ANZ Confidentiality Principles
Edition 1.0
Activating these principles
These confidentiality principles (principles) apply to you and ANZ if they are activated. Activation can occur in two ways:
You and ANZ agree in writing that these principles apply for a stated purpose.
ANZ gives you its commitment in writing to comply with these principles for a stated purpose. You then give ANZ information for that purpose.
When activated, these principles are binding in law on ANZ in respect of your information and you can enforce them. If these principles are not activated, they do not apply to you or ANZ.
What do we promise you?
We acknowledge your information is commercially sensitive and valuable to you
We will protect your information in the same way we protect our own confidential information
We will use your information only for the stated purpose
We will not disclose your information to anyone, unless these principles authorise it
We will promptly destroy your information if you ask in writing, except for compliance files
We will notify you promptly if we become aware that we breached these principles
Who can ANZ disclose your information to?
To ANZ's officers or employees
To ANZ's subsidiaries and their officers or employees
- They must have a need to know
- We must ensure they are aware these principles apply
- We must ensure they do not do or omit anything that would breach these principles if we did or omitted it
To ANZ's professional service providers
- They must have a need to know
- They must owe us professional duties of confidence
As the law requires
As required for us to defend ourselves against a claim about your information
- Where practicable and lawful, we will promptly notify you with reasonable detail of the requirement
To anyone you consent to in writing
- We must comply with any condition in your consent
Protections for you
Nothing in these principles requires you to
- Give us information – but if you do, you promise us you have the right to do so
- Grant a licence or transfer of your intellectual property, or
- Enter into any transaction.
We understand and agree that
- You may suffer loss if we breach these principles
- Money damages may not be an adequate remedy
- A court may grant you relief for any threatened or actual breach of these principles by us, without you having to prove actual loss, and
- If you bring an action concerning the activated principles, we will not challenge the right of a Victorian court to hear the case.
If these principles are activated
If activated, these principles
- Apply only between you and us – and you agree not to transfer your rights without our written consent
- Apply subject to any modification in the activation
- Automatically expire 3 years after you and we agreed in writing that they applied, or (where activated without a written agreement) 3 years after we gave our written commitment to comply, and
- Are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia.
Glossary
The following meanings apply.
| ANZ or We | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ACN 005 357 522) |
| Compliance files | Information that is
provided we keep it confidential |
| Employee | Includes any person that provides services to us, under a written contract, that are similar to work performed by employees |
| Need to know | Having a reasonable need to know your information to assist ANZ to pursue the stated purpose. For an auditor, it includes usual corporate audit purposes |
Professional service provider |
A provider of legal, accounting, audit or other professional services |
| Stated purpose | Any purpose stated in the activation |
| You | The person identified as you in the activation |
| Your information |
However, it excludes information ANZ can show is
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