Privacy Policy

National Privacy Principles

The National Privacy Principles established by the Privacy Act 1988 apply to Focus Legal Recruitment.

Type of Personal Information Held

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; and
Information obtained to assist in managing client and business relationships.

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; and
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 I.T. contractors and database designers and/or our Internet Service Provider.

Inquiries and Complaints

You can make further inquiries or submit complaints about our privacy policies to our Privacy Co-ordinator during normal office hours, which are 8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.

In addition, 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 breaches 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 (refer to your nominated password supplied at time of registration on your Privacy Act Collection Statement).

We might impose a moderate charge in providing access. Our Privacy Co-ordinator can discuss this 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 and review information from storage in order to determine what information may be provided.