Legal
How we collect, use and disclose your personal and credit information, what rights you have over it, and what to do if something goes wrong.
Stonegate Partners Pty Ltd (ACN 695 914 660), trading as Fifty Finance, collects information about you so that we can arrange finance on your behalf. We handle that information in line with Australia's privacy and credit reporting laws, including the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Privacy Principles and the Privacy (Credit Reporting) Code.
We collect credit and personal information about you, and where relevant about a company of which you are a director, so we can:
As your broker we need this information to assess your application, choose a suitable credit provider and manage the application through to settlement. If you do not give us the information we ask for, we may not be able to process your application, or we may be limited in what else we can help with.
When you apply, we use your information to assess the application and find a suitable credit provider, lessor or insurer. Specifically, we may:
Your information is used only for the purposes set out here. We do not disclose it to anyone else except with your permission, or where we are permitted or required to by law.
We may submit your credit application to one or more credit providers from our panel of lenders. Which providers we approach depends on what you are financing and on your circumstances, so the panel is described here rather than listed, and the list changes over time.
An up to date list of our credit provider panel, including each provider's website address and a link to its privacy policy, is available on request. Contact us at info@fiftyfinance.com.au and we will send you the current list.
Once we submit an application, the credit provider may:
Every credit provider runs its own privacy and credit reporting policies. Those documents, not this one, govern what that provider collects and holds, how it uses and discloses your information, which credit reporting bodies it deals with, whether your information may be sent overseas and to which countries, how you can access and correct what it holds, and how to complain about the way it has handled your information.
You will usually find this on the provider's own website under a heading such as Privacy Policy, Credit Reporting Policy or Notifiable Matters. You can also ask the provider for a copy directly, or ask us and we will point you to it.
As part of arranging your finance we may carry out tasks for a credit provider that are reasonably necessary to manage the application. When we do that we are acting as an intermediary for the credit provider rather than for you.
A credit provider we submit an application to may disclose information about you to a credit reporting body. Each credit provider publishes, on its own website, details of the credit reporting bodies it uses, how those bodies handle your information, and how you can deal with them directly. That includes asking a credit reporting body not to use your information for direct marketing pre-screening, and asking it not to disclose your information if you believe you are a victim of fraud.
Everything above is about the information you give us when you apply for finance. This section is about something separate and much narrower: the information collected when anyone simply visits this website, whether or not they ever contact us.
Our hosting provider records technical information about every visit so the site can be delivered and protected from attack. That includes your IP address, the type of device and browser you are using, the pages you opened, and the site or search that sent you here. We use this only to keep the site running, to keep it secure, and to understand in general terms which pages people find useful. It is not linked to your finance application.
This site uses a small number of cookies and similar browser storage. Some are necessary, for example to remember that you have already seen an introduction animation so it is not shown again. Others may be set by the advertising tools described below. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Doing so does not affect your ability to use this site or to apply for finance, and we will not treat your application differently because of it.
We advertise our services online. To understand whether those advertisements work, some of our pages include measurement tools provided by advertising platforms, including Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram. Where such a tool is present it may set a cookie and send that platform a record that a browser visited a particular page, together with technical details such as IP address and device type.
When this happens, that platform receives the information and handles it under its own privacy policy, not ours. We do not control what it does with it. You can review Meta's practices and your choices in the privacy section of its website and in your own Facebook or Instagram ad settings.
We do not send your credit information, your financial details, your identity documents, or anything you provide in an application or enquiry to any advertising platform. The commitments made elsewhere in this policy, and in our Credit Guide, about how we handle the information you give us are unaffected by any of the tools described in this section.
You can opt out of this kind of measurement by blocking third party cookies in your browser, by using your device's tracking controls, or by adjusting your ad settings with the platform itself. If you would rather we did not collect anything beyond what is strictly needed to serve the page, tell us at info@fiftyfinance.com.au and we will tell you exactly what is in use at the time.
You can ask us at any time what information we hold about you, and you can ask us to correct it if it is wrong or out of date. Contact us at info@fiftyfinance.com.au and we will tell you what we hold and how to have it corrected. In some cases an administration fee may apply to cover the cost of retrieving records. A copy of this policy is available on request.
We have internal procedures for handling complaints and we would rather hear about a problem than not. Email info@fiftyfinance.com.au and we will work to resolve it quickly and fairly.
If we have not resolved your complaint to your satisfaction, or you have not had a response from us within 30 days, you can escalate it to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. AFCA is a free and independent dispute resolution service.
We may update this policy from time to time. The version published on this page is the current one.