Total
Gold in Trust: Tonnes: 415.76 Ounces: 13,367,010 Value US$
8,255,793,389.07
Privacy
This Privacy Policy applies to the activities
of Gold Bullion Limited (GBL). It explains how GBL handles personal information
and complies with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988. If you have
further questions relating to this policy please contact [email protected].
Central to the success of Gold Bullion Limited (GBL) is our commitment to
our clients. GBL recognises the importance of your privacy, and that you
have a right to control how your personal information is collected and used.
1. The information we collect
GBL collects personal information from clients, employees, contractors,
shareholders and other individuals. We collect this information when it
is necessary for business purposes. For example, we collect personal information
about you which is reasonably necessary to:
provide you with quality products or services
consider applications and approaches you make to us
maintain your contact details
The kind of personal information that we generally hold relates to:
the products and services we provide or have provided to you
your financial interests and sometimes your financial position
your contact details
We collect most of this information directly from individuals, such as when
providing this information to us through a Prospectus. The personal information
we collect may be provided on forms filled out by individuals, face to face
meetings, e-mail messages, telephone conversations, and information provided
by a third party. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that contact.
We do not generally collect sensitive information about you (such as health,
race, sexual preferences) unless required by applicable laws or rules.
2. How that information is used
Our purpose in collecting information about you is to provide you with services
that you request and to operate our business efficiently. GBL does not routinely
disclose personal information to third parties. GBL will not generally use
or disclose any information about you without your consent, unless:
required by law
we believe it necessary to provide you with a product or service which
you have requested
to implement our terms of service
to protect the rights, property or personal safety of another GBL
client, any member of the public or GBL
the assets and/or operations of GBL are transferred to another party
as a going concern.
With your consent, we may disclose information about you to your nominated
financial adviser.
We do not sell personal information to other organisations to allow them
to send you promotional or marketing information.
3. Employee information
Employee records are not generally subject to the Privacy Act, and therefore
this Privacy Policy does not apply to the handling of information about
employees by GBL. For information about our practices relating to employee
information please contact us directly.
4. Service providers
Like many businesses, GBL uses a range of service providers to help us maximise
the quality and efficiency of our services and our business operations.
This means that individuals and organisations outside of GBL, such as mail
houses, will sometimes have access to personal information held by GBL and
may use it on behalf of GBL. We require our service providers to adhere
to strict privacy guidelines and not to keep this information or use it
for any unAuthorized purposes.
5. Promotional information
When you provide your personal information to us, GBL will give you the
choice as to whether or not you wish to receive further information about
investment opportunities and products and services which we expect may be
of interest to you. and changes to our products and services. If you indicate
that you do not wish to receive these, we will not contact you further for
these purposes. Please allow 28 days for your request to be processed.
If you are receiving promotional information about GBL and do not wish to
receive this information any longer, you may remove your name from our list
by phoning (03) 9629 7088 or e-mail at [email protected]
and asking to be removed from our mailing list. Please allow 28 days for
this request to be processed.
6. Our website privacy practices
We sometimes use cookie technology on our website. A cookie is a small data
file that contains information about your visit to a web site. This information
is provided by your computer during your first visit to a web server. The
server records this information in a text file and stores this file on your
hard drive. When you visit the same web site again, the server looks for
the cookie and structures itself based on the information provided.
Cookies are useful to estimate our number of members and determine overall
traffic patterns through our website. We also use cookies to help us improve
our service to visitors to our site and to ensure that our site stays easy
to navigate.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to warn you before accepting cookies. If
you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will
receive the warning message with each cookie.
If you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse
cookies. This may mean you will not be able to take full advantage of the
services on the web site.
7. How you can access the information we keep about
you
You can contact us to request access to your information. In normal circumstances
we will give you full access to your information. However, there may be
some legal or administrative reasons to deny access. If access is denied,
we will provide you with the reason why.
8. Changing and deleting the information we have
about you
If at any time you wish to change personal information that is inaccurate
or out of date, please contact us by phoning (03) 9629 7088 or e-mail at
[email protected] and
we will amend this record. If you wish to have your personal information
deleted, please let us know in the same manner as referred to above and
we will take all reasonable steps to delete it unless we need to keep it
for legal reasons.
9. Storage and security of your personal information
GBL will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information
which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to
date. Your information is stored on secure servers that are protected in
controlled facilities. We require our employees and data processors to respect
the confidentiality of any personal information held by GBL.
Please note also that GBL may use overseas facilities to process or back
up its information. As a result, we may transfer your personal information
to our overseas facilities for storage. However, this does not change any
of our commitments to safeguard your privacy.
10. What to do if you have a problem or question
If GBL becomes aware of any ongoing concerns or problems concerning our
privacy practices, we will take these issues seriously and work to address
these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy
Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us at (03) 9629
7088 or e-mail at [email protected].
11. Links to other web sites
GBL cannot guarantee or accept responsibility for the privacy practices
or the content of web sites to which we provide links.
12. Future changes
Our commitment to being a leading provider of financial services means that
our business will continue to evolve as we respond to customer needs. Because
of this, from time to time, our policies will be reviewed and may be revised.
GBL reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy at any time and notify
you by posting an updated version of the policy on its website.
The amended Privacy Policy will apply between us whether or not we have
given you specific notice of any change.