Slattery Grays Auction Group Pty Ltd Privacy Policy
As of 4 November 2025
Who we are
This Privacy Policy sets out how Grays Group (we, us, our), which includes the following entities:
Slattery Grays Auction Group Pty Ltd (ACN 692 021 122)
is committed to protecting your personal information managed by us, in the way we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information.
We will comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Australia) (Privacy Act), including the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act, the Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand) (as applicable), and all other relevant laws, regulations and codes relating to privacy and personal information (Privacy Law).
With regard to U.S. visitors to our site, our services are intended for representatives of businesses, and are not intended for consumers. Accordingly, as it pertains to U.S. visitors, we treat all personal information covered by this Privacy Policy, including visitors to our websites or mobile applications, as pertaining to individuals acting as business representatives, rather than in their personal or household capacity.
This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. You should review it every now and again so that you are aware of any changes. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on this page. If required by law we will also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via email or on the site.
What is "personal information" and what happens if we don't collect your personal information?
Where practicable we aim to collect your personal information directly from you. The circumstances in which we may do so will vary depending on the context in which we are dealing with you (for example, if you are a customer, according to the specific product or service we are providing).
"Personal information" is any information or an opinion about an identified, or reasonably identifiable, person.
You can choose not to provide your personal information to us, or deal with us anonymously or by using a pseudonym. However, if you do so:
we may be unable to provide you with the products or services you have applied for; or
we may be limited in our ability to respond to or deal with any enquiries you make.
What kinds of personal information do we collect and hold?
The kinds of personal information we collect and hold about you will depend on the products or services we provide you with or if the law requires us to collect it. This includes your:
Identification information - such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, gender and date of birth.
Financial and transaction information - including information about your assets, occupation and income, account balances, account activities, payment history and transactions with us or third parties.
Government identifiers - such as your driver’s licence, passport and visa particulars to verify your identity.
Other personal information - such as details of your interactions with us (including when you use our website and other online resources, such as social media platforms), billing information including your credit card details, your purchasing preferences and history, any information contained in correspondence between us and you or any other information lawfully obtainable under relevant Privacy Law.
Sometimes we may collect "sensitive information" about you, for example in relation to insurance claims. "Sensitive information" includes health information and information about racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a trade union or political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, sexual preferences and criminal record.
We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent or if the law allows us to.
How do we collect your personal information?
We will try to collect your personal information directly from you wherever possible. How we collect your personal information depends on the type of interaction we have with you.
If you contact us, apply for or use our products and services, engage in business activities with us, visit our website, interact with our social media platforms or contact us in relation to a promotion, we will collect your personal information
Additionally, when you visit our websites and applications, we use “cookies” to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective website or application. For more information about how we do this, visit our Terms of Use.
Sometimes we may collect your personal information from other sources. These other sources include:
public or commercial information services providers (such as providers of government or business information);
third party service providers or agents assisting us to process your application or other transaction;
brokers, insurers and manufacturer’s warranty providers;
employers;
vehicle dealers, real-estate agents and agencies and lead generation providers;
other businesses involved in our dealings, including our business partners and third parties that refer or introduce you to us; and
from a borrower, lender, beneficiaries or contractors involved in the particular transaction.
How we use your personal information
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information where it is reasonably necessary for the purposes of providing our products and services, for our other business purposes and for any necessary related purposes. These purposes include, but are not limited to:
confirm your identity;
registering you to use our online resources, including for an account on our website, and to administer our business activities and your access to our services;
process an application for a product or service, or a purchase request (including to execute your instructions and process your online bids and purchases);
provide you with services during the usual course of our business activities;
manage and improve our products and services or other relationships and arrangements with you and investigate any complaints;
process receipts, invoices and payments and servicing customer accounts, including determining liability for payment and undertaking accounting, billing and other administrative tasks;
respond to your enquiries about your applications, accounts, products or services;
understand your needs and offer products and services to meet those needs, including marketing and promoting products or services that may be of interest to you;
assess or process insurance risks or claims;
tell you about changes to our products and services;
contact you about, any application you make for a job with us, if applicable;
meet our obligations, including, but not limited to, contractual and those arising under relevant laws:
- in Australia, this includes our obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth), the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (Cth), the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth), the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) and complying with information requests issued by the Commissioner of Taxation) or other statutory authorities; and
- in New Zealand, this includes our obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2013, the Tax Administration Act 1994 and the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003;
enforce our rights, including undertaking debt collection activities and legal proceedings;
undertake business funding and development activities, and corporate restructures and amalgamations;
referring or introducing you to an organisation, entity or credit provider (including, among others, Freedom Leisure Finance Pty Ltd ABN 79 115 087 771 trading as Freedom Money (Freedom Money) and Lend Capital Pty Ltd ABN 12 612 877 442 (Lend)) where we act as an authorised representative, introducer or referrer; and
(unless you tell us not to) to contact you to discuss other products or services that may be of interest to you.
Who we disclose your personal information to
We may disclose your personal information to third parties to facilitate the purposes listed above.
