This Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent is issued by Rapid Finance (AUST) Pty Ltd - ACL

No. 392965 ("we", "us", " our"). We collect information about you for the purposes you agree

to in this Privacy Disclosure Statement and Consent. When you agree to this document we can, consistent with Australia's privacy and credit reporting laws, collect, use, and exchange credit and personal information about you for those purposes.

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 certain personal information from you as borrower or guarantor, as well as information about any associated companies. Where possible we will source a suitable credit provider and any required insurances, and will manage the application process, however if you do not provide the information sought, we may be unable to assist.

 

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, lessor, insurance provider and/or other service provider. We may:

• Disclose your identification information to a CRB if you authorise us to obtain a report on your behalf;
• Use any information the CRB provides in that report to assist us to make a preliminary assessment of your consumer credit or guarantor application;
• Disclose your personal information to an insurer or insurers to source any insurances you wish to obtain; and
• Disclose your personal information to credit file repair services, budgeting services, rental services, providers of a market for the sale or distribution of my customer data and other service providers and
• Disclose your credit information to a credit provider(s) to apply for finance on your behalf.

 

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.

 

Our Lenders are required by the Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing Act

2006 to verify your identity before providing you with a product or service.

 

Your personal information may be used by the Lender to verify your identity with a credit reporting body to assess whether the information provided by the Lender matches the information held about you by the credit reporting body for the purpose of verifying your identity. The use of your personal information in this way does not constitute a credit check or impact your credit standing in any way.

 

Your personal information may also be used by the Lender to verify your identity using your government issued ID such as a Driver Licence to match against the document issuers system. This will be done electronically via a third-party system.

 

Personal information that the Lender may provide to the credit reporting body or Government ID issuer using a third-party system includes:

• Your full name
• Your address
• Your date of birth
• Your Drivers Licence details

 

 

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 an 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.

 

A credit provider to whom we submit an application may disclose information about you to,

and collect information about you from, one or more CRB' s.

 

The website of each credit provider contains details of each CRB with which it deals, other details about information held about you and describes your key rights. This detail may be described on the credit providers' websites as "notifiable matters", or "privacy policy", or "credit reporting policy" or "privacy disclosure statement and consent" and will state:

• That the CRB may include information the credit provider discloses about you to other credit providers to assess your credit worthiness,
• 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,

 

This detail will also be included by the credit provider who approves your application in the privacy disclosure statement and consent document it will provide to you.

 

Each credit provider's 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. hardcopy or email).

 

Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another person or organisation, we will

take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that:

 

When you contact us by phone, we may collect statistics on the number, date and time of your call and the manner in which you navigate through our telephony system. We may also monitor and/or record in-coming and out-going telephone calls for taxation, verification, substantiation, dispute resolution, training and quality assurance purposes.

 

We may use cloud storage to store the personal information we hold about you. The cloud storage and the IT servers may be located outside Australia.

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. hardcopy or email);
• The CRB not to use your information for direct marketing assessment purposes, including preliminary screening;
• The CRB to provide you with a copy of the information it holds about you

You can gain access to the information we hold about you by contacting our Privacy Officer by email to rapid@gorapid.com.au, by telephoning 1300 467 274 or in writing to: The Privacy Officer Rapid Finance (AUST) Pty Ltd PO Box 981 South Melbourne VIC 3205. In some cases the information you seek may be archived. If this is the case we will endeavour to retrieve the information you seek within 30 days. We reserve the right to charge you a fee for this retrieval.

Our Privacy Policy and Privacy Statement is available on our website at www.gorapid.com.au

or we will provide you with a copy if you ask us.

We mainly use Equifax as our CRB. You can contact the Equifax by telephone on 1300 762 207 (Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 8.30am-6pm EST) or email at assist.au@equifax.com.au. If we use another CRB for your application, we can advise you of their details on request.

 

By agreeing to this document you acknowledge we may:

• Use your personal and credit information:
  • To assess your consumer or commercial credit and/or guarantee application and/or to assess a credit application by a company of which you are a director
  • To source any finances you require
  • To source any insurances you  require
  • As the law authorises or requires;
  • Disclose to, and obtain from, any prospective credit provider or insurer, information about you that is reasonably necessary to obtain the finance and insurances you require;
    • Obtain from, and disclose to, any third party, information about you, the applicant(s) or guarantor(s) that is reasonably necessary to assist you obtain the finance and insurances sought;
    • Provide your information, including your credit report(s), to one or more credit providers so they can assess your application, or the application of a company of which you are a director, or your suitability as a guarantor;
    • Provide credit information about you to a guarantor, or prospective guarantor;
      • Provide you, or the company of which you are a director, with offers or information of other goods or services we, or any of our associated entities or other service provider, may be able to provide to you or the company, unless you tell us not to;
      • Disclose your personal and credit information to the extent permitted by law to other organisations that provide us with services, such as contractors, agents, printers, mail houses, lawyers, document custodians, securitises and computer systems consultants or providers, so they can perform those services for us; and
      • Disclose your personal information to any other organisation that may wish to acquire, or has acquired, an interest in our business or any rights under your contract with us, or the contract with us of a company of which you are a director.

You also agree and consent to, as appropriate:

• A CRB disclosing consumer credit information to one or more credit providers for the purpose of assessing your application for consumer or commercial credit or your guarantor application, and/or assessing a credit application by a company of which you are a director
• When you are a prospective guarantor, a credit provider using that information to assess your suitability as a guarantor
  • A credit provider disclosing your credit information (including information obtained by it from a CRB) to a guarantor, or a prospective guarantor
  • A credit provider disclosing to another credit provider, for a particular purpose, information it holds about you.

Where the applicant, or guarantor, is a company of which you are a director, you consent to the use of your information, in addition to the company's information, in each of the ways listed above.

I understand that as a result of this and any agreement I give in that respect, I may be offered a financial product based on the assessment of my application that may not be the exact same type or amount applied for.