Privacy Policy

(including Credit Reporting Policy)

INTRODUCTION

Hashching Limited and its related bodies corporate operate the following websites across desktop, mobile, tablet and apps (including any subdomains):

hashching.com.au;
mystro.com.au;
bidlead.com.au;

collectively known as the “Websites” in this Privacy Policy.

Hashching Limited and its related body corporates are together known as “Hashching” or “we”, “our” and “us” in this Privacy Policy (unless the context requires). Where we refer to the data practices of a specific business in this Privacy Policy, "we", "our" or "us" refers to the operating entity of that business, as specified above.

This Privacy Policy sets out the manner in which we collect, use, disclose and manage personal information. By using the Websites, subscribing to our services or entering into an agreement with us in relation to the Websites, you are taken to have read, and agreed to the collection, use, disclosure and handling of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you are updated on any changes. If you are a customer and the modification would result in a material change to either party’s rights or obligations and, for that reason, may cause you material detriment, we will give you at least 30 days’ written notice via email before the modification is to take effect and you may terminate your agreement with us during this period if you consider that the modification will cause you material detriment.

RESPECTING INFORMATION PRIVACY

We recognise the importance of protecting personal information. We do not, without your consent, collect sensitive information as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act“), such as racial or ethnicity information, political opinions or associations, criminal records or health information.

In collecting and handling personal information, we are bound by the Privacy Act, including the Australian Privacy Principles (“APPs“), and applicable privacy regulations.

THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We may collect personal information about you including, but not limited to your name, address, phone number, email, gender, occupation, personal interests and any other information provided.

If you access any of our services through a social network site or login to our Websites using your social network credentials such as Facebook, we will collect limited information provided to us by that social network site, such as user name, site ID, profile photo and email address.

If you submit personal information to us in relation to an employment opportunity, we may also collect information about your employment and academic history.

We may also collect non-personal information about you including, but not limited to, data relating to your activities on the Websites (including IP addresses) via tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and measurement software or data relating to survey responses.

You acknowledge that the personal information you provide us and which we collect from you, is your own information or information which you have been authorised to provide to us.

For some services and products, we may also collect your personal information to enable verification of your identity, including information from your passport, driver's licence and health care and concession cards.

If you apply for a home loan or connect with a mortgage broker using our Websites, we may also collect information such as your date of birth, bank account details, occupation, age and number of dependants and cohabitants, how long you have resided at your current address and proof of earnings and expenses. In some cases such as where you apply for an insurance product, we will, with your consent, collect sensitive information such as your health information. We may also collect credit information about you. Credit information is information which is used to assess your eligibility to be provided with finance and may include any finance that you have outstanding, your repayment history in respect of those loans and any defaults. Usually credit information is exchanged between credit and finance providers and credit reporting bodies.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect personal information about you from a variety of sources including, but not limited to:

registering to use the Websites or parts of them through a Hashching or Mystro account;
logging in to use our Websites via your social networking site (“SNS“) account;
subscribing to receive Alerts/e-brochures and filling in forms, surveys or research, participating in promotions and competitions on the Websites or websites of our service providers;
contacting us or our service providers for any reason including, but not limited to, reporting a problem with the Websites, requesting further services or seeking our assistance;
posting or contributing material on our Websites;
using our services and any credit provided by us in connection with those services (see our Credit Reporting Policy below for more detail); and
applying for an employment opportunity with us directly, via an SNS site (eg. LinkedIn) or through your nominated referees.

We may also collect your personal information through our related bodies corporate, our service providers and third parties so that we may provide a better or more relevant service or product to you.

If you apply to us for credit or enquire about a mortgage broker or apply for a home loan, we may also obtain personal information about you from credit reporting bodies (see our Credit Reporting Policy below for more details), other credit providers, existing or previous suppliers of goods or services, your bank, finance brokers, accountants, lawyers and certain other businesses for the purposes of assessing your application. We will collect information directly from you where possible.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the personal information we have collected largely for the purpose of providing you with products and services that you have requested, responding to your enquiries, creating and maintaining your account and ensuring you comply and adhere to our website terms of use.

