This Privacy Policy applies to CarClarity ACL Pty Ltd and any and all entities owned or controlled by us. The use of we/us/our within this Policy refers to any of these entities.
We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (including the Australian Privacy Principles, Credit Reporting and mandatory data breach notification) and the Privacy (Credit Reporting) Code.
This Privacy Policy outlines how we deal with your information, including the purpose for which we collect, store, use and disclose your information, as well as our legal obligations and rights to that information.
If we agree with you to use or disclose any of your information in ways which are different to what is stated within this Privacy Policy, that agreement will override this policy.
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
By using our website and agreeing to this policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
We only ask for personal information relevant to our business relationship with you as a customer.
Where it is necessary to do so, we may collect personal information about you that is sensitive. Sensitive information includes information about an individual’s health, and membership of a professional or trade association.
Unless we are required or permitted by law to collect sensitive information, we will first obtain your consent.
However, if the information relates directly to your ability to meet financial obligations that you owe to us, you are treated as having consented to its collection.
Wherever possible, we will collect all information directly from you which will generally come from what you provide in your application for one of our products or services.
Where we communicate with you over the phone we may record those phone calls for training, quality assurance purposes or to maintain a record of your instructions to us.
We will inform you if you are being recorded, and you have the right to request that we do not record you. Please note if you request that we do not record you, we may not be able to discuss any of your personal information over the phone.
Where you supply us with personal information about another person (for example a referee or a person you wish to send a payment to), we will take this as confirmation that you have permission to do so. It is your responsibility to inform that person who we are, and that we will use and disclose their personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and that they can gain access to that information.
We may also collect personal information about you from third parties, such as any referees that you provide, your employer, a referrer who may have referred you to us for a product or service, other credit providers and third party service providers including credit reporting bodies. Credit reporting bodies collect credit information about individuals and companies, which they provide as credit reports to credit providers (like us) and others in the credit industry to assist them in managing credit risk, collecting debts and other related activities.
You can also ask a credit reporting body, through contact details on their website, not to use or disclose your personal information if you believe on reasonable grounds that you have been or are likely to be a victim of fraud, including identity fraud.
It is necessary for us to collect your IP address for your interaction with various parts of our website. Your IP address will not be used by us or released to any third party except in the case of security, inappropriate behaviour or fraud issues, such as unauthorised access to your or our computer systems or fraudulent transactions.
When you visit our website and log-in to our secure internet banking, we use “cookies” for security and personalisation purposes. When you visit the unsecured pages of our websites (i.e. public pages that you can access without providing login details) we use cookies to obtain information about how our website are being used so we can provide a better experience to our customers. A “cookie” is a small text file which is placed on your Internet browser and which we can access each time you visit our website.
Our website also includes a number of calculators, which may require you to enter your personal details. If you save the data you enter on the calculator, this information will be stored.
Please note that unless you log-on to our secure internet banking platform, or contact us using an online form, your visit and any browsing you do on our website will be completely anonymous.
Sometimes we may use an external service to collect the above information and provide us with reports that help us to understand our website’s traffic and webpage usage.
This includes, but not limited to, Google Analytics. You can access Google’s Privacy Policy at www.google.com/policies/privacy, or choose to opt-out of this activity at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We may use your information to provide you with information about products and services, including those of third parties, or other CarClarity Pty. Ltd. companies which we consider might be of interest to you.
We may also provide your details to other organisations for specific purposes such as direct marketing, pre-screening for direct marketing and to better understand our customer groups and profiles.
You may opt out at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing information or do not wish to receive marketing information through a particular channel, like email or SMS. You can make this request by contacting us or by unsubscribing from our email and/or SMS marketing messages, which always include an unsubscribe option.
We may use your information for credit direct marketing.
To do this we ask a credit reporting body to “pre-screen” a list of potential recipients of our direct marketing against our eligibility criteria, to remove recipients that do not meet those criteria.
The credit reporting body cannot use information about your existing loans or repayment history in carrying out its pre-screening and it must destroy its pre-screening assessment once it has given us, or a contractor acting on our behalf, the list of eligible recipients.
If you do not want your credit information used for pre-screening by a credit reporting body, you can opt-out by informing that credit reporting body. We may disclose information to or collect information from Equifax Inc.
Contact details can be found at www.equifax.com.au
We will choose partners who have privacy practices that align to our privacy policy in respect to your information that we share with them.
We will not directly disclose your personal information overseas, including your credit information. Where we are required to provide your information to other organisations in the provision of services, including but not limited to insurers, lenders’ mortgage insurers or other entities necessary in the provision of our products or services, your personal information may be disclosed by these organisations overseas, including your credit information.
Where this occurs, we will take reasonable measures to make sure that your privacy is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Upon your request, we will provide you with information on their Privacy Policy.
Depending on the type of information, we will sometimes send information to third-party storage providers to hold and keep secure. Where we send your information to a third party, we will take all reasonable measures to make sure your information is protected.
We ask you to keep your passwords and personal identification numbers safe, do not write them down, allow anyone to see you enter your details and do not tell anyone what they are.
Where we are given information that we did not ask for, we will only continue to hold the information if we need it. If we decide we do need this information, we will keep it securely along with the rest of your information. If we do not need this information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify it.
When we no longer require your information (including when we are no longer required by law to keep records relating to you), we will take reasonable steps to destroy or e-identify it.
We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 and are committed to complying with the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme (NDB) established by the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017.
The NDB requires that where a data breach is likely to result in serious harm to any individuals to whom the information relates, we are required to notify those individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
The NDB will provide greater protection to the personal information of consumers, greater transparency in the way organisations like us respond to data breaches and give individuals the opportunity to minimise the damage caused by any unauthorised use of their personal information.
You have the right to request access to the information that we hold about you at any time. You also have the right to request information that we hold about you be corrected at any time. Requests to access your information can be made by contacting us.
We will respond to your request for access within a reasonable time. If we refuse to give you access to any of your information, we will provide you with reasons for the refusal and the relevant provisions of the Privacy Act that we rely on to refuse access. You can contact us if you would like to challenge our decision to refuse access.
There is no charge for making a request to access your information. However, in some cases, there may be a charge to cover the time we spend locating, compiling and explaining the information you ask for. If there is a charge, we will give you an estimate upfront, and confirm that you wish to proceed.
From time to time we will update this Privacy Policy. Our current Privacy Policy is always available on our website: carclarity.com.au
We take reasonable steps to make sure that the information that we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However if you believe your information is incorrect, incomplete or not current, you have the right to request that we update or correct this information or if you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our handling of your personal details please contact us.
Privacy Officer
Phone 1800 569 062
Email hello@carclarity.com.au
Suite 312, 50 Holt Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
If we request further information from you to help us resolve your complaint and you do not respond, we may consider the matter resolved. However, if you provide information at a later date we will reopen the complaint and continue to work on a resolution for you.
If you are not satisfied with our initial response, you can request for your complaint to be reviewed by our External Dispute Resolution Service. CarClarity ACL Pty Ltd is a member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). AFCA is an external dispute resolution body that deal with complaints regarding the financial services industry.
Australian Financial Complaints Authority
Online www.afca.org.au
Email info@afca.org.au
Phone 1800 931 678
Mail Australian Financial Complaints Authority, GPO Box 3 Melbourne VIC 3001
Alternatively, you can reach out to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner who can investigate your complaint. They can be contacted by the privacy hotline 1300 363 992 or at www.oaic.gov.au
