or the agreed time frame. We must:
If you have a complaint about how we handle your personal information you are always welcome to contact us. You can contact us by:
We are committed to resolving your complaint and doing the right thing by our customers. Most complaints are resolved quickly, and you should hear from us within five business days.
If you still feel your issue hasn't been resolved to your satisfaction, then you can raise your concern with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
What additional things do we have to do to manage your complaints about credit information?
If your complaint relates to how we handled your access and correction requests you may take your complaint directly to our External Dispute Resolution Scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. You are not required to let us try to fix it first.
For all other complaints relating to credit information
If you make a complaint about things (other than an access request or correction request) in relation to your credit information, we will let you know how we will deal with it within seven days.
Ask for more time if we can't fix things in 30 days
If we can't fix things within 30 days, we'll let you know why and how long we think it will take. We will also ask you for an extension of time to fix the matter. if you have any concerns, you may complain to our External Dispute Resolution Scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Informing you about our decision
We'll let you know about our decision within 30 days or any longer agreed time frame.
If you have any concerns, you may complain to our External Dispute Resolution Scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Contact credit reporting bodies if you don't want your information used by for direct marketing / pre-screening purposes.
Credit reporting bodies can use the personal information about you that they collect for a pro-screening assessment at the request of a credit provider unless you ask them not to. A pre-screening assessment is an assessment of individuals to see if they satisfy particular eligibility requirements of a credit provider to receive direct marketing. You have the right to contact a credit reporting body to say that you don't want your information used in pre-screening assessments. If you do this, the credit reporting body must not use your information for that purpose.
What do we do with government-related identifiers?
In certain circumstances we may be required to collect government-related identifiers such as your tax file number. We will not use or disclose this information unless we are authorised by law.
This Policy may change: We will let you know of any changes to this policy by posting a notification on our website or by any other means available to us. Any information collected after an amended privacy statement has been posted on the site, will be subject to that amended privacy statement
We care about your privacy. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy policies and procedures. We welcome your feedback.
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