Privacy Statement

BROOKLYN GROUP PTY LIMITED

Your Privacy is Important

The Brooklyn Group is very 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

The Brooklyn Group needs to collect personal and sensitive information about, and from you, in connection with your meeting with us. This information is for The Brooklyn Group's use and will be accessed by The Brooklyn Group's employees, agents or contractors in order to assist you.

How your information will be collected

Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you when you attend a consultation, interview, submit your resume or take part in any psychological assessment or test. 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

• 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.

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 The Brooklyn Group;
  
• 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 – e.g. people contracted to The Brooklyn Group 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.

In some cases we may impose an administrative charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information. We do not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.

If you require access to psychometric results 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.

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 two 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.

• Brooklyn group is an employment placement service 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.