1. BACKGROUND & PURPOSE
This Privacy Policy sets out how DA Blum ("we", "our", "us") collects, uses, discloses
and manages your personal information and how we comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
("Privacy Act").

If you have any queries or complaints regarding your personal information, please contact us using
the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.

When used in this Privacy Policy, the term 'personal information' has the meaning given to it in
the Privacy Act. In general terms, it is any information about you which identifies you or from
which you are identifiable. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email
address and profession or occupation and any information about our dealings with you.

 

2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The types of personal information we collect depend on the particular services you use, or
request. The information may be collected by us as a registered real estate developer.

The following are the types of information we may collect:

• your name, date of birth, gender;
• contact details including your physical address, email address and telephone number;
• bank account and credit card details;
• information to verify your identity;
• information relating to your income and credit-worthiness;
• your employment history, if you apply for a job with us;
• details of products and services that we have supplied to you, or you have enquired about,
together with any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and
to respond to your enquiries;
• information about you and your family and any characteristics, preferences or requirements
that are relevant to the products and services that we may provide to you;
• 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.

 

3. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We may collect your personal information using a variety of methods, including:

• through your access and use of our corporate or estate websites;
• through your participation in surveys, questionnaires, competitions and promotions run
by or on our behalf;
• during conversations between you and our representatives, including sales
representatives;
• when you make an enquiry; or
• when you make an offer to acquire a property from our estate.

The information collected will generally be used to complete either a written or on-line form.
We may also collect personal information from third parties including third party companies
such as credit reporting agencies and government entities.


 

4. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information to provide you with an
appropriate product or service. Other purposes for handling your personal information
include:

• To facilitate distribution of payments and corporate communications (including annual
reports, notices of meetings, quarterly operational updates) and other important
information that we may wish to communicate;
• To send marketing communications to you, including by way of email, phone call or short
message service (SMS) communication, to inform you of information that might be of
interest to you;
• To send you marketing communications informing you of new investment opportunities;
and
• To otherwise run our business.
If at any time you would like to opt out of receiving our marketing communications, you can
contact us with your request.

 

5. TO WHOM WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE DISCLOSED?
Entities to which we may disclose your personal information include:

• Our representatives, business partners, contractors, or agents - for example during the
marketing phase of a new land development or similar product;
• Our professional advisers, auditors, and insurers; and
• Regulatory authorities including the ATO or as otherwise required to fulfil legal and
regulatory requirements.

We will not disclose personal information to overseas recipients, unless required to fulfil legal
and regulatory requirements.

 

6. COOKIES
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's
server. Each cookie is unique to your web browser, and contains anonymous information such
as a unique identifier, the site name, and other non-personal information. It allows a website
to remember things like your preferences but can also be used to enable companies to target
their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or web
browsing habits. Cookies do not, by themselves, contain information that personally identifies
you (such as your name, address, or email address). However, cookies can be used to identify
that you have provided such information via an online form, and this can be associated with
a company contact record.

We may use cookies to serve ads when you visit our website and third-party sites on which
we advertise. In addition, we may use web beacons, provided by our ad-serving partner, to
help manage our online advertising. These web beacons enable our ad server to recognize a
browser's cookie when a browser visits this site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to
our website.

Cookies are stored on a computer's hard drive, but they cannot access it, so a cookie can't
read other information stored on a user's hard drive, or get a user's e-mail address, etc.
Cookies can only store data that is provided by the server or generated by an explicit user
action.

 

7. HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Personal information is mainly held in secure electronic databases, paper-based files, and
other records. We use a range of physical and electronic processes to ensure the security of
personal information that we hold. Our staff, contractors and others to whom we choose to
disclose personal information are required to maintain confidentiality over personal
information we hold.

 

8. HOW CAN INDIVIDUALS ACCESS AND CORRECT THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You have the right to obtain a copy of any personal information which we hold about you and
to advise us of any inaccuracy. There may be some exceptions to this, but we will let you know
at the time. We will require you to verify your identity and to specify what information you
require. We may charge a fee to cover the cost of verifying the application and locating,
retrieving, reviewing and copying any material requested. If we refuse your request to obtain
any of your personal information or to make a correction, we will let you know our reasons
for doing so in writing.

 

9. HOW CAN INDIVIDUALS LODGE A COMPLAINT?
If you believe that we have interfered with your privacy, or breached the Privacy Act, please
communicate your complaint in writing to us.
We will respond promptly when a complaint is received. If you are not satisfied with our
response, we encourage you to contact the Privacy Commissioner (Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner).

 

10. CONTACT DETAILS
All correspondence and privacy-related queries and concerns should be directed to PO Box
794 Katanning WA 6317 or badablum@bigpond.com.

 

11. UPDATES OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may, from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy. The current version of the
Privacy Policy, which was last updated on 25 November 2023, can be viewed on our website.