TERMS OF USE & PRIVATE POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY and COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

The National Privacy Principles established by the Privacy Act 1988 are applicable to PAC Consulting Australia.

What personal information is (2) 

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 (3) 

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 a health service (in the case of an accident or workers compensation claim). Sensitive information can, in most cases only be disclosed with your consent.

Who will be collecting your personal and sensitive information (4) 

Your personal and sensitive information will be collected by PAC Consulting Australia for its own use and on behalf of other members of PAC Consulting who might require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with your work placements.

How to contact us (5) 

If you wish to contact us about your personal or sensitive information you should contact 1300 733 943 or email info@pacconsulting.com.au. We are open from the hours of 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday- Friday.

Type of personal information held (6) 

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 may include references obtained with your permission;

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.

Purposes for which we hold personal information (7) 

We primarily hold personal information for the following purposes:

Placement operations;

Recruitment;

Client and business relationship management;

Marketing.

How your information will be collected (8) 

Personal and sensitive information will be collected from directly when you on submit your resume / CV to our company by responding to an advert or simply by posting, Emailing or handing in your Resume to our office. Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when:

we receive any reference about you;

we receive results of enquiries 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.

How your information will be used (9) 

Your personal and sensitive information may 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;

our identification of your training needs;

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: (10)

potential and actual employers and clients of the PAC Consuting Australia referees;

other members of the PAC Consulting Australia team;

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 I.T. contractors and database designers; (For the purpose of internal systems and design maintenance) any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

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.

If you do not give us the information we seek: (11)

we may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you;

we may be limited in our ability to place you in work.

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

You can gain access to your information to correct it if it is wrong (12) 

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 Privacy Co-ordinator, whose details are shown above. 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.

TERMS OF USE

In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions:

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Company’s terms and conditions. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We” and “Us”, refers to our Company. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves, or either the Client or ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner, whether by formal meetings of a fixed duration, or any other means, for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services/products, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing Australian Law. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Privacy Statement

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Authorized employees within the company on a need to know basis only use any information collected from individual customers. We constantly review our systems and data to ensure the best possible service to our customers. Parliament has created specific offences for unauthorised actions against computer systems and data. We will investigate any such actions with a view to prosecuting and/or taking civil proceedings to recover damages against those responsible

Disclaimer

Exclusions and Limitations
The information on this web site is provided on an “as is” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, this Company:

  • excludes all representations and warranties relating to this website and its contents or which is or may be provided by any affiliates or any other third party, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in this website and/or the Company’s literature; and

  • excludes all liability for damages arising out of or in connection with your use of this website. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised this Company of the possibility of such potential loss), damage caused to your computer, computer software, systems and programs and the data thereon or any other direct or indirect, consequential and incidental damages.

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This Company does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence. The above exclusions and limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law. None of your statutory rights as a consumer are affected.

Availability

Unless otherwise stated, the services featured on this website are only available within the Australia. All advertising is intended solely for the Australian market. You are solely responsible for evaluating the fitness for a particular purpose of any downloads, programs and text available through this site. Redistribution or republication of any part of this site or its content is prohibited, including such by framing or other similar or any other means, without the express written consent of the Company. The Company does not warrant that the service from this site will be uninterrupted, timely or error free, although it is provided to the best ability. By using this service you thereby indemnify this Company, its employees, agents and affiliates against any loss or damage, in whatever manner, howsoever caused.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Additionally, for systems administration, detecting usage patterns and troubleshooting purposes, our web servers automatically log standard access information including browser type, access times/open mail, URL requested, and referral URL. This information is not shared with third parties and is used only within this Company on a need-to-know basis. Any individually identifiable information related to this data will never be used in any way different to that stated above without your explicit permission.

Cookies

Like most interactive web sites this Company’s website [or ISP] uses cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting. Some of our affiliate partners may also use cookies.

Links to this website

You may not create a link to any page of this website without our prior written consent. If you do create a link to a page of this website you do so at your own risk and the exclusions and limitations set out above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it.

Links from this website

We do not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked to from this website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us and should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site & to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. This Company will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information

Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable to the other for any failure to perform any obligation under any Agreement which is due to an event beyond the control of such party including but not limited to any Act of God, terrorism, war, Political insurgence, insurrection, riot, civil unrest, act of civil or military authority, uprising, earthquake, flood or any other natural or man made eventuality outside of our control, which causes the termination of an agreement or contract entered into, nor which could have been reasonably foreseen. Any Party affected by such event shall forthwith inform the other Party of the same and shall use all reasonable endeavours to comply with the terms and conditions of any Agreement contained herein.

Waiver

Failure of either Party to insist upon strict performance of any provision of this or any Agreement or the failure of either Party to exercise any right or remedy to which it, he or they are entitled hereunder shall not constitute a waiver thereof and shall not cause a diminution of the obligations under this or any Agreement. No waiver of any of the provisions of this or any Agreement shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be such and signed by both Parties.

General

The laws of NSW and Australia govern these terms and conditions. By accessing this website you consent to these terms and conditions and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Australian courts in all disputes arising out of such access. If any of these terms are deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to the exclusions and limitations set out above), then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these terms and the remaining terms will continue to apply. Failure of the Company to enforce any of the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions and any Agreement, or failure to exercise any option to terminate, shall not be construed as waiver of such provisions and shall not affect the validity of these Terms and Conditions or of any Agreement or any part thereof, or the right thereafter to enforce each and every provision. These Terms and Conditions shall not be amended, modified, varied or supplemented except in writing and signed by duly authorised representatives of the Company.