Protecting Your Privacy

At GeoTal Consulting your privacy is important to us. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and maintained at all times. GeoTal Consulting Pty Ltd. complies with the Privacy laws and the National Privacy Principles as well as our existing obligations of confidentiality. The following statement explains how we manage your personal information in accordance with the Privacy laws.

What your personal information is

Personal information is any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about you. It may range from the very sensitive (e.g. medical history or condition) to the everyday (e.g. address and phone number). It would include the opinions of others about your work performance (whether true or not), your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results and other information obtained by us in connection with your possible work placements. Personal information includes sensitive information.

What sensitive information is

Sensitive information is a special category of personal information. It is information or opinion about your:

• Racial or ethnic origin;
• Political opinion;
• Membership of a political association or religious beliefs, affiliations or philosophical beliefs;
• Membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade union;
• Sexual preferences or practices;
• Criminal record;
• Health or disability (at any time);
• Expressed wishes about the future provision of health services.

It includes personal information collected to provide an effective service.

Sensitive information can, in most cases, only be disclosed with your consent. We do not actively seek to collect sensitive information unless it is necessary for our business purposes. If we are required to collect sensitive information we do so in accordance with the National Privacy Principles.

Who will be collecting your personal and sensitive information?

GeoTal Consulting will collect your personal and sensitive information for its own use and on behalf of clients who might require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with your employment opportunities.

How your information will be collected

Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you directly when you register on the GeoTal Consulting website, are interviewed by our consultants, or we gather any other information in connection with your application.

Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when:

• We receive any reference about you;
• We receive 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 (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 are 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;

You provide us with any additional information about you.

Your information will be used in connection with

• Your actual or possible work placement;
• Your performance appraisals;
• Our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
• Any test or assessment (including medical tests and assessments) that you might be required to undergo;
• Any workplace rehabilitation;
• Our management of any complaint, investigation or inquiry in which you are involved;

Any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal or sensitive information.

Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to:

• Potential and actual employers and clients of Sales Placements Australia;
• Referees;
• Our insurers;
• A professional association or registration body that has a proper interest in the disclosure of your personal and sensitive information;
• A workers compensation body;
• Our contractors and suppliers – e.g. our IT contractors and database designers;

Any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

If you do not give us the information we seek:

We may be limited in our ability to recommend you to our clients for placement.

You can gain access to your personal information

Subject to some exceptions, which are set out in the National Privacy Principles (Principle 6 - Access and Correction), 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 or sensitive information that we hold about you is not accurate, complete and up-to-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 or sensitive 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 not accurate, complete and up-to-date.

If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction you should contact our Administration Manager, whose details are shown below.

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.

How to contact us

A request for access to the personal information we hold about you or in relation to an enquiry about privacy should be sent to:

The Administration Manager
GeoTal Consulting Pty Ltd
Level 3, 480 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000