What Is Your Personal Information?
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 could include the opinions of others about your work performance, 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 Is Sensitive Information?
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. Sensitive information can, in most cases, only be collected with your consent. The collection of some sensitive information will be necessary to the extent that it is relevant to the requirements of a particular position.

Who Will Be Collecting And Using Your Personal And Sensitive Information?
Your personal and sensitive information will be collected by Perserverence Pty Ltd Trading As Lefroy Employment Group who might require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with your work placements.

How Your Information Will Be Collected
Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you directly when you fill out and submit one of our registration forms or any other information in connection with your application to us for registration. Collection may be done electronically via the web or e-mail, by mail, in person, by fax or over the phone.

Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when:

	We receive any reference about you;
	We receive results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues, professional associations or registration body;
	We receive the results of any competency, technical skills or medical tests;
	We receive the results of any psychological assessments;
	We receive verification of academic achievements;
	We receive any performance feedback;
	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;
	We receive requests for information or instructions from government departments or agencies or other private bodies that have appropriate authority to make such requests or give such instructions;
	We receive the results of police checks, where such checks are required.

Your Information Will Be Used
Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with:

	Your actual or possible work placement, including reverse marketing;
	Matters relating to immigration and your visa status, if applicable;
	Internally generated and used recruitment market intelligence;
	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;
	Generation of Lefroy Employment Group contractor care surveys or the performance of other contractor care functions;
	And where applicable; your wage payment and all related functions and client billing;
	All or any purpose for which such information would ordinarily be used by or as part of the business of a recruitment agency;
	The business of, and will form part of the business records of Lefroy Employment Group.

Your Personal And Sensitive Information May Be Disclosed To

	Potential and actual employers and clients of Lefroy Employment Group;
	Referees;
	Other members of Lefroy Employment Group;
	Our insurers and relevant Superannuation companies;
	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;
	Any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information, including courts, government departments, and agencies;
	Auditors of Lefroy Employment Group;
	Persons, companies, and or their legal and commercial advisers to whom Lefroy Employment Group may disclose the confidential information and business records of The Lefroy Employment Group;
	If it forms part of the sale of part or the whole of the business of Lefroy Employment Group.

If You Do Not Give Us The Information We Seek

	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.

Your Rights As A Candidate
That the employment placement service must not charge a job seeker a fee for the purpose of finding the job seeker employment. An employment placement service must not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct (such as advertising a position as being available when the agency knows no such position exists or knowingly giving misleading information to a job seeker about the nature of a position);

If a job seeker believes that an employment placement service has acted inappropriately, the job seeker may contact the Deparment of Fair Trading for information on possible action that may be taken;

You Can Gain Access To Your Information To Update, Change Or Correct It If It Is Wrong

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.

We encourage you to provide us with an update from time to time of any information which we may hold about you. 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-todate.

If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction or change you should contact our Privacy Officer, whose details are shown above. By submitting an up-to-date resume, we will take that to be your current details and shall adjust our records accordingly - you will not have to do anything further. There will be a moderate charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information. We will not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.

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.

Understanding and Agreement
You consent to the collection, use and storage of your personal and sensitive information by submitting it to Lefroy Employment Group in any written or oral form, or by any other means whatsoever. Your consent then covers all forms of future communication. In submitting your personal and sensitive information, you undertake to have read and understood each of the statements in this Collection Statement and voluntarily consent to:

	Personal and sensitive information about me being collected by you as indicated above;
	Personal and sensitive information about me being used as indicated above;
	Personal and sensitive information about me being disclosed as indicated above.

Consideration for your consent is given when the personal or sensitive information is collected by Lefroy Employment Group.