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The Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act sets out a number of Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). It is Goldsborough Financial Services’s (Goldsborough’s) aim to both support, and ensure we comply with, these principles.
We believe that this Statement will address any potential concerns you may have about how personal information you provide us is collected, held, used, corrected, disclosed and transferred. You can obtain more information on request about the way we manage the personal information we hold by contacting us in one of the ways set out at the end of this document.
You can deal with us anonymously where it is lawful and practicable to do so. For example, if you telephone requesting our postal address.
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As a financial planning organisation we are subject to certain legislative and regulatory requirements which necessitate us obtaining and holding detailed information which personally identifies you and/or contains information or an opinion about you (“personal information”). In addition, our ability to provide you with a comprehensive financial planning advice service is dependent on us obtaining certain personal information about you, including:
(a) Details of your financial needs and objectives;
(b) Details of your current financial circumstances, including your assets and liabilities (both actual and potential), income, expenditure, insurance cover and superannuation;
(c) Details of your investment preferences and aversion or tolerance to risk;
(d) Information about your employment history, employment circumstances, family commitments and social security eligibility;
(e) Information about you that is needed to meet requirements with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financial Act 2006;
(f) Any other information relevant to your needs.
Failure to provide the personal information referred to above may expose you to higher risks in respect of the recommendations made to you and may affect the adequacy or appropriateness of advice we give you. Furthermore if we are unable to collect sufficient information to ensure appropriate advice pursuant to the requirements of the Corporations Act and Rules of Professional Conduct of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) we may elect to terminate any agreement with you.
We will not collect any personal information about you except when you have knowingly provided that information to us or authorised a third party to provide that information to us. You have the right to refuse us authorisation to collect information from a third party. We will only collect, maintain and use personal information about you if it is necessary for us to adequately provide to you the services you have requested.
Without your consent we will not collect information about you that reveals your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or affiliations, membership of professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, details of health, disability, sexual orientation or criminal record. This is subject to some exceptions including: if the collection is required by law; and when the information is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.
Personal information will be treated as confidential information and sensitive information will be treated as highly confidential.
We will not use or disclose Personal Information collected by us for any purpose other than:
(a) the purposes for which it was provided or secondary related purposes in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure; or
(b) where you have consented to such disclosure; or
(c) where the APP authorise use or disclosure where required or authorised under law.,
in circumstances relating to public health and safety and in connection with certain operations by or on behalf of an enforcement body.
In certain circumstances we are required to collect government identifiers such as your tax file number, Medicare number or pension card number. We do not use or disclose this information other than when required or authorised by law or unless you have voluntarily consented to disclose this information to a third party.
As part of our operations some uses and disclosures of your information may occur outside your State or Territory and/or outside of Australia. In some circumstances we may need to obtain your consent before this occurs.
We may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of Goldsborough. The organisations to which we disclose information may include:
Note: These organisations will be required to maintain confidentiality.
We may engage third party contractors to assist in the provision of our services to you who require some of your personal data to perform the service, for example an email mailing house. These third parties may store some of this data overseas. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the recipient does not breach the APPs.
We may also use the information in a way that is related to the primary purpose and it is reasonable for you to expect the information to be disclosed. From time to time, we may provide you with direct marketing material. This will include articles and newsletters that may be of interest to you. We may only use sensitive information about you for direct marketing once we have obtained your consent.
If, at any time, you do not wish to receive this information any more, you may contact us with this request. We will endeavour to meet your request within 2 weeks. We maintain a register for those individuals not wanting direct marketing material.
We will at all times seek to protect personal information from misuse, unauthorised access, modification, disclosure or loss. Your personal information is held in a client file and on our computer database. Access to clients files is limited to authorised personnel and access to computer based information is protected by individual passwords. Our premises are locked and alarmed outside of business hours.
In the event that you cease to be a client of this organisation, any personal information which we hold about you will be maintained in a secure off site storage facility for a period of at least 7 years in order to comply with legislative requirements, following which time the information will be destroyed.
We are committed to providing our clients, and other parties whose personal information we hold, a fair and responsible system for the handling of their complaints. If at any time you have any complaints in relation to privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer by one of the methods referred to on the front page. We will seek to address any concerns that you have through our complaints handling processes.
If you are unhappy with our response and wish to take matters further you may refer your concerns to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
If you would like any further information from Goldsborough about this Statement or our privacy policy generally please contact our Privacy Officer at one of the reference points shown on the front page. We suggest you check our website regularly for any updates to our Privacy Policy, or you may contact us for a copy.
