Privacy Policy
This policy sets out how Stockland Corporation Limited and its related companies and trusts ("Stockland") collects, uses, discloses and manages your personal information and how Stockland complies with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act").
Stockland has appointed a Privacy Officer. If you have any queries or complaints regarding your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details listed below.
What is your personal information?
When used in this privacy policy, the term 'personal information' has the meaning given to it in the 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 Stockland collects personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered to be personal information.
What personal information do we collect?
The information we collect about you depends on the products, services or information that you ask us to provide to you. We may collect information such as:
- your name, date of birth, gender and contact details including your, physical address, email address and telephone number;
- bank account and credit card details;
- information to verify your identity such as your driver's licence number;
- 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, or you have enquired about, together with any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and to respond to your enquiries;
- your preferences for particular products, services, facilities or lifestyle activities when you tell us what they are;
- 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;
- information relating to your Stockland account (including your password and username);
- 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;
- if you invest through us, information relating to you and your investment;
- if you are involved in an incident, details about the involvement of you and other people in the incident, witness and incident statements, CCTV footage, medical information and information from medical consultants and other consultants and third parties.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website may write to your hard drive when you visit the website. A cookie file can contain information, such as a userID, that the website uses to track the pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you personally supply. A cookie cannot read data on your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites.
Stockland's websites use cookies to track user traffic patterns and to better serve you when you revisit the website. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, providing you with the opportunity to either accept or reject it. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.
How is your personal information collected?
Stockland will collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so. When collecting personal information from you, we may collect it in ways including:
- through your access and use of our websites;
- through your enrolment and participation in surveys, questionnaires, customer loyalty programs, competitions and promotions run by or on behalf of Stockland;
- during conversations between you and our representatives;
- when you make an enquiry, complete an application or purchase order; or
- in the case of incidents in which you are involved, from you, witnesses, CCTV footage, medical consultants and other consultants and third parties.
We may also collect personal information from third parties including from our related companies, third party companies including but not limited to, marketing agencies, data collection agencies , credit reporting agencies, law enforcement agencies and other government entities.
What happens if Stockland cannot collect your personal information?
If you decide not to provide Stockland with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:
- Stockland may not be able to provide the requested products or services to you, either to the same standard or at all;
- Stockland may not be able to provide you with information about the products and services that you may want; or
- Stockland may be unable to tailor the content of its websites to your preferences and your experience of the websites may not be as enjoyable or useful.
For what purposes does Stockland collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
Stockland operates the following businesses:
- property development;
- investment in and leasing of commercial and industrial property;
- investment in and leasing of shopping centres;
- investment in residential property;
- investment in and leasing of retirement living property;
- real estate agent;
- mortgage broking and insurance; and
- unlisted property trust where it may make product offerings to potential investors.
Stockland collects personal information in order to carry on the above businesses, to provide property-related products and services, to improve our products and services and to communicate with our customers and investors. Personal Information may also be disclosed between Stockland's businesses, related companies and trusts.
Stockland also collects, holds, uses and discloses your personal information for the following purposes:
- to provide products and services to you and to send information and communications requested by you;
- to inform you of updates concerning Stockland and its products and services;
- to provide you with access to protected areas of our websites;
- to assess the performance of the website and to improve its operation;
- to conduct business processing functions including providing personal information to our related bodies corporate, contractors, service providers or other third parties;
- for the administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control or research purposes of Stockland and its contractors and service providers;
- to provide your updated personal information to our contractors or service providers in order for us to provide our products and services to you;
- to update our records and keep your contact details up to date;
- to process and respond to any enquiry or complaint made by you;
- for risk management purposes including incident investigation, claims management and litigation; and
- to comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country).
Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this policy.
Direct marketing communications
Stockland may send you direct marketing communications and information about:
- products, services, discounts, competitions and special promotions that we consider may be of interest to you;
- offers or promotions based on how you use our products and services;
- other companies' products and services (including offers and discounts we've specially negotiated for our customers) we think may interest you, if you've chosen to receive this information.
These communications may be sent in various forms, including by telephone, post, fax, email, SMS or by other forms of electronic messages.
You consent to us sending you those direct marketing communications by any of those methods. If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will try to use that method whenever practical to do so.
In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from Stockland by contacting us (see the details below) or by using any opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications. If you opt-out using the opt-out details specified in a marketing communication, we will ensure that your name is removed from the mailing list that we used to send you that particular communication. If you wish to opt-out of other (or all) marketing communications or mailing lists, please see below.
How can you opt-out of other marketing communications?
You can opt out if you prefer to not receive direct marketing communications about our latest products, services, promotions and offers. You may wish to opt-out of selected mailing lists or all Stockland mailing lists.