More specifically, we may use personal information which we have collected to:

ensure that content from the Websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
provide a better or more relevant service or product to you
combine your personal information with information that we have collected from our service providers, third parties, cookies or web beacons in order to provide you with a better or more relevant and personalised experience and to improve the quality of our services and the services of third parties. For example, we may combine behavioural data we have collected about you through the use of cookies or web beacons and combine it with your personal information from requests you send to third parties through our Websites;
personalise and customise your services, experience, advertising and content that you view and engage with on the Websites or the websites of our service providers and business partners
respond to or provide you with services, products, information and assistance that you request from us;
contact you to conduct surveys, research and feedback about our products, services or the Websites;
verify your identity when you register or log into our Websites via your SNS account and remind you of your password and username;
allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
help carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
to assess your application for credit as a business in connection with our services;
by disclosing the information to debt collection agencies to recover any amounts you owe us;
notify you about changes to our products and services; and
enhancing your security when you visit our Website.

If all or part of this information is not provided, we may not be able to provide these services.

If you submit personal information to us in relation to an employment opportunity with us, we may also use your personal information to:

consider you for the position for which you have submitted your personal information to us or any other positions that are or become available in the future;
respond to you in relation to any future application you make for an employment opportunity with us; and
contact your referees in order to collect the information you have consented to us collecting about you in order to consider you for employment opportunities with us.

We may also use your personal information to:

give you credit assistance;
give you information about loan products or related services and products including help, guidance and advice;
consider whether you are eligible for a loan or any related service you requested including identifying or verifying you;
assist you to prepare an application for a loan;
administer payments we receive, or any payments we make, relating to your loan; and
prevent or investigate any actual or suspected fraud or crime.

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION

You may request that we delete your information by logging in to your account and selecting the “Request data deletion” option, or by contacting our customer care team on 1800 444 744 or at customercare@hashching.com.au.

Data deletion requests will usually be processed within a few days. Hashching will delete any information stored about you except for where we are required by law to retain that information.

USING AND DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR MARKETING PURPOSES

We may:

use your personal information to provide you with information about offers, promotions, goods or services, which we believe may be of interest to you; and
share your information with our service providers and other third parties so that they can provide you with products or services on our behalf or help us to provide you with the requested products or services including contacting you in relation to the products or services.

If we do contact you by using your personal information in accordance with either of the above, we will give you the opportunity to request that your information not be used for further direct marketing in the future.

HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose personal information to our related bodies corporate, service providers or business partners.

We may also disclose your personal information:

to mortgage brokers, lenders and other product partners that have advertising on our Websites and which you have requested information from by submitting an enquiry;
to our service providers, so that they can provide you with products or services on our behalf or products or services that you have requested directly from them, or to help us to provide you with our products or services. If you have subscribed to a service through the operating system on your mobile device (including, but not limited to Google’s “Google Now” service), we will disclose information such as your search history to Google. You can opt-out of us providing such information to Google through the operating system on your mobile device;
to third parties where you have requested information, services or products from them.
if you apply through us for credit, to:
1. credit reporting bodies (for the purpose of obtaining credit reporting information about you and other permitted purposes – see our Credit Reporting Policy below for more details); and
2. other credit providers, existing or previous suppliers of goods or services, your bank and certain other businesses for the purposes of assessing your application;
relevant public, government or regulatory authorities, our legal representatives or other concerned parties, in special situations where we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to help identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities; and
where we are otherwise authorised or required by law to do so.

If you request information from any organisation through our Websites, you will need to check their privacy policy to find out how they handle your personal information. We are not responsible for the way these organisations collect, use, disclose or handle personal information you provide to them through our Websites.

We may also disclose your personal information to:

prospective funders or intermediaries in relation to your finance requirements;
third parties that are involved in managing or administering your finance such as suppliers, printing services and call centres;
third parties that provide information and infrastructure systems to us;
anybody who represents you such as your finance brokers, lawyers and accountants;
anybody in relation to whom you have provided your consent; and
to anybody where such disclosure is required by law, such as the relevant anti-money laundering laws.

