PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy sets out how Club Marine collects, stores, uses and discloses personal information. Club Marine means Allianz Australia Insurance Limited ABN 15 000 122 850 (incorporated in Australia) trading as Club Marine.

Where required by law, we will provide you privacy information (in the form of a Privacy Notice or other privacy disclosure documentation) specific to the products or services you want to obtain from us or specific to your dealings with us.

The personal information collected and maintained by Club Marine generally includes your name, date of birth, gender, address, contact details and information specific to the product or service you decide to purchase from us, such as details of any property being insured, or your dealings with the Club Marine business.

For some policies, we also collect and maintain your sensitive information. This includes information about your health, genetics, membership of any trade unions or professional associations and any criminal convictions you may have.

For employment applications, we collect your name, address, contact details, current and past employment information, educational qualifications and professional associations. We also collect information about and proof of your residency status, the name and contact details of your referees and other information required for recruitment purposes. Where we seek your consent to conduct a background check, we also collect details of your proof of identity from you.

In the recruitment process, we may ask you to answer optional questions about your personal attributes such as age, gender, ethnic background and language spoken. This personal (including sensitive) information is collected only for the purpose of understanding the diversity profile of applicants and employees and for internal reporting purposes within Club Marine, Allianz Australia and the Allianz Group.

Where it is possible, we collect your personal information directly from you in person, in writing, over the telephone, by facsimile, through our online services and/or by electronic messages. In some circumstances, we may also collect it from other sources, such as:

• your agents or representatives, for example your insurance broker, your legal advisers, your family member who applies for a policy that covers you or is instructed by you to deal with us
• third parties who you have asked to provide your personal information to us, including your referees and your insurer
• our distributors and service providers
• other insurers
• people who are involved in a claim or assist us in assessing, investigating, processing or settling claims, including third parties claiming under your policy, witnesses, medical service providers, external claims data collectors and verifiers, and your employer
• third parties who may be arranging insurance cover for a group that you are a part of
• law enforcement, dispute resolution, statutory and regulatory bodies
• marketing organisations, including through the use of purchased lists
• industry databases
• publicly available sources such as the Internet and telephone directories
• the general public when it is unsolicited and may be relevant to a particular policy or fraud investigation

Unless we are required or permitted by law to collect sensitive information about you, we will only do so by obtaining your consent.

If you nominate individuals to be covered by your insurance policy, you should direct them to this Privacy Policy and make them aware of the content of any privacy notice we provide you.

We may collect information about your visit to our website to assist us to measure and improve our website. Examples of information that we collect include: date and time of your visit, whether you have previously visited our website, or if you used a search engine to find us and some geographical information about what country and state you are in. 

We use website analytics tools to collect visitor information so that we can better understand how to improve our products and services for you. These tools use interaction tracking technology in the form of small information files that are placed on a website visitor’s device through their browser when they visit a website. These files may be referred to as ‘cookies’, ‘pixels’, ‘widgets’ or ‘scripts’. For information on turning off these files, go to the privacy settings section within your browser. 

In addition to these files, website analytics tools use other data collection methods such as appending query strings to an image request. We store website analytics data securely and do not share it with third parties. 

We also use third party tracking tools, for example, through Google Ads. These tools enable us to display tailored advertising to you on different websites across the internet based on your prior visits to our website. We do not collect any identifiable information about you through this process. 

We also use other external companies for the following purposes: 

• for web hosting services for this website; and/or  
• to gather non-personal information (using tracking tools) in order to evaluate the website’s effectiveness, for example online marketing activities. 

We collect, hold and use your personal information for the purposes of providing our products and services and managing our business. This may include:

• arranging and administering insurance
• assessing risks and underwriting insurance
• assessing, investigating, processing and settling claims
• marketing our services and products and those of our related companies, brokers, intermediaries and business partners that may interest you
• conducting customer research and analytics in relation to our service and products, and improving our service and products
• handling complaints and disputes
• training our employees, agents and representatives
• detecting, investigating and preventing fraud
• identifying and contacting individuals who do business with us
• assessing and processing employment applications

We may disclose your personal information to others for the purposes specified in the section above. This may include disclosure to:
 

• other business divisions of Allianz Australia Insurance Limited
• our related companies
• our distributors and agents
• other insurers and reinsurers
• government, law enforcement, dispute resolution, statutory, regulatory or enforcement bodies and agencies
• external data collection and verification agencies
• loss adjusters and assessors
• repairers and suppliers
• investigators and recovery agents
• medical and health service providers
• our advisers (including legal, actuary and accounting advisers) and service providers, including marketing organisations and debt collecting agents
• professional and other organisations
• your employer
• parties that we have an insurance scheme in place with under which you purchased your policy, such as a financier or boat manufacturer or dealer
• the agent and contractor of any of the third parties above
• other parties as required by law

We may also disclose some of your personal information to others we have business arrangements with to enable them to offer their products and services to you.

We will not disclose your sensitive information for any purpose, other than the purpose for which it was collected, or a directly related secondary purpose, unless you otherwise consent.

In some instances, your personal information might be disclosed to other companies in the Allianz Group, business partners, reinsurers and service providers (including providers of any virtual online assistant and any online chat function) that may be located overseas. The countries in which these recipients may be located will vary from time to time, but may include Canada, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America and other countries where the Allianz Group has a presence (a list of which is available on the Allianz Group website) or engages subcontractors.

We regularly review the security of our systems used for sending personal information overseas. Any information disclosed may only be used for the purposes of collection detailed previously and for system administration.

From time to time, we may use your personal information to advise you about or offer you other products or services that may be relevant and of interest to you. If you do not want to receive these offers from us (including product or service offerings from us on behalf of our brokers, intermediaries and/or our business partners), please call the telephone numbers in the Contacting us about access and correction of your personal information section below.

In some instances, we may disclose your personal information (but not sensitive information) to others we have business arrangements with to enable them to offer their products and services to you.

We do not use or disclose sensitive information for the purposes of direct marketing.

We may hold your personal information in a number of ways, including:

• in our computer systems or databases, which may involve storing data on storage or computer systems provided by third party suppliers
• in paper records
• in telephone recordings

Where it has been collected from our or your agent, or our service providers, they may also hold copies of your personal information.

We may combine personal information we receive about you with other information we hold about you. This includes information received from third parties and information collected for different products and services.

If you believe that we have interfered with your privacy in our handling of your personal information, you may lodge a complaint in writing to:

Club Marine Limited
40 Esplanade
Brighton VIC 3186 Australia

We will attempt to resolve your complaint in accordance with our Complaints Resolution Process. You can obtain information about our Complaints Resolution Process by contacting us.

If you are unhappy with the resolution of your complaint or with the way that Club Marine has handled your complaint through the Complaints Resolution Process, you may be able to refer the matter to our independent dispute resolution scheme Financial Services Complaints Ltd. (“FSCL”).

FSCL is a free-of-charge independent External Dispute Resolution Scheme. It provides a free and independent dispute resolution service for consumers who have general insurance disputes falling within its terms.

To find out more about the role of FSCL and FSCL’s Terms of Reference, refer to http://www.fscl.org.nz/ or you can contact them as follows:

Financial Services Complaints Limited
PO Box 5967
Lambton Quay
Wellington 6145
Freephone: 0800 347 257
Email: [email protected]