Tasplan Pty Ltd (known as ‘Tasplan’, ‘us’ or ‘we’) is committed to ensuring the confidentiality and security of your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 and in line with the Australian Privacy Principles.
This policy outlines what details we keep about you, why we need this information and how we maintain your personal information. We collect information that is necessary to administer your account and to keep you informed of opportunities available to you as a member. You can read our privacy collection statement here.
You can print a copy of our privacy policy or you can request a hard copy free of charge, just call 1800 005 166.
We collect your personal information for the following purposes:
We may also collect personal information for related purposes such as:
You can advise us at any time if you don’t want us to use your personal information for the related purposes outlined above. This means that we’ll not advise you of opportunities and additional services available to you as a Tasplan member.
Where we use your personal information to contact you for marketing purposes, we’ll give you the opportunity to opt out of any future direct marketing campaigns at the time of contacting you.
We only collect information that is necessary to administer your account and to fulfil our obligations as trustee of your fund.
The type of personal information we collect about you will depend on the products and services provided to you, but may include:
Over time, this information may be supplemented by financial and other information necessary to administer your account. For example, changes to your investment options, amounts transferred into or out of your account or variations to your insurance.
We may also need to collect sensitive personal information about you, but only with your consent. This will generally be limited to information about your health with regard to insurance eligibility assessments for either applications or claims. We won’t use your sensitive information for any other purpose or share it with anyone else without your permission.
You may choose not to provide some types of information we request. If you don’t provide complete or accurate information, this may have adverse implications such as:
Where possible, we’ll collect your personal information directly from you.
We collect personal information when you lodge forms such as membership application and change of personal details forms, if you send us documents containing personal information, or if you pass security checks and provide updates to your information either over the phone or in writing. We also collect your personal information when you update your details online via Tasplan Online.
If you don’t complete an application form, your name, date of birth, address and TFN can be provided by your employer to enable us to accept and process your super contributions.
We may also collect your personal information from other super entities and other third parties where it is necessary for the administration of your account or provision of benefits and services to you. Where information has been collected from a third party, it’s the responsibility of the third party to notify the person that their personal information has been disclosed to us.
We have strict security measures in place to protect your personal information.
Staff who handle your personal information have the knowledge, skills and commitment to protect it from unauthorised access or misuse. Access to your information is restricted to staff who require the information to administer your account and provide information and services to you.
We have stringent security measures in place to protect your information in accordance with legal requirements, and we regularly audit access to the systems that support us.
Your TFN is recorded in an encrypted form. We can only use your TFN for approved purposes as required by legislation.
You have a right to know what information we hold about you and to have it corrected if required. You can access your personal information online via Tasplan Online, or you can contact us.
To find out more about the personal information we hold about you, call us on 1800 005 166.
Your request for access to your personal information will be responded to within 30 days of us receiving the request. You’ll not be charged for making the request for information and information will usually be provided free of charge. However, we reserve the right to impose reasonable charges for provision of information either generally or on a case-by-case basis.
There are some circumstances in which access to information may be denied or restricted. If this applies to you, we’ll explain this to you when you ask for your information.
You can update your personal information in the following ways:
*Security checks must be satisfied in order to update your personal details.
We’ll not share your information with anyone who doesn't have authority to obtain your information.
There are instances where we need to give your personal information to third parties, though there are strict controls on how they can use this information. The types of organisations to which we may disclose your personal information include:
We’ll only disclose your personal information to those organisations where we engage them to provide services, for direct marketing or other purposes for which you’d reasonably expect us to use your personal information. Generally, we require organisations who handle or obtain personal information as service providers, to agree to comply with the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Privacy Principles and this policy.
These organisations may transfer your personal information to organisations located outside Australia (overseas recipients) where your information may not receive the level of protection afforded under Australian law.
Instances where your information may be accessed by an overseas service provider are:
Your personal information won’t be used or disclosed for any other purpose without your consent, except where required by super, tax or other relevant law. For example, we’re required to report certain information to the Australian Tax Office for tax related purposes.
