David Wegener (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) is collecting personal and financial information about you.
1. The information you provide will be held by us.
2. You appoint us your agent to act as an ‘access seeker’ to obtain your credit information from a credit reporting body on your behalf and for the purpose of assisting you with your finance application. You authorise us to disclose any credit information we obtain to prospective financiers in connection with your finance application.
3. We may use credit information and any other information you provide to arrange or provide finance and other services.
4. We may exchange the information with the following types of entities, some of which may be located
- Persons who provide finance or other products to you, or to whom an application has been made for those products.
- Financial consultants, accountants, lawyers, and advisers
- Any industry body, tribunal, court or otherwise in connection with any complaint regarding our services
- Any person where we are required by law to do so
- Any of our associates, related entities or contractors
- Your referees, such as your employer, to verify information you have provided
- Any person considering acquiring an interest in our business or assets
- Any organisation providing online verification of your identity
5. You may gain access to the personal information that we hold about you by contacting us.
A copy of our privacy policy can be obtained by contacting us on 0411514923 or at info@eLINKfinance.com.au
Our privacy policy contains information about how you may access or seek correction of the information we hold about you, how we manage that information and our complaints process.
6. You consent to receive documents electronically. By giving this consent:
• we may make all notices and other documents available for a reasonable period of time on a password protected section of our website for retrieval by you or we will send you notices and other documents by email.
• If the information is displayed on our website we will promptly send you an email to the email address nominated below notifying you that information is available for retrieval on our website and notify you of the nature of that information.
- we will no longer send paper copies of notices and other documents you should regularly check your nominated email address for
- you should regularly check your nominated email address for notices;
- you may withdraw your consent to the giving of notices and other documents at any
You have facilities to enable you to readily print notices or other documents retrieved from our website or sent to you by email if you desire.
eLINK Finance is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the eLINK Finance Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the eLINK Finance website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
eLINK Finance collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. eLINK Finance also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP or Postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by eLINK Finance. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by eLINK Finance for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the eLINK Finance Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through eLINK Finance public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: eLINK Finance does not read any of your private online communications.
eLINK Finance encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from eLINK Finance so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. eLINK Finance is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the eLINK Finance and eLINK Finance family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
eLINK Finance collects and uses your personal information to operate the eLINK Finance Web site and deliver the services you have requested. eLINK Finance also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from eLINK Finance and its affiliates. eLINK Finance may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
eLINK Finance does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. eLINK Finance may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, eLINK Finance may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to eLINK Finance, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
eLINK Finance does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. eLINK Finance keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within eLINK Finance, in order to determine what eLINK Finance services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within eLINK Finance to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
eLINK Finance Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on eLINK Finance or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of eLINK Finance; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of eLINK Finance or the public.
Overseas Data Storage
eLINK Finance Web sites use services provided by Google Analytics, Infusionsoft, and MailChimp. As a result of using these services, your personal data is stored on servers located in the USA.
eLINK Finance uses e-mail services provided by Microsoft Exchange. As a result of using these services, e-mail communications are stored on servers located in Australia.
Use of Cookies
The eLINK Finance Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise eLINK Finance pages, or register with eLINK Finance site or services, a cookie helps eLINK Finance to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same eLINK Finance Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the eLINK Finance features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the eLINK Finance services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
eLINK Finance secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. eLINK Finance secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
eLINK Finance will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. eLINK Finance encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how eLINK Finance is protecting your information.
Contact Information
eLINK Finance welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that eLINK Finance has not adhered to this Statement, please contact eLINK Finance on email address info@eLINKfinance.com.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.