Thank you for applying for a credit account with Wilson & Bradley Pty Ltd.
This online application service has been provided so we can process your application as quickly as possible.
To complete your application, we will ask for the following information to be provided:
If you require a Cash With Order (CWO) account please fill out our CWO application: https://wilbrad.applyeasy.com.au/cwo.
If you require any assistance with your application, please contact our accounts department on 1800 633 507
CreditorWatch Pty Limited ACN (144 644 244) (“CreditorWatch” or “we”, “our” or “us”) is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (as amended) (“Privacy Act”), including the Australian Privacy Principles. This Privacy Policy sets out how we treat the personal information that we collect, use and disclose and our procedures regarding the handling of personal and sensitive information, including the collection, use, disclosure and storage of information, as well as the right of individuals to access and correct that information.
From time to time, we may revise or update this Privacy Policy or our information handling practices. If we do so, the revised Privacy Policy will be published on our website www.creditorwatch.com.au
CreditorWatch may collect personal information in order to conduct our business, to provide and market our services and to meet our legal obligations. By using our website or our services, or by providing any personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
The types of personal information we may collect and hold includes (but is not limited to) personal information about:
Personal information that we collect and may hold include:
You are not obliged to provide personal information to CreditorWatch. However in many cases, if you do not provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to supply the relevant product or service that you have requested from us.
In some circumstances, you may provide to us, and we may collect from you, personal information of a third party. Where you provide the personal information of a third party, you must ensure that the third party is aware of this Privacy Policy, understands it and agrees to accept it.
If it is necessary to provide specific services to you, we may collect sensitive information about you. Under the Privacy Act, “sensitive information” includes but is not limited to information or an opinion about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, religious belief, or criminal record and also includes health information about an individual. However, we will only collect sensitive information from you if you agree to provide it to us, you authorise us to obtain it from a third party or where the collection of the information is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a Court/Tribunal order or otherwise where the collection is not prohibited under the Privacy Act. We will only use sensitive information in accordance with the Privacy Act and for the purpose for which it is provided.
We collect personal information in the following ways:
We may also collect information about you from third party suppliers and government database services.
We store personal information in computer storage facilities and paper-based files. We take steps to protect your personal information against loss, unauthorised access, use modification or disclosure. Some examples of the steps we take to protect your personal information include:
Information that may identify you as a user may be gathered during your access with our website.
Our website includes pages that use ‘cookies’. A cookie is a unique identification number that allows the server to identify and interact more effectively with your computer. The cookie assists us in identifying what our users find interesting on our website.
A cookie will be allocated each time you use our website. The cookie does not identify you as an individual in our data collection process, however it does identify your Internet Service Provider.
You can configure your web browser to refuse cookies. If you do so, you may not be able to use all or part of our website.
CreditorWatch, or its related body corporates in the ATI Group, may collect some personal information that is a government related identifier.
Personal information from identity documents may be provided to the document issuer or official record holder via third party systems for the purpose of confirming your identity, for example, the Australian Government’s Document Verification Service (DVS). Where CreditorWatch does collect government related identifiers, they are maintained on a separate database for audit and compliance purposes.
CreditorWatch may use or disclose a government related identifier where:
We collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for a variety of business purposes including:
We also collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information to:
If you do not wish to disclose your personal information for the purpose of direct marketing or you would like to opt-out of receiving direct marketing communications, you can do so by contacting the CreditorWatch Privacy Officer using the contact details set out below, or by following the instructions to unsubscribe which are contained in a communication that you receive from us.
The ATI Group and Related Companies
The ATI Group includes our parent company Australian Technology Innovators Pty Ltd, LEAP Legal Software Pty Ltd, InfoTrack Group Pty Ltd and their subsidiaries, CNCNA Pty Ltd (trading as eCompanies), InfoTrack Limited (NZ), InfoTrack Group Limited (UK) and its subsidiaries, and LotSearch Pty Ltd. Different companies within the ATI Group provide different services.
