'We’, ‘us’ and‘our’ refer to JKR Wealth Solutions T/a Dare Financial Solutions ABN 42 632 724201 and our subsidiaries and related businesses.
We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our privacy policy.We recognise that any personal information we collect about you will only be used for the purposes we have collected it for as allowed by law. It is important to us that you are confident any personal information we hold about you will be treated in a way that ensures protection of your personal information. Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the Australian Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant laws.
When we refer to personal information we mean information from which your identity is reasonably apparent. This information may include information or an opinion about you.The kinds of personal information we may collect about you include your name, date of birth,address, account details, occupation, and any other information we made need to identify you.If you are applying for finance we may also collect the ages and number of your dependants and cohabitants, the length of time at your current address, your employment details and proof of earnings and expenses.The personal information we collect and hold about you may include credit information.Credit information is information which is used to assess your eligibility to be provided with finance and may include any finance that you have outstanding,your repayment history in respect of those loans, and any defaults. Usually,credit information is exchanged between credit and finance providers and credit reporting bodies.If you want to make purchases from or through us we will also collect your payment information. We will also collect this information if we need to make payments to you.
We collect personal information for the purposes of providing financial advice and related services. We may also collect your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing and managing our relationship with you. From time to time we may offer you other products and services.
We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our privacy policy.We recognise that any personal information we collect about you will only be used for the purposes we have collected it for as allowed by law. It is important to us that you are confident any personal information we hold about you will be treated in a way that ensures protection of your personal information. Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the Australian Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant laws.
Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information directly from you. We may also collect your personal information from credit reporting bodies,finance brokers and other people such as accountants, lawyers and referees.
We may disclose your personal information:
Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another person or organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that:
We use cloud storage to store personal information that we hold. The cloud storage and the IT servers may be located outside Australia. We may disclose your personal information to overseas entities that provide support functions to us. You may obtain more information about these entities by contacting us.
We may collect the following kinds of credit information and exchange this information with credit reporting bodies and other entities:
We exchange this credit information for the purposes of assessing your application for finance and managing that finance.
This credit information may be held by us in electronic form on our secure servers and may also be held in paper form. We may use cloud storage to store the credit information we hold about you.
When we obtain credit information from a credit reporting body about you, we may also seek publicly available information and information about any serious credit infringement that you may have committed.
We may disclose your credit information to overseas entities that provide support functions to us. You may obtain more information about these entities by contacting us.
The law requires us to advise you of ‘notifiable matters’ in relation to how we may use your credit information. You may request to have these notifiable matters (and this privacy policy) provided to you in an alternative form. We exchange your credit information with credit reporting bodies. We use the credit information that we exchange with the credit reporting body to assess your creditworthiness, assess your application for finance and manage your finance.
If you fail to meet your payment obligations in relation to any finance that we have provided or arranged or you have committed a serious credit infringement then we may disclose this information to a credit reporting body.
You have the right to request access to the credit information that we hold about you and make a request for us to correct that credit information if needed. Please seethe heading Access and correction to your personal and credit information below.
Sometimes your credit information will be used by credit reporting bodies for the purposes of ‘pre-screening’ credit offers on the request of other credit providers. You can contact the credit reporting body at any time to request that your credit information is not used in this way.
You may contact the credit reporting body to advise them that you believe that you may have been a victim of fraud. For a period of 21 days after the credit reporting body receives your notification the credit reporting body must not use or disclose that credit information. You can contact any of the following credit reporting bodies for more information:
From time to time we may use your personal information to provide you with current information about finance offers you may find of interest, changes to our organisation, or new products or services being offered by us or any company with whom we are associated.
If you do not wish to receive marketing information, you may at any time decline to receive such information by contacting us through the form below. We will not charge you for giving effect to your request and will take all reasonable steps to meet your request within a reasonable time frame.
It is important to us that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. During the course of our relationship with you we may ask you to inform us if any of your personal information has changed.If you wish to make any changes to your personal information, you may contact us. We will generally rely on you to ensure the information we hold about you is accurate and complete.
We will provide you with access to the personal and credit information we hold about you. You may request access to any of the personal information we hold about you at anytime. We may charge a fee for our costs of retrieving and supplying the information to you.We aim to respond within 30 days of receiving your request.We may need to contact other entities to properly investigate your request.There may be situations where we are not required to provide you with access to your personal information, for example, if the information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, or if your request is vexatious. An explanation will be provided to you if we deny you access to the personal information we hold about you.
If any of the personal information we hold about you is incorrect, inaccurate or out of date you may request that we correct the information. If appropriate we will correct the personal information. We aim to provide you with details about whether we have corrected the personal information within 30 days of receiving your request.
We may need to consult with other entities as part of our investigation.
If we refuse to correct personal information, we will provide you with our reasons for not correcting the information.
When we collect government identifiers, such as your tax file number, we do not use or disclose this information other than as required by law. We will never use a government identifier to identify you.
In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully do business with you, however,where it is lawful and practicable to do so, we will offer you the opportunity of doing business with us without providing us with personal information, for example, if you make general inquiries about interest rates or current promotional offers.
We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent. Sensitive information is personal information that includes information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political persuasion, memberships in trade or professional associations or trade unions, sexual preferences, criminal record,or health.
We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment. We may store your personal information in paper and electronic form. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
If you are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with your personal information, or you have a complaint about our compliance with the Privacy Act, you may contact our complaints officer by email through the form below.
We will acknowledge your complaint within seven days. We aim to provide you with a decision on your complaint within 30 days.
If you are dissatisfied with the response of our complaints officer you may make a complaint to our External Dispute Resolution Scheme, The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) contacted on https://www.afca.org.au/ or 1800 931 678 or the Privacy Commissioner which can be contacted on either www.oaic.gov.au or 1300 363 992.
You may request further information about the way we manage your personal or credit information by contacting through the contact form below.
We are constantly reviewing all of our policies and attempt to keep up to date with market expectations. Technology is constantly changing, as is the law and market place practices.
As a consequence we may change this privacy policy from time to time or as the need arises. You may request this privacy policy in an alternative form.
This Privacy Policy came into existence on 5 May 2020.
