General Privacy Policy

IIS Personnel Pty Ltd does not collect personal or sensitive information unless it is necessary for the performance of our tasks or functions.

National Privacy Principles

IIS Personnel Pty Ltd (IISP) is committed to protecting an individual's right to privacy and to full compliance with its obligations under the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000. In particular, IISP will comply with the National Privacy Principles (NPP) contained in the Act. The NPP cover aspects such as the fact that you can gain access to the information we collect, the purposes for which the information is collected, the types of organisations to whom we may disclose the information and the main consequences if you don’t provide the information. Please take a moment to read our Privacy Policy before you undertake the registration process and acknowledge that you have done so by signing our Collection Statement.

Type of Personal Information Held

Personal information is any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about you. 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 as defined in privacy legislation. It could include, for example, relevant information about your health status or information obtained lawfully via a criminal history check.

Under privacy laws we only collect personal information if it is necessary for the performance of one or more of our tasks or functions and, subject to the exceptions set out in privacy law, we would not collect sensitive information without your consent.

Personal information that we collect and hold usually falls into the following categories:

• Candidate Information submitted and obtained from the Candidate and other sources in connection with applications for work
• Work performance information
• Information about incidents in the workplace
• Staff information
• Information submitted and obtained in relation to absences from work due to leave, illness or other causes
• Information obtained to assist in managing client and business relationships
• Candidates selected for either interview or to start as an employee

Purposes for which We Hold Personal Information

We primarily hold personal information for the following:

• Placement operations
• Recruitment
• Staff management
• Training
• Client and business relationship management
• Marketing

Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information for the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a related secondary purpose. In some cases we may only disclose information with your consent. We may disclose your personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so, including circumstances where we are under a lawful duty of care to disclose information.

Contractors

We contract out a number of services from time to time. Our contractors may see some of your personal information. Typically our contractors would include:

• our insurers and superannuation fund
• 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 I.T. contractors and database designers
• any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

Inquiries and Complaints

You can make further inquiries or complaints about our privacy policies to our Privacy Co-ordinator whose contact details are

Andrew Culbertson
Business Manager

IIS Personnel Pty Ltd
Ph: 0400240559
Email: aculbertson@iisp.com.au
Unit 9/16 Fullarton Road, Kent Town, SA 5067

You can also make complaints to the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner.

Access

Subject to some exceptions that are set out in the National Privacy Principles, you can gain access to the personal information that we hold about you.

We do refuse access if it would interfere with the privacy rights of other persons or if it breach any confidentiality that attaches to that information.

If you wish to obtain access to your personal information you should contact our Privacy Co-ordinator. You will need to be in a position to verify your identity.

We might impose a moderate fee in providing access. Our Privacy Co-ordinator would discuss these with you.

You should also anticipate that it may take a little time to process your application for access as there may be a need to retrieve information from storage and review information in order to determine what information may be provided.