The ATI Group may share information with our integration partners to ensure the smooth running of the services which we, and they, provide. These partners include Sympli Pty Ltd, Practice Evolve Group Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries, Legal Software Developments Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries, and other partners as mentioned on our website and updated from time to time. At times, we may need to provide personal information to them to help them run their businesses or for reporting purposes. We may also share your personal information within the wider Australian Technology Innovators Pty Ltd group companies (ATI Group) and with our service providers for the purposes outlined above.
Third Party Service Providers
We may disclose your personal information to third party service providers who assist us in providing the services you request, including public authorities and providers of information services.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties who work with us in our business to promote, market or improve the services that we provide, including:
We may also combine your personal information with information available from other sources, including the entities mentioned above, to help us provide better services to you.
Where we do share information with third parties, we require that there are contracts in place that only allow use and disclosure of personal information to provide the service and that protect your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act. Otherwise, we will disclose personal information to others if you’ve given us permission, or if the disclosure relates to the main purpose for which we collected the information and you would reasonably expect us to do so.
As a credit reporting agency, we may share your credit information in accordance with industry consumer credit reporting standards including:
These standards ensure that your personal information in relation to your consumer credit is managed regarding:
We do not presently disclose personal information to any organisations located overseas; however, we do disclose information in Australia, for the purposes described above, to some multinational organisations that are located both in Australia and overseas, including the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.
If you are a resident of the European Union for the purposes of the GDPR, then in addition to what is set out above, the following applies to you.
CreditorWatch is a data controller and processor for the purposes of the GDPR and by your consenting to this Privacy Policy, CreditorWatch is able to process your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
In providing services to you, CreditorWatch may make use of a number of automated processes using your Personal Information and your activity on our site as tracked by us, in order to provide more tailored and relevant services to you.
In addition to your rights set out above, you may update or rectify any of your Personal Information that we hold about you, in the manner described in the “How you can access your personal information” paragraph above.
You have a right to request access to your personal information which we hold about you and to request its correction. You can make such a request by contacting the CreditorWatch Privacy Officer using the contact details set out in this policy.
We will respond to any such request for access as soon as reasonably practicable. Where access is to be given, we will provide you with a copy or details of your personal information in the manner requested by you where it is reasonable and practicable to do so.
We will not charge you a fee for making a request to access your personal information. However, we may charge you a reasonable fee for giving you access to your personal information.
In some cases, we may refuse to give you access to the information you have requested or only give you access to certain information. If we do this, we will provide you with a written statement setting out our reasons for refusal, except where it would be unreasonable to do so.
We will take such steps (if any) as are reasonable in the circumstances to make sure that the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up to date and relevant.
If you believe the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, irrelevant, out of date or incomplete, you can ask us to update or correct it. To do so, please contact us using the contact details listed below.
If we refuse your request to correct your personal information, we will let you know why. You also have the right to request that a statement be associated with your personal information that says you believe it is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant, misleading or out of date.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, if you wish to correct or update information we hold about you or if you wish to request access or correction of your personal information or make a complaint about a breach by CreditorWatch of the Australian Privacy Principles (including the way we have collected, disclosed or used your personal information), please contact:
CreditorWatch Privacy Officer GPO Box 4029 Sydney NSW 2001 privacy@creditorwatch.com.au 1800 738 524
We will acknowledge and investigate any complaint about the way we manage personal information as soon as practicable. We will take reasonable steps to remedy any failure to comply with our privacy obligations. If you are unhappy with our handling of the complaint, you may contact the Australian Information Commissioner.
