Privacy Policy

Sapphire Recruitment Pty Ltd is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 in Australia. We have systems in place to protect your privacy whenever we are required to collect, store, use or disclose your personal or sensitive information.

We will only collect information that is necessary for the proper performance of our tasks or functions.  We do not collect or use personal or sensitive information for the purposes of unlawful discrimination.

Who will be collecting your personal and sensitive information

Your personal and sensitive information will be collected by Sapphire Recruitment Pty Ltd for its own use and on behalf of members who might require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with your work placements. 

How to contact us

If you wish to contact us about your personal or sensitive information you should contact Richard Coomber, Director on 0423 729659 during normal office hours which are 8am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday.

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 application forms or any other information in connection with your application to us for work.

Some laws such as taxation law, immigration law and laws for the protection of certain classes of people (such as children or the elderly) may require that we collect certain types of information from you.

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 or medical test;
  • we receive performance feedback (whether positive or negative);
  • 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.

How your information will be used

Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with:

  • your actual or possible work placement;
  • 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.

Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to…

  • potential and actual employers and clients of Sapphire Recruitment Pty Ltd
  • referees;
  • our insurers;
  • 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.

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.

You can gain access to your information to 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.

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-to-date.

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.

If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction you should contact our privacy coordinator, whose details are shown above.

In some cases we may impose a moderate charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information.  We will not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.

Updated March 2014