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Last update: 28 November 2024

We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the ictanalyst.com.au Website (the "Website") operated by ICT ANALYST CONSULTING, as this Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how we may use the information we collect about you.

Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including, but not limited to: visitors, users, and others, who wish to access or use the Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of the Privacy Policy, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect personal or sensitive information about you when

  • You complete one of our registration forms or provide any information in connection with your application or otherwise
  • 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 or background checks including but not limited to work rights, credit and criminal record checks
  • We receive any complaint or other information from or about you in the workplace
  • We receive any information about any insurance investigation, litigation, registration or professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry in which you were involved
  • We collect information about you from public domain sources

 

Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with

  • Your actual or possible work placement
  • Career guidance or management
  • Our assessment of your performance and prospects or any training needs
  • Any test or assessment (including medical tests and assessments) that you might be required to undergo
  • Informing you of possible work opportunities or other events such as training or information sessions or our direct marketing to you by mail/email/SMS
  • Any workplace rehabilitation
  • Our management and resolution of any complaint, inquiry or investigation in which you are involved
  • Any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal or sensitive information
  • Undertaking checks to verify your work rights status, criminal history and any other background checks, including credit checks for positions in Australia involving significant financial risk and otherwise as permitted by law
  • For research, development, business systems and infrastructure testing and other business purposes to assist us in providing our services to you


Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to

  • Potential and actual employers and clients of ICT ANALYST CONSULTING and trusted third parties, who may be based outside of Australia.
  • Referees
  • External providers used in providing our services to you - eg on-line inductions and training providers, background checking agencies - eg criminal record, work rights, and credit checking
  • Third party outsourced IT, including cloud-based storage providers, and document storage providers where we have an appropriate processing agreement (or similar protections) in place providing us with specialised and efficient database management, development and storage who may be based in Europe
  • Third parties used by our clients as part of their recruitment, administration, screening and selection processes
  • Internal and external auditors of ICT ANALYST CONSULTING or our clients when we are required to share this data with them upon request in order to comply with our contractual or regulatory obligations
  • Third parties who assist us by developing services and processes to optimise and improve the quality and efficiency of recruitment services
  • Third party contractors/service providers, job boards, job platforms, job aggregators, software providers and cloud-based databases for the purposes of assisting us to provide you with our services, and/or to improve the services we offer you. Such service providers/contractors may be based outside of Australia.
  • 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
  • Any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information
  • If ICT ANALYST CONSULTING merges with or is acquired by another business or company in the future, (or is in meaningful discussions about such a possibility) we may share your personal data with the (prospective) new owners of the business or company


For any disclosures outside of Australia as the case may be, we take reasonable steps to ensure that the recipients of such information do not breach the APP’s or IPP’s in relation to that information. We will take reasonable steps to ensure, for instance pursuant to a contractual agreement, that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, for example your information will be stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. We have put in place appropriate procedures with the third parties we share your personal information with to ensure that (a) your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the privacy laws of Australia as appropriate and (b) will only use your information for the purpose of providing services to ICT ANALYST CONSULTING and will not use your information for any other purpose.


If you do not give us the information we seek

  • We may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you; and
  • We may be limited in our ability to place you in work

 

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Upon receiving and therefore recording non-personal information from users, such as the IP address, cookie information, and requested pages, ICT ANALYST CONSULTING reserves the right to make use of such to modify website content. The website shall not connect any of these non-personal data with the personal information collected, as stated in the previous provision.

Upon allowing third-party companies to present advertisements via the ICT ANALYST CONSULTING website pages, the third-party cookie usage is subject to their own privacy policies not covered by ICT ANALYST CONSULTING, and we shall not bear any liability for such usage.

 

USE OF COOKIES

Visiting ICT ANALYST CONSULTING will send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. This helps the website log you in faster, thereby enhancing your navigation experience. Cookies may also help convey information about you and may be used by your browser for subsequent visits to the site. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser, therefore closing once you reset your browser. You may refuse all cookies in your browser, however some features of ICT ANALYST CONSULTING may not function properly once this is disabled. 

 

INFORMATION SHARING DISCLOSURE

ICT ANALYST CONSULTING may otherwise disclose personal information upon the following provisions: (1) To respond to any legal proceedings or court orders, (2) to protect the personal safety of website users or to defend the rights of the website as necessary, and (3) upon discovery of visitor actions that violate website guidelines as outlined by official terms and agreements.

To protect the privacy and security of our users, ICT ANALYST CONSULTING takes reasonable steps such as requesting email addresses before allowing website downloads. Each user is responsible for maintaining security and account information, and controlling access to email communications with ICT ANALYST CONSULTING at all times.

In the event that a user’s personal information is compromised due to breach of security, ICT ANALYST CONSULTING will promptly notify the owners of addresses whose personal information has been compromised in accordance with ICT ANALYST CONSULTING notification procedures as set forth by this Privacy Policy, or as required by law.

 

SALE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We do not sell your personal information.

 

COOKIES

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your computer by your web browser. The file is added once you agree to store cookies on your computer or device, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow sites to respond to you as an individual. The Website can also tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

This Website collects cookies and may use cookies for reasons including, but not limited to:

  • Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package;
  • Identify if you are signed in to the Website;
  • Test content on the Website;
  • Store information about your preferences;
  • Recognise when you return to the Website.

 

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better Website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This setting may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

 

CHILD SECURITY

ICT ANALYST CONSULTING takes child protection and security seriously. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect personal information of children ages 13 and below. For children under the age of 13, we do not recommend nor encourage sending personal information through ICT ANALYST CONSULTING, be it your name, address, telephone number or email address. In the event that ICT ANALYST CONSULTING learns we have collected personal information from children below the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, the information will be deleted from our servers as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have information from children under this age, please send us a message via our contact page.

 

LOCATION OF DATA PROCESSING

All data processing activities undertaken