What personal information do we collect and hold?
The types of personal information we may collect about an individual will depend upon the nature of our interaction with them. Your personal information is likely to initially be collected directly from the ABN Group Company that you interact with. Personal information that we collect may include (but is not limited to) the following:
Generally:
- Name;
- Age and/or date of birth;
- Contact details including telephone numbers (landline and/or mobile);
- Address (including postal address);
- Email address;
- Socio-economic/demographic information;
- Personal preferences;
- Household information;
- Gender;
- Identification information such as driving licence details, including driving licence number;
- Payment details, such as your credit card or bank account details; and
- Information from publicly available social media accounts and profiles.
In relation to our employees, we are authorised to collect tax file numbers (TFNs) by the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth). It is not compulsory for you to provide your TFN for our products and services, but if you do not, taxation law may require additional deductions to be made from amounts payable to you.
How and when do we collect personal information?
ABN Group collects information about prospective clients and clients online, in-person and through telephone enquiries. ABN Group is the sole owner of the information and will use this data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted or required by law. ABN Group will not sell or rent this information to unaffiliated third parties.
We may also collect your personal information in the course of providing you with goods or services, or:
- When you make an enquiry about or buy our products or services;
- When you provide us, or you offer or apply to supply us, with goods or services;
- When you provide information to us in any way (including by completing a form, disclosing information over the phone or via email, or providing us a business card);
- When you request information about us, or our products or services;
- When you provide feedback to us;
- When you visit, fill in a form on, or otherwise interact with, our Website (including ‘live chat’ functions);
- When you visit premises from which we operate;
- When you (or your employer) provide that information to us in the course of conducting or administering our relationship with you, or when you are carrying out activities in connection with our business operations;
- When you submit a job application to us;
- When you otherwise contact us by telephone, fax, email, social media, post or in person; or
- Where we are otherwise required or authorised by law to do so.
Generally, when providing our products and services, dealing with our personnel, or obtaining goods and services from our service providers, suppliers or contractors, we collect personal information directly from the relevant individual where reasonable and practicable. However, we may also collect personal information about you from third parties and other sources such as:
- Your nominated representatives (eg spouse, accountant, power of attorney, brokers and other professional advisors);
- Publicly available sources of information; or
- other ABN Group Companies,
but we will only collect your personal information in this way if it is unreasonable or impracticable to collect this information directly from you or if we are otherwise permitted to do so.
If at any time you provide the personal information of another person, you must ensure that the other person has read and understood this Privacy Policy and separately consents to that personal information being used and disclosed by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Where we engage with you multiple times over a short period in relation to the same matter, we may not provide you with a separate notice about privacy each time we engage with you.
In most cases, if you choose not to provide your personal information to us for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or if we do not or are unable to collect the personal information we require, we may not be able to provide you with requested information, products or services, or to effectively conduct our relationship with you.