Privacy Policy  

Protecting your privacy

onesixone is committed to providing you with the highest levels of customer service. This includes protecting your privacy. onesixone is bound by the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988, which sets out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.
Set out below is information that onesixone is required to communicate to its customers. onesixone recommends that you keep this information for further reference.

Your personal information

Personal information held by onesixone may include your name, date of birth, current and previous addresses, telephone/mobile phone number, email address, bank account or credit card details, occupation, driver’s license number and username or password. onesixone also holds details of your onesixone services (including their status), as well as certain details about your personal interests.
If you choose not to provide certain personal information (e.g. your date of birth), onesixone may not be able to provide you with the services you require, or the level of service on which onesixone prides itself.
Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to onesixone (e.g. about your authorised representatives). If so, onesixone relies on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to onesixone and advise them that onesixone can be contacted for information.

How we collect personal information

onesixone collects personal information in a number of ways including:

Directly from you, when you provide information by phone or in application forms, or when you submit your personal details through the onesixone website.
From third parties such as onesixone's related companies, credit reporting agencies or your representatives;
From publicly available sources of information;
From onesixone's own records of how to use your onesixone services.

How we use your personal information

Your personal information may be used to:

Verify your identity;
Assist you to subscribe to onesixone services;
Provide the services you require;
Administer and manage those services, including charging, billing and collecting debts;
Inform you of the ways the services provided to you could be improved;
Conduct appropriate checks for credit – worthiness and for fraud;
Research and develop onesixone services;
Gain an understanding of your information and communication needs in order for onesixone to provide you with a better service; and
Maintain and develop onesixone's business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems.

Also, your personal information is collected so that onesixone can promote and market its services to you (including by way of direct mail, telemarketing, SMS and MMS messages). onesixone does this to keep you informed of its products, services and special offers.

When we disclose your personal information

In order to deliver the services you require, onesixone may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of onesixone. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to onesixone providing its services to you. These organisations carry out onesixone's:

Customers enquires;
Mailing operations;
Billing and debt – recovery functions;
Information technology services;
Installation, maintenance and repairs services;
Market research; and
Web site usage analysis.

onesixone takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

In addition, onesixone may disclose your personal information to:

Your authorised representatives or legal advisers (e.g. when you requested by you to do so);
Credit – reporting and fraud – checking agencies;
Credit providers (for credit rating, credit provision and financing);
onesixone related companies;
onesixone professional advisers, including its accountants, auditors and lawyers;
Other service providers (for example, if you obtain services from other providers, onesixone may need to disclose your personal information for billing purposes);
Government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law; and
Organisations who manage onesixone business and corporate strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale of all its assets or business (including accounts and trade receivables) and those involved in managing onesixone's corporate risk and funding functions (e.g. securitisation)

onesixone web sites

onesixone provides products and services via its various web sites. When you visit onesixone sites, its web servers record anonymous information such as the time, date and URL of the request. This information assists onesixone to improve the structure of its web sites and monitor their performance.
onesixone may use ‘cookies’ on various web sites. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our web sites may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for onesixone sites to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience with onesixone websites.
In cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. onesixone extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. You can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our web sites or take advantage of the improved web site experience that cookies offer.

Help us to ensure we hold accurate information

onesixone takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collect, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That’s why onesixone recommends that you:

Let onesixone know if there are any errors in your personal information; and
Keep onesixone up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name or address.

If you are a subscriber to one of onesixone's online products or services, you may change your personal details by using the relevant facility on onesixone's web sites.

You can access your personal information

You have the right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, you will need to put your request in writing, for security reasons, and send it by e-mail to

onesixone reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for and providing access to your information.

How to contact us

If you have any questions in relation to privacy please e-mail us at

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