Third parties who we may disclose your personal information to, include:
our employees and related entities in Australia, New Zealand and overseas;
our warehouse, supply partners, transaction partners, other service providers (including delivery service providers such as couriers and administrative services providers, such as mailing houses, printers and call centre operators) and subcontractors;
legal, settlement, valuation and recruitment service providers;
data processing and market research service providers;
identification verification organisations
marketing and advertising agencies (including, but not limited to Publift) and providers of online advertising technologies (including, but not limited to, Google. The Google Privacy Policy can be found at this link);
fraud protection service providers . Our fraud protection service provider may use and process your personal information in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws. You can read about the ways by which our service provider may use and process your personal information by clicking Forter; Grays may change fraud protection service providers from time to time, without notice to you.
our security service providers (who provide services including retail security, loss prevention and mobile patrols);
regulatory bodies, law enforcement authorities and toll operators in New Zealand, Australia and overseas;
any person who is considering whether to acquire or who has acquired any part of our business, or the rights or obligations under our contract with you;
financial, legal and other advisors;
any person we consider necessary to execute your instructions, including other participants in financial and payment systems, such as banks, credit providers, clearing entities, payment platforms (including but not limited to, PayPal and Braintree) and credit card associations;
account information aggregation service providers (including Yodlee), to assist in the transfer of your account data to us;
insurers, reinsurers, loss adjusters, assessors, underwriters and manufacturer’s warranty providers (including but not limited to Australian Warranty Network Pty Ltd (AWN) trading as AWN Insurance (ABN 78 075 483 206). • brokers and other distributors;
real-estate agents, buyers agents and agencies;
your guarantors and security providers;
debt collectors and investigators;
persons, companies and entities for which Grays acts as a referrer or introducer (including, among others, and HMW Australia Pty Ltd ACN 637 535 436 trading as Heavy Machinery Warranty);
sellers and purchasers associated with sales and auctions conducted on our site for the purposes of negotiating disputes, legal claims, offers, resolutions, settlements or as directed by Australian regulators, mediators, courts or tribunals.
credit providers, credit rating agencies, finance brokers and referrers (including, among others, Yellowgate Group, Freedom Money and Lend); and
Other businesses involved in our dealings, including our business partners and joint venturers and third parties that refer you to us
Overseas disclosures
We may disclose your personal information to overseas recipients so we can provide you with our services and
products and for administrative, data storage or other business management purposes.
We may disclose or transmit your personal information to recipients in Australia, New Zealand, United States of
America, United Kingdom, Israel, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
We take steps reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that an overseas recipient complies with relevant Privacy
Laws or is bound by a substantially similar privacy regime found in New Zealand and Australia (as the case may be).
Direct marketing
We may use and disclose your personal information (including by sharing it between members of the Grays Group) in order to inform you of products, services and promotions that may be of interest to you.
In the event that you do not wish to receive such communications, you can opt out by following the instructions for doing so in the communications we send to you or by contacting us on the details under "How to contact us".
SMS Messages
We may send any relevant notices and communications to you via email and/or SMS (text message), including information regarding the status of an Online Auction in which you are participating, such as ‘you have been outbid’ emails and/or SMS (text message), or ‘you are the Winning Bidder’ (or with equivalent wording) emails and/or SMS (text message). We may also include Direct Marketing in SMS messages. To opt-out of such messages, please contact us or select to opt-out via your Grays customer account page
Children
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us through the services, please contact us and we will endeavour to delete that information from our databases.
How we hold and keep secure your personal information
We hold, and keep secure, your personal information in physical form or in electronic form on our systems or the
systems of our service providers.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold is protected from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Your personal information is held in secure databases on secure premises, accessible by authorised staff who follow procedural safeguards that meet or exceed security requirements under the Privacy Law.
We require third parties handling personal information on our behalf to follow equally compliant standards of security and confidentiality.
We will destroy or de-identify personal information in circumstances where it is no longer required, unless we are
otherwise required or authorised by law to retain the information.
How to access and correct information we hold about you
We try to ensure that the personal information we hold is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant and not misleading.
Depending on where you live, you may have a right to access and seek correction of your personal information that is collected and held by us. This is subject to some exceptions specified in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Australia), the Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand), and other applicable laws.
To access or correct any of the personal information we hold about you, or you would like more information on our
approach to privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer whose details are found under the heading "How to contact us" below.
We will grant access to personal information to the extent required by applicable Privacy Law and will take reasonable steps to amend personal information where necessary and appropriate. If you would like access to your personal information, you must:
provide us with proof of your identity. This is to ensure you’re your personal information is provided only to you;
andbe reasonably specific about the information you require (ie explain exactly what you're looking for).
We will try to provide you with the information in the manner set out in your request. We may charge you a reasonable administration fee reflecting our costs for servicing your access request (ie photocopying or retrieval fees). We will not charge you for making the request.
If we refuse your request to access or correct your personal information, we will provide you with written reasons for the refusal.
Depending on where you live, if you are dissatisfied with our reasons for refusing your request to access or correct your personal information, you may make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner / New Zealand Privacy Commissioner (as the case may be) or to an applicable external dispute resolution scheme (provided that the Grays Group entity you are dealing with is a member of that scheme - we will provide details of any such scheme in our response to your request for access or correction).
Where we correct your personal information which we had previously disclosed to another entity and you ask that other entity be notified of that correction, we will take reasonable steps to do so (unless impracticable or unlawful).
Privacy complaints
You can raise a complaint about the way we managed your personal information by contacting our Privacy Officer whose details are found under "How to contact us" below.
After you raise a complaint with us, our Privacy Officer will commence an investigation into your complaint. You will be informed of the outcome of your complaint following completion of the investigation. At all times, privacy complaints will:
be treated seriously;
be dealt with promptly;
be dealt with in a confidential manner; and
not affect your existing obligations or impact on the commercial arrangements between you and us.
Depending on where you live, if you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may refer the complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner / New Zealand Privacy Commissioner or an applicable external dispute resolution scheme (provided that the Grays Group entity you are dealing with is a member of that scheme - we will provide details of any such scheme in our response to such a request for access or correction).
How to contact us
Please direct all privacy queries and complaints to our Privacy Officer by:
Mail: Privacy Officer
Slattery Grays Auction Group Pty Ltd
230 Old Maitland Road, Hexham 2322
Email: compliance@grays.com.au
Telephone: +61 2 7908 1700
