Privacy Policy
How Build Invest Grow collects, holds, uses and discloses your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Last updated: 2025
Our Commitment to Protect Your Privacy
This privacy policy relates to our management of personal information about borrowers and consumers, including your personal information collected in connection with a credit application or a credit facility.
We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our policy on how we collect and manage personal information we hold about you and what we do with that information.
It is important to us that you are confident that any personal information we hold about you will be treated in a way that ensures protection of your personal information in accordance with the law.
Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the Australian Privacy Principles (as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)) and any other applicable law.
What is Personal Information?
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 that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession or occupation.
If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.
How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
If you deal with us directly, we generally collect personal information directly from you, such as in person, on the phone or electronically. This includes your interaction with our website, online application functionalities, and social media channels.
We may also collect your personal information in other ways, including:
- From your joint applicants, co-applicants, guarantors or proposed guarantors
- From the loan applicant if you are the guarantor or proposed guarantor
- From your employer, real estate agent or other referees
- From third parties such as social media platforms, marketing websites, related companies, credit reporting bodies, lenders, law enforcement agencies, other government entities and identity verification service providers
- From your representatives, e.g. solicitors, accountants, conveyancers, builders and agents
- When legally required to do so — for example, in the provision of specific credit services
We may collect credit reporting information and credit eligibility information about you from credit reporting bodies and credit providers respectively if you expressly authorise us to do so in writing as part of us providing you with credit assistance services.
What Personal Information Do We Collect and Hold?
We may collect the following types of personal information:
- Your name, date of birth, qualifications and any other information and documents used to verify your identity
- Your contact details such as physical address, email address and telephone number
- Your credit information and financial information including your tax file number and bank account, superannuation or insurance policy information, credit reports, income and expenses, assets and liabilities, and credit and loan repayment history including any defaults
- Other information that you may submit as part of a finance application, such as the age and number of your dependents, length of time at current address, your employment details and proof of earnings and expenses
- Information about loans and finance products that relate to you, including transactional information, audits, investigations, complaints or enquiries
- Additional information relating to you that you provide to us, whether directly or indirectly through our websites or online presence
- Information you provide to us through our contact centre or customer surveys
Some of the personal information we collect about you may be sensitive information, such as:
- Information relating to your memberships in trade or professional associations or trade unions
- Your criminal record
- Your health information
For What Purpose Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
We collect (and hold, use and disclose) your personal information for a number of purposes:
- Carrying on our business and providing our products and services, including credit assistance
- Managing our relationship with you and communicating with you
- Giving you information about loan products or related services
- Considering whether you are eligible for a loan or lease product or any related service you requested
- Assisting you to prepare an application for a loan or lease product
- Conducting business processing and administrative functions
- Performing our obligations to third parties involved in your loan or lease product (such as lenders and financiers)
- Referring you to providers of insurance and other services
- Managing our risks (such as fraud investigation and prevention) and meeting our legal and regulatory obligations
- Where permitted by law, for the purposes of direct marketing and offering you other products and services
- Complying with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority
If you do not provide us with your personal information, some or all of the following may happen:
- We may not be able to provide our products and services to you, either to the same standard or at all
- Your application for credit or lease may not be able to be processed
- We may not be able to provide you with information about products and services that you may want, including special promotions
- We may be unable to tailor the content of our website to your preferences
To Whom Do We Disclose Your Personal Information?
We may disclose your personal information:
- To the mortgage aggregator through whom we may submit loan or lease applications
- To the Australian Credit Licence holder that authorises us to engage in credit activities
- To industry bodies, valuers, your employers, referees, identity verification services or credit reporting agencies
- To prospective or actual lenders, lessors, mortgage insurers or other intermediaries in relation to your finance requirements
- To service providers, agents, contractors and advisers that assist us to conduct our business
- To associated businesses that may want to market products to you
- To companies that host our ICT infrastructure or provide cloud services
- To anybody who represents you, such as finance brokers, real estate agents, conveyancers, lawyers and accountants
- To your guarantors or prospective guarantors
- To auditors, law enforcement agencies and regulators
- To anyone, where you have provided us consent
- Where we are required to do so by law, such as under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth)
- To investors, agents or advisers, or any entity that has an interest in our business
Do We Disclose Your Personal Information Outside Australia?
We may disclose personal information to our related bodies corporate and third party suppliers and service providers located overseas for some of the purposes listed above. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
Some of the recipients and systems hosting your personal information may be located outside Australia, including New Zealand, the Philippines and the United States of America. Your personal information may be stored in cloud servers located outside of Australia. As such, information, electronic or networked, can be accessed remotely. It is not always practicable to know in which country your information may be held or accessed.
Automated Decision Making
We may use computer systems to support us in providing our services to you, based on personal information we collected from you or obtained from other sources on your behalf.
These computer systems use your personal information to evaluate your personal circumstances, filter and better identify products which may be suitable or available to you, and support our associates in deciding which products to recommend. We, and not the system, will make the final decision as to which products will be recommended or made available to you.
Direct Marketing
From time to time we may use your personal information to provide you with current information about finance, offers you may find of interest, changes to our organisation, or new products or services being offered by us or any company with whom we are associated.
If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us, you may at any time decline to receive such information by reaching out to us through the contact details at the base of this page. If the direct marketing is by email you may also use the unsubscribe function. We will not charge you for giving effect to your request and will take all reasonable steps to meet your request at the earliest possible opportunity.
Updating and Accessing Your Personal Information
It is important to us that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. During the course of our relationship with you we may ask you to inform us if any of your personal information has changed.
You have rights under the Privacy Act to request access to the personal information we hold about you at any time. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you).
Depending on the type of request, we may respond immediately, otherwise we will aim to respond within 30 days of receiving your request. There may be situations where we are not required to provide access — for example, if the information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, or if your request is vexatious. An explanation will be provided to you if we deny access.
Correcting Your Personal Information
If any of the personal information we hold about you is incorrect, inaccurate or out of date, you may request that we correct the information. If appropriate, we will correct the personal information at the time of the request. Otherwise, we will provide an initial response within seven days and, where reasonable, will advise you of whether the correction has been made within 30 days.
We may need to consult with other entities as part of our investigation. If we refuse to correct personal information, we will provide our reasons and, at your request, will take reasonable steps to add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.
Using Government Identifiers
If we collect government identifiers, such as your tax file number, we do not use or disclose this information other than as required by law. We do not adopt any government identifier as our identifier of you.
Business Without Identifying You
In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully do business with you. However, where it is lawful and practicable to do so, we will offer you the opportunity of doing business with us without providing personal information — for example, if you make general enquiries about interest rates or current promotional offers.
How Safe and Secure is Your Personal Information?
As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet.
We will otherwise take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment. We may store your personal information in paper and electronic form. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Complaints
If you are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with your personal information, or you have a complaint about our compliance with the Privacy Act, you may contact us through the details set out below. We request that complaints about breaches of privacy be made in writing so we can be sure about the details of the complaint.
We will typically acknowledge your complaint within seven days and provide a decision within 30 days. If we need more time, we will let you know.
If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may make a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner via www.oaic.gov.au or by calling 1300 363 992.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy, or wish to request access or correction of your personal information, please contact us:
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may revise this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to the law or market practice. When we make changes, they are reflected on this page. To the extent permitted by law, any revised privacy policy will apply both to information we already hold at the time of the change, and any personal information collected after the change takes effect.
We encourage you to periodically re-read this privacy policy to see if there have been any changes that may affect you.
Last updated: 2025