This is the Privacy Policy of Pareto Group Pty Ltd and Lakeside Financial Pty Ltd on the management of personal information.
At Pareto Group Pty Ltd and Lakeside Financial Pty Ltd, we are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This Policy describes our policies and practices for collecting, handling, storing, using and disclosing personal information. It also deals with how you can complain about a breach of the privacy laws, access the personal information we hold about you and have that information corrected (where necessary).
What personal information do we collect and hold?
When we collect personal information for the purposes of providing insurance, financial and other services to you, we ask you for the information we need to provide you with the financial product or service you have requested. We collect your information through our client forms, website enquiry forms and when we speak to you by telephone. This can include a broad range of information from your name, address, contact details and age to information about your personal affairs.
How do we use your information?
We use your personal information to understand your financial situation, formulate our professional advice and assist you to apply for relevant products.
We also use your personal information to manage your ongoing requirements and our relationship with you. This includes contacting you by mail or electronically (unless you tell us you do not wish to receive electronic communications).
What if you don’t provide information to us?
If you do not provide us with some or all the information that we ask for, we may not be able to provide the financial services requested.
You can contact us without using your name or by using a pseudonym. However, we may need your name or contact details to respond to you.
Other data
We may use technology such as cookies, beacons, tags, scripts and tracking pixels to collect, store and use anonymous data about how you use our website / mobile technology. This includes your server address, the date and time of your visit, the pages and links accessed, the type of browser used and other information about your browsing activities. This data is used to increase functionality and can also enable us to display information and content that is tailored to our understanding of your interests. This information alone cannot be used to discover your identity.
How do we store and protect your personal information?
We strive to maintain the relevance, accuracy and completeness and currency of the personal information we hold and to protect its privacy and security. We keep personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal reporting or document retention requirements.
We hold the information we collect from you via computer records and paper files. We maintain physical security over our paper and electronic data and premises, by using locks and security systems.
Will we disclose your personal information to anyone?
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We will disclose your information to financial service providers, representatives of Pareto Group Pty Ltd, industry associations, auditors, lawyers, accountants, other professional advisers or as required by law.
We may also need to provide your information to contractors who supply services to us, e.g. to handle mailings on our behalf, external data storage providers, or to other companies in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganisation, dissolution or similar event. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that they protect your information in the same way that we do.
We may provide your information to others if we are required to do so by law or under some other unusual circumstances which the Privacy Act permits.
We will not disclose your information to overseas recipients.
How can you check, update or change the information we are holding?
You may ask us for access to your personal information and to correct it at any time.
Upon receipt of enough information to allow us to identify the information, we will tell you what personal information we hold about you. We will also correct, amend or delete your personal information if we agree is inaccurate, irrelevant, out of date or incomplete.
We do not charge for receiving a request for access to personal information or complying with a correction request.
To access or correct your personal information, please write to:
Privacy Officer
Lakeside Financial Pty Ltd
Level 1, 99 Bay Street, Brighton, Victoria 3186
We may charge you for our reasonable expenses incurred in providing you with access to your information. We will inform you if such a charge applies before we proceed with your request
In some limited situations, we may need to refuse access to your information or refuse a request for correction. We will advise you as soon as possible after your request if this is the case and the reasons for our refusal.
What happens if you want to complain?
We welcome your questions and comments about how we manage your privacy. If you have any concerns about whether we have complied with the Privacy Act, the Australian Privacy Principles or this Privacy Policy, please write to our Privacy Officer as detailed above.
We will consider your complaint through our internal complaints resolution process and we will try to respond with a decision within 45 days of you making the complaint.
Your consent
By asking us to assist with your insurance, financial planning and other financial service needs, you consent to the collection and use of the information you have provided to us for the purposes described above.
Updating this policy
This Privacy Policy was prepared on 19th August 2020. We may update it at any time. The new version will be published on our website.