HEQS hereby advises that, pursuant to s. 18E(8) of the Privacy Act 1988, information disclosed in the course of this credit application may be disclosed to a credit reporting agency. Under Section 18E(8)(c) of the Privacy Act 1988 HEQS is allowed to give a credit reporting agency personal information about the Customer's credit application, information which may be given to an agency is covered by Section 18E(1) of the Act and includes identity particulars (as permitted by the Privacy Commissioner's determination issued under Section 18E(3)); the fact that the Customer has applied for credit and the amount, the fact that HEQS is a credit provider to the Customer, payments which become overdue outside of agreed trading terms and for which collection action has been commenced; advice that payments are no longer overdue; cheques drawn by the Customer which have been dishonored more than once; in specific circumstances, that in the opinion of HEQS you have committed a serious credit infringement; that credit provided to you by HEQS has been paid for or otherwise discharged.
Pursuant to ss. 18K(1) and 18N (1) of the Privacy Act 1988 and para.2.12 of the Credit Reporting Code of Conduct issued under s. 18A of that Act, the Customer hereby agrees to HEQS obtaining personal information from a credit reporting agency or a credit provider for the purpose of assessing this application for commercial credit (including information as to creditworthiness); and agree to that agency or provider providing that information to HEQS for that purpose. You further agree to the obtaining from and provision by, such agency or provider further credit reports, which may assist HEQS in recovering any sums outstanding under the terms of the commercial credit agreement to which this application may lead.