Privacy Policy

At Hunter Executive, we are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal information. The following statement explains how we manage your personal information in accordance with the Privacy laws.

How we collect your personal information

Generally, the type of personal information we collect about you is the information included in your application or resume, for example, your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, career history, details of any competency tests or other information relating to your career.

Where practical we collect your personal information directly from you. We may collect personal information about you when you deal with us by telephone, letter, fax, e-mail, or visit our website.

In some circumstances, we may also collect sensitive information about you such as information about your membership of a professional or trade association or trade union; your health (including any disability), your racial or ethnic origin or any criminal record that you may have. Where we collect this type of information we will obtain your consent.

We collect personal information for any one or more of the following purposes:

• Assisting you in finding or retaining work
• Assisting in your career performance or management
• Analysing human resource and labour markets
• Any test or assessments you may undertake
• Helping in work rehabilitation
• To facilitate services to or by us, where your organisation is a client or service provider or potential client or service provider.

There may be occasions when we obtain personal information about you from a third party; for example, from your nominated referees; when receiving the results of a psychological or competency test; or obtaining performance feedback about your work. If we don't have your prior consent, we will take reasonable steps to inform you that we have collected personal information. If you do not provide us with the information we seek we may be limited in our ability to provide you with our services. Hunter Executive must collect the following information about individuals looking for work, and maintain a register of this information for a period of 6 years: (a) the person's name, address, age, gender, and occupation; (b) the type of work the person is looking for; (c) the date the particulars mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) are entered in the register.

How we use and disclose your personal information

We may use and disclose your personal information for the purposes it was collected, or for a related or ancillary purpose such as providing you with one of our services.

We may disclose your personal information to:

• potential employers
• clients who may wish to engage your services as a contractor or temporary
• organisations that conduct competency or psychometric tests
• referees
• a workers compensation body
• suppliers of services to us
• our related entities
• depending on the circumstances, to the Australian Federal Police to verify whether you have a criminal record
• or to educational or vocational organisations to the extent necessary to verify your qualifications

If we engage third party contractors to perform services for us which involves handling personal information we take reasonable steps to prohibit the contractor from using personal information except for the purposes for which it was supplied.

Gaining access to information we hold about you

You can gain access to the personal information we hold about you by written request.
A request for access to the personal information we hold about you or in relation to an inquiry about privacy should be sent to:

The Privacy Officer, Hunter Executive
GPO Box 1856 Sydney, Australia 2001

We will deal with your request to provide information within a reasonable time.

We may seek payment for our costs of supplying you with this information.

Keeping your personal information up-to-date

If your personal information changes please contact us and we will endeavour to update and correct the information. We may also contact you from time to time to check the information is still correct.

Security of your personal information

Your personal information may be stored in hardcopy or electronically. We have security procedures in place to protect your personal information.

INFORMATION PROVIDED USING OUR WEBSITES

Information about All Our Visitors

When you access our website, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and the services users access the most. We only use such data anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us to continually create a better overall experience for you.

About the information you provide via our website

Without your consent we do not disclose information about your individual visits to the Hunter Executive website to any outside parties, other than to our related entities or where the law requires it.

In order to provide you with the highest standard of services we may store your personal information on a server overseas. By providing personal information via our websites you agree your information may be transferred to servers located overseas.

Feedback

Our websites have several areas on the site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of Hunter Executive. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site. This policy does not apply to employee records.

1 January 2007

Hunter Executive
GPO Box 1856,
Sydney, Australia 2001
info@hunterexecutive.com