The Salvation Army Employment Plus is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This policy sets out the way we handle your personal information including the use and disclosure of your personal information, as well as your right to access your personal information. This policy only applies to our databases and files and does not cover any State, Territory or Commonwealth Government database or file. You are advised to contact the relevant government agency for a copy of their privacy policy. Your personal information In order to provide you employment and related services, we may need to collect personal information such as name, address, work history, qualifications, career details or other information generally contained in a resume. Employment and related services includes services to market your skills to potential employers, training institutions and other measures to assist you to obtain employment. Collection Where practicable The Salvation Army Employment Plus will endeavour to collect personal information directly from you. We will need to collect personal information from you such as your name, your address, your qualifications, your previous employment history in order to provide you with employment and associated services. As a contracted service provider to the Commonwealth Government of Australia to provide employment and associated services, we may also collect personal information from Commonwealth government departments and agencies such as:
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Centrelink
To provide you with employment and associated services we also collect personal information from other third parties such as:
Your previous employer
Any referees nominated by you, etc.
At, or as soon as practicable after, The Salvation Army Employment Plus collects your personal information we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of:
(a) The Salvation Army Employment Plus’ identity and how you can contact us;
(b) your rights with regard to accessing your personal information;
(c) the purpose for which your personal information was collected;
(d) to whom we usually disclose your personal information;
(e) any law that requires us to collect or disclose particular personal information; and
(f) the main consequences, if any, for you if you do not provide all or part of the information we require. The Salvation Army Employment Plus will only collect personal information by fair and lawful means and not in an unreasonably intrusive manner. Use and disclosure We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you provide to us remains private and is used only for the purposes you agree to. The Salvation Army Employment Plus will not reveal, disclose, sell, distribute, rent, license, share or pass your personal information on to a third party, other than those that we have a binding agreement with ensuring that the third party affords your personal information in similar levels of protection as we do. In order to provide you with employment and associated services, we may need to disclose your personal information to third parties such as:
Employers
Training Institutions
Other Job Network Providers
DEWR – which uses the information to make payments to us and to monitor and evaluate the job network
Centrelink – which uses the information to ensure you receive correct entitlements
Further, we may use and disclose your personal information to provide you with employment and associated services specified to you at the point of collection or for another purpose if:
you would reasonably expect us to disclose it for that purpose;
that purpose is related to the purpose specified to you at the time of collection;
The Salvation Army Employment Plus reasonably be