PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICE FOR A PROSPECTIVE TENANT
Wilson Glen Eira Pty Ltd ACN 117 061 640 and Wilson Port Phillip ACN 133 710 755 need from you some personal information, so that we can provide you with the services that you have requested from us, which include your interest in leasing a property through Wilson Agents. Without this information we may be unable to provide the services requested by you.
In providing us with your contact details you are agreeing to be contacted by a Wilson agent who will communicate with you about properties that are for lease and inspection opportunities. Your information will be added to our client databases and may be added to our email/sms marketing list so that we can provide you with other information that may be of interest to you, including leasing, selling or buying real estate opportunities. This may involve disclosure to third parties who manage our databases and marketing.
Personal information that will be needed from you throughout the leasing process will include your name, contact details [home telephone/mobile phone numbers, fax, email and postal address]; and where you proceed to lodge Residential Tenancy Application will also include your date of birth, gender, occupation, your latest address and previous addresses, your detailed rental history, current employment information and history, your drivers license (details and/or copy), passport details, student or pension details [if applicable], and your vehicle details. We will also ask for names and contact details of other proposed occupants of the property, referees and your emergency contact – in relation to whom you should obtain consent from these people before providing their personal details to us.
Your more detailed personal information will be collected when you complete a Residential Tenancies Application form either provided by us or that you complete online through 1Form.com (see their privacy policy atwww.realestate.com.au/privacy). The information collected from you in the form is required for us to consider your application to rent a property that we manage and generally to carry out our role as property managers including the ongoing management of your tenancy. To carry out this role, we may need to disclose your personal information to others including:
- the landlord or its legal representative
- the landlord’s lawyer, mortgagee or insurer
- your nominated referees or current or past employers
- the owner or managing agent of properties you currently rent or have rented in the past
- organisations or trades people required to carry out maintenance to your rental property
- utility suppliers for your rental property
- Residential Tenancy Bond Authority
- VCAT/Courts and other Government Agencies
- Law enforcement authorities, debt-collectors or Consumer Affairs Victoria
- other real estate agents/property owners where property management/ownership changes
- operators of registered tenancy databases with rental history of certain tenants. In particular National Tenancy Database [NTD] a division of VEDA Advantage Information Services and Solutions Limited ABN 26 000 602 862
As part of our tenant assessment process we may run a residential tenancy database check. This check profiles past tenants and may produce personal information about them such as tenancy history, details of bankruptcy, court orders or judgments, identity and/or visa verification, business credit history and directorship information. In this process we provide some of your personal details to the residential tenancy database manager, who is regulated by the Australian Privacy Principles. You can review the NTD privacy policy at www.veda.com.au/privacy
Our privacy policy provides further details about how we will manage your personal information and can be viewed at www.wilsonagents.com.au. Alternatively, please contact our Office and we will post or email you a free copy.
If you wish to access or seek correction of your personal information that we hold, or if you want to complain about our handling of your personal information, please contact us as set out below. Our privacy policy contains more details about accessing and correcting personal information and our complaints process.
OUR PRIVACY OFFICER CONTACT DETAILS
By phone: 03 9528 8888
By email: privacy@wilsonagents.com.au
By post: Confidential – The Privacy Officer
Wilson Agents – 195 Balaclava Rd Caulfield North VIC 3161