At Strata Choice, we are committed to providing you with the highest level of customer service and ensuring the protection of your personal privacy. This statement explains how Strata Choice and its members collect, use and disclose your personal information.

This Statement applies to:

• Strata Choice Pty Limited (the "Company")
• Strata Associates Pty Limited T/A Strata Choice Associates (the "Company")
• Linders Strata Management Pty Limited T/A Strata Choice Linders (the "Company")
• Any other members of the Strata Choice group (the “Company”)

The Company collects personal information about individuals who have an interest in the property of organisations managed by the Company. These include strata corporations, community and neighbourhood associations, home unit companies and private dwellings.

The policy of the Company is that personal information must only be collected, disclosed and used by it for the purposes of managing the affairs of those organisations, according to the laws to which they and the Company are subject. In particular, the Property Stock and Business Agents Act 1941, Strata Schemes Management Act 1996, the Community Land Management Act 1989, Residential Tenancies Act 1997 and any other associated Acts that require the collection of personal information about those individuals.

These purposes may include:

• The protection, maintenance and repair of the property
• The insurance of the organisation and the property 
• The raising and distribution of moneys 
• The election of representatives 
• The enforcement of by-laws and other applicable laws 
• Compliance with the requirements of statutory and judicial bodies 
• The making of decisions about the organisation's affairs 
• The collection of rent and various outgoings from tenants 
• The collection of information relating to the sale or lease of a property
   

For these purposes, personal information may be disclosed other persons, owners and representatives, statutory and judicial bodies, and professional advisers, agents and contractors of the organisation.

Whenever reasonable and practicable, the Company will collect personal information about an individual only from that individual.

As an owner or tenant, you may gain access to your personal information according to the laws by which the information is collected and held. If you require assistance in this regard, please contact the Company.

The Company may be contacted for these purposes by writing to: 

   Privacy Officer
   Strata Choice Pty Limited
   Locked Bag 1919  ST LEONARDS NSW 1590

If personal information required by relevant laws is not provided by an individual, then the individual may suffer certain disadvantages, according to those laws. In particular, the individual may not be regarded as an owner or tenant of his or her premises for the purpose of the organisation's affairs, and may be unable to participate in decisions about the organisation's affairs, or may not be advised of his or her responsibilities and rights.