Last update: 29 May 2019
Privacy Policy Wilson & Bradley Pty Ltd (W&B) is committed to managing personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act), and in accordance with other applicable privacy laws (Privacy Laws). To the extent W&B handles your credit-related personal information, W&B will also comply with the Privacy (Credit Reporting) Code 2014 (Version 2.1) (Credit Reporting Code). We only collect, use or disclose personal information (which may include sensitive information as defined in the Privacy Act), including credit-related information, in accordance with Privacy Laws, the Credit Reporting Code and this Policy. In this Policy, “we”, “us” and “our” means W&B. 1. Your privacy is important to us We understand that the privacy and confidentiality of your personal and credit-related personal information is important. Our intention is to use the personal information provided by you to us and credit-related personal information obtained by us to make any dealings with W&B better suited to your needs. Our Policy describes how we collect, hold, use and may disclose your personal information through our website (https://www.wilbrad.com.au/) (Website), and other interactions (e.g. customer service inquiries, etc.) you may have with us (collectively, the Services). Our aim is to ensure the quality, integrity and security of your personal information, including credit-related information. 2. What information do we collect? We collect personal information – that is, any information or opinion about an identified individual or individual who is reasonably identifiable. The personal information that we collect about you will depend on the Services we provide to you, or that you may enquire about. Some examples of personal information we collect may include (but is not limited to): your name and date of birth; contact details such as telephone number, email address or delivery address; payment or banking information (including related payment verification information); and, any other information you choose to provide us with. We do not collect sensitive information, unless you provide it to us. Sensitive information includes (but is not limited to), information about a person’s health (including medical information), race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, and criminal history. We may also collect credit information, being credit related personal information lawfully created and accessible within the Australian credit reporting system including: a. identification information; b. consumer credit liability information which includes information about your credit providers and credit accounts, including the dates on which the accounts are opened and closed, their limits, and their terms and conditions (or any changes to their terms and conditions); c. whether you have or have not met any monthly repayment obligations; d. whether you have defaulted on a payment (ie. a payment that is at least 60 days overdue and over $ 150.00 in value) provided we have notified you in accordance with the Privacy Act; e. whether you have paid any amount previously reported as being in default; f. that another credit provider has sought credit-related personal information about you from a credit reporting body; g. information about the types of consumer or commercial credit, and the amounts of credit, you have sought from a credit provider; h. information about court proceedings related to credit provided to you or for which you have applied; i. personal insolvency information and other publicly available information relating to your credit worthiness; j. a credit provider’s reasonable belief that you have committed a serious credit infringement; k. any other information lawfully obtainable within the Australian credit reporting system; l. credit eligibility information which is credit-related information about you that we obtain from a credit reporting body such as CreditorWatch (the details of which are set out below), together with information we derive from such information based on its own analysis including internally generated scores, ratings and other assessments used to evaluate your credit worthiness. We generally receive from CreditorWatch information about existing credit accounts, previous defaults, repayment history information etc. 3. Why do we collect personal information? We collect personal information, including credit-related information from you when it is reasonably necessary in the course of our business. We collect it to provide you with the purposes for which it was collected (and related purposes) which would be reasonably expected by you; purposes to which you have consented; to supply you with the products and Services that you have requested from us and to provide you with the best possible service; or as otherwise authorised by law. Reasons we may collect personal information include: to communicate with you, including by email, telephone and mail; to answer your questions and comments and provide you with information or advice; to obtain payment for our products and Services, assess a credit application for, and if successful, administering your credit application and account; and, to comply with laws or regulations or to comply with any directions given by regulators or authorities. 4. How do we collect personal information? We collect your personal information in a number of ways and for various purposes, including: 1. You give it to us when you interact with us. This may happen when you contact us, sign up to our newsletter, create an account, purchase our products online, or use our Services. 2. We collect information when you use our Services. The purpose of collection is to improve users experience of the site and for record keeping purposes. Such information may include: • information from our website www.wilbrad.com.au including the number of visits, dates of visits, pages viewed and navigation of the site; and • transaction information including the type of Services you requested or provided, your order details, delivery information, date and time the service was provided, amount charged, and payment method. 