Finance WA
Introduction
1. This Privacy Policy is Finance WA's official online
privacy policy and it applies to all personal information collected by
Finance WA. In this policy we explain how and why we
collect your personal information, how we use it, and what controls you
have over our use of it.
2. Finance WA is committed to complying with Commonwealth
legislation governing privacy of personal information by businesses and
to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you deal with us.
Collection of information
3. Some information provided to us by clients, customers, contractors
and other third parties might be considered private or personal. Without
these details we would not be able to carry on our business and provide
our services to you. We will only collect such personal information if
it is necessary for one of our functions or activities.
4. In particular, personal information is collected from people in the
following situations by Finance WA:
If you contact Finance WA, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
When you submit your e-mail address to our web site mailing list.
5. At or before the time the personal information is collected by us we
will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of who we
are, the fact that you are able to gain access to the information held
about you, the purpose of the collection, the type(s) of organisations
to which we usually disclose the information collected about you, any
laws requiring the collection of the information and the main
consequences for you if all or part of the information is not collected.
Use of information collected and disclosure of personal information to
others
6. We may use or disclose personal information held about an individual
for the primary purpose for which it is collected (eg. provision of our
services, including administration of our services, notification to you
about changes to our services, record-keeping following termination of
our services to you and technical maintenance). We may also use such
information for a purpose related to the primary purpose of collection
and where it would reasonably be expected by you that we would use the
information in such a way. This information is only disclosed to persons
outside our business in the circumstances set out in this policy or as
otherwise notified to you at the time of collection of the information.
7. In addition we are permitted to use or disclose personal information
held about you:
Where you have consented to the use or disclosure;
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to
lessen or prevent a serious, immediate threat to someone's health or
safety or the public's health or safety;
Where we reasonably suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or
may be engaged in and the use or disclosure is a necessary part of our
investigation or in reporting the matter to the relevant authorities;
Where such use or disclosure is required under or authorised by law (for
example, to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or other order of a court
or legal process);
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably
necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of
crimes or wrongdoings or the preparation for, conduct of, proceedings
before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a
court or tribunal by or on behalf of an enforcement body.
Links
8. Our web site may contain links to other web sites and those third
party web sites may collect personal information about you. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or the content
of web sites that are linked to our web site. Finance WA
encourages users to be aware when they leave the site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information.
Security and storage
9. Finance WA places a great importance on the security of
all information associated with our customers, clients and contractors.
We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the
loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control.
10. Personal information is de-identified or destroyed securely when no
longer required by us.
11. Finance WA retains the information you provide to us
including possibly your contact and credit card details to enable us to
verify transactions and customer details and to retain adequate records
for legal and accounting purposes. This information is held on secure
servers in controlled facilities.
12. Information stored within our computer systems can only be accessed
by those entrusted with authority and computer network password
sanctions.
13. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100
per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect user's personal
information, Finance WA cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information transmitted to it or from its online
products or services, and users do so at their own risk. Once Finance WA receives your transmission, it makes every effort to
ensure its security on its systems.
14. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for keeping your passwords
and/or account information secret. You should be careful and responsible
whenever you are online.
Access to and correction of personal information
15. Finance WA is committed to maintaining accurate,
timely, relevant and appropriate information about our customers,
clients and web-site users.
16. So long as your request for your personal information is in
accordance with the National Privacy Principles, then we will give you
access to that information.
17. Inaccurate information will be corrected upon receiving advice to
this effect from you. To ensure confidentiality, details of your
personal information will be passed on to you only if we are satisfied
that the information relates to you.
18. If we refuse to provide you with access or correct the personal
information held about you by us, then we will provide reasons for such
refusal.
Complaints
19. If you have a complaint about our Privacy Policy or the collection,
use or safe disposal or destruction of your personal information, your
complaint should be directed in the first instance to us at E-mail:
info@afgonline.com.au
20. We will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach
that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or
destruction of personal information held by us about you in accordance
with the Commonwealth Privacy legislation. If you are not satisfied with
the outcome of this procedure then you may request that an independent
person (usually the Commonwealth Privacy Officer) investigate your
complaint.
Transfer of information overseas
21. Pursuant to the National Privacy Principles we may transfer personal
information we have collected about you to someone other than you in a
foreign country only if such transfer is permitted by the National
Privacy Principles.
Cookies
22. Finance WA collects information from the site using
"IP files".
23. When you visit the Finance WA site to read, browse or
download information, our system will record/log your IP address (the
address which identifies your computer on the internet and which is
automatically recognised by our web server), date and time of your visit
to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. This
information will only be used for the purpose of site analysis and to
help us offer you improved online service. We may automatically collect
non-personal information about you such as the type of Internet browsers
you use or the site from which you linked to our Web Sites. You cannot
be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in
providing an effective service on our Web Sites.
Changes to Privacy Policy
24. If Finance WA decides to change its Privacy Policy, it
will post changes on this Privacy Policy page so that users are always
aware of what information is collected, how it is used and the way in
which information may be disclosed. As a result, please remember to
refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.
Contacting us
25. If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy,
please contact us at the following address: E-mail: info@financewa.com.au
26. Should you wish to read more information on privacy legislation or
the National Privacy Principles we recommend that you visit the Federal
Privacy Commissioner's website at www.privacy.gov.au.
Acceptance
27. You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of
this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.