DISCLOSURE AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA

Personal information submitted by our customers and visitors to our Websites may be held on servers located in Australia or in the data centres of our outsourced data processors with data centres in Australia, the United States of America, Europe and Asia. We transfer data outside of Australia to our service providers in order to obtain secure storage, backup and data retrieval services and to provide services. We have implemented policies and procedures to safeguard the secure storage and processing of data with our related companies and have verified the security arrangements of our outsourced data processors. When you provide us with your personal information you give us your consent to store your personal information outside of Australia for the purposes described above.

Where we have obtained your consent to do so, we may also share your personal information with our service providers and other third parties located outside Australia so that they can provide you with any products or services requested by you, including contacting you in relation to the products or services. As these entities are located outside of Australia, they are not required to comply with the Privacy Act and you will not be able to seek any redress under the Privacy Act in connection with the use of your information.

SECURITY

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information we collect. We have established safeguards and use reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. Our employees, contractors, agents and service providers who provide services related to our information systems, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. We review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

CORRECTION AND ACCESS

We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep accurate and up-to-date, any information which we hold about you. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect or you would like to review and confirm the accuracy of your personal information, you can contact us at support@hashching.com.au

You can also gain access to the personal information we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions provided for by law. To request access to your personal information, please contact us at support@hashching.com.au

COMPLAINTS RESOLUTION

We are committed to providing our customers with a fair and responsible system for the handling of complaints.

If at any time you have any concerns, complaints or questions in relation to your privacy or the operation of any of our businesses, please contact our Privacy Officer at info@hashching.com.au so that we may resolve your concerns.

Our Privacy Officer will consider your query and endeavour to respond to you promptly.

OPTING OUT OF PERSONALISED ADS

We aim to give you a highly relevant experience on our sites and apps. This involves us collecting and using information about the content you engage with, such as images, articles, calculators and ads, along with any information you provide to us via your Hashching account (if you have one). We may show you ads that we believe will be engaging. You can opt-out of us personalising your advertising experience by going to the opt-out page.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

Apple iOS App users
Our Apple iOS Apps have been tailored to meet Apple’s App Tracking Transparency requirements. Unlike our other Websites, our iOS Apps do not track our iOS users for the purposes of personalised or targeted advertising. In particular, this means that our iOS Apps do not link user or device data collected from our iOS Apps with user or device data collected from third-party apps, websites or offline properties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes. User and device data from our iOS Apps are not shared with data brokers. Other than the iOS App-specific cookie restrictions and limitations set out in this paragraph, this Cookies and Web Beacons section below summarises how our iOS Apps and Websites obtain and use cookies.

General
We use cookies, web beacons and measurement software and tools on the Websites and so do our services providers and third parties such as our analytics, advertising or ad serving partners. We use and disclose the information collected through the use of cookies, web beacons and measurement software and tools in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This includes using the information to report statistics, analyse trends, administer our services, diagnose problems and target and improve the quality of our products and services. We may allow other third parties to use their own cookies and web beacons to collect information about your visits to the Websites.

We may combine our cookies, information collected through the cookies and web beacons on the Websites with other information (including information collected by third parties using their own cookies and web beacons and providing our cookies and information to third parties) and use analytics services such as Firebase Analytics – to provide better or more relevant services and advertising to you on the Websites and third party websites. Our service providers and other third parties may do the same in order to provide more relevant services and advertising to you through other websites that you may visit.

COOKIE CHOICES

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, web beacons or measurement software and tools, you may be able to delete or reject Cookies or some of the measurement software features through your browser or the settings section of your mobile or tablet device. Disabling these features may cause some of the functions on the Websites, or products and services not to work properly.

APPLICATIONS, WIDGETS OR LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

We provide links to websites outside of the Websites, as well as to third-party websites. We also allow some third parties to display widgets and applications on our Websites that allow you to interact and share content including social media buttons such as Facebook share and like, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+. These linked sites, applications and widgets are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to the Websites, or their collection of information through these third-party applications or widgets. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, or using these applications or widgets we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that website and the relevant third party’s data collection practices and controls in their privacy policy. . .

CREDIT REPORTING POLICY

Credit applications by businesses for our services

Hashching provides ‘commercial credit’ for the purposes of the Privacy Act to businesses (such as mortgage brokers, developers and finance brokers) who apply for credit in relation to our services. We do not provide any consumer credit.

