You can be assured of an exceptional level of service with PMO. Property & Mortgage Options is a locally owned and operated Property Investment practice, operating in Townsville since 1986. Proud to be part of your local community, we focus on building long-term relationships with our clients. Be assured that every option we present to you and step you take in our press is designed with your succe
ss in mind. Instead of searching the internet and running around to different lenders, we do the hard work short-listing suitable loans for you. We know finance and we know property, so let a professional, dedicated to these areas, save you time – time you could be spending with your family and friends! With a genuine passion for finance and property, we want you to sleep well at night knowing that you have successfully made one of life’s biggest decisions. PRIVACY
We respect your privacy. Property & Mortgage Options seeks to provide the best possible service to its customers by providing the best possible range of financial products and services. We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our privacy policy commitment in respect of personal information that you may provide to us. Our Privacy Policy ensures your right to privacy as we recognise that any personal information we may collect about you will only be used for the purposes indicated in our policy. It is important to us that you are confident that any personal information we collect from you or is received by us, will be treated with appropriate respect ensuring protection of your personal information. Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the National Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant law. Why We Collect Your Personal Information
We collect and receive personal information from our customers or from other business referrers in order to conduct our business, including assessing and obtaining approval for loans. From time to time we may offer products and services. To enable us to maintain a successful business relationship with you, we may disclose your personal information with other organisations that provide products or services used or marketed by us. The types of organisations to which we are likely to disclose information about you include other mortgage intermediaries, lenders, valuers, lenders mortgage insurers, surveyors, accountants, credit reporting agencies and lawyers. We may also disclose your personal information to any other organisation that may have or is considering having an interest in your loan, or in our business. To Whom Will We Disclose Your Personal Information? Where possible, we will inform you, at or before the time of collecting your personal information, the type of organisations that we intend to disclose your personal information to. Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that:
• The organisation has a commitment to protecting your personal information at least equal to our commitments; and
• You have consented to us doing so. Sometimes we are required or authorised by law to disclose your personal information. Circumstances in which we may disclose your personal information would be to a Court or Tribunal in response to a request or in response to a subpoena or to the Australian Taxation Office. Updating Your Personal Information
Important to our relationship that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. During the course of our relationship with you we will ask you to inform us if any of your personal information has changed. If you wish to make any changes to your personal information, you may contact us. We will generally rely on you to inform us if the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete. Access To Your Personal Information
We will provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you. You may request access to any of the personal information we hold about you at any time. We may charge a fee for our costs in retrieving and supplying the information to you. Denied Access To Personal Information
There may be situations where we are not required to provide you with access to your personal information. For example, such a situation would be information relating to an existing or anticipated legal proceeding with you, or if your request is vexatious. An explanation will be provided to you, if we deny you access to the personal information we hold on you. How Safe And Secure Is the Personal Information That We Hold? We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment, and when the information is no longer needed for any purpose for which the information may be used or disclosed, it will be destroyed or permanently de- identified. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Change In Our Privacy Policy
We are constantly reviewing all of our policies and attempt to keep up to date with market expectations. Technology is constantly changing, as is the law and market place practice. As a consequence we may change this privacy policy from time to time or as the need arises.
