How we use your information.
1. When you apply we ask you to supply certain information to us. This enables us to access your affordability of a vehicle / finance loan. We do not wish to over commit any one when purchasing / taking finance from our company and in terms of the Responsible Code of Lending we take this seriously.
2. We ask you to complete our standard application which contains your personal information, including your email address, supply proof of address, copy of your driver’s license, payslips and or WINZ breakdowns, and we ask you to tell us about your credit history.
3. We ask you to confirm the status of the credit. Ie have you ever had or are there now any attachments or legal proceedings against you, or any action for payment default. It is necessary for you to declare any Bankruptcy – whether current of past.
4. It’s important to have these disclosed, and these may or may not inhibit your ability to obtain credit from our company.
5. We ask that you declare you are over 18 years old and are not an undischarged bankrupt. Bankrupts must declare. Pursuant to the Privacy Act 1993 you authorise any finance company to contact any credit reporting agencies, credit providers, your employer, accountant /s or any other source to obtain, check and exchange ( both now and in the future) such personal financial and commercial information and references about you as is necessary for the purpose of considering this application, the protection and administration of any loan arising out of the application, and to assist in the enforcement of any agreement between you and any finance company.
6. You agree that you may produce this authority to such parties for the purposes of correcting such information. Under the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993 you are entitled to have access and request correction to personal information held
7. Furthermore you specifically authorise the finance company to search by way of credit check for any Ministry of Justice overdue fines that may be outstanding. Overdue fines are defined as fines or reparation overdue for payment to Ministry of Justice and not under a payment arrangement.
8. Once we have all of this information and agreement, we make every reasonable to attempt to keep this information secure. There are times when we need to share this information – for example when we place insurance on a vehicle for you.
9. Our Privacy Policy may be different to those we may share your information with so we encourage you to do your own research
10. Our details – in the unlikely event of a sale of our business or merger of our business with another business, your details may be disclosed.
11. Third Party Lenders – should we need to refer your application to a third party lender, and then your personal information will be shared. Should this occur it is likely that they would also conduct their own searches against you , with credit agencies, for the purposes of assessing your credit
12. VEDA – We subscribe to Veda for the purposes of making some credit decisions – ie assessing your credit score
13. NZTA – We verify your identity through a third party supplier – this being NZTA.
14. In addition we may use other lenders, credit agencies and other associated agencies to verify your identity
15. Google Analytics’ are used to report important information on the usage of our Site. Such information is reported to the company on a required basis.
16. Appropriate levels of security are used to maintain and protect our client information and data bases. However there may be times when data/ information may be accessed by other networks without security measures and this information may be used by people other than those it was intended for.
17. Consent – you have given your consent to us to use your information by submitting your information and have agreed to our Privacy Policy. You are able to access your information, and should we not have this incorrectly held, you may change it.
You would need to contact us by email. Such change of information would be subject to a fee of $20. There may be times when we change our Privacy Policy and as such we will note any changes on our website.