Our commitment
London Australia Underwriting Pty Ltd (LAUW) is committed to complying with the principles of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) for the collection, use and management of personal information about individuals.

Collecting and using your personal information
We collect and use your personal information only for the purpose of providing and administering our products and services.

Generally the type of personal information we collect includes names, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers and information relevant to particular insurance policies. In certain circumstances we may collect sensitive information, such as health information, about you and information about your membership of personal and trade associations.

Management of personal information
We will manage all collected personal information about you in accordance with the Privacy Act. LAUW will take steps to ensure that personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. If you believe any information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, you should notify us so we can correct it. We disclose personal information to third parties that we believe are necessary to assist us and them in providing the relevant services and products. We will not do this unless it meets with privacy standards under the Privacy Act. For example, to evaluate or deliver our products and services to you, we may need to disclose your information to:

  • An agent authorised by LAUW to collect or assess information relating to the relevant product or service.
  • A broker or other persons authorised by you.
  • Underwriters or reinsurers of the relevant product or service.
  • A person or organisation contracted by LAUW to assess, evaluate or manage claims made under your policy.
  • An organisation contacting LAUW with your consent to obtain past policy or claims information about you.
  • Commonwealth or state/territory government authorities, and courts, tribunals or other dispute resolution bodies.

We limit the use and disclosure of any personal information provided by us to them to the specific purposes for which we supply it. We may transfer your personal information overseas when it is necessary to provide our service or product.

Protecting and maintaining your personal information
We will take all reasonable steps to protect the information we hold about you from unauthorised access, use and disclosure. We will destroy your information when it is no longer needed.

We do not use any form of encryption (in coding software) to protect information you send from your computer to us over the internet. If you use our internet site, you should be aware of the risks associated with this.

What we expect of you
Where you give us personal information about other individuals we rely on you to have made or to make them aware that you will or may provide their information to us and the types of third parties we may provide it to, the relevant purposes we and the third parties will use it for, and how they can access it. If it is sensitive information we rely on you to have obtained their consent on these matters. If you have not done or will not do either of these things, you must tell us before you provide the relevant information.

If we give you personal information, you and your representatives must only use it for the purposes to which we agree. Where relevant, you must meet the requirements of the Privacy Act when collecting, using, disclosing and handling personal information on our behalf. You must also ensure that your agents, employees and contractors meet these requirements.

How you can check, update or change the information we hold?
Upon receipt of your written request and enough information to enable us to identify the information, we will disclose to you the personal information we hold about you. We will also correct, amend or delete any personal information we agree is inaccurate, irrelevant, out of date or incomplete.

To access or correct your personal information, please write to the Privacy Officer at London Australia Underwriting Pty Ltd, Suite 201 Level 2, Pacific Highway, Crows Nest NSW 2065 or phone 02 8912 6400.

We do not charge for receiving a request for access to personal information or for complying with a correction request. We do not charge for providing access to personal information.

In some limited cases, we may need to refuse access to your information or refuse a request for correction. We will advise you as soon as possible after your request if this is the case and the reasons for our refusal.

Privacy complaints
If you have concerns about whether we have complied with the Privacy Act or this privacy policy when collecting or handling your personal information, please write to our Privacy Officer at London Australia Underwriting Pty Ltd, Suite 201 Level 2, Pacific Highway, Crows Nest NSW 2065 or phone 02 8912 6400.

Your complaint will be considered by us through our internal complaints resolution process.  We will acknowledge your complaint within 24 hours and respond with a decision within 30 days of you making the complaint. If we need to investigate your complaint and require further time, we will work with you to agree to an appropriate timeframe to investigate. We will provide you with information about referring your complaint to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) if we cannot resolve your complaint.

Your consent
By asking us to assist with your insurance needs, you consent to the collection and use of the information you have provided to us for the purposes described above.

Information sent overseas
In certain situations, it is likely that some or all of the personal information you provide to us may be disclosed to businesses that operate overseas. This would only occur where the product provider/intermediary is based overseas, for example, Lloyds’s of London syndicates, agents or brokers and other overseas-based insurers and intermediaries or in situations where we use “cloud computing” services situated outside Australia.

In all such cases we commit to making reasonable enquiries to ensure these organisations comply with their local privacy legislation where such legislation is comparable to the Australian legislation and to comply with the key components of Australian privacy legislation in cases where their local legislation is considered inadequate or non-existent.

Website Privacy Policy v4.0 October 2021