OverviewPositive collects information about you for the purposes you agree to in this Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent. When you sign below, you agree we can,
consistently with Australia's privacy and credit reporting laws, collect, use and exchange credit and personal information about you for those purposes
Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent:
We are collecting credit and personal information (information) about you, as applicable:
- To source for you, or a company of which you are a director:
- Consumer credit for personal, household, domestic or residential investment purposes;
- Commercial credit for business purposes; or
- Other services stated in this Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent (Consent); or
- To support a guarantor application you will provide.
We require the information we collect from you to assess your credit, or guarantor, application or the credit application of a company of which you are a director, source
a suitable credit provider and any required insurances and to manage the application process, where required. If you do not provide the information sought we may be
unable to process your application, or the company's application, or we may be limited in the other services we can offer you or the company.
Your information – Collection and Credit Reporting Body (‘CRB’) Disclosures:
When we collect information from you in the credit application process, we use that information in a number of ways to assess your credit application and to source a
suitable credit provider or lessor and/or insurance provider. We may:
- Disclose your identification information to a CRB if you wish us to obtain a report on your behalf;
- Use any information the CRB provides in that report to assist us to preliminarily assess your consumer credit or guarantor application;
- Disclose your personal information to an insurer or insurers to source any insurances you wish to obtain
- Disclose your credit information to a credit provider or credit providers to apply for finance on your behalf
- Disclose your credit information or personal information to the referral partner who we have a formal referral agreement with and where the referral originated
The information we obtain from you is used, subject to compliance with Australia's privacy and credit reporting laws, only for the purposes listed in this Consent and is not
disclosed to any other person except with your permission or as permitted, or required, by law.
Credit Providers:
As part of providing our services to you, we may undertake tasks for a credit provider which are reasonably necessary to manage the application process. When doing so,
we are acting as agent for the credit provider, with the same privacy law requirements applying to both of us.
We may submit your application to one or more credit providers. Those credit providers and their website addresses are set out in the Schedule at the end of this
document.
A credit provider, to whom we submit an application, may disclose information about you to, and collect information about you from, from one or more CRBs. The website
of each credit provider contains details of how they collect, disclose and use your information, your key rights, and each CRB they deal with. This detail may be described
on the credit providers’ websites as ‘notifiable matters’, ‘privacy policy’, ‘credit reporting policy’ or ‘privacy disclosure statement and consent’, and includes:
- That the CRB may include information the credit provider discloses about you to other credit providers to assess your creditworthiness
- That, if you become overdue in making consumer credit payments or you commit a serious credit infringement, the credit provider may disclose that information
to a CRB
- How you can obtain the credit provider’s and/or CRB’s policies about managing your credit information
- Your right to access and/or correct information held about you and to complain about conduct that may breach the privacy and credit reporting laws
- Your right to request a CRB not to undertake pre-screening for purposes of direct marketing by a credit provider
- Your right to request a CRB not to release information about you if you believe you are a victim of fraud
This detail will also be included by the credit provider in the privacy disclosure statement and consent document it will provide to you.
Each credit provider website includes information on how to contact the credit provider and how to obtain a copy of its privacy documents in a form that suits you (e.g.
hard copy or email).
Your rights:
You have the right to ask:
- Us to provide you with all the information we hold about you
- Us to correct the information we hold if it is incorrect
- Us for copies of our privacy policy and this document, in a form that suits you (e.g. hard copy or email)
- The CRB not to use your information for direct marketing assessment purposes, including pre-screening
- The CRB to provide you with a copy of the information it holds about you