Privacy Policy

1.0 - Introduction
2.0 - Our privacy commitment
3.0 - Collecting organisation and contact details
4.0 - What personal information Morgans collects or has collected
5.0 - Access to information
6.0 - Purpose and use of personal information
7.0 - Disclosing your personal information within Australia
8.0 - Disclosing your personal information overseas
9.0 - Legal requirements to collect certain personal information
10.0 - Consequence of not providing personal information
11.0 - Where we collect the information from
12.0 - Cookies
13.0 - You may "opt-out" of receiving direct marketing material
14.0 - Email address
15.0 - Security and retention policies
16.0 - Complaints
17.0 - Consent

1.0 - Introduction

1.1 - The Morgans Financial Limited Privacy Policy takes into consideration, your rights in regards to collection, use and storage of information.

1.2 - In this document:

Morgans Financial Limited will be referred to as "Morgans" or "we" or "us" or "our", and
"Personal information" means information or an opinion about you where it is possible to ascertain your identity from that information or opinion.

2.0 - Our privacy commitment

2.1 - On 21 December 2001, new laws came into effect to protect the privacy of your personal information. This Policy briefly outlines how we safeguard your privacy and how Morgans collects, maintains, uses and discloses personal information about you as a client of Morgans.

2.2 - Our privacy policy sets out our policies for the management of personal information. You could obtain a copy of this policy free of charge by contacting us. We will manage your personal information in accordance with the law and the Australian Privacy Principles (subject to any other overriding provisions of law) and as specified in our privacy policy.

2.3 - Our privacy policy may change from time to time. This policy is to be read subject to any overriding provisions of law or contract.

2.4 - We take our privacy obligations seriously. We have appointed a Privacy Officer to manage privacy requests, corrections and complaints and our Director, Legal & Regulatory Affairs, has the overall responsibility of ensuring that we comply with our privacy obligations.

3.0 - Collecting organisation and contact details

3.1 - The personal information provided by you may have been collected by Morgans and/or its related entities. Any additional personal information provided by you in the future will also be collected by Morgans and/or its related entities.

3.2 - Morgans can be contacted at:

Attention: Privacy Officer

Level 29 - Riverside Centre

123 Eagle St

BRISBANE QLD 4000

GPO Box 202,

BRISBANE QLD 4001

Telephone: (07) 3334 4888

Facsimile: (07) 3834 0903

Email: [email protected]

Or at any of our branches detailed on this site.

3.3 - We may also obtain personal and other information from some third parties such as accountants and other organisations who have referred you to us. When we obtain personal and other information from third parties whom we are referred to by you, we will assume and you will ensure that you have made that third party aware of your referral and the purposes involved in the collection, use and disclosure of the relevant, personal or other information.

4.0 - What personal information Morgans collects or has collected

4.1 - We only collect personal information that is necessary for us to perform our functions. The personal information Morgans has collected from you as a client is necessary for one or more of our services or activities provided to you. The personal information Morgans has collected or may collect in the future may include any or all of the following personal information (This is not an exhaustive list):

your name, address, contact details and date of birth
your email address
your tax file number
details of your annual income, expenditure and employment
details of your assets and liabilities
details of any securities or investments you have given us
details of your associated bank accounts
details of specific transactions
details of your investment objectives and risk profile
details of health information relating to your insurance requirements
any other information we require to satisfy our obligations under relevant legislation

4.2 - We may also collect personal information directly from you when you deal with us over the telephone. We may for purposes of security, quality, training or verification:

listen to and/or record telephone calls to which you are a party with us;
collect and store details of your IP address; and
collect, store and analyse how you use our website and other electronic applications and programs.

4.3 - We will assume you consent to the collection of your personal information in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy until you tell us to the contrary by following the instructions contained under the heading "Consent" below.

5.0 - Access to information

5.1 - You are entitled at any time to request access to personal information held by us about you and to ask us to correct this information where you believe (and in some circumstances prove) it is incorrect or out of date. To do this please contact us using the contact details above and you will be advised of our procedures for accessing and correcting personal information.