References to “you” and “your” in this credit reporting policy are references to individuals in relation to whom we hold credit information or credit eligibility information for the purposes of the Privacy Act in connection with such credit. This policy provides details about our management of such information.

How we collect and hold 'credit information' and 'credit eligibility information’ about you

“Credit information” relates mainly to your credit-related dealings with us and comprises various types of information that can be collected by credit reporting bodies (“CRBs“) that report on consumer credit worthiness. We may collect or generate various categories of ‘credit information’ about you.

We may also collect “credit eligibility information” about you, which is mostly information provided by CRBs relating to your dealings with other credit providers (for example, financial institutions that provide you with loans or other businesses that provide you with credit in connection with their products or services).

“Credit information” and “credit eligibility information” may include:

identification information: such as your name, address, date of birth or employer;
consumer credit liability information: being information about consumer credit accounts you hold with other credit providers;
details about information requests made to CRBs: such as the fact that we or another credit provider have requested credit reporting information about you from a CRB to assess a credit application and various details about the credit you have applied for;
default information: being information about overdue payments owed by you in connection with consumer credit which have been disclosed to a CRB by other credit providers;
payment information: being information that an overdue payment has been repaid;
information about consumer credit-related serious credit infringements;
new arrangement information: being information about certain credit-related arrangements you may have entered with another credit provider in connection with a consumer credit default or serious credit infringement;
court proceedings information: being information about certain credit-related judgments;
personal insolvency information: being information recorded in the National Personal Insolvency Index about bankruptcy or various other insolvency-related matters;
publicly available information about activities relating to credit worthiness.

Credit eligibility also includes credit worthiness information that we may derive from data we receive from a CRB, such as a credit risk score.

We may collect credit information about you in any of the circumstances described above under the heading “How we collect your personal information” above. We collect credit eligibility information from CRBs but may collect it from other third parties where permitted by the Privacy Act (such as from other credit providers with your consent).

We store and safeguard your credit information and credit eligibility information in the manner described under the headings “Disclosure and storage of personal information outside Australia” and “Security” above.

How we use and when we disclose your credit information and credit eligibility information

We may disclose your credit information to CRBs. Those CRBs may then include that information in credit reporting information that they provide to other credit providers to assist them to assess your credit worthiness. For example, we may disclose to a CRB the type of commercial credit, and the amount of credit, sought in your application for credit with us. We may also use and disclose your credit information for other purposes and in other circumstances as described under the headings “How we use your personal information” and “How we disclose your personal information” above when permitted to do so by the Privacy Act.

Our use and disclosure of credit eligibility information is regulated by provisions of Part IIIA of the Privacy Act and the Privacy (Credit Reporting) Code 2014 (Credit Reporting Privacy Code). We will only use or disclose such information for purposes permitted by these provisions, such as:

to process an application for credit with us in relation to our services;
to manage the commercial credit we provide and collect overdue payments; or
where a disclosure is required or authorised under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order.

In some cases, the people to whom we may disclose your credit information or credit eligibility information may be based outside Australia – see the heading “Disclosure and storage of personal information outside Australia” above for more details.

Correction of and access to credit information and credit eligibility information

To request correction of, or access to, your credit eligibility information please see the heading “Correction and access” above

Complaints regarding our compliance with credit reporting requirements

If at any time you would like to make a complaint about whether we have complied with Part IIIA of the Privacy Act or with the Credit Reporting Privacy Code please contact our Privacy Officer at info@hashching.com.au so that we may resolve your concerns.

If you make such a complaint, we will write to you with 7 days acknowledging that we have received your complaint and setting out how we will deal with it. We will aim to investigate and resolve your complaint within 30 days. We may need to consult with a CRB or another credit provider to do so. If we need more than 30 days to resolve your complaint, we will advise you of the reasons for the delay and ask for your consent to extend this period.

If you are not satisfied with our handling of your complaint, you can refer your complaint to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA).

AFCA offers consumers an accessible, independent and fair dispute resolution service. You can contact AFCA at 1800 931 678, online at afca.org.au or write to them at Australian Financial Complaints Authority Limited, GPO Box 3, Melbourne, VIC 3001.

About us

1800 444 744

info@hashching.com.au