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Collection of personal information

At Growth Equities the privacy of your personal information is important to us. Growth Equities complies with the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the "Act"). This Privacy Policy outlines the general information handling practices you can expect from Growth Equities. If you require any further information concerning privacy and the ways in which we handle your personal information, please contact us using the contact details set out below.

We collect the following types of personal information: your name, contact details, Tax File Number, bank account details etc. We may also collect this information about you from telephone calls, faxes, emails, letters and by other means.

If you are a visitor to our website, we will generally not collect personal information about you (for further information on our Internet Privacy practices, please see below).

How is your personal information dealt with?

Growth Equities will only use your personal information for business purposes. Growth Equities will disclose information to:

  • Third parties who carry out functions on behalf of the Company, including but not limited to marketing and administration functions on a confidential basis;
  • Third parties if that disclosure is required by law; or
  • Related body corporates which carry out functions on behalf of the company.

Your personal information may also be used by us to administer, monitor, aggregate and report statistical information, assist you with any queries and take measures to detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activity.

Security of information

Growth Equities takes reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold about you from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.If we hold personal information about you and that information is no longer needed by us, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify the relevant information.

Accuracy of and access to your personal information

We aim to ensure that the information we retain about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you provide us with incomplete or inaccurate information, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services you are seeking. You may update and request access to your personal information held by us by contacting us via the details set out below.

We reserve the right to charge any reasonable costs incurred by us in providing access in certain circumstances. If you would like to make a request for access, please set out your request in writing and send it to us at the contact details set out below. In some cases, consistent with the NPPs, we may refuse to give you access to personal information we hold about you. This includes circumstances where giving you access:

  • would be unlawful;
  • would have an unreasonable impact on other people's privacy; and
  • would prejudice activities carried out by, or for, a law enforcement agency.

If you feel that any personal information Growth Equities holds about you is not accurate, complete or up-to-date, please contact us at the contact details set out below.

We will then take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is corrected. At any time you may opt-out of receiving any direct marketing and other similar communications.

Internet privacy

In general, you can visit our website without revealing personal information about yourself. When you visit our website, our internet service provider and website managers may make a record of your visit, logging information such as your email address and/or IP address (if applicable), the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed, the domain where you clicked through from, and the type of browser you have used. This information is collected for trend and statistical purposes, and so that Growth Equities can analyse and enhance its website's functions and capabilities.

Our website may make use of cookie technology, to provide you with better and more efficient service next time you visit our website. Cookies are unique identifiers which are sent from our website to your computer or system (PC), tracking the web pages you have visited. Cookies enable us to relate your use of the website to information that you have specifically provided to us (such as a member password for any service we may provide via the website) and allow your web browser to track searches you have performed on our website. Cookies are stored on your PC, not on our servers. You can elect to disable Cookies through your browser setting options.

Contact details

If you have any questions or would like further information on our privacy and information handling practices, please use the contact details on the contact page.

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