5.2 - Morgans will not charge you for lodging a request to access your personal information, but may charge you for Morgan's reasonable costs of making the personal information available to you. In limited circumstances access may be denied where required or permitted by law. If we decide not to provide you with access to your personal information, we will give you our reasons for our decision.

6.0 - Purpose and use of personal information

6.1 - Morgans has collected and may use your information to do one or more of the following:

open an account for you
maintain your account
process transactions on your behalf
enable us to assess any request from you for financial advice
send research information to you
respond to any specific requests you may contact us about
help us to assess products that may suit your financial needs
notify you of any products that may be of interest to you
keep you informed on matters that may affect or be related to your investments
update your personal files
enable us to meet our obligations under certain laws
to assist you in determining your investment objectives and providing you with investment advice and information on new opportunities to assist you in achieving these objectives
to provide you with regular reviews and keep you informed on the performance of your investments
any purpose for which the information was requested and any directly related purpose, and
developing, improving and marketing our products and services

7.0 - Disclosing your personal information within Australia

7.1 - Morgans undertakes not to trade, rent or sell your personal information. Morgans may disclose your personal information to the following organisations for the purposes specified:

to related companies of Morgans for the purpose of marketing new investment opportunities to you
to the Australian Stock Exchange, Chi-X Australia Pty Limited (Chi-X), Options clearing House, Fund Managers, Insurers, Share Registries, other product providers or Australian financial services licensees (“AFSL”) to establish accounts on your behalf (including to facilitate your transition to another product provider or AFSL) or to process transactions
to our bank, when depositing funds to your account, and
to outsourcing organisations contracted by Morgans to provide administrative functions on our behalf, for example IT contractors providing maintenance of our data systems

8.0 - Disclosing your personal information overseas

8.1 - Some of our third party contractors and service providers may perform certain services overseas, or your portfolio may include interests managed by our overseas custodians and agents. As a result, your personal information may be disclosed (on a confidential basis) to a recipient in a foreign countries, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Germany and other countries in the European Union, South Africa, New Zealand, Malaysia and the United Kingdom; and there may be other jurisdictions that are specific to your portfolio.

8.2 - Morgans may disclose your personal information to an organisation in a foreign country if:

you consent to the disclosure
if the disclosure is required by law.
the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and the foreign organisation, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken in response to your request, or
the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract, concluded in your interest, between the foreign organisation and a third party

and

Morgans reasonably believes that the recipient of the information is subject to a law, binding scheme or contract which effectively upholds principles for fair handling of the information that are substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles, or
Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information which it has transferred will not be held, used or disclosed by the recipient of the information inconsistently with the Australian Privacy Principles.

8.3 - In addition Morgans may disclose personal information it holds about you in the following circumstances:

you consent to the disclosure
if the disclosure is required by law

9.0 - Legal requirements to collect certain personal information

9.1 - Prior to providing products or services to you Morgans is obliged by law to collect, and verify, certain personal information from you. The laws governing these requirements include:

The Financial Transactions Reports Act (1988) (Cth)
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (2006)(Cth)
Australian taxation laws
The Corporations law
Financial services laws

10.0 - Consequence of not providing personal information

10.1 - You may choose not to give Morgans your personal information. Depending on the type of product or service you request, one or all of the consequences set out below may apply if you do not give some or all of your personal information to us:

Morgans will not be able to provide you with the requested account or facility
Morgans will not be able to provide you with the requested investment product
if you do not provide your tax file number, tax at the highest rate may be deducted from any dividends or interest paid to you on investments managed by Morgans
Morgans will not be able to deposit funds to your bank account

11.0 - Where we collect the information from

11.1 - In most instances personal information about you will be collected directly from you in either an application form or documents completed by you, correspondence from you to us, during an interview or from telephone contact.

