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Australia’s most convenient and comprehensive source of bearings and housings, power transmission products, seals and o-rings, bushes and sleeves, airline fittings and engineering products. 100% Australian owned and operated, sourcing globally but delivering local expertise.
PO Box 4199 Mulgrave VIC 3170
Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Copyright © 2025 Refast Pty Ltd
ABN: 80 640 393 479
Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Refast Pty Ltd’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.
The term ‘Refast Pty Ltd’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is PO Box 4199 Mulgrave VIC 3170. Our ABN is 80 640 393 479. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.
The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:
Last Updated: June 2024
Thank you for placing your trust in Refast Pty Ltd (ACN 640 393 479) and its subsidiaries (as that expression is defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)) (individually and collectively “we”, “us”, as the context requires). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, hold, use, and disclose your information and explains the choices that you have regarding how we use your personal information.
This Privacy Policy applies to all dealings we have with individuals, including customers, guarantors or prospective guarantors, suppliers and service providers, and job applicants.
We are committed to protecting your personal information. By submitting your personal information to us, or by using our services, you acknowledge and consent to us using your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is intended to enhance the transparency of our operations, to notify you of your rights and our obligations, and to provide you with information regarding:
This Privacy Policy sets out how we comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Act”).
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we must take reasonable steps when handling personal information.
Whilst we cannot warrant that this Privacy Policy will be followed in every instance, we will endeavour to follow this Privacy Policy. Similarly, while we cannot warrant that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we will take all reasonable steps to prevent these things from occurring.
We have taken reasonable steps to endeavour to comply with the APP and the Act, some examples are noted below.
If you require a hardcopy of this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer on the details below and we will provide you with a copy.
Collection of Personal Information (other than Sensitive Information)
It is our usual practice to collect personal information (other than sensitive information) directly from the subject individual or their authorised representative(s).
Personal information means information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.
Some examples of the personal information we might collect include (but are not limited to):
Identification
You may choose to interact with us using a pseudonym and/or not identify yourself.
In circumstances where we are required to do so, or are authorised by law, a court or tribunal to ask for your identification, we will request your personal information.
Further, it is likely that it will be impractical for us to interact with you without some form of identification, and therefore we will request identification details from you at the beginning of each transaction.
For example, we will not be able to open a commercial credit trading account or process a commercial credit application for you without obtaining identification details.
How we will collect and hold your personal information
We only collect and hold personal information by lawful and fair means.
There are several ways we may collect your personal information, including when you:
In some circumstances, we may collect and hold personal information that has been collected from a third party (such as an associated entity or service provider) or a publicly available source.
This will likely occur in instances where:
We will take steps to hold personal information in a manner which is secure and protected from unauthorised access.
Your personal information may be held in either a physical form or in electronic form on our IT system.
Where stored in electronic form on our IT system, we will take steps to protect the information against modification, disclosure, or misuse by including such things as physical restrictions, password protections, internal and external firewalls, and anti-virus software.
We will also endeavour to ensure that our service providers have protection for electronic IT systems and other necessary restrictions.
We will endeavour to ensure our staff are trained with respect to the security of the personal information we hold, and we will restrict any access where necessary.
While we retain personal information for as long as necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is collected, we will endeavour to destroy and de-identify the personal information once it is no longer required, except as required for business record purposes.
If we collect personal information about you from someone else, we will advise you as soon as practicable that this information has been collected and the circumstances which surround the collection.
In we collect personal information (including sensitive information) that is unsolicited, and we were not permitted to collect it, the personal information will be destroyed as soon as reasonably practicable.
If we have received sensitive information incidental to our collection of personal information, we will endeavour to notify you of the specific sensitive information that has been collected and destroy that sensitive information, as soon as reasonably practicable.
Cookies and the collection of personal information via our website
When you visit our website, we may collect information about the session between your computer and our website using cookies.
Cookies are text files which are stored on your computer or mobile device (by your web browser) that record specific information, such as which pages you visit, the information you have searched for, or the device you are using to access our website.
We use cookies for the purposes of managing and improving our website, improving our business processes, and gathering demographic information about the persons who visit our website, among other things.
Third parties may store cookies on our website, including, by way of example, the following entities.
You may elect to disable or turn off cookies in your web browser, however, this may impact upon the services we are able to offer you on our website and may impact upon your ability to access certain features of our website.
Our server will also automatically record your Internet Protocol address (IP address).
An IP address is a numerical designation assigned to each device connected to a computer network by your internet service provider. While IP addresses can be used to identify the general physical location of a computer, they are otherwise anonymous, and we will not use your IP address to identify you.
Hiring and recruitment
If you apply for a position with us, we may also collect information about your experience, character, qualifications, and screening checks (including background, health, references, directorship, financial probity, identity, eligibility to work, vocational suitability, and criminal record checks). Sensitive information will only be collected with your consent.
We collect, use, and disclose your personal information to assess your application, conduct screening checks and consider and contact you about positions available. Your personal information may be exchanged with academic institutions, recruiters, screening check providers, health service providers, professional and trade associations, law enforcement agencies, referees, and your current and previous employers.
We may not be able to further consider you for positions with us without your personal information.
The purposes for which we collect and hold personal information
We will endeavour to only collect and hold personal information which is relevant to the operation of our group.
Our purpose for collecting or holding personal information about you is so that it may be used directly for our business activities.
We may use your personal information for the business activities of our group, which include, among other things:
We may also collect personal information for both the primary purposes specified herein and purposes other than the primary purposes, including the purpose of direct marketing.
