Website Terms
Outlining the terms of use for this website. These Website terms of use (“Terms”) explain what happens when you visit our website.
Website Terms of Use
Applicability of Terms
If you:
- visit; or
- access; or
- rely on
any material on our websites, you are bound by these Terms.
If you do not accept these Terms, you should not use our website
Membership of the Bank
Products and services
Information on our website regarding products and services does not constitute an offer or inducement by us for these products and services.
Unless otherwise specified, the products and services described on our website are available only in Australia1.
No reliance
Accessing our website from mobile devices
Website security
Privacy
When you visit our website, we may collect personal information about you, particularly if, for example, you perform transactions via internet banking.
Our Privacy Framework sets out how we deal with personal information about you, both generally and in specific circumstances, such as lending. You can find out how we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information about you, as well as how you may complain if you think we may have breached your privacy.
Cookies
Cookies are small files placed on your computer hard drive when you first visit a website. They tell website owners when somebody returns to their website, how often someone visits the website and what they do while using it – for example, what pages they access, what functions they perform and so on. In this way, cookies assist us to develop our website.
Personal information is not collected unless you leave personal details whilst using the web site. Cookies can enable you to personalise your website usage, as personal details can be stored and retrieved each time you visit.
We do not use external tracking companies to collect information about how you use our website.
Whilst you can configure your browser to reject cookies, most websites (including ours) require you to enable cookies in order to use the website.
We sometimes place banners or other advertisements on the websites of our business partners and affiliates. These can link through to our website. So that we can effectively monitor the effectiveness of these placements, our business partners and affiliates may use cookies to collect information such as the date and time of your visit. This information may then be given to us.
Social media
We use social media to keep our members, customers and followers informed about us and our activities.
If you access social media (including our pages) from our website, you leave our website. Social media providers have their own privacy policies and security levels, which we suggest you verify before using a site. We cannot and do not endorse any content (other than that created by us) which may be found on these sites.
We will never ask you via social media to provide any of your banking details.
Some of our brands have their own Facebook pages – read our Social Media Community Guidelines.
Third party websites & products
As noted, we have a number of business partners and affiliated organisations.
Our website may contain links to their websites. With regard to our business partners and affiliates:
- their products and services and any software downloads are issued by or licensed to them; and
- we do not provide any guarantees or warranties regarding such products and services and other material provided by our business partners and affiliates.
We may receive commissions if you purchase products and services from our business partners and affiliated organisations.
Emails
Availability
Whilst we strive to ensure that our website is always available, there may be times when it we cannot guarantee that:
- access will always be available; or
- access will be uninterrupted; or
- our website will be virus free.
If any time it appears to you that any functionality on our website is unavailable or malfunctioning, you must not proceed with any transaction.