We may disclose information to a third party nominated by you, such as your financial planner, where authorisation has been provided by you in writing.
We’ll only disclose your sensitive personal information with your consent. However, without your consent, we may not be able to process your insurance application or assess your claim.
We rely on accurate, complete and up-to-date personal information to provide you with products and services. We require you to regularly check the details we hold about you, such as the personal information provided on your member statement or on Tasplan Online.
If there are any changes to your personal information, we encourage you to advise us immediately so we can update your details.
While all reasonable steps are taken to protect your personal information provided through the internet, you should be aware that there are general risks associated with transmitting personal information via the internet. You should assess these potential risks before deciding whether to use our online services. If you don’t want to transmit personal information over the internet you may provide information to us by mail, phone or in person.
The information we collect about you depends on how you use the Tasplan website.
If you visit an unsecured area of the website (an area where you’re not required to log in) to read or download information, our service provider will log information for statistical purposes.
We’ll try not to identify users or their browsing activities or try and merge this with personally identifiable information. An exception is, in the event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider’s logs.
Interactive tools on the website, such as calculators, often require you to provide personal information. We only retain this information where a calculator or similar tool allows you to save information and retrieve it at a later time. The information stored won’t ordinarily be viewed by us.
If you send us an email requesting information, we’ll use your email address and other information you supply to respond to your request unless you request otherwise.
If you provide us with your email address, we may use it to send regular communications such as updates on new and existing products and services. If you don’t want to receive such information, you can click the unsubscribe link within the email you received, or you can contact us to unsubscribe at any time.
We’ll preserve the content of any email that you send us, if we believe we have a legal requirement to do so. Your email content may be monitored for security issues, including where email abuse is suspected. Our response to you may be monitored for quality assurances purposes.
Cookies are small text files that are sent to the user’s browser to allow the web page browser to retrieve information from the computer. Cookies can either be temporary session cookies, or stored permanently on a computer. We use traditional web browser cookies.
We use cookies on the secured pages of our website (the pages where a login is required) to provide you with a secure and personalised service.
We also use cookies on the unsecured pages of our website to obtain information regarding the use of the website. By using the website, you agree to our use of this type of technology.
We may use cookies from approved third parties, such as Google, to customise your experience of our advertising on other sites. You can opt out of customised ads by going to www.youronlinechoices.com.au/
We may use remarketing with Google analytics to advertise online and to access demographic and interest reports. You can opt out of this at Google ad settings or by downloading and installing the Google analytics opt-out browser add-on available here
We, and third-party vendors, may at times combine cookies together to inform, optimise, and serve ads based on past visits to our website. This may also be used with analytics to report ad impressions and interactions with these ads.
If you’re concerned about cookies, you should be able to adjust your computer settings so that cookies will be rejected, however, this means that you may be unable to view secure pages.
Our website has links to other internet sites.
These are provided as a convenience to you. We make no warranties and accept no liability in relation to the material contained on any linked external websites.
This privacy policy only applies to our website, and doesn’t extend to the websites of other companies or organisations to which our website is linked. We encourage you to read the relevant privacy policies or terms and conditions governing these linked sites to ensure that your privacy is protected.
This website is owned by Tasplan Pty Ltd, trustee of Tasplan Super, ABN 13 009 563 062. This privacy policy applies to our website, with the home page of www.tasplan.com.au
If you consider that any action by us breaches this policy, the Australian Privacy Principles, or otherwise doesn’t respect your privacy, you can make a complaint.
For information on how we handle your personal information, or if you’d like to complain about a possible breach of privacy, contact us in one of the following ways:
Level 8, 188 Collins Street
Hobart TAS 7000
Complaints Officer
Tasplan Super
GPO Box 1547
Hobart TAS 7001
1800 005 166
If you’re not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you can refer the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Their contact details are:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 2001
1300 363 992
Document last updated on 5 December 2017.