In order to opt-out, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details below.
Please note that, if Stockland is currently providing you with services or products, Stockland will still need to send you essential information about your account, the relevant services or products and other information required by law.
To whom does Stockland disclose personal information?
Stockland does not disclose your personal information, except as stated below. Stockland takes reasonable steps to ensure that third party recipients do not use personal information for their own purposes and that those parties comply with Stockland's privacy policy.
Parties to whom Stockland may disclose relevant personal information include:
- affiliate retailers in shopping centres where you are a member of Club Stockland (for the purposes of marketing campaigns);
- consultants, agents or contractors acting on Stockland's behalf, including real estate and travel agents, marketing agencies, surveyors, conveyancers, builders and property developers;
- valuers where Stockland is seeking to value a property or lease;
- panel lenders, lenders mortgage insurers, credit reporting agencies, guarantors;
- regulatory authorities where required by law;
- related parties, entities and trusts of Stockland; and
- parties to whom Stockland has outsourced various functions. Those parties may include the providers of share registry services, catering and restaurant services, contractors or service providers for the purposes of operation of our website or our business, custodians, IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, electronic network administrators, debt collectors, insurers, insurance brokers, real estate agents, marketing agents, travel agents, claims management services, injury management services, property management services and professional advisors such as accountants, lawyers and business advisors.
If any Stockland business, company or trust is sold to another organisation, we may transfer any personal information we hold about you to that organisation.
Security of Information
No employee is able to access information they do not require for their duties. There are passwords and security access IDs in place to restrict access to confidential and personal information to those who need it perform their duties.
Access and correction of personal information
If you wish to seek access to the personal information we may hold about you, please contact our Privacy Officer. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with a suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you).
There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold. For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If that happens we will give you written reasons for the refusal.
If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it. If you wish to update the personal information that Stockland may hold, please complete the Change Details Request Form. In some unusual cases we may not agree that there are grounds for amending your personal information. If that happens, we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.
We will not charge you for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information. Depending on the nature of the request, we may ask you to verify your identity, put your request in writing and to complete an enquiry form, which will be sent to you.
You may contact our Privacy Officer by:
- Email: privacy@stockland.com.au; or
- Post: Privacy Officer, Stockland, Level 25,133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000.
What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?
Stockland requests that complaints about breaches of privacy be made in writing, so we can be sure about the details of the complaint. Our Privacy Officer deals with privacy complaints and any complaints should be directed to the Privacy Officer using the contact details above. We will attempt to confirm as appropriate and necessary with you your understanding of the conduct relevant to the complaint and what you expect as an outcome. We will inform you whether we will conduct an investigation, the name, title, and contact details of the investigating officer and the estimated completion date for the investigation process.
After Stockland has completed its enquiries, we will contact you, usually in writing, to advise the outcome and invite a response to our conclusions about the complaint. If we receive a response from you, we will assess it and advise if Stockland has changed its view. If you are unsatisfied with the outcome, Stockland will advise you about further options including, if appropriate, review by the Privacy Commissioner within the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
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.
We may disclose personal information to entities outside Australia, including the following:
- our related bodies corporate, located in the UK and Singapore; and
- our data hosting and other service providers, located in Canada and India.
Investors/Shareholders of Stockland including Unlisted Property Funds
Stockland has outsourced its registry function to Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited. Computershare has developed a privacy policy covering the collection and management of personal information that Computershare collects on Stockland's behalf. You may obtain a copy of Computershare's privacy policy at Computershare's website at www.computershare.com/au or by contacting Computershare by:
- Email: privacy@computershare.com.au; or
- Post: Privacy Officer, Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited Level 3, 60 Carrington Street, Sydney NSW 2001; or
- Phone: 1800 804 985.
You should contact Computershare's Privacy Officer if you have a complaint about privacy or would like details of your personal information in your capacity as an investor/shareholder and your enquiry or complaints relates to Computershare's collection, holding or use of your personal information. For your protection, Computershare may only disclose personal information to you if its internal procedures (eg. verifying your identity) are satisfied. If you are not satisfied by Computershare's response to your privacy concerns you should contact Stockland's Privacy Officer. However if your securities holding is sponsored by a broker, Computershare will not be able to update your personal information. You will need to contact your broker to do this.
Security
Stockland takes all reasonable security measures to protect personal information from loss, unauthorised access, destruction, misuse, modification or disclosure.
Changes to Stockland's privacy policy
Stockland reserves the right to modify or amend this privacy policy at any time and will update the privacy policy on Stockland's website if it has been changed. If you have any further questions about Stockland's privacy policy, please contact Stockland's Privacy Officer.
Last updated 16 December 2014