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Introduction

Our Site is operated by iFactFind and its affiliates ("iFactFind", "we", "our" or the "Company"). The Site allows financial advisers and clients to collaborate on financial planning ("Service").

Users of the Service may be either a financial adviser who has entered into an agreement with iFactFind ("Customer") or clients of a Customer, i.e., individuals seeking financial advice from the Customer, whom the Customer has permitted by their commercial agreement with iFactFind to have access to the Service ("Client User"). Collectively, Customer and Client User shall be referred to as "Users" or "you".

This Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement") explains the types of information we may collect from Users or that End Users may provide when visiting the Site and/or using the Services. This Privacy Statement also describes iFactFind's practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and processing information.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our Services, you acknowledge you have read and understood this Privacy Statement.

For the purposes of European Economic Area and UK data protection law ("Data Protection Law"), the data controller of any personal data uploaded by a Customer or Client User in connection with the Service will be the relevant Customer and/or Client User ("User Personal Data"), and iFactFind, will, in connection with this personal data, be the data processor as defined in applicable Data Protection Law. The appropriate data processing contractual terms have been entered into between the Customer and iFactFind in connection with the User Personal Data.

Notwithstanding the previous section, iFactFind will be the data controller of certain information provided by a User directly to iFactFind and certain analytical information that iFactFind may collect about each User's use of the Site.

By visiting our Site and/or using our Service, you acknowledge you have read, understood, and agreed to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. For more information about how we secure your information, please visit our Security Policy. For details on how we use cookies, visit our Cookies Policy. Our Security Policy, Cookies Policy, and Privacy Policy are incorporated into and form part of our Terms of Use.

We may amend or update this Privacy Statement from time to time by changing the Privacy Statement on the Site and/or by notifying you when you return to the Site or by email. Any amendments will take effect 7 days after they are published.

Information Collected and How It May Be Used

Data We Collect About You from Your Use of the Site and/or Service

The type of information is non-identifiable and anonymous information ("Non-personal Information"). We are not aware of the identity of the User from whom we have collected Non-Personal Information. Non-Personal Information is any unconcealed information available to us while Users are using the Site and/or Service. Non-personal Information being gathered consists of technical information and behavioural information, which may include the User's Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your uniform resource locators (URL), operating system, type of browser, browser plug-in types and versions, screen resolution, Flash version, time zone setting, the User's 'click-stream' on the website, the period of time the User visited the website, methods used to browse away from a page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Data You Give Us

This information is given by Users directly to us and may identify you and any others for whom you provide us with information and may be of a private and/or sensitive nature.

This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our Site or by corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our Site, subscribe to our Service, search for products and services, subscribe for Services on our Site, submit a query, and when you report a problem with our Site.

Data We Collect About You from Third Parties

This is data we receive about you but which you have not given us directly and will include information we collect about you from your use of other services that we may provide.

You do not have any legal obligation to provide any information to us; however, we require certain information to provide the Service. If you choose not to provide us with certain information, we may not be able to provide you with the Services.

Why Do We Collect Such Information?

Information You Give to Us

We will use this information to:

  • Fulfill our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and/or any contracts entered into between a Customer and Client User, and to provide you with the information, products, and Services that you request from us.
  • Administer your account with us, including billing.
  • Provide you with information about services we feel may interest you if you have given your consent to receiving marketing material from us at the point when we collected the information you gave us.
  • Notify you about changes to our Service.
  • Contact you for the purpose of providing you with technical assistance and other related information about the Service.
  • Respond to your queries, troubleshoot problems, detect and protect against error, fraud, or other criminal activity.
  • Ensure in our legitimate interests that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.

Information We Collect About You from Your Use of Our Site

We will use this information in our legitimate interests, where we have considered these are not overridden by your rights:

  • To administer our Site under our terms and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
  • To keep our Site safe and secure.
  • To improve our Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
  • To measure consumer interest in our services.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service, when you choose to do so.
  • To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other Users of our site about Services that may interest you or them.

Cookies & Local Storage

When you access or use the Service, we may use industry-wide technologies such as "cookies" or similar technologies, which store certain information on your computer ("Local Storage") and which will allow us to enable automatic activation of certain features and make your Service experience much more convenient and effortless. The cookies used by the Service are created per session and do not include any information about you, other than your session key (usually removed as your session ends but sometimes can be kept on your device for no more than 6 months) and the ability to log in again quickly. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer's hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase cookies, your online experience with the Service may be limited.

