Privacy Policy - Mortgage Masters in Auckland, NZ

1. Our commitment to protect your privacy

We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets outour privacy commitment in respect of personal information we hold about you and what we dowith that information.

It is important to us that you are confident that any personal information we hold about you willbe treated in a way which ensures protection of your personal information.

Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the Privacy Principles set outin the Privacy Act 2020 (or any successor legislation) (the Privacy Act) and all other applicablelaws. This Privacy Policy applies in addition to, and does not limit, our rights and obligationsunder the Privacy Act and other applicable laws.

2. Who are we

References in this Privacy Policy to “we”, “us” and “our” means Nathan Saminathan CFP of Mortgage Masters Limited acting through a Financial Adviser.

3. Your authorisation

By providing us with personal information, engaging us to provide you with services, or by usingour website, you consent to the collection, use, storage and disclosure of personal information inaccordance with this Privacy Policy.

4. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, by publishing an updated version on thispage, to reflect changes in the law and also our business needs so long as the changes do notdisadvantage you. By continuing to engage us or use our website you will be deemed to haveaccepted the updated Privacy Policy.

5. What personal information do we collect?

When we refer to personal information we mean information that identifies, or is capable ofidentifying, you. This includes, for example, your name, date of birth, address, contact details,account details and occupation.

If you engage us to provide services to you, we may collect personal information about yourfinancial situation or goals in order to recommend mortgage and insurance products that we arepermitted to advise on (Products).

6. Why do we collect your personal information?

We collect your personal information for the purposes of our and relevant third parties’ servicesand relationship with you (refer to section 9 below: “Who do we disclose your personalinformation to?”). For example:

responding to your requests or inquiries;
providing services to you (e.g. to enable us to recommend Products to you);
sending communications and direct marketing to you about products and services we thinkmay be of interest to you (whether through mail, telephone or electronic means (includingemail and SMS/MMS);
market research; and
any other purpose authorised by you or the Privacy Act.

If you do not wish to receive marketing information, you may ‘opt out’ at any time by notifying us.

We may also collect personal information (including credit information and health information) on behalf of the lenders, insurers and other providers of Products that you choose to apply for (Product Providers). Product Providers will have their own Privacy Policy that applies to the information that we collect on their behalf.

7. How do we collect your personal information?

Generally we will collect your personal information directly from you. For example, we collectyour personal information directly from your use of our website and the information that yousubmit to the website. We also collect your personal information if you use the “contact us”functionality on our website and you provide the personal information during conversationsbetween you and us.

We may also collect your personal information from:

NZ Financial Services Group Limited (NZFSG) and its related bodies corporate;
credit reporting agencies;
with your authorisation, banks (e.g. through the use of illion Bank Statements) andemployers;
Product Providers (e.g. during the term of any loan or insurance we have arranged on yourbehalf, in order to answer your queries or assist you with your financial arrangements asyour circumstances change). If applicable, the Product Providers may also periodicallydisclose your loan balance or premium to us in connection with the payment of ongoingcommission to us over the term of your loan or insurance; and
any other person authorised by you or the Privacy Act.

If you provide any personal information about anyone else to us, you confirm that you have collected that personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act and that the individual concerned has:

authorised the disclosure to us and the collection, use and disclosure of their personalinformation by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy; and
has been informed of their right to access and request correction of their personalinformation.

8. Updating your personal information

We will generally rely on you to ensure the information we hold about you is accurate. If any ofyour details change, please let us know as soon as possible by contacting us.

9. Who do we disclose your personal information to?

We may disclose your personal information to the following people if we consider it necessary todo so for the purposes described in section 6 above:

NZFSG and its related bodies corporate;
Product Providers and other prospective lenders, third parties or other intermediaries inrelation to your finance or insurance requirements (including a prospective lender’smortgage insurer (if any), any person with whom a lender or insurer proposes to enter intocontractual arrangements, any person who provides a guarantee or security and any trusteeand any assignee or potential assignee of a lender’s or insurer’s rights);
our referral partners who can help you with other services;
contractors or service providers;
investors, or any entity that has an interest in our business or any entity to whom weconsider assigning or transferring any of our rights or obligations or selling all or part of ourbusiness;
anyone who we are legally required or authorised to share your information with, includingregulators and government agencies;
to auditors (such as NZFSG) to ensure we are providing services to you that are in yourbest interests, and in accordance with current regulations;
your employer and referees, as well as credit reporting and identity verification agencies; and
any other person or entity authorised by you or the Privacy Act.

You acknowledge and agree that credit reporting agencies may hold your credit information (including default information) on their systems and use such information to provide their credit reporting services, which may include providing your credit information (including default information) to their customers.

Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another person or organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that the person or organisation has a commitment to protecting your personal information at least equal to our commitment.

10. Do we disclose your personal information to anyone outside New Zealand?

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

We may also disclose personal information to NZFSG and its related bodies corporate, and thirdparty suppliers and service providers located overseas for some of the purposes listed above.

11. Our Website

Cookies and IP addresses

When you access our website, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary filecontaining a unique ID number) to your computer. This enables us to recognise your computereach time you visit our website. We also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, to determinewhich areas of our website have been visited, to measure transaction patterns, to analysetrends, administer the website, track users’ movements and gather broad demographicinformation. We use this to research our users’ habits so that we can improve our website andour service offering. Our cookies may record information such as your Internet Protocol (IP)address (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the internet), your deviceand browser type, operating system, the pages or features of our site to which you havebrowsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which the site isused by you, the search terms that you have used, the links on our site that a you have clickedon or used, and other usage statistics.

While our cookies do not collect personal information, if you submit your name and emailaddress as part of your usage, then we will link that personal information with the cookiesinformation that we have previously collected from you.

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does notaccept them.

Security

As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannotprovide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate tous online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be interceptedwhile being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or otherinformation which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

Links and third party advertisements

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. Our website may alsodisplay advertisements, which are hosted by third parties.

We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third partywebsite or advertisement providers and we are not responsible for other privacy policies or thecontent of any third party website or advertisements. Third party websites are responsible forinforming you about their own privacy practices.

Our online advertising network partner may use cookies, web beacons or other web trackingtechniques to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on the website and other websites that you may visit to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.

12. Are you required to provide personal information to us?

You are not required to provide any personal information to us but if you choose not to it mightaffect our ability to provide services to you and your ability to obtain finance, insurance andother Products from Product Providers.

In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully dobusiness with you. However, where it is lawful and practicable to do so, we will offer you theopportunity of doing business with us without providing us with personal information, forexample, if you make general inquiries about interest rates or current promotional offers.

You may choose to interact with our website anonymously, but we will not be able to contactyou unless you provide your personal information.

13. Access and correction to your personal information

You may access and request correction of any of the personal information that we hold aboutyou at any time by contacting us. We may charge a fee for our reasonable costs of retrievingand supplying the information to you.

14. Further information

If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy or your personal information please contact us.This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 2021.