We may also collect personal information from other credit providers, Credit Reporting Bodies (“CRBs”) and any other third parties for the purposes of our business activities including, but not limited to, credit, sales, marketing, and administration.
The purposes for which we use and disclose personal information
We will endeavour to only use and disclose personal information for the primary purposes noted above in relation to the business activities of our group.
In addition, we may also use and disclose personal information for both the primary purposes specified herein and purposes other than the primary purposes, including the purpose of direct marketing.
Unless one or more of the below scenarios has occurred, we will take necessary steps to prevent personal information from being given to government agencies or other organisations.
Further we will endeavour to only disclose personal information for the purpose in which it was collected, unless disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
Direct Marketing
We will take steps not to disclose personal information for direct marketing purposes unless you have provided your consent to do so.
In any event you will be provided with an opt out option with respect to direct marketing, should you wish to be excluded from direct marketing.
If you do not elect to ‘opt out’ to receiving direct marketing material from us, you consent to us using personal information (other than sensitive information) provided to us for direct marketing purposes.
We may however use sensitive information for direct marketing purposes if you provide your consent to do so.
You may at any point in time, request to no longer receive direct marketing material from us by opting out.
We will record this information on our opt out register.
Direct Marketing and Third Parties
We may also from time to time, if we have received your consent, provide your personal information to a third party for the purposes of direct marketing.
You may at any time request the source of the personal information that has been disclosed.
Government related identifiers
We will endeavour not to use or disclose a government related identifier, unless:
Disclosure to CRBs
As indicated above, we may disclose personal information to a CRB in accordance with the permitted disclosures as defined under the Act.
We may disclose your Credit Information to the following CRBs listed below.
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Equifax Australia GPO Box 94 North Sydney NSW 2059 Tel: 13 8332 |
Creditor Watch GPO Box 276 Sydney NSW 2001 Tel: 1300 501 312 |
NCI PO Box 3315, Rundle Mall SA 5000 Tel: 1800 882 820. |
Illion PO Box 7405, St Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004 Tel: 13 23 33 |
Experian GPO Box 1969, North Sydney NSW 2060 Tel: (02) 8907 7200 |
A copy of the credit reporting policy for the CRBs listed above will be available on their website or will be provided in hard copy upon request.
How you may access your personal information
You are entitled to access your personal information held in our possession.
We will endeavour to respond to your request for personal information within a reasonable time period or as soon as practicable in a manner as requested by you. We will normally respond within thirty (30) days.
You can make a request for access by sending an email or letter addressed to our Privacy Officer, the details of which are as follows.
Privacy Officer
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Address: |
PO Box 4199 Mulgrave VIC 3170 |
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Telephone |
(03) 9583 9433 |
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Email: |
accounts@refast.com.au |
With any request that is made we will need to authenticate your identity to ensure the correct person is requesting the information.
We will not charge you for making the request, however, if reasonable we may charge you with the costs associated with your request.
You will only be granted access to your personal information where we are permitted or required by law to grant access. We are unable to provide you with access that is unlawful.
Further we are not required to, and will not, give access to personal information to the extent that:
If we refuse access to the information, written notice will be provided to you setting out:
Correction
Should we hold personal information, and it is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, or incorrect you have the right to make us aware of this fact and request that it be corrected.
If you would like to make a request to correct your information, please contact our Privacy Officer.
In assessing your request, we need to be satisfied that the information is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading. We will then take all reasonable steps to ensure that it is accurate, up-to-date, complete, and not misleading.
It is our normal policy to resolve any correction requests within thirty (30) days. If we require further time, we will notify you in writing and seek your consent.
Should we refuse to correct your personal information written notice will be provided to you setting out:
We will endeavour to notify any relevant third parties of the correct personal information where necessary and required.
Notifiable Data Breaches
A Notifiable Data Breach is an event where access to your personal data has been gained and there is a risk of serious harm, or it is suspected that there is a serious risk to you.
In the event of a Notifiable Data Breach, we will notify you. Examples of Notifiable Data Beaches include:
Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about a failure of us to comply with our obligations in relation to the Act or the APP please raise this with our Privacy Officer.
We will provide you with a receipt of acknowledgment as soon as practicable.
We will then endeavour to respond to your complaint and attempt to resolve the issues within thirty (30) days.
In dealing with your complaint, we may need to consult another credit provider or third party.
If you are not satisfied with the process of making a complaint to our Privacy Officer, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, the details of which are below.
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)
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Address: |
GPO Box 5288, Sydney NSW 2001 |
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Telephone: |
1300 363 992 |
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Facsimile: |
(02) 6123 5145
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Information Commissioner
The Information Commissioner can decline to investigate a complaint on several grounds including, among other things, where the complaint wasn’t made at first to us.
For more information about privacy in general, you can visit the Australian Information Commissioner’s website: https://www.oaic.gov.au/.
Disclosure to overseas recipients
We are required to notify you with a list of any countries which personal information may be transmitted to or disclosed where it is practical for us to do so.
We currently do not share or disclose personal information overseas.
If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to find out more regarding any of our other policies, please contact our Privacy Officer on the details listed above.
Security
We take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you. Personal information may be stored both electronically on our computer system, and in hard-copy form. Firewalls, passwords, anti-virus software, and email filters act to protect our electronic information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We therefore recommend that you read it each time you visit our website. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy at any time, please do not continue to use our website. If you do continue to use our website, you are deemed to have accepted the terms of this Privacy Policy as they appear at the time of use.
