Our privacy assurance to you
At LoanSearcher.com.au your privacy will always be protected. We comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Amended in 2000 by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000)

This policy and other privacy statements
When you apply for, or use our products or services, you consent to us collecting, maintaining, using and disclosing personal information about you and provided by you, or by another person in accordance with this policy.
This privacy policy does not apply to parties that may be linked or associated with our website. Those website owners are responsible for the privacy of the information they collect and should be contacted directly for details of their privacy policies.

What information does LoanSearcher.com.au hold?
Generally, we keep a record of one or more of the following types of information about you:
- Information that identifies you, such as your name and address and other information provided by you at time of loan application and people nominated by you;
- Name and contact details as supplied when you request an E-newsletter 
- All information sought and collected is required for our business purposes.

How LoanSearcher.com.au collects information from its website?
We collect and hold information about you when you: 
  - complete an online enquiry or other type of form; 
  - provide us with your email address; or 
  - access and use our services through our website.
We also collect some statistical information about visitors, from our website (for example, the number of visitors, pages viewed, time online and documents downloaded). None of the statistical information we collect allows us to identify a visitor. We use this information to evaluate our website performance and continually improve our services.
Other than statistical information, we do not collect any information about you through our website unless you provide the information to us.

How LoanSearcher.com.au generally collects your information?
We only collect personal information about you as provided by you.

How may LoanSearcher.com.au use your personal information?
We only use your personal information that is relevant to our business relationship with you, to allow us to:
- respond to your enquiry and provide the e-newsletter as requested.
- ensure our internal business operations are running smoothly which may include fulfilling legal requirements and conducting confidential systems maintenance and testing.

What rights does LoanSearcher.com.au have to disclose personal information?
You filling in the enquiry form implies by your conduct that you give us consent to pass your information on to all the parties involved in providing the service you seek.

How LoanSearcher.com.au protects the security of your information?
We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information that is held by us. For example, your personal information is stored in secured office premises, in electronic databases requiring logins and passwords for access and protected by firewalls.
Access to information stored electronically is restricted to staff whose job purpose requires access. We require all staff to maintain the confidentiality of customer information.
We use secure methods to destroy or de-identify any personal information as soon as the law permits, provided the information is no longer needed by us for any purpose.

What are your rights?
You need not give us any of the personal information about you or any other person that may be requested in our communications with you. However, without that information, we may not be able to fulfil your request or provide you with an appropriate level of service.

You can access your personal information
If you would like to know more about privacy at LoanSearcher.com.au, including your right to access the personal information we hold about you, contact us by email from our contact us page.