11.2 - We may also obtain personal and other information from some third parties such as accountants and any other organisation who have referred you to us. When we obtain personal and other information from third parties whom we are referred to by you, we will assume and you will ensure that you have made that third party aware of your referral and the purposes involved in the collection, use and disclosure of the relevant personal or other information.

11.3 - Personal information about you may also be collected from our website but only if you voluntarily provide us with your details (e.g. If you email your contact details to us or if you use a logon and password to access a particular service).

11.4 - When you visit this website our web server collects the following types of generic non-personal information for statistical purposes:

your internet service providers address
the number of users who visit the website
the date and time of each visit
the pages accessed and the documents downloaded
the type of browser used
the site that referred you to us
the site that you went to after you finished visiting us

11.5 - No attempt is made to identify individual users from this information.

11.6 - The Morgans website contains links to the websites of third parties. If you access those third party websites they may collect information about you. Morgans does not collect information about you from the third parties. You will need to contact them to ascertain their privacy statements.

12.0 - Cookies

12.1 - A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer hard drive by a web page server. Our web server may access cookies later. Cookies store information about your use of our web site.

12.2 - Morgans use cookies to:

determine whether you have previously used the Morgans web site
identify the pages you have accessed, and
facilitate administration of the site and for security purposes.

12.3 - Cookies can either be "persistent" or "session" based. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain an expiration date, and are mainly for the user's convenience. Session cookies are short lived and are held on your browser's memory only for the duration of your session, they are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser.

12.4 - We may use both session and persistent cookies. This information may be used to personalise your current visit to our website. Upon closing your browser, the session cookie is destroyed.

12.5 - Most Internet browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can adjust your Internet browser to reject cookies to or notify you when they are being used. However, rejecting cookies may limit the functionality of our website.

13.0 - You may "opt-out" of receiving direct marketing material

13.1 - From the information we obtain from you we use some of it to keep you informed of other products, services or opportunities that may be of interest to you or help you achieve your investment objectives.

13.2 - If you do not want your personal information to be used for these purposes, please contact us using the contact details above.

13.3 - Please note that you can withdraw your consent, without any charge, by contacting us at any time.

13.4 - We will not disclose information about you to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

14.0 - Email address

14.1 - Unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy if you provide us with your email address during a visit to our website it will only be used for the purpose for which you provided it to us. It will not be added to a mailing list without your consent unless the mailing list is directly related to the purpose for which you provided your email address to us. We may use your email address, for example, to provide you with information about a particular service or product or to respond to a message you have sent us.

14.2 - If you subscribe to one of our services and provide your email address to us so we may communicate with you through email, we may also use your email address to advise you of upgrades and changes to those services.

15.0 - Security and retention policies

15.1 - Morgans is committed to ensuring the security of personal information that we hold about you. We take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information we hold about you is stored securely, whether in a physical or electronic form. Some of the ways we do this are:

confidentiality requirements of our employees, agents and authorised representatives;
document storage security policies;
security measures for access to our systems;
only giving access to personal information to a person who is verified to be able to receive that information; and
electronic security systems such as firewalls and data encryption on our websites.

15.2 - If you use the internet to communicate with us you should be aware that there are inherent risks in transmitting personal information over the internet. Morgans does not have control over the transfer of personal information over the internet and we cannot guarantee its security.

15.3 - We will destroy or de-identify your personal information when it is no longer required by us or required to be retained by law. Further details about when we will destroy or de-identify your personal information are set out in our Records Management Policy. You can request a copy of our Records Management Policy by contacting our Privacy Officer.

16.0 - Complaints

16.1 - If you have a complaint about our treatment of your privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details above. Our Privacy Officer will investigate your complaint and endeavour to resolve any issue to your satisfaction.

17.0 - Consent

17.1 - If you do not consent to the use or disclosure of your personal information in the manner indicated above or in our Privacy Policy as amended from time to time, contact our Privacy Officer using the details provided above. Please note that you can withdraw your consent, without any charge, by contacting us at any time.

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