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Privacy Policy

In this policy, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refers to Imagine Home Loans ABN 35 668 519 702.

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 which ensures protection of your personal information in accordance with 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.

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.

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 or guarantors or proposed guarantor;

  • 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 enforce agencies, other government entities and identity verification service providers;

  • from your representatives, e.g. solicitors, accountants, conveyancers, builders, agents; and

  • 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.

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 from credit reporting bodies, income and expenses, assets and liabilities and credit and loan repayment history including any defaults; and

  • other information that you may submit as part of a finance application, such as the age and number of your dependents and cohabitants, 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, investigation, complaints or enquiries relating to such loans and finance products;

  • additional information relating to you that you provide to us, whether directly through our websites, or indirectly through use of our websites or online presence; and

  • 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; and

  • your health 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 to you);

  • managing our relationship with you and to communicate with you;

  • giving you information about loan products or related services;

  • considering whether you are eligible for a loanproduct or any related service you requested;

  • assisting you to prepare an application for a loan;

  • conducting business processing and administrative functions;

  • performing our obligations to third parties involved in your loan or lease product (such as lenders and financiers), so as to assist them in assessing your application or managing their relationship with you;

  • referring you to providers of insurance and other services (such as moving utility connections);

  • managing our risks (such a 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; and

  • complying 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.

  • If you do not provide us with the personal information or allow us to collect 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;

  • we may not be able to perform our obligations to lenders or financiers, and in turn it means 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 information about special promotions;

  • we may be unable to tailor the content of our websites to your preferences and your experience of our websites may not be as enjoyable or useful.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • to the mortgage aggregator through whom we may submit loan or lease applications to lenders or lessors on the mortgage aggregator’s panel;

  • 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;

  • 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 provides cloud services that we use to hold or process your personal information;

  • to anybody who represents you, such as finance brokers, real estate agent, conveyancer, 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); or

  • to investors, agents or advisers, or any entity that has an interest in our business.

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 which country your information may be held or accessed.

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 to filter and better identify products which may be suitable or available to you, to support our associates in deciding which products to recommend or make available to you, based on your needs and eligibility criteria of the different products. We, and not the system, will make the decision as to which products will be recommended or made available to you.

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 contacting us either via email at enquiries@imaginehomeloans.com.au or phone 0488 994 164.

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.

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.

If you wish to make any changes to your personal information, you may contact us (refer to the “contact us” section below). We will generally rely on you to ensure the information we hold about you is accurate or complete.

 

Requesting access to your personal information

You have rights under the Privacy Act to request access to the personal information we hold about you. You may request access to any of 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).

We will not charge for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information.

Depending on the type of request that you make we may respond to your request immediately, otherwise we usually respond to you within [30 days] of receiving your request.

There may be situations where we are not required to provide you with access to your personal information, 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 you access to the personal information we hold about you.

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 to you within seven days of receiving your request. Where reasonable, and after our investigation, we will provide you with details about whether we have corrected the personal information 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 you with our reasons for not correcting the information and at your request we will take reasonable steps add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.

If we collect government identifiers, such as your tax file number, we do not use or disclose this information other than required by law. We do not adopt any government identifier as our identifier of 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 us with personal information, for example, if you make general inquiries about interest rates or current promotional offers.

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.

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 our privacy officer as 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. We will usually provide you with a decision on your complaint within 30 days. If we need more time, we will let you know.

If you are dissatisfied with our response to your complaint, you may make a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner which can be contacted on either www.oaic.gov.au or 1300 363 992.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy, or wishes to request access or correction of your personal information, you may contact us as follows:

Riverleigh Pty Ltd ABN 35 668 519 702

enquiries@imaginehomeloans.com.au

We may revise this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to the law or market practice. When we make changes to our privacy policy, they are reflected on this page. To the extent permitted by law, any revised privacy policy will apply both to information we already have about you 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 to our policies that may affect you.

Last updated: July 2026

Website Policy

This website policy applies to this website, which is operated on behalf of Imagine Home Loans ABN 35 668 519 702 and its related bodies corporate (we, us and our). 

We are committed to protecting your privacy. 

This policy explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with  this website. 

Our website privacy policy may change from time to time.

We may collect personal information from you directly or via your use of our services. We will only  collect personal information which is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, our functions or  activities. 

Sensitive information is any information about a person’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinion,  membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs,  membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual preferences  or practices, criminal record or health information.

We will not ask you to disclose sensitive information, but if you elect to provide sensitive information it  will also be captured and stored. 

