Privacy
Empower HR is committed to ensuring your privacy. As a leading supplier of human capital management solutions, Empower HR makes use of personal information. Consequently, Empower HR needs to ensure that the personal information gathered to conduct business is treated with upmost confidentiality and security. The following statement explains how we manage your personal and sensitive information in accordance with the Privacy Amendment
(Private Sector) Act 2000.
Who is Empower HR?
Empower HR is a provider of human capital management solutions, including recruitment, human resources consulting, human resources audits and research & surveys.
Why Empower HR collects information about you
To achieve our business aims, it is necessary for Empower HR to obtain certain information about you for one or more of the following purposes:
• To assist you in finding or retaining work
• To assist you in career or performance management To conduct human resource or labour market research
• To assist Empower HR in managing customer and business relationships.
Information Empower HR gathers
The type of personal information we collect about you includes your name, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, employment history and qualifications, as well as the details of psychological tests or other assessment results.
Sometimes we may collect sensitive information about you, such as details of your health or any criminal record that you may have. When we collect sensitive information we will obtain your specific consent.
There may be occasions when we obtain information about you from a third party. This may include performance feedback about your work or reports from your nominated referees. Your personal and sensitive information will always be collected by fair and lawful means.
Utilisation and disclosure of your information
Empower HR will use your information in a way that is consistent with, or directly related to, the purpose for which it was collected, such as finding you employment.
Empower HR may disclose your information to:
• Potential employers
• Empower HR customers who may wish to engage you as a contractor or temporary
• Referees
• A Worker's Compensation body
• Suppliers of services to Empower HR
Empower HR will seek your consent to use and disclose your information. If you do not provide us with this consent we may be limited in our ability to provide you with our services.
Information security
Your personal and sensitive information may be stored electronically or in hardcopy. Procedures are in place to protect the security of these records.
Information accuracy
If you inform Empower HR of changes in your information, we will endeavour to update and correct your records. Empower HR may also contact you or take other reasonable steps to ensure that your information is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
Information storage
We will ensure that your personal information is removed from our records after 12 months if you are no longer seeking employment through Empower HR. If you would prefer your personal information destroyed prior to this, please send a written request to the address at the end of this document:
Accessing your information
If you would like to gain access to the information we hold about you or if you wish to make a complaint about how Empower HR deals with your personal and sensitive information, please contact our Privacy Coordinator by writing to the address above.
We will deal with your request to provide information within a reasonable time and may seek payment for any reasonable costs associated with providing information to you.
Your rights as a candidate
• Empower HR does not charge you a fee for the purpose of finding the you employment
• Empower HR will 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); and
• If you believe Empower HR has acted inappropriately you may contact the Department of Fair Trading in your state for information on possible action that may be taken.
Contact Empower HR
If you would like to gain access to your personal information, would like to have your personal information destroyed or would like to issue a complaint about the handling of your personal information, please contact in writing:
Empower HR Privacy Officer 438-444 Nepean Highway
Frankston VIC 3199 Email info@empowerhr.com.au Phone 03 8796 0100
Find Out More About Privacy
If you believe that Empower HR has not protected your personal information as set out in this policy, please contact the Federal Privacy Commissioner: By telephone 1300 363 922 or in writing to the Director of Complaints Office of the Federal Privacy Commission, GPO Box 5218, Sydney, NSW 2001. For more information about privacy issues visit the Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site at www.privacy.gov.au
Disclaimer and copyright
Please read this disclaimer carefully
Information and Content
The information and content contained in this web site is for preliminary and general information only and does not constitute legal, financial or other professional advice. You must not rely on any information or content contained in, or omitted from, this web site without obtaining independent advice.
No Warranties or Representations
Except to the extent that such warranties or representations are implied by law and cannot be excluded, Empower HR makes no warranty or representation regarding the quality, currency, accuracy, reliability, performance, completeness or fitness for purpose of any part of the information and content on this web site, or on any pages or web sites linked to this web site.
In particular, Empower HR does not represent or warrant that the information and content on this web site, or the facilities that make it available, will not cause damage, or are free from any computer virus or any other defects or errors, or that your access to the web site will be uninterrupted. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Empower HR is not liable (whether in contract, negligence or otherwise) for any loss or damage arising from the use of this content and information.
Links
Empower HR is not responsible for the information or content of any web site accessed, or linked to, via this web site. Links to other web sites are provided for convenience only and do not represent any endorsement, sponsorship or approval of the products or services offered by the web site owner or the information or content on such web sites.
Copyright
The subject matter on, and accessible from, the Empower HR web site is the subject of copyright protection. With the exception of fair dealing permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, Empower HR grants users of the web site permission to download and display Empower HR copyright material only for private purposes. For any other reproduction or use of Empower HR copyright material, permission must be sought directly from Empower HR. If provided, permission will be subject to the requirement that the copyright owner's name and interest in the material be acknowledged when the material is reproduced or quoted, in whole or in part.
Unless otherwise stated, Empower HR does not warrant or represent that the information on other web sites does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person anywhere in the world.
Availability
Products and services referred to in this web site may only be available in Australia and in some cases may only be available in a particular State, Territory or area of Australia. Unless otherwise stated, nothing in this web site constitutes an offer for the supply or goods or services, or a promise or representation that Empower HR will supply any goods or services.
Remedy
Empower HR will apply the laws of Victoria, Australia to effect remedies against individuals and companies who misuse information obtained inadvertently or unlawfully from this Empower HR.
Application to Empower HR
Unless otherwise specified or required by the context, any reference on this web site (including in this disclaimer) to Empower HR is a reference to Empower HR Pty Ltd (ABN 99 428 193 016) and each of its related bodies corporate, or such of its related bodies corporate as the context requires.
Acceptance
By proceeding to use any of the services provided by this web site you hereby acknowledge acceptance of this disclaimer and the terms and conditions displayed above.
Contact
For more information please contact our friendly staff.
Address: 438 – 444 Nepean Highway, Frankston, VIC. 3199
Postal: PO Box 11037, Bayside Shopping Centre, Frankston, VIC. 3199
Phone: 03 8796 0100
Fax: 03 9783 7008
Email: info@empowerhr.com.au