This privacy policy explains how Richard Lloyd Accounting Recruitment Pty Limited (ABN 30 133 894 150) {“We”, “we” or “our”) collects, uses, and manages the personal information that we may collect about you. Personal information collected by Richard Lloyd is handled in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW). This privacy statement describes the various ways Richard Lloyd collects and deals with personal information.
Throughout the course of our normal business activities, we use information collected about candidates, employers, and candidate referees. The information we collect and use includes:-
If Richard Lloyd did not have access to your personal information, we would not be able to effectively find and place candidates in jobs or provide our services to you.
Richard Lloyd only gathers information that is relevant to your career or your search for a new employee. Richard Lloyd receives information about you when you respond directly to an advertisement, via the Richard Lloyd or SEEK website, through our face-to-face interview process, or when you hire Richard Lloyd to recruit an employee for you.
In the process of placing an individual in a role Richard Lloyd will often also collect publicly available third-party information contained on the internet, including but not limited to social media, online forums, and other portals. Information that you disclose in these online media sources is considered by Richard Lloyd and the common law to be public information and therefore is not subject to protection under this policy or the Privacy Act.
Richard Lloyd will only request sensitive information such as Police, background, or other checks when it is requested by an employer and we will always obtain your consent before completing these searches.
Richard Lloyd will only use the collected personal information for business purposes as described below. Before any other disclosure of personal information, Richard Lloyd will ask for your consent unless the disclosure is authorised or required by law. The gathered information will be used for:
Richard Lloyd stores all data either electronically or in hardcopy depending on the way your information was gathered. Richard Lloyd will always treat personal information with care and takes reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, or unauthorised disclosure. Our computer systems are password protected and have security procedures to protect personal information and are not accessible to anyone who is not employed by Richard Lloyd or our IT Partner. All our data is also stored securely offsite. Hard copies of your personal information are also kept securely at our offices which are locked and only accessible to Richard Lloyd employees. When no longer needed, information is destroyed and deleted in a secure manner.
We will never provide third parties with personal information without asking for your consent. If, with your approval, a third party is granted access to your personal information Richard Lloyd takes reasonable steps to ensure your information is held securely and only used for the relevant purpose for which it was provided.
Although Richard Lloyd makes every endeavour to keep personal information as secure as possible, there is always a remote possibility that a third party may gain access to our data through online hacking, fraud, or other activities that Richard Lloyd does not control or could not have controlled. We accept no responsibility if any of these described activities occur, however, we will rectify any security breach in the most timely manner possible.
Richard Lloyd uses cookies to collect and store personal data. Richard Lloyd may collect your personal information and other data through the use of cookies. Through cookies, Richard Lloyd is able to identify a computer and track your behaviour on our website. The information collected by Richard Lloyd through the use of cookies includes your server address, domain name, IP address, time and date of visit to the Richard Lloyd website, pages accessed, and documents downloaded. These cookies do not contain any secure or personal information. If you don’t want to receive any cookies you are able to set your browser to disallow cookies. A consequence of this may be that you are not able to use the full service of our website.
Any individual whose personal information Richard Lloyd possesses can request access to this information. You may also request an amendment to your personal information if it is incorrect. If you wish to request access to your personal information or wish to correct this information please contact Linda Balmer on 02 8324 5640 or lindab@richardlloyd.com.au.
Any person dealing with Richard Lloyd has the right to complain about our ways of collecting, using, and providing your personal information to others. Richard Lloyd will treat privacy complaints seriously and confidentially at all times and these complaints will not affect your arrangements with us. Please direct all privacy complaints to 02 8324 5640 or lindab@richardlloyd.com.au
Every complaint is taken seriously. When any complaint is received we will endeavor to rectify any issues that caused the concern and ensure it is resolved in a timely manner. We will inform you of the outcome of this investigation and if you’re not satisfied with this outcome you may refer the complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
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