Privacy Policy

Information Collection Statement
Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000

This document outlines the types of information collected by APG-Global Pty Ltd (APG) and its possible use and disclosure in our endeavour to assist you in your search for employment.

Personal Information

As a recruitment consultancy that covers all levels of recruiting, the personal information that we collect and hold will usually be candidate information, submitted and obtained from candidates and other sources, including referees, in connection with applications or opportunities of work. Personal information is any information or opinion about you. It may range from the very sensitive (eg. medical history or condition) to the everyday (eg. address and phone number). It includes your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results, behavioural profile assessments, the opinions of others about your work performance and other information obtained by us in connection with your possible work placements.

Personal information may include sensitive information, which is information or opinion about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, membership of a political, professional or trade association or trade union, religious or philosophical beliefs, affiliations, sexual preferences or practices, criminal record health or disability. It may also include personal information collected to provide a health service. Sensitive information will only be disclosed with your specific consent, unless we have a legal duty to do so.

Why APG collects your Personal Information

APG will collect your personal information solely for its own use in connection with your potential work placements.

How your Personal Information will be collected

Personal information will be collected from you directly when you apply to APG for employment, complete one of our registration forms or provide other information in connection with your application to us. Some sensitive information may be recorded as a result of your providing legal documents, eg your passport or proof of entitlement to work in Australia.

Management and Security of Personal Information:

APG has in place steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure by use of various methods including locked storage of paper record, and passworded access rights to computerised information.

Personal Information will also be collected when:

• you provide us with any additional information about yourself
• during phone or face to face interviews
• we receive any reference about you
• we receive the results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues, professional associations or registration body
• we receive the results of any competency or medical test
• we receive performance feedback about you (whether positive or negative)
• we receive any complaint from or about you in the workplace
• we receive any information about a workplace accident in which you were involved
• we receive any information about any insurance investigation, litigation, registration or professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry in which you are involved

How your Personal Information will be used

• Your personal information may be used in connection with:
• your actual or possible work placement
• your performance appraisals and our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects
• any test or assessment (including medical) that you might be required to undergo
• our identification of your training needs
• any workplace rehabilitation
• our management of any complaint, investigation or inquiry in which you are involved, and
• any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal or sensitive information.

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to

• potential and actual employers and clients of APG (always with your prior consent)
• referees
• our insurers
• a professional association or registration body that has a proper interest in the disclosure of your personal information
• a Workers Compensation body
• our contractors and suppliers - eg. our IT contractors and Psychometric Test Managers
• any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information, and
• any person to whom your direct us to supply employment details.

If you are not prepared to provide the Personal Information we seek

• we may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you, and
• we may be limited in our ability to place you in work.

You can access your Personal Information for correction if it is wrong

Subject to some exceptions which are set out in the National Privacy Principles (Principle 6 - Access and Correction) of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, you have a right to see and have a copy of personal and sensitive information about you that we hold. If you are able to establish that personal information that we hold about you is either inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, we will take reasonable steps to correct it so that it is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

If we are unable to agree that personal information that we hold about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date, you may ask us to place with the information a statement by you that claims that particular information is either inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

How to contact us

If you wish to exercise your rights of access to and correction of your personal information you should contact our Privacy Officer during normal business hours, 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday.

Phone: (07) 5557 5555
Fax: (07) 5557 5557
Email: enquiries@apg-global.com

In some cases we may impose a moderate charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information. We will not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.