Privacy Policy

Please read the following statement before proceeding:

Our Privacy Policy
Cash Now Ferntree Gully  is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. We are bound by and comply with the National Privacy Principles contained within the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (Cth) and the obligations set out in Part 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth).

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO APPLICANT(S) FOR CREDIT
We hold your personal information to establish your credit worthiness, both initially and ongoing, to communicate with you in regard to the status of your loan application and loan and for our own marketing purposes.

Information may be given before, during or after the provision of credit to you. So that you know what kind of information is used and how we use it, we require you to acknowledge your agreement to our gathering and using some of the information you give us. Please read it carefully.

Where we determine that there is more than one borrower, or you are to be a guarantor, we will require each of you to provide acceptance of these conditions in writing.
1.         Giving information to a Credit Reporting Agency
            Cash Now Ferntree Gully has informed me that it may give certain personal information about me to a credit reporting agency.
2.         Accessing Credit Information
            I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may obtain information about me from a business which provides information about the commercial credit worthiness of persons for the purpose of assessing my application for consumer credit; and
            I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may obtain a consumer credit report containing information about me from a credit reporting agency for the purpose of assessing my application for credit.
3.         Exchanging Credit Worthiness Information
            I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may exchange information with any other credit provider upon request or named in a consumer credit report or issued by a credit reporting agency for the following purposes:
            • to assess an application by me for credit;
            • to notify other credit providers of a default by me;
            • to exchange information with other credit providers as to the status of this loan where I am in default with other credit providers; or
            • to assess my credit worthiness.
            I understand that the information exchanged can include anything about my credit worthiness, credit standing, credit history or credit capacity that credit providers are allowed to exchange under the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).
4.         Agreement to us being given a consumer credit report by a credit reporting agency to assess a guarantor.
            In the event that we ask you to be a guarantor to a loan, I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may obtain from a credit reporting agency a consumer credit report containing information about me for the purpose of assessing whether to accept me as a guarantor for credit applied for by, or provided to, the borrower(s).
            I agree that this agreement commences from the date of this agreement and continues until the credit covered by the borrower(s) application ceases.
5.         Agreement to us as a credit provider disclosing a report including a consumer credit report to potential or existing guarantor.
            I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may give to a person who is currently a guarantor, or to whom I indicate is considering becoming a guarantor, a credit report containing information about me for the purpose of the prospective guarantor deciding whether to act as a guarantor, or to keep the current guarantor informed about the guarantee.
            I understand that the information disclosed can include anything about my credit worthiness, credit standing, credit history or credit capacity that credit providers are allowed to disclose under the Privacy Act 1988, and includes a credit report.
6.         Agreement to use information for marketing purposes
            I agree that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may use my personal details for marketing purposes to me, including but not limited to making further offers of credit to me at any future date.
This means that Cash Now Ferntree Gully may therefore give information about you to a credit reporting agency, for the following purposes:
• to obtain a consumer credit report about you; and
• to allow the credit reporting agency to create or maintain a credit information file containing information about you.
This information is limited to:
• identity particulars. This is your name, sex, address (and the previous two
addresses), telephone number (including your mobile number), date of birth, name, telephone number and address of employer, and your driver’s licence or passport number;
• your application for credit. This is confirmation that you have applied for credit and the amount;
• the fact that Cash Now Ferntree Gully is a current credit provider to you;
• details of loan repayments which are overdue by more than 60 days, and for which debt collection action has started;
• advice that your loan repayments are no longer overdue in respect of any default that has been listed;
• any information that may establish or support our opinion that you gave us fraudulent or misleading information. This may include an intention not to comply with your credit obligations;
• details of dishonoured cheques or payments - cheques or payments drawn by you that have been dishonoured more than once; or
• that the credit provided to you by Cash Now Ferntree Gully has been paid or otherwise discharged to our satisfaction.

You can request us to provide you with the details of the personal information we hold and may disclose or use. Requests for access to this information must be in writing and sent to us either by facsimile or by mail to Shop 15A, Mountain Gate Shopping Centre, Ferntree Gully, VIC 3156.  In order to protect ourselves and you from fraudulent requests, please note that we will not action any emailed request. We will correct any erroneous information where you can show us it is incorrect.