Privacy Policy

BlackKite Property respects your privacy. The Privacy Statement applicable to this Website explains how personal data will be treated as you access and interact with this Website and can be accessed on the Privacy page of this website.

This policy sets out how BlackKite Property and its related companies and trusts (“BlackKite Property”) collects, uses, discloses and manages your personal information and how BlackKite Property complies with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”).

If you have any queries or complaints regarding your personal information, please contact our office using the contact details listed below.

What is your personal information?

When used in this privacy policy, the term ‘personal information’ has the meaning given to it in the Act. In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession or occupation. If the information TBlackKite Property collects personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered to be personal information.

What personal information do we collect?

The information we collect about you depends on the products, services or information that you ask us to provide to you. We may collect information such as:

• your name and contact details including your, physical address, email address and telephone number;
• details of products and services that we have supplied to, or you have enquired about, together with any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and to respond to your enquiries;
• your preferences for particular products, services, facilities or lifestyle activities when you tell us what they are;
• any additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly through our websites or indirectly through use of our websites or online presence or otherwise. That information may include information regarding what web pages you access;
• information you provide to us through our representatives or customer surveys from time to time;
• if you invest through us, information relating to you and your investment;

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a website may write to your hard drive when you visit the website. A cookie file can contain information, such as a userID, that the website uses to track the pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you personally supply. A cookie cannot read data on your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites.

BlackKite Property website use cookies to track user traffic patterns and to better serve you when you revisit the website. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, providing you with the opportunity to either accept or reject it. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.

How is your personal information collected?

BlackKite Property will collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so. When collecting personal information from you, we may collect it in ways including:

• through your access and use of our websites;
• through your enrolment and participation in surveys, questionnaires, customer loyalty programs, competitions and promotions run by or on behalf of BlackKite Property;
• when you make an enquiry;

What happens if BlackKite Property cannot collect your personal information?

If you decide not to provide BlackKite Property with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:

• BlackKite Property may not be able to provide the requested products or services to you, either to the same standard or at all;
• BlackKite Property may not be able to provide you with information about the products and services that you may want; or
• BlackKite Property may be unable to tailor the content of its websites to your preferences and your experience of the websites may not be as enjoyable or useful.

For what purposes does BlackKite Property collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?

BlackKite Property operates the following businesses:

• property development;
• investment in residential property

BlackKite Property collects personal information in order to carry on the above businesses, to provide property-related products and services, to improve our products and services and to communicate with our customers and investors. Personal Information may also be disclosed between BlackKite Property’s businesses, related companies and trusts.

BlackKite Property also collects, holds, uses and discloses your personal information for the following purposes:

• to provide products and services to you and to send information and communications requested by you;
• to inform you of updates concerning BlackKite Property and its products and services;
• to provide you with access to protected areas of our websites;
• to assess the performance of the website and to improve its operation;
• to conduct business processing functions including providing personal information to our related bodies corporate, contractors, service providers or other third parties;
• for the administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control or research purposes of BlackKite Property and its contractors and service providers;
• to provide your updated personal information to our contractors or service providers in order for us to provide our products and services to you;
• to update our records and keep your contact details up to date;
• to process and respond to any enquiry or complaint made by you;
• for risk management purposes including incident investigation, claims management and litigation; and
• to comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country).

Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this policy.

Direct marketing communications

BlackKite Property may send you direct marketing communications and information about:

• products, services, discounts, competitions and special promotions that we consider may be of interest to you;
• offers or promotions based on how you use our products and services;
• other companies’ products and services (including offers and discounts we’ve specially negotiated for our customers) we think may interest you, if you’ve chosen to receive this information.

These communications may be sent in various forms, including by telephone, post, fax, email, SMS or by other forms of electronic messages.

You consent to us sending you those direct marketing communications by any of those methods. If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will try to use that method whenever practical to do so.

In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from BlackKite Property by contacting us (see the details below) or by using any opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications. If you opt-out using the opt-out details specified in a marketing communication, we will ensure that your name is removed from the mailing list that we used to send you that particular communication. If you wish to opt-out of other (or all) marketing communications or mailing lists, please see below.

How can you opt-out of other marketing communications?

You can opt out if you prefer to not receive direct marketing communications about our latest products, services, promotions and offers. You may wish to opt-out of selected mailing lists or all BlackKite Property mailing lists.

In order to opt-out, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details below.

Please note that, if BlackKite Property is currently providing you with services or products, BlackKite Property will still need to send you essential information about your account, the relevant services or products and other information required by law.

To whom does BlackKite Property disclose personal information?

BlackKite Property does not disclose your personal information, except as stated below. BlackKite Property takes reasonable steps to ensure that third party recipients do not use personal information for their own purposes and that those parties comply with BlackKite Property privacy policy.

Parties to whom TBlackKite Property may disclose relevant personal information include:

• consultants, agents or contractors acting on BlackKite Property’s behalf, including real estate and travel agents, marketing agencies, surveyors, conveyancers, builders and property developers;
• valuers where BlackKite Property is seeking to value a property or lease;
• panel lenders, lenders mortgage insurers, credit reporting agencies, guarantors;
• regulatory authorities where required by law;
• related parties, entities and trusts of BlackKite Property; and
• parties to whom BlackKite Property has outsourced various functions. Those parties may include the providers of share registry services, catering and restaurant services, contractors or service providers for the purposes of operation of our website or our business, custodians, IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, electronic network administrators, debt collectors, insurers, insurance brokers, real estate agents, marketing agents, travel agents, claims management services, injury management services, property management services and professional advisors such as accountants, lawyers and business advisors.

If any BlackKite Property business, company or trust is sold to another organisation, we may transfer any personal information we hold about you to that organisation.

Security of Information

No employee is able to access information they do not require for their duties. There are passwords and security access IDs in place to restrict access to confidential and personal information to those who need it perform their duties.

Access and correction of personal information

If you wish to seek access to the personal information we may hold about you, please contact our office by sending a form from this website. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with a suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you).

There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold. For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If that happens we will give you written reasons for the refusal.

If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it. If you wish to update the personal information that BlackKite Property may hold, please complete the Change Details Request Form. In some unusual cases we may not agree that there are grounds for amending your personal information. If that happens, we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.

We will not charge you for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information. Depending on the nature of the request, we may ask you to verify your identity, put your request in writing and to complete an enquiry form, which will be sent to you.

What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?

BlackKite Property requests that complaints about breaches of privacy be made in writing, so we can be sure about the details of the complaint. Our Privacy Officer deals with privacy complaints and any complaints should be directed to the Privacy Officer using the contact details above. We will attempt to confirm as appropriate and necessary with you your understanding of the conduct relevant to the complaint and what you expect as an outcome. We will inform you whether we will conduct an investigation, the name, title, and contact details of the investigating officer and the estimated completion date for the investigation process.

After BlackKite Property has completed its enquiries, we will contact you, usually in writing, to advise the outcome and invite a response to our conclusions about the complaint. If we receive a response from you, we will assess it and advise if BlackKite Property has changed its view. If you are unsatisfied with the outcome, BlackKite Property will advise you about further options including, if appropriate, review by the Privacy Commissioner within the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Security

BlackKite Property takes all reasonable security measures to protect personal information from loss, unauthorised access, destruction, misuse, modification or disclosure.

Changes to BlackKite Property’s privacy policy

BlackKite Property reserves the right to modify or amend this privacy policy at any time and will update the privacy policy on BlackKite Property website if it has been changed. If you have any further questions about BlackKite Property privacy policy, please contact our office.