Our website also contains links to the websites of third party providers of goods and services (Third  Party websites). If you have accessed Third Party websites through our website and if those third  parties collect information about you, we may also collect or have access to that information as part of  our arrangements with those third parties

Where you access a Third Party website from our website, cookie information, information about your  preferences or other information you have provided about yourself may be shared between us and  the third party. 

When you view our advertisements on a Third Party website, the advertising company uses 'cookies'  and in some cases 'web beacons' to collect information such as:

• the server your computer is logged onto;

• your browser type;

• the date and time of your visit; and

• the performance of their marketing efforts.

When you access our website after viewing one of our advertisements on a Third Party website, the  advertising company collects information on how you utilise our website (eg which pages you view)  and whether you complete an online application.

We use ‘cookies’ to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective  website.

A ‘cookie’ is a small text file placed on your computer by our web page server. A cookie can later be  retrieved by our webpage servers. Cookies are frequently used on websites and you can choose if  and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your preferences and options in your internet browser.

We use cookies for different purposes such as:

• to allocate a unique number to your internet browsers;

• to customise our website for you;

• for statistical purposes;

• to identify if you have accessed a Third Party Website; and

• for security purposes.

Your IP address is the identifier for your computer when you are using the internet.

It may be necessary for us to collect your IP address for your interaction with various parts of our  website. 

When you send a completed online application to us, we retain the information contained in that  application. We are able to then use that information to provide any financial services that you  require.

You can also suspend and save online applications, so you can complete and send the applications  at a later time. If you suspend or save your application, the information that you have entered will be  retained in our systems so that you may recover the information when you resume your application.  Online applications that have been suspended or saved may be viewed by us.

The security of your information is very important to us.

We regularly review developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data  transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. 

We take all reasonable steps to protect the information in our systems from misuse, interference, loss,  and any unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

If we no longer require your information, and we are legally permitted to, we will take all reasonable  steps to destroy or de-identify the information.

We take reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance  with this policy. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you  are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted). 

We will not use or disclose sensitive information about you for direct marketing purposes unless you  have consented to that kind of use or disclosure.

We may use your personal information for direct marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive  direct marketing communications from us or from other organisations, or wish to know the source of  the information being used, you may submit a request by emailing enquiries@imaginehomeloans.com.au. We will respond to your request as  soon as practicable.

We do not generally disclose personal information obtained from cookies to overseas entities in the  course of our activities.

The information provided on this site is on the understanding that it is for illustrative and discussion purposes only. Whilst all care and attention is taken in its preparation any party seeking to rely on its content or otherwise should make their own enquiries and research to ensure its relevance to your specific personal and business requirements and circumstances. Terms, conditions, fees and charges may apply. Normal lending criteria apply. Rates subject to change. Approved applicants only.

Feedback & Complaints

We hope you are delighted with our services, but if you have a complaint please let us know
so we can work towards resolving it promptly and fairly.
You can make a complaint verbally or in writing by contacting your broker directly or by using any of the following:
● Email: resolutions@imaginehomeloans.com.au
● Phone: 1800 275 564 Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm (AEST)
When we receive a complaint, we will attempt to resolve it promptly. We will provide a written acknowledgement of receipt of the complaint to the client within 24 hours (1 business day) or as soon as practicable unless the complaint is otherwise resolved in the meantime.
We will ensure that a final response is given to you as soon as possible, but within thirty (30) days of receipt of the complaint. For certain types of complaints, involving “default notices” or urgent disputes such as “applications for hardship”, a final response must be provided
within twenty one (21) days. If we are unable to deal with the complaint as it relates to a third party (for example, a lender), we may ask you to contact the relevant third party. In cases where your complaint will take longer than 30 days to resolve, we will notify you in writing with the reasons for the delay and of your right to refer the complaint to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA)

If we do not reach an agreement on your complaint, you may refer the complaint to an ASIC
Approved External Dispute Resolution (EDR) Scheme. Our external dispute resolution
provider is the Australian Financial Complaints Authority(AFCA).
You can contact AFCA using any of the following:
● Online: www.afca.org.au
● Email: info@afca.org.au
● Telephone: 1800 931 678 (toll free)
● Mail: GPO Box 3, Melbourne Vic 3001
External dispute resolution is a free service established to provide you with an independent
mechanism to resolve specific complaints. You may refer the matter to AFCA at any time,
but if our internal process is still in progress, they may request that our internal processes be
completed before considering the matter further.
You can obtain further details about our dispute resolution procedures and obtain details of
our privacy policy on request.

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