We use Cookies and other technologies on the basis that they are necessary for the performance of a contract with you or because using them is in our legitimate interests (where we have considered that these are not overridden by your rights).

We Use the Following Types of Cookies:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies required for the operation of our Site and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us in our legitimate interests of improving the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us, subject to your choices and preferences, to personalise our content, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). For instance, the Cookie Consent cookie is used to record a user's cookie preferences.
  • Social Media & Advertising Cookies: These cookies record information such as your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have clicked. We will use this information to make our advertising and marketing communications more relevant to your interests. We may also work with advertising networks that gather information about the content on websites and apps you visit, your interests, demographic information about you, and information on other websites and services you visit. This information is used to show you relevant advertising (including in relation to our services) on other online properties.

Disabling Cookies

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable, but, in general, the website may not operate properly if cookies are switched off. If you only disable third-party cookies, you will not be prevented from making purchases on our sites. If you disable all cookies, you will be unable to use our Services.

If you want to disable cookies on our site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:

  • For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
    • Choose the menu "tools" then "Internet Options"
    • Click on the "privacy" tab
    • Select the appropriate setting
  • For Google Chrome:
    • Choose Settings > Advanced
    • Under "Privacy and security," click "Content settings"
    • Click "Cookies"
  • For Safari:
    • Choose Preferences > Privacy
    • Click on "Remove all Website Data"
  • For Mozilla Firefox:
    • Choose the menu "tools" then "Options"
    • Click on the icon "privacy"
    • Find the menu "cookie" and select the relevant options
  • For Opera 6.0 and further:
    • Choose the menu "Files"> "Preferences"

Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies used on our site will expire after one week.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them here: Cookies Policy

Sharing Information Gathered through Service and Site with Third Parties

We may share your information with:

Members of Our Group

Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries, who support our processing of personal data under this policy.

Third Parties

Our selected third parties may include:

  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and subject to the cookie section of this policy (this will not identify you as an individual).
  • Data processors who process your personal data on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions and applicable data protection law.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
  • If iFactFind or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of supply terms and other agreements with you; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of iFactFind, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction and to prevent cybercrime.

Where Do We Store Your Data?

The information you provide through the Site and the Service is hosted and stored on servers in the European Union. We may transfer personal information to members of our group and selected service providers who perform functions on our behalf outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Where your information is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is subject to appropriate safeguards, such as relying on a recognised legal adequacy mechanism, and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Your Rights in Respect of Data of Which We Are a Controller

You have the right under certain circumstances:

  • To be provided with a copy of any personal information we hold about you.
  • To request the rectification or erasure of your personal information held by us.
  • To request that we cease processing your data.
  • To request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information (for example, while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information).
  • To request that your Personal Data be transferred to a third party.
  • To withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information.

You can also exercise the rights listed above at any time by contacting us at security@ifactfind.com.au. If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority.

Security and Storage of Information

We take great care in implementing, enforcing, and maintaining the security of the Service, Site, and your personal information. iFactFind implements, enforces, and maintains security policies to prevent unauthorised or accidental access to or destruction, loss, modification, use, or disclosure of personal data and monitor compliance with such policies on an ongoing basis.

iFactFind maintains documentation regarding compliance with the requirements of the law, including without limitation documentation of any known breaches, and holds reasonable insurance policies in connection with data security.

iFactFind aims to process only adequate, accurate, and relevant data limited to the needs and purposes for which it is gathered. It also aims to store data for the period necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the data is gathered. iFactFind only collects data in connection with a specific legitimate purpose and only processes data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Questions and Contact Information

If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Statement, you are welcome to send us an email or otherwise contact us at security@ifactfind.com.au

EU citizens have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Data Protection Authority in your jurisdiction) in case of a breach of any EU data protection and privacy regulations. If the supervisory authority fails to deal with a complaint or inform you within the time frame set under applicable law, you have the right to an effective judicial remedy.

Please do not hesitate to contact us: security@ifactfind.com.au

Representative

We value your privacy and your rights as a data subject and have therefore appointed Prighter Group with its local partners as our privacy representative and your point of contact for the following regions:

  • European Union (EU)

Prighter gives you an easy way to exercise your privacy-related rights (e.g. requests to access or erase personal data).

If you want to contact us via our representative, Prighter or make use of your data subject rights, please visit the following website: https://app.prighter.com/portal/18062871191