Privacy

Privacy legislation regulates the way private sector organisations can collect, use, keep secure and disclose personal information. We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), when collecting and handling Your personal information.

We only collect personal information that is required and/or permitted by law and is collected by us for the purposes of:​

  • evaluating information that has been requested by us and provided by you, specific to the product or service you require from us.
  • Providing quotes for your insurance needs
  • evaluating any request for a change to any insurance provided
  • providing, administering, and managing the insurance following acceptance of a proposal
  • investigating and managing potential claims made in relation to any insurance You have with Us
  • providing information about insurance matters to you.

We may disclose personal information to service providers we have appointed to assist us to provide you with our products and/or services such as your insurance broker, our risk carriers, loss adjusters, claims investigators, our insurer and reinsurers, legal and other professional advisors. They may be located overseas, our contractual arrangements with our insurers and service providers generally include an obligation for them to comply with the Australian privacy laws.

The Personal information collected by us include:

  • Your name, address, contact details
  • other people that are related to you or the business, property or risk you are wanting us to insure
  • Specific information that outlines the risk you are asking us to insure
  • previous claims or losses,
  • details of previous insurances and insurers
  • credit status and any matters relevant to the insurance product to be provided.   

We collect personal information in a number of ways to enable us to provide you with our services and/or products such as:

  • telephone directly or indirectly,
  • email
  • facsimile
  • online
  • post
  • insurance brokers and other third parties (who may include investigators, medical advisers, and lawyers)
  • in person from you or another person or persons.

We store personal information securely in a password protected database. Encrypted back-ups of personal information are performed daily and kept securely offsite.

You can seek access to your personal information by contacting us. You can ask us to correct the personal information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. We will respond to any such request within a reasonable time. We will provide you with access within a reasonable time in the manner requested, unless we are entitled to refuse to provide access. If we decline to provide you with access, we will provide you with the reasons for our refusal and how you may access our internal dispute resolution (IDR) process.

If we correct information, we will inform you. If we refuse to amend information, we will provide you with our reasons for the refusal and details of how to access our IDR process

If you are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with your personal information, or you have a complaint about our compliance with the Privacy Act, please contact us 08 8372 4020 or support@if.net.au

We will acknowledge your complaint within 2 business days, investigate your complaint and respond to you within 15 business days.

If for any reason you are not satisfied with our response, you may make a complaint to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 1300 363 992 or http://www.privacy.gov.au/

Should you wish to read more information about the privacy legislation or the Australian Privacy Principles, we recommend that you visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s website at http://www.privacy.gov.au/.

​By providing Your personal information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal as information as us making the disclosures set out above which require consent. This consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information remains valid unless you alter or revoke it by giving us written notice.