Your Privacy is Important
LegalStaff.com.au is committed to providing you a professional and enjoyable experience. As part of this experience, your privacy is very important to us.
The following are considerations for you as regards the privacy of your information.
Collecting your information
LegalStaff.com.au may collect your personal information from you, including (without limitation) your name, contact details, qualifications, work history, your right to work in a particular country, languages spoken, professional memberships and accreditations, your work objectives and other information from your CV or when you enter your information on the site.
This information is for LegalStaff.com.au and client use and will be accessed by LegalStaff.com.au's employees, agents, clients or contractors in order to assist you. By submitting information, resume, references, etc, you
How your information will be collected
Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you when you submit information and/or your resume. Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when we receive:
- any reference about you;
- results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues, educational institutions, professional associations or registration body;
- the results of any competency or medical test; performance feedback (whether positive or negative);
- any complaint from or about you in the workplace;
- 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.
How your information will be used
LegalStaff.com.au uses and discloses your personal information for the following purposes:
- assessing or effecting your actual or possible work placement;
- your performance appraisals;
- our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
- 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;
- to direct-market products and services, advise you of news and industry updates, events, promotions and competitions, reports and other information. Where we do so, you will be able to unsubscribe from such communications;
- where you are registered as a candidate on our web site, your personal information will be accessible by our clients directly;
- we may also release personal information to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if they require us to do so; and
- we may also seek your consent to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose not listed above.
How it may be disclosed
To assist you effectively, we may need to release certain appropriate information about you, having gained your express permission to:
- potential and actual employers and clients of LegalStaff.com.au;
- 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 – eg. people contracted to uses and discloses your personal information for the following purposes: to assist in the nature of our work.
- any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.
If you choose to not give us the information we seek
Although all information that we ask for is purely voluntary if you choose to not provide the information we seek, we may be limited in our ability to assist you through the services we provide.
You can gain access to your information to correct it if it is wrong.
You can see and have a copy of any personal and sensitive information that we hold about you (some exceptions apply under the law).
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. If we are unable to do so, you can provide us with a statement which states what you believe to be the case and we will put that on file.
To gain access and make any corrections, contact your consultant or go on to the web site and make the changes directly.
If you require access to psychometric results (if any are undertaken) we will provide a trained psychologist to interpret the results that you have achieved through any psychometric assessment. In some instances this service will attract a charge pertaining to consulting time.
Security
LegalStaff takes all reasonable steps to ensure the security of personal information provided. Information is held in secure computer storage systems and paper-based filing systems. LegalStaff accepts payments over 128-bit SSL encryption.
Disposal of your information
Unless you advise / inform us otherwise we will destroy any personal or sensitive information that we hold on you if it has not been updated by you for a period of three years.
If you require us to dispose of your information before this period then please inform us in writing addressed to the Privacy Manager.
Our policy is to destroy unused information in a secure and confidential manner.
Fair Trading Amendment (Employment Placement Services) Act 2002 and Regulations
The above Act and Regulations require us to provide the following statement to you:
- LegalStaff.com.au is a recruitment web site and we do not charge candidates (job applicants) a fee for the purpose of finding that candidate employment.
- We do not engage in any misleading or deceptive conduct including activities such as:
- Advertising a position as being available when we know no such position exists.
- Knowingly giving misleading information to a candidate about the nature of a position.
