Privacy Statement
Meridian Recruitment’s Statement of Commitment
Meridian Human Resources Pty Ltd and Meridian Recruitment (Meridian Recruitment) acknowledges that it is bound by and will comply with the National Privacy Principles (NPP) and other requirements under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (The Privacy Act). This Privacy/Collection Statement explains these principles and sets out Meridian Recruitment’s policy in relation to the use of personal information.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is any information or an opinion about you that Meridian Recruitment has collected. It may range from sensitive (eg. medical history or condition) to everyday information (eg. address and telephone number). It would include the opinions of others about your work performance, your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results, psychological tests, results and reports and other information obtained by us in connection with your actual or possible work placements.
What is Sensitive Information?
Sensitive Information is a subset of personal information. It includes information or an opinion about an individual’s:
- Racial or ethnic origin; or
- Political opinions; OR
- Membership of a political association; or
- Religious beliefs or affiliations; or
- Philosophical beliefs; or
- Membership of a professional or trade association; or
- Membership of a trade union; or
- Sexual preferences or practices; or
- Criminal record; or
- Health information about an individual.
Collection of Personal Information
Meridian Recruitment will collect your personal and sensitive information for its own use in connection with your application for registration. Meridian Recruitment may also collect personal and sensitive information from you when required in the ordinary course of operating as a Recruitment Agency.
How will your information be used?
Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with:
- Potential or actual work placements;
- Performance Feedback;
- Tests or Assessments that we may require you to undertake;
- Workplace Rehabilitation;
- Management of complaints, investigations or inquiries in which you are involved;
- Insurance Claims or proposals that require disclosure of your personal or sensitive information.
What happens if you do not provide the information requested?
If you do not provide the information that Meridian Recruitment requests, then we may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you or in our ability to place you in work.
Disclosure of your Personal Information
It may be necessary for Meridian Recruitment to disclose your personal and sensitive information to third parties such as:
- Clients of Meridian Recruitment which may be potential and actual employers;
- Referees;
- Meridian Recruitment’s Insurers;
- A professional Association or registration body that has a proper interest in the disclosure of your personal and sensitive information;
- Workers Compensation Body;
- Our contractors and suppliers for eg. information technology contractors and database designers
- Any person lawfully permitted to obtain the information.
Security of your Personal Information
Your personal information may be stored electronically or in hard copy. Meridian Recruitment will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information collected by Meridian Recruitment from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Access to Information
Meridian Recruitment acknowledges that the Privacy Act and the NPP require that except in some limited circumstances, persons may access all their personal information and have the right to correct it, or at least attach a personal statement of correction. If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction you should contact the Privacy Officer, whose details are shown below.
Meridian Recruitment encourages you to contact us in order to update any personal information we hold about you.
Warranties and Representation Disclaimer
Meridian Recruitment makes no warranties and / or representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through this one. Such links are provided only as a convenience and does not mean that Meridian Recruitment endorses or accepts any responsibility for the contents or the use of such website.
In addition, it is up to the individual user to take precautions and to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature, or that the information provided in this or other web sites is to be to the benefit of the individual user. Inaccuracies or typographical errors may occur on this website.
Information on this website is provided "as is" without any warranties or guarantees of any kind. Meridian Recruitment disclaims all warranties or guarantees to the fullest extent permitted by law. Meridian Recruitment make no warranties or guarantees about the reliability, completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of any of the material, services, software, text, graphics, information and links in any way referred to in this website.
In no event will Meridian Recruitment be liable to any party for any damages whether direct, indirect, special, consequential or other for any use or inability to use of this website or its contents, or of any other hyperlinked website, including, without limitation, any damages for lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are aware of the possibility of such damages.
Copyright Notice and Trademarks
The contents of the website are copyright © 2008 Meridian Recruitment. All Rights Reserved. Information on the website, including but not limited to, text, presentations, figures, images and sound, may not, except where otherwise indicated, be reproduced, transferred, distributed or stored without prior written permission by Meridian Recruitment. Modifications to the contents of the website are expressly prohibited. Some parts of the website contain images and other media formats that are subject to the copyright rights of their providers.
Unless otherwise indicated, all copyright material, trademarks, trade names and logos are the property of Meridian Recruitment and any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.
Contact Details
If you wish to contact us about your personal or sensitive information please telephone Meridian Recruitment on 07 3340 5174 during normal office hours which are 8.30am to 5.00pm, or write to Meridian Recruitment at:
Garden City Office Park
6 / 2404 Logan Road
Eight Mile Plains Qld 4113
Meridian Human Resources Pty Ltd
A.C.N. 132 717 072