Privacy Policy

'We', 'us' and 'our' refer to iquant.fund and our related businesses.

The following Privacy Policy is for ifund.fund and its affiliates, collectively referred to herein as IQF.

Our commitment to protect your privacy

At IQF, we understand that the details you provide us are private and personal. It is important that you feel secure whenever you deal with us. It is also important that you understand how we protect your privacy and the manner in which we may use your details.

Site usage information and cookies

When you access our Site ('iquant.fund'), we may use software embedded in our Site (such as Javascript) and we may place small data files (or cookies) on your computer or other device to collect information about which pages you view and how you reach them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you. We do not presently associate such information with an identifiable person and so the collection of such information is not personal information.

You may decline our cookies if your browser or browser add-on permits, but doing so may interfere with your use of our Site and the IQF services. You can refer to the 'help' section of your browser or installed applications for instructions on blocking, disabling or deleting cookies.

This privacy policy applies to our Site and not any linked sites which are not operated or controlled by us. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each Site that collects your personal information.

Personal information

When we refer to personal information we mean information from which your identity is reasonably apparent. This information may include information or an opinion about you.

The kinds of personal information we may collect about you include your name, email address and any other information we made need to identify you.

Why we collect your personal information

We collect personal information to allow you to access our website and view private information.

How do we collect your personal information?

Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information directly from you.

Do we disclose your personal information

We may disclose your personal information:

  • to other organisations that are involved in managing or administering your account with us such as third-party suppliers, printing and postal services, call centres;
  • to associated businesses that may want to market products to you;
  • to companies that provide information and infrastructure systems to us;
  • to anybody who represents you, such as lawyers and accountants;
  • to anyone, where you have provided us consent;
  • where we are required to do so by law, such as under the Anti-Money or Laundering and Courter Terrorism Financing Acts;
  • to investors, agents or advisers, or any entity that has an interest in our business; or
  • to your employer, referees or identity verification services.

Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another person or organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that:

    a) the person or organisation has a commitment to protecting your personal information at least equal to our commitment, or
    b) you have consented to us making the disclosure.

We may use cloud storage to store the personal information we hold about you. The cloud storage and the servers may be located anywhere in any country.

We may disclose your personal information to overseas entities that provide support functions to us. You may obtain more information about these entities by contacting us.

How is my personal information secured?

We will 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.

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates which is the industry standard when transmitting your login name and password so that it cannot be viewed by any third party over the internet. Your account information is encrypted on our servers and access to this information is restricted to authorised IQF staff.

Except to the extent liability cannot be excluded due to the operation of statute, we exclude all liability (including in negligence) for the consequences of any unauthorised access to, disclosure of, misuse of or loss or corruption of your personal information. Nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts, excludes or modifies or purports to restrict, exclude or modify any statutory consumer rights under any applicable law including the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).

Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any breach of security.

Direct marketing

From time to time we may use your personal information to provide you with current information about market activities, 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, you may at any time decline to receive such information by writing to us. 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.

Updating your personal information

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. We will generally rely on you to ensure the information we hold about you is accurate or complete.

Access and correction to your personal information

We will provide you with 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.

We may charge a fee for our costs of retrieving and supplying the information to you.

Depending on the type of request that you make we may respond to your request immediately, otherwise, we usually respond to you within seven days of receiving your request. We may need to contact other entities to properly investigate 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.

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 the personal information we will provide you with our reasons for not correcting the information.

Using government identifiers

We will not collect government identifiers, such as your tax file number, we do not use or disclose this information other than required by law. We will never use a government identifier in order to identify you.

Communication without identifying you

In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully provide communications to 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.

Sensitive Information

We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent. Sensitive information is personal information that includes information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political persuasion, memberships in trade or professional associations or trade unions, sexual preferences, criminal record, or health.

Complaints

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 complaints officer by writing to us.

We will endeavour to acknowledge your complaint within seven days. We will endeavour to provide you with a decision on your complaint within 30 days.

Further Information

You may request further information about the way we manage your personal information by contacting us.

Change in our privacy policy

We are constantly reviewing all of our policies and attempt to keep up to date with market expectations. Technology is constantly changing, as is the law and marketplace practices.

As a consequence, we may change this privacy policy from time to time or as the need arises without notice to you.

You may request this privacy policy in an alternative form.

This page was last updated on August 10, 2022.