Fundo Loans Pty Ltd ACN 604 639 143 (referred to as ‘Fundo Loans’, ‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’) is a credit provider for people who need a small amount of money for a short time.
We recognise that our success depends on us maintaining the utmost commitment to upholding your privacy rights when collecting, holding, using, or disclosing your personal information. We have established procedures and protocols to help us keep personal information we hold secure, accurate, up-to-date, and complete.
This Policy applies to and covers all of the operations and functions of Fundo Loans. All staff and third parties (including suppliers, sub-contractors, or agents) that have access to or use personal information collected and held by Fundo Loans must comply with this Privacy Policy.
This Policy outlines our obligations to manage and protect personal information and reflects the requirements of the Australian Privacy Principles (‘APPs’), the Credit Reporting Privacy Code (‘the Code’) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“the Privacy Act”). This Policy is available free of charge from our website: PRIVACY STATEMENT.
This Policy also outlines our practices, procedures and systems that ensure compliance with the Privacy Act, APPs and the Code.
We may collect personal information about you to:
We generally collect personal information directly from you, the individual. For example, we collect your personal information when you enquire about or apply for credit, or contact us about your loan, including when you visit our website, call us or send us correspondence. Sometimes we may need to collect personal information about an individual from a third-party, such as financial institutions, other credit providers, electronic verification services or a CRB. We may collect personal information about you when a person you hold a bank account with gives us information about that account.
When we are provided with personal information from a third-party, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the matters set out in this Privacy Policy. Fundo Loans will not collect your sensitive information unless you have consented or an exemption under the APPs applies.
These exceptions include if the collection is required or authorised by law or are necessary to take appropriate action in relation to suspected unlawful activity or serious misconduct. If the personal information request is not provided, we may not be able to process your application for credit or meet your needs appropriately.
Fundo Loans does not give you the option of dealing with it anonymously, or under a pseudonym for the purpose of applying for credit. This is because it is not legally possible for us to consider applications from individuals who are not identified.
Fundo Loans may receive unsolicited personal information about you. We destroy or de-identify all unsolicited personal information, unless it is relevant to our purposes, under this Policy.
We collect personal information from our website www.fundo.com.au , we receive emails and online account application forms. We may also use third parties to analyse traffic at that website, which may involve the use of cookies. Information collected through such analysis is anonymous.
We may collect and hold personal information about you to:
We use and disclose personal information for the purposes outlined above. Sensitive information will be used and disclosed only for the purpose for which it was provided or a directly related secondary purpose, unless you agree otherwise, or if certain other limited circumstances apply (e.g., where required by law). Credit information will only be used and disclosed for the purposes outlined below.
We engage other people to perform services for us (“contractors”), which may involve them handling personal information we hold. In these situations, we prohibit contractors from using personal information about you except for the specific purpose for which we supply it. We prohibit contractors from using your information for the direct marketing of their products or services.
Fundo Loans will attempt to de-identify sensitive information held by us, wherever possible. We also undertake to delete all personal information about you when it is no longer needed or relevant.
We may disclose your personal information, excluding credit information, to:
We will only use and disclose your credit information for the following purposes:
If we intend to provide default information about you to a CRB, we will give you at least 14 days’ written notice. If we disclose default information to a CRB, and you subsequently repay the amount owed, we will tell the CRB that you have repaid the amount owing. We will not disclose credit repayment history information to the CRB which is more than 2 years old or which relates to an amount owing of less than $150.
We will not send personal information to recipients outside of Australia unless:
The APPs require us to take all reasonable steps to protect the security of personal information, including credit information. Fundo Loans employees respect the confidentiality of the personal information we collect.
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information held from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. All personal information contained in hard copy documents held by us is stored in locked cabinets. All personal information stored on Fundo Loan’s computer system is backed up regularly, and back-up copies are held in a secure location. In relation to our customer database, we apply the following guidelines:
Where we no longer require personal information we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify it.
Fundo Loans does not use your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing, unless:
If you would not reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information for the purpose of direct marketing, we may use or disclose that information for direct marketing only if you have consented to the use or disclosure of the information for direct marketing or it is impracticable to obtain that consent.
Individuals can opt out of direct marketing by contacting us, and we will give effect to the request within a reasonable period of time. Fundo Loans will provide you with the source of its information about you on request free of charge within a reasonable period of time.
You can opt out of direct marketing by contacting us, and we will give effect to the request within a reasonable period of time. Fundo Loans will provide you with the source of its information about you on request, free of charge within a reasonable period of time.
We will not use or disclose credit information for the purposes of direct marketing.
We may only use or disclose sensitive information about you for the purpose of direct marketing with your consent.
We will not use identifiers assigned by the Government, such as a tax file number, Medicare number or provider number, for our own file recording purposes, unless one of the exemptions in the Privacy Act applies. Fundo Loans endeavours to avoid data-matching.
Fundo Loans takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information, including credit information, it collects, uses and discloses is relevant, accurate, complete and current.
We encourage you to contact us in order to update any personal information we hold about you. If we correct information that has previously been disclosed to another entity, we will notify the other entity of the correction within a reasonable period of time of the correction being notified to us. If we are satisfied that personal information we hold is inaccurate, we will take reasonable steps to correct the information within 30 days, unless you agree otherwise. We do not charge you for correcting your information.
Subject to the exceptions set out in the Privacy Act, you may gain access to the personal information, including credit information, which Fundo Loans holds about you by contacting the Fundo Loans Privacy Officer. We will provide access within 30 days of your request. If we refuse to provide access, we will provide reasons for the refusal.
You can look at your personal information at the offices of Fundo Loans. We will require you to verify your identity and specify what information is required. An administrative fee for search and photocopying costs may be charged for providing access.
Where permitted by law, or for any of the purposes noted in clause 1, we may exchange and sell your customer data to other credit providers who may use your customer data for any of the purposes for which the Lender may use it.
The information we may exchange with other credit providers and alternate service providers includes:
A data breach occurs when personal information held by us is lost or subjected to unauthorised access or disclosure. If we suspect or know of a data breach, we will take immediate steps to limit any further access or distribution of the affected personal information or the possible compromise of other information.
When we have reasonable grounds to believe that a data breach is likely to result in serious harm, for example identity theft, significant financial loss or threats to physical safety, we will notify individuals at likely risk as soon as practicable and make recommendations about the steps they should take in response to the data breach. We will also notify the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Notifications will be made using our usual method of communicating with you such as by a telephone call, email, SMS, physical mail, social media post, or in-person conversation. If we are unable to contact you, (or your nominated intermediary) by any of the above methods we will publish a statement on the front page of our website and place a public notice on our reception desk.
This Policy will be reviewed from time to time to take account of new laws and technology, changes to our operations and the business environment. You may obtain a copy of the current version upon request.
If you have any issues you wish to raise with us or would like to discuss any issues about our Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer. Our Privacy Officer will investigate the issue and determine the steps we will undertake to resolve your complaint. We will contact you if we require any additional information from you and will notify you in writing within 30 days of the determination of our Privacy Officer. You may contact us by:
If you are not satisfied with the response to your complaint you can contact: