Fortune Forex Pty Ltd (FFX) is subject to the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (the Privacy Act) and we recognize the importance of your personal information. We appreciate that you may have concerns about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of your personal information. This privacy statement
describes how FFX manages your personal information and safeguards your privacy.
Personal Information is information which can reasonably identify you. We only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for FFX to provide you with our services and products. If you do not provide us with the information we request, we may not be able to provide you with the services that you want.
FFX will only collect information that is necessary for the primary purposes of:
We endeavor to collect personal information in a lawful and non-obtrusive way. The types of personal information that FFX collects and maintains generally comprises of:
FFX will collect your personal information directly from you, unless you have appointed an agent to act on your behalf. FFX may collect your personal information in a variety of different ways including in person, by telephone, fax, email, letter or application forms. FFX may hold the information that we have collected in both physical and electronic storage facilities, including paper-based filing and computer databases.
FFX may also collect non-personal information directly from you when you visit our website, and this may include:
This non-personal information is used to monitor usage of our website.
FFX unless required by law will not collect sensitive information about you, which includes information about your religion, race, political views, criminal convictions, health information or membership of professional or trade associations or unions. In the advent that we need to collect sensitive information about you, we will only do so with your consent or where it is required by law.
FFX may use your personal information for the primary purpose of providing you with compliance services and products, as well as for relation purposes, such as:
FFX will only use and disclose personal information about you for the purpose for which it is collected, unless consent has been obtained to use the information for additional purposes. However, in the course of providing our products and services to you we may also disclose your personal information:
Generally, FFX will provide you with access to your personal information that we hold within a reasonable time-frame upon receipt of a written request. We may not grant access to you, if a relevant exception under the Privacy Act applies. If you believe that the personal information we hold is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us about your concerns. If we determine your concerns to be valid, we will update the personal information we hold within a reasonable time frame, and provide you with written notice of the correction. Alternatively, if we disagree with your concerns, we will note the issues on your records that we hold, provide you with written notice of our reasons, and outline any additional avenues of redress open to you. You should keep us informed of any changes to your personal information, by notifying us in writing. From time-to-time we may request that you review, confirm and advise us of change to your personal information.
FFX may disclose information to related bodies corporate and unaffiliated service providers in locations outside Australia’s territorial jurisdiction in the course of storing, using or disclosing that information. When transferring your personal information to foreign jurisdictions. FFX will take all reasonable steps to ensure the overseas recipient deals with that information in ways consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles. That being said, the overseas recipient may not have privacy protections exactly equivalent to those in Australia under the Australian Privacy Principles. By using FFX’s services and products you consent to FFX making overseas disclosures of your personal information necessarily related to the primary purpose for which it was collected.
If we at FFX no longer need to hold your personal information for the primary purpose, we will take reasonable steps to de-identify and then destroy that information. We may retain your personal information when required to do so under a relevant Australian law.
If you wish to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy policy, including to make a complaint about our handling of your personal information, you can do so by addressing our Compliance Manager in writing, setting out your complaint and your upto-date contact details. Upon its receipt, our Compliance Manager will promptly investigate the matter and provide you with a response within 30 days. If you are unhappy with our resolution of your complaint, and you are an individual located in Australia, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and make a further complaint.
From time to time it may be necessary to amend this Privacy Policy and we reserve our right to do so. Any changes will be made as required and we will advise you of the changes to our Privacy Policy by posting an updated version on our website and by providing you with a personal notification of the changes.
If you have a question, comment or complaint regarding our Privacy Policy or procedures please contact us directly to discuss your concerns.
Fortune Forex Pty Ltd
Compliance Manager
PO Box 128
Beecroft NSW 2119