3. We obtain information from outside sources like marketing mailing lists, public information (including public posts to social networking sites) and commercially available personal, identity, geographic and demographic information. If we collect personal information about you from a third party we will, where appropriate, request that the third party inform you that we are holding such information, how we will use and disclose it, and that you may contact us to gain access to and correct and update the information. We may also collect your personal information to comply with legal requirements or obligations, law enforcement, and for public safety purposes. If you provide personal information about another person to us, we require that you: • inform that person you have done so and provide them with a copy of this policy; and • confirm to us that you have that person’s consent to provide such information for the purpose specified. If we receive unsolicited personal information about you that we could not have collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Act, we will destroy or de-identify such information received. 5. How do we use your information? We will only use and disclose your personal information: • for the purposes outlined in Section 4; or • if we otherwise get your consent to do so, in accordance with this Policy and the Privacy Act. We may also disclose your personal information, including your credit information, to lenders, other credit providers and credit reporting bodies, CreditorWatch (contactable on the details set out below). In particular, we may disclose to CreditorWatch information about you failing to meet your payment obligations or if you commit a serious credit infringement. CreditorWatch may include any information provided to it by us in reports that are then provided to other credit providers for the purpose of such credit providers assessing your credit worthiness. Our disclosures of your personal information to third parties are on a confidential basis, in accordance with relevant non-disclosure agreements, and/or otherwise in accordance with law. [Creditor Watch can be contacted: • in accordance with its privacy policy, including its management of credit related personal information, at: www.creditorwatch.com.au ; and/or • at: GPO Box 276, Sydney NSW 2001 or otherwise by phone on 1300 50 13 12. We will not use your personal information for any purpose for which you would not reasonably expect us to use your personal information. We will only use or disclose your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing if: • we collected the information directly from you; • it is reasonable in the circumstances to expect that we would use or disclose the information for direct marketing purposes; • we provide you with a simple means to ‘opt-out’ of direct marketing communications from us; and • you have not elected to ‘opt-out’ from receiving such direct marketing communications from us. We will not use or disclose credit related personal information for direct marketing purposes except to the extent permitted under the Act, for the purpose of CreditorWatch assessing your eligibility to receive direct marketing communications sent on our behalf. You may make a request directly to CreditorWatch not to use your credit related personal information for these purposes. You may opt-out of receiving marketing information from us at any time by: • clicking on a link in the email communications sent to you; or • contacting our Privacy Officer. Please allow a reasonable period for your request to be actioned. 6. Cookies and Third Party Technologies Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. These cookies allow us to increase your security by storing your session ID and are a way of monitoring single user access. The use of cookies do not allow the identification of individuals. You may adjust your browser to refuse to accept cookies, remove cookies or notify you when a cookie is set by editing your web browser preferences or options. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu on your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You do not have to accept all cookies sent to you by our website. However, depending on the particular cookie you reject, you may not be able to use some features of our website. 7. Sharing your personal information To ensure that we can meet your specific needs, we may share your personal information with third parties where the law otherwise allows, including: • third parties engaged by us to perform functions or provide products or services on our or their behalf such as mail outs, marketing or advertising; • third parties that sponsor or promote us; • credit reporting bodies and credit providers; • our professional advisors, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers; • persons authorised by you to receive information held by us; and • any person as required or permitted by any law. Generally, we require that third parties who handle or obtain personal information as service providers to acknowledge the confidentiality of your personal information, undertake to respect an individual’s right to privacy and comply with the Privacy Act and this Policy. We may also disclose aggregate or de-identified data that is not personally identifiable with third parties. Aggregate data is created by pooling information about individuals and describing the data in the aggregate (e.g. 20% of customers who clicked on the X promotion participated in the promotion). 