IBL Limited, (trading as Planned Cover and informed by Planned Cover) is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. This Privacy Policy describes our current policies and practices in relation to the collection, handling, use and disclosure of personal information. It also deals with how you can complain about a breach of the privacy laws and how you can access the personal information we hold and how to have that information corrected.
Our contact details for all privacy enquiries:
IBL Limited (AFSL 231203)
Level 21, 41 Exhibition Street Melbourne 3000
Phone: 03 8508 5400
Email: privacy@iblltd.com.au
What information do we collect and how do we use it?
When we arrange insurance on your behalf, we ask you for the information we need to advise you about your insurance needs and management of your risks. This can include a broad range of information ranging from your name, address, contact details, age to other information about your personal affairs including your assets, personal belongings, financial situation, health and wellbeing. We provide any information that the insurers or intermediaries who we ask to quote for your insurances and premium funding require to enable them to decide whether to insure you and on what terms.
Insurers may in turn pass on this information to their reinsurers. Some of these companies are located outside Australia. For example, if we seek insurance terms from an overseas insurer (e.g. Lloydâs of London), your personal information may be disclosed to the insurer. If this is likely to happen, we inform you of where the insurer is located, if it is possible to do so.
When you make a claim under your policy, we assist you by collecting information about your claim. Sometimes we also need to collect information about you from others. We provide this information to your insurer (or anyone your insurer has appointed to assist it to consider your claim, e.g. loss adjusters, medical or legal advisers etc.) to enable it to consider your claim. Again, this information may be passed on to reinsurers.
For registration and record keeping purposes, informed by Planned Cover may require personal information such as: your name, address and contact details. Payment facilities on the informed website are provided by independent third parties. The privacy policies of those third parties apply to any information you provide via those payment facilities. We do not obtain or store credit card details for payments made via the informed website.
From time to time, we will use your contact details to circulate direct marketing communications including offers, competitions, updates and newsletters that are relevant to the services we provide. We always give you the option of electing not to receive these communications in the future. You can unsubscribe by notifying us and we will no longer send this information to you.
We may utilise your information internally to help us improve our services and help resolve any complaints or problems.
What if you donât provide some information to us?
We can only fully advise you if we have all relevant information. Insurance laws require you to provide your insurers with all the information they need in order to be able to decide whether to insure you and on what terms. You have a duty to disclose the information which is relevant to the insurerâs decision to insure you. If you provide inaccurate or incomplete information, we may not be able to supply the products or services you are seeking. informed by Planned Cover will only be able to provide the correct documentation such as course certificates, and correctly process payments, if the information in the fields marked as âmandatoryâ are accurate.
When do we disclose your information overseas?
If you ask us to seek insurance terms and we recommend an overseas insurer, we may be required to disclose the information to the insurer located outside Australia. For example, if we recommend a policy provided by Lloydâs of London, your information may be given to the Lloydâs broker and underwriters at Lloydâs of London to make a decision about whether to insure you.
We will tell you at the time of advising on your insurance if the insurer is overseas and in which country the insurer is located. If the insurer is not regulated by laws which protect your information in a way that is similar to the Privacy Act, we will seek your consent before disclosing your information to that insurer.
Australian and overseas insurers acquire reinsurance from reinsurance companies that are located throughout the world, so in some cases your information may be disclosed to them for assessment of risks and in order to provide reinsurance to your insurer. We do not make this disclosure, this is made by the insurer (if necessary) for the placement for their reinsurance program.
How do we hold and protect your information?
We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of the personal information we hold and to protect its privacy and security. We hold the information we collect from you in a working file and/or electronically on our own servers. Working files are maintained and held in secure premises or securely destroyed. In some cases, your file is archived and sent to an external data storage provider for a period of time. We only use storage providers located in Australia who are also regulated by the Privacy Act.
We ensure that your information held on our servers is safe by restricting access by use of individual logons and passwords. Access is on a need to know basis with only the necessary staff having access to your information.
We ensure that your information is safe by protecting it from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. We maintain physical security over our paper and electronic data and premises, by using locks and security systems. We also maintain computer and network security; for example, we use firewalls (security measures for the Internet) and other security systems such as user identifiers and passwords to control access to computer systems where your information is stored. Anonymous data â We use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our website, for example when you browse our website our service provider logs your server address, the date and time of your visit, the pages and links accessed and the type of browser used. It does not identify you personally and we only use this information for statistical purposes and to improve the content and functionality of our website, to better understand our clients and markets and to improve our services.
Cookies â In order to collect this anonymous data we may use âcookiesâ. Cookies are small pieces of information which are sent to your browser and stored on your computerâs hard drive. Sometimes they identify users where the website requires information to be retained from one page to the next. This is purely to increase the functionality of the site. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user. Cookies do not damage your computer and you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie so that you can decide if you want to accept it. Once you leave the site, the cookie is destroyed and no personal or other information about you is stored.
Forms â Our website allows visitors to submit information via self-service forms. The information submitted via the forms is not encrypted.
Information collected via on-line forms is sent to our offices via email (not encrypted) and may be stored on email and/or servers which are accessible by IBL staff only and is password protected.
We also use your information to send you requested product information and promotional material and to enable us to manage your ongoing requirements, e.g. renewals, and our relationship with you, e.g. invoicing, client surveys etc.
We may occasionally notify you via direct marketing about new services and special offers, events or articles we think will be of interest to you. We may send you regular updates by email or by post on insurance or risk matters. If you would rather not receive this information or do not wish to receive it electronically, email or write to us.
Will we disclose the information we collect to anyone?
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others.
We may need to provide your information to contractors who supply services to us, e.g. to handle mailings on our behalf, external data storage providers or to other companies in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganisation, dissolution or similar event. However, we will do our best to ensure that they protect your information as required under the Privacy Act.
We may provide your information to others if we are required to do so by law, you consent to the disclosure or under some other unusual circumstances which the Privacy Act permits.
How long will we retain your information?
We will retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the relevant purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The retention period will primarily be determined by relevant legal and regulatory obligations and/or duration of our business relationship with you. We will securely delete or erase your information if there is no valid business reason for retaining it. In some circumstances we may retain your information for longer periods of time if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation, in the event of any complaints or there is another valid business reason the data will be needed in the future.
How can you check, update or change the information we are holding?
Upon receipt of your written request and enough information to allow us to identify the information, we will disclose to you the personal information we hold about you. We will also correct, amend or delete any personal information that we agree is inaccurate, irrelevant, out of date or incomplete.
If you wish to access or correct your personal information, please write to our Privacy Manager at the address noted above.
We do not charge for receiving a request for access to personal information or for complying with a correction request. We do not charge for providing access to personal information.
In some limited cases, we may need to refuse access to your information, or refuse a request for correction. We will advise you as soon as possible after your request if this is the case and the reasons for our refusal. If you do not agree with our refusal you may request the decision to be reviewed via our internal complaints handling policy.
What happens if you want to complain?
If you have concerns about whether we have complied with the Privacy Act or this Privacy Policy when collecting or handling your personal information, please write to our Privacy Manager at the address noted above.
Your complaint will be considered by us through our internal complaints resolution process and we will promptly acknowledge receipt of your complaint and attempt to resolve your complaint within thirty (30) calendar days from the date it is received.
Your consent
By asking us to assist with your insurance needs, or when you subscribe to any of the informed by Planned Cover risk and educational services you consent to the collection and use of the information you have provided to us for the purposes described above.
Tell us what you think
We welcome your questions and comments about privacy. If you have any concerns or complaints, please contact our Privacy Manager on the details listed above.
