Personal Information and its importance
Personal information is information or an opinion about you from which your identity is apparent.
Protecting your privacy is fundamental to the way we do business. This document sets out the way we will collect, store, use and share your personal information. It will also provide you with information about what you can do to access the personal information we have about you, the way you can have it corrected, if necessary, and what steps you can take to complain about any action taken by us in relation to the information.
The legal framework under which we deal with your personal information is set out in the Privacy Act, the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (contained in Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act) and the Credit Reporting Privacy Code made under the Privacy Act. These rules apply to information about individuals, not corporations.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the Website, or by providing us with personal information, you confirm that you have read, understand, and agree to this Privacy Policy in its entirety.
Why we collect personal information
We collect personal information so that we can:-
a) provide you with information about products or services we currently offer, or may offer in the future, or are offered by our commercial partners
b) accept and process your application for a loan in accordance with the requirements by law;
c) assess your personal and/or commercial creditworthiness;
d) make a determination about the risk of you defaulting on your obligations to us;
e) undertake, where appropriate, risk assessment and management involving securitisation, credit scoring, portfolio analysis, reporting and fraud prevention and claim recovery;
f) if your application is successful, arrange a loan for you and determine on what terms we will do so;
g) manage your account with us;
h) maintain communications with you concerning your status as a borrower, your loan agreement or loan
i) assist in the resolution of any dispute you have with us, and
j) satisfy an obligation we may have under the law to collect personal information or make assessments.
We will not use personal information we have collected for a purpose other than that disclosed in this Privacy Policy without your consent, or in circumstances where you would reasonably expect the use for that purpose.
If you do not provide us with your personal information
If you do not provide us with your personal information or give us consent to collect it from others, we will be unable to, amongst other things, process your application and make the assessment that we are required to by law. We will therefore not be able to satisfy our obligations and will not be able to progress with your application for a loan.
Where we get personal information
We obtain personal information from any of the following sources:-
a) you in the process of requesting information from Radium, during your loan application or in other communication with you via contact forms, email, phone, mail, facsimile, other electronic forms or in person;
b) publicly available information such as telephone directories, information on websites or from public databases such as the electoral roll;
c) other credit providers from whom we request information;
d) identity verification providers;
e) credit reporting bodies;
f) persons or entities you have authorised to provide us with information;
g) Government agencies including but not limited to ASIC
Where we obtain personal information which we are either required to collect, or authorised to collect by law, we will advise you of that fact.
Information collected on our website
We use web browser tracking technology (cookies, embedded JavaScript), which help us make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your web browser that enable these parties to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies will not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Nevertheless, if you do not want to use cookies, this will not prevent you from accessing the Website in any way. Your browser can be configured so that cookies can be accepted with your permission or completely blocked. JavaScript is web browser specific code that runs on our web pages to provide us with analytics on how parts of our website are used, and highlights those which are not. Your web browser also blocks JavaScript used for analytics based on your preferences.
Sensitive information
“Sensitive information” is information about your 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 or genetic information.
We will not collect, use, or disclose any sensitive information about you unless we have your specific consent, and it is necessary to undertake one of the functions referred to above.
Exchange of information
We may disclose your personal information to:-
a) Underwriters in for the purposes of assessing your application for a loan;
b) such credit reporting bodies, ratings agencies and any business which provide information about the credit worthiness of persons with whom we have a commercial arrangement (more detail about this appears below);
c) our professional advisers, contractors and other service providers (eg. IT consultants);
d) your legal and financial advisers (if any) if permitted by you;
e) Centrelink, Australian Taxation Office or other Government departments, agencies or bodies, to whom we may be required by law to disclose information supplied by you to us;
f) our financiers;
g) our contractors, agents and service providers (including debt collectors) in order that we may deal with you more efficiently or collect monies owing to us;
h) our ASIC and OAIC approved external dispute resolution service;
i) payment system operators (if any);
j) our insurers, insurance underwriters/providers in relation to our insurance policies;
k) entities who may purchase (or who may be interested in purchasing) any interest in the obligations you may owe us under the credit contract, and
l) entities (either credit licensees (credit providers or credit assistance providers) or lead providers) to whom we may sell your personal information for a fee. The credit licensees or lead providers may either provide a service to you themselves or on-sell your personal information to others on the same basis as your personal information is sold to them.