8. Access and correction of personal information If you require access to your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer. We reserve the right to charge you reasonable expenses for providing access to or updating your personal information, for example, a fee for photocopying any information requested by you. We endeavour to ensure that the personal information it holds is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Please contact our Privacy Officer if you believe the information we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date. Where necessary to resolve a request for correction of your credit related personal information, we may also consult with other relevant entities, including but not limited to [Creditor Watch. Our use or disclosure of your credit related personal information for correction purposes is permitted by the Privacy Act. We are not obliged to correct any of your personal information if we do not agree that it requires correction. If we refuse a correction request, we will provide you with a written notice stating our reasons for refusing. We will respond to all requests for access to or correction of personal information within a reasonable time. 9. Storage and security of your personal information Data retention We will retain your personal information for as long as you maintain an account or as otherwise necessary to provide you the products and Services. We will also retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Where we no longer need to process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Policy, we will delete your personal data from our systems. Security We hold your personal information in a combination of hard copy and electronic files. Electronic files may be stored in servers that are operated and maintained by us and third parties under contract with us and they are located in Australia. Credit eligibility information, such as information we receive from CreditWatch for the purpose of assessing credit worthiness, is stored through equally secure methods set out in this paragraph. We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure or interference and unauthorised access. We endeavour to keep information, including your personal information provided by you or on your behalf, secure and confidential. However, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you send to us using online communication. You submit information online at your own risk. Links to other websites Our Services may provide a link or otherwise provide access to third party websites. We provide these links because we believe you may find them useful and informative. Please be aware, however, that we have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for third party websites, their content, or any goods or services available through the third party websites. Our Policy does not apply to third party websites, and any information that you provide to third party websites, you provide at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party websites that you may interact with. 10. Notifiable Data Breaches Despite our every effort to protect your personal information, there remains the possibility that a breach of our security could occur. In the event of any loss, or unauthorised access or disclosure of your personal information that is likely to result in serious harm to you, we will: • seek to rapidly identify and secure the breach to prevent any further breaches; • engage the appropriate authorities where criminal activity is suspected; • assess the nature and severity of the breach including the type of personal information involved and the risk of harm to affected individuals; • notify the affected individuals directly if appropriate and where possible; • if appropriate, put a notice on our website advising our customers of the breach; and • notify the Australian Information Commissioner (at the OAIC) if the breach is significant. 11. Privacy complaint If you have a complaint about how we collect, use, disclose, manage or protect your personal information, or otherwise consider there may be a breach of the Privacy Act or the APPs, please contact our Privacy Officer. You will need to provide us with sufficient details regarding your complaint as well as any supporting evidence and/or information. If your complaint relates to credit related personal information and/or our failure to comply with our obligations regarding credit related personal information under the Privacy Act and/or the Credit Reporting Code: • we will acknowledge your complaint within 7 days of receipt and endeavour to resolve it within 30 days, unless we inform you otherwise and seek your agreement in writing; • we may consult with relevant third parties such as CreditorWatch and/or other credit providers, in order to sufficiently and expeditiously resolve the complaint; and if your complaint relates to our refusal to provide access to, or correct, your credit related personal information, you may complain directly to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The Privacy Officer will investigate the issue and determine the steps (if any) that we will undertake to resolve your complaint. We will contact you if we require any additional information and will notify you in writing of the outcome of the investigation. If you are not satisfied with our determination, you can contact us to discuss your concerns or complain to the Australian Information Commissioner via www.oaic.gov.au. 12. How to contact us If you have any questions about W&B and privacy, wish to provide feedback about this Policy, would like to access information held by W&B about you, or wish to make a privacy related complaint, please contact our Privacy Officer at: Phone: 1800 633 507 Email: sales@willbrad.com.au Postal address: The Privacy Officer Wilson & Bradley Pty Ltd 94 Bell Street Preston VIC 3072 Please submit any complaint in writing. We will respond to your complaint as soon as possible. 13. Further information Further information about the application of the Privacy Act can be found at the website of the OAIC at www.oaic.gov.au. 14. Changes We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time, without notice to you. An up-to-date copy of our Privacy Policy is available on our Website.
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