Privacy and data security

Privacy Statement

a) We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information about you to process your DEFT registration, deliver the DEFT payment services, assist your Biller with payment enquiries and deal with complaints. We will handle your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy (available at deft.com.au or upon request). We may also collect personal information about you from your Biller, public sources, information brokers and through monitoring and recording interactions with you (e.g. phone, email and online). Some of the information we collect is required by various laws, including the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth).

b) We may exchange your personal information with your Biller, your authorised representatives, our related companies and our service providers (described further in our Privacy Policy). These companies may be located outside Australia, including The Philippines and the countries specified in our Privacy Policy.

c) You acknowledge that we need to collect, verify and handle personal information about you to enable us to deliver all parts of the DEFT service and without that information we may not be able to effect certain payment options.

d) Unless you have told us not to, we may use your personal information to contact you by any means to offer you Macquarie or third party products or services that may be of interest to you. You can change your marketing preferences by:

i. phoning us on: 1800 672 162, or
ii. visiting: deft.com.au and logging in to your DEFT account to update your marketing preferences.

e) You agree to the handling of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy contains further details about our handling of personal information, complaints, website privacy and information regarding your rights to request access to or correct information we hold.

Fraud and data security

a) We are committed to providing high quality financial products and services within a trusted environment. Please read the ‘Important Information’ page available on deft.com.au for more information on fraud and data security.

b) We may debit your Card with a verification authorisation validation amount to ensure the Card is valid, whenever you add or amend your Card details. This amount will be refunded to you once the verification process has been successfully completed.

c) In providing Card payment services, Macquarie acts as a service provider bound by PCI DSS and accordingly has adopted additional measures to strengthen our data security. However, it is possible that data security may be compromised and so we do not guarantee the security of DEFT.

Phone conversations

You agree that we may record telephone conversations between us. If you would prefer your call not to be recorded, please notify us at the beginning of the call.