Overseas disclosure
In the process of assessing your application, it will be necessary for us to send your information overseas to our underwriters who, on our behalf and as instructed by us, may access that information for the purposes of making the assessment. Where information is sent overseas, we ensure that necessary data handling and security arrangements are in place using the standards that we would expect in Australia as a basis. However, it should be noted that Australian law may not apply to some of the entities to whom we send the information.
It is our expectation that the information may be sent to countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India and the Philippines.
Additionally, we acknowledge that as part of our backup system, some of your information might be stored overseas (for example if we use “cloud storage”), but the information will not be available to be accessed by any person overseas as part of this arrangement.
Credit reporting
The Privacy Act allows credit providers to disclose some information to credit reporting bodies. The information which is disclosed depends on the level at which we participate in the credit reporting system. The credit reporting bodies are also bound by the Privacy Act and are restricted in the uses to which that information may be used. Each of the credit reporting bodies must have a policy, similar to this one, to explain how it uses your information.
The information we may disclose to a credit reporting body is the following:-
a) whether we provide you with a loan;
b) the type of loan provided;
c) the amount of the loan provided;
d) the date the loan was supplied;
e) the date the loan was terminated;
f) the terms of the loan;
g) whether payments are made on the loan;
h) if you default in making a payment on the loan (where the amount is $150 or more and has been outstanding for 60 days or more);
i) whether you were late in making payments and whether you make those payments up, and
j) if you commit a serious credit infringement (fraudulent activity or deliberately evading your obligations under the loan terms
There are two credit-reporting bodies with whom we might deal. They are:
Equifax Limited
Tel: 1300 850 211 (Mon – Fri, 8:30am – 6:00pm EST)
Email: membership.query@equifax.com.au
Mail: PO Box 964, North Sydney NSW 2059
Illion Australia Pty Ltd
Tel: 1300 734 806 (Mon – Fri, 8:30am – 5:30pm EST)
Email: pac.austral@illion.com.au
Web: www.checkyourcredit.com.au
Mail: PO Box 7405, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004
Access
The Privacy Act provides that, subject to some exceptions, you have a right to know what information we hold about you including information we have obtained from a credit reporting bodies. If you wish to access the personal information we hold about you, including information we have obtained from a credit reporting body, you should make contact with us in any of the following ways:
Tel: 1800 723 486
Email: support@radiumcapital.com.au
Mail: PO Box 7565, Cloisters Square PO, WA 6850
It may be necessary for us to verify your identity before we can provide any information.
We will usually be able to provide this information to you within 30 days of the request. Should we require longer, we will write to you advising you a reason and seeking additional time. We may require you to pay our reasonable costs of providing this information to you. There are restrictions in relation to those costs contained in the law.
If possible, we will provide you with the personal information in the form you request. However, in some circumstances it may be necessary for you to access that information in a method determined by us, but we will always make it as easy as possible for you to access that information.
There may be occasions where we cannot provide you with that information. In such a case we will write to you and give you our reasons.
Correction
You can request that any personal information we hold be corrected if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. If you wish to make such a request you should contact us by any of the methods set out above.
If your request relates to information that we have received from a credit reporting body, we will contact the credit reporting body and advise them of your request.
If we agree with you that your information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date we will make the appropriate changes and will write to you and tell you the changes we have made within seven days of making that change.
If we do not agree that the information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, we will write to you giving you the reasons why we have formed the opinion and tell you what steps you can take as a result of our refusal to change the information.
Complaints
You are entitled to complain if you believe we have not dealt with your personal information in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act (including the 13 Australian Privacy Principles) or any code under the Privacy Act (including the Credit Reporting Privacy Code).
If you wish to make a complaint, you should first contact us telling us what the complaint is and we will do our best to resolve the complaint with you.
If we believe that we cannot resolve the complaint within 30 days, we will write to you telling you why and seeking further time.
If you are not satisfied with the resolution of the complaint, you have a right to refer the complaint to our external dispute resolution service, the Office of the Australian information Commissioner (“OAIC”).
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Tel: 1300 363 992
Fax: +61 2 6123 5145
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Web: www.oaic.gov.au
Mail: GPO Box 5288, Sydney NSW 2001
Compliant Form: https://forms.business.gov.au/smartforms/servlet/SmartForm.html?formCode=APC_PC&tmFormVersion