Bank complies with the Australian Privacy Principles and Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in collecting and managing your personal information. We are collecting your personal information for the purposes of assessing your application for broker accreditation, establishing and administering your appointment and our internal operations. Your personal information may be used and disclosed to third party service providers for these purposes. If you do not disclose this information, we will not be able to give you broker accreditation. We may also use your personal information to get in touch with you about Bank products and services, or those of our alliance partners, that may be of interest (unless you tell us not to) Bank’s Privacy and Credit Reporting Policy contains information about how you can request us to provide you access to or seek correction of any personal information we hold about you and how you may complain about a breach of an Australian Privacy Principle and how we will deal with such a complaint.
You may seek access at any time to personal information held by us about you and ask us to correct it if you believe it is incorrect or out of date. We may use your personal information to:
• Assess whether to accept your Broker Accreditation Application form,
• Administer and manage our relationship with you,
•Facilitate our internal business operations, including fulfilment of any legal requirements and confidential systems maintenance and testing,
• Inform you in your business capacity of products and services provided by us which we consider may be of value or interest to your clients unless you tell us not to.
We may disclose your personal information if it is necessary to do so in the following circumstances:
• To any regulatory body,
• To any credit reporting agency to obtain a commercial and/ or consumer credit report, trade reference or other commercial and/or consumer information about you to accept your Broker Accreditation Application form,
• To our external service providers that provide services for the purposes only of our business, on a confidential basis, for example advisers and mailing houses,
• To any persons acting on your behalf, including your solicitor or accountant, unless you tell us not to,
• To any party acquiring an interest in any business, and
• If you request us to do so or if you consent or where the law requires or permits us to do so.
Your authority to us
By signing this Broker Accreditation Application form you authorise us to collect, maintain, use and disclose your personal information in the manner set out in this privacy statement.
I consent to the Privacy Notice above.