General Privacy Policy

Barringtons Recruitment Group Pty Ltd has always endeavoured to respect the privacy of all. Our company is bound by the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 and relevant amendments which establish principles concerning the protection of personal information as particularly outlined in Schedule 3 - National Privacy Principles which became effective on December 2001. This policy sets out important information about privacy protection which we apply to your personal information whenever provided to us.

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;
• 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:

Recruitment and Placement operations

• Staff management;
• Training;
• Client and business relationship management;
• 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;

Inquiries and Complaints

You can make further inquiries or complaints about our privacy policies to our Privacy Co-ordinator whose contact details are:

Matthew Barrington
Managing Director
Barringtons Recruitment Group Pty Ltd
PO Box 727,
Pymble NSW 2073
Phone: (02) 9983 1599
Fax: (02) 9449 4715
Email: Please use enquiry form
Mobile: 0410 614 919
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 breach 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.

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

Barringtons Recruitment Group Pty Ltd
Dated 29 November 2007