Privacy Policy

 

The information we collect from you will only be used for the purpose you have supplied it for. Any email we send to you will comply with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. We will never pass your details on to another party, unless your consent allows us to do so.

 

Under the Privacy Policy Act 1993 we advise Farmers Finance Cardholders that:

 

a) Any information you provide to us will be used for the following purposes:

(i) Assessing your credit worthiness.

(ii) Administering and enforcing your Card Account.

(iii) Updating and enforcing defaults.

(iv) Offering you insurance.

(v) Maintaining credit records with us, a Related Company and external agencies.

(vi) Marketing goods and services provided by us, a Related Company or any other

supplier nominated by us.

 
b) You authorise us and a Related Company to:

(i) Obtain information about you from other sources.

(ii) Retain and use information about you, information about how you use the Card

or your Card Account and provide this information to external agencies for the

purposes listed above (such information may be used in updating and maintaining

credit reporting agency/ies files and databases, which are accessible to their

customers).

(iii) Disclose information to any potential assignee with whom we may wish to enter

into contractual relations.

 

c) All such information will be held by us at our business address and by other parties for

the purposes described above.

 

d) Where the information can be readily retrieved you will have access to it. You have

the right to have the information corrected. Subject to the Privacy Act 1993 a fee for

retrieval and correction may be charged.

 

e) Should you provide any information to a Merchant then the Merchant collects and

processes that information as our agent (although in all other respects the Merchant is

independent of us).