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OHMI Privacy Policy
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd is committed to the privacy of its customer
records and for your information we have documented our information handling practices below.
Please contact Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd on 1300 046464 if you wish
to discuss any aspect of our information handling practices.
Contents
Is Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd bound by the National Privacy Principles or an approved Privacy Code?
As a private sector company, Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd is bound by the
Privacy Act 1988. Under the Act, Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd, or the
telecommunications industry, can choose to develop and be bound by a Privacy Code or choose to
comply with the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. Office Home Mobile Internet
Telecommunications Pty Ltd has chosen to be bound by the National Privacy Principles.
The kinds of personal information held by Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd and how it is collected
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd only collects personal information from you
that is necessary for it to perform its functions. The kinds of personal information Office Home Mobile
Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd holds about you will depend on the services you request from
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd and the use that you make of those services.
However, the information may include:
- your name, address and contact details
- your date of birth
- account name and account number held by financial institutions from which payments for services
provided by Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd are made and information
obtained as a result of credit checks which you authorise us to carry out
- records of communications between you and Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd
relating to services provided by Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd to you
- records of use made by you of services provided by Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications
Pty Ltd to you
- Billing statements
In most cases, we collect your personal information directly from you when you provide it to us. In some
cases, for example where we carry out credit checks or collect information from organisations to which
we outsource functions, your personal information will be collected indirectly.
Use of your personal information
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd respects your privacy. As a result, Office
Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd does not trade, rent or sell your personal
information.
The primary purpose for which we use your personal information is to provide you with
telecommunications services.
In the course of providing telecommunications services to you we may also use your personal
information for related purposes which include the following:
- network routing
- Providing you with customer service
- Credit checking
- Billing you for that service
- Investigating complaints in relation to your service
- Investigating and fixing faults in relation to your service
- Following up any payments that you may owe us
- To administer contractual agreements or arrangements necessary to provide services to you
- Sending you product or services information. We may also use your information to tell you about our
other products and services or bundled offerings, provided by us in conjunction with either or related
bodies corporate or our business partners and associates.
How Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd collects personal information
For corporate customers, Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd collects some
personal information from company employees, principals or directors of the company in order to
provide services to the Company.
For corporate customers, Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd collects some
personal information from list rental companies.
For individual customers, Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd collects personal
information directly from you when you supply it to us in connection with a request for services. Office
Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd may also collect personal information from third
parties such as :
- resellers of telecommunication services
- credit providers or credit reporting agencies contacted by us (or by external service providers on our
behalf) in the course of carrying out a credit check
- other entities who provide services to us which are related to the provision of telecommunication
services provided to you
- government agencies which administer laws regulating telecommunication service providers, or
complaint resolution processes established under those laws
- independent sales organisations and,
- List rental companies.
Contracting out services and disclosures
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd contracts out some services such as mailing,
credit checking, provisioning, billing, printing, verification of sales and fault fixing to external service
providers. Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd may disclose your personal
information to these organisations but only so that they can provide you with the services that Office
Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd has contracted out.
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd may disclose your personal information to
other telecommunications service and equipment providers, Office Home Mobile Internet
Telecommunications Pty Ltd's related bodies corporate, resellers, credit providers, credit reporting
agencies, organisations to whom Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd outsource
services (such as mail houses), and our business partners and associates. At your request, Office
Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd may disclose your information to directory providers
so that your information can appear in telephone directories.
Personal information shared with related bodies corporate may include your name, address, and
service history.
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd may disclose some of your personal
information such as your name and address to organisations located outside Australia in countries
which do not have the same or substantially similar privacy laws but only to the extent necessary to
provide you with telecommunications services requested by you.
At all times, parties to which we contract services or disclose your personal information are either
covered by contracts which protect your personal information or are subject to obligations which are
substantially similar to the National Privacy Principles.
Access to Personal Information
Generally you have the right to see or obtain a copy of personal information about you that we may
hold.
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd will handle requests for access to personal
information in accordance with the National Privacy Principles.
To request access to your personal information, please contact our Call Centre on 1300 046464.
As long as we can verify your identity, the person you speak to may be able to provide you with the
information you require over the telephone. If you wish to have a copy of any information, we will ask
that you put your request in writing and either post or fax that request to us. Again, this is to ensure that
we can verify your identity.
In some cases, we may need time to consider and respond to your request for access. If we need time
to consider your request, we will acknowledge your request within 14 days and respond within a
maximum of 30 days.
If for any reason we refuse to give you access to your information we will let you know why.
The circumstances in which we may refuse to give you access to personal information we hold about
you include where giving you access:
- would have an unreasonable impact on other people's privacy
- would prejudice any negotiations we are having with you
- would prejudice an investigation of unlawful activity
- would prejudice activities carried out by, or for, a law enforcement body.
If you believe that we hold personal information about you that you consider to be inaccurate,
incomplete or out of date you should tell us by calling 1300 046464. In most cases, we will amend any
inaccurate, incomplete or out of date information. In some cases it is necessary for us to keep a record
of what we know or understand to be correct at a particular time. However, in those circumstances, if
you request, we will take reasonable steps to associate with the relevant record of your personal
information a statement to the effect that you claim the information is inaccurate, incomplete or
up-to-date. We would ask that you discuss your request with us by calling 1300 046464.
Security of your personal information
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and
recognises its obligations to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from
misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modifications or disclosure both under the Privacy Act
1988 and the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Security of your information while on line :
Our web server is capable of up to 128bit SSL encryption. Note however, that our web server can only
choose the highest common level with your browser. If you use older browsers, you may find that it only
supports 40bit or 56bit encryption.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that our web server may ask your web browser to store on your machine.
The cookie cannot tell who you are, or determine your personal details, and is not used to actually track
your access, apart from making sure you are the same person over a given "session" online. Although
you could turn off cookies and not normally have any problems accessing many parts of our sites, there
are other parts of our web server that rely on cookies. For instance we may use a cookie to store
information temporarily between various pages in a lengthy multi-part order form, or to store screen
preferences.
We do not make use of 3rd party cookies, 'web beacons', or other tracking mechanisms on our
website.
Security of Stored Information
We take physical and electronic measures to secure your information. We store your personal
information in password-protected servers that are in a restricted and monitored area. Access to this
information is limited.
You also have a role in security of your personal information in some cases. For example, if you have
been given access to our "Your Account", where you may pay your bill, look up call information and so
on, it is your responsibility to protect your own personal access password.
Other Websites
Some of our websites contain links to other, external websites. The Office Home Mobile Internet
Telecommunications Pty Ltd group of companies is not responsible for content or privacy policies
websites that we do not operate.
Website Access Logs
All accesses to pages on our websites are "logged". The sort of information contained in these logs
cannot easily identify you personally, but instead contains such things as a list of all of the pages
accessed, and the sort of browser used.
This information is used to check for attempts at "hacking", or other fraudulent activity, to indicate
missing pages or other web server problems. It is periodically summarised to provide general statistics
such as the number of people viewing particular parts of the site.
Changes to this Privacy Awareness Policy
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to review our Privacy Awareness Policy. We reserve the
right to amend our Privacy Awareness Policy at any time and to notify you by posting an updated
version on the Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd website www.ohmi.com.au
Complaints
You can raise any privacy related concern or complain about breaches of your Privacy in writing or by
phone to:
General Manager
Office Home Mobile Internet Telecommunications Pty Ltd
Level 7, 91 Phillip Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 046464
Fax: 1800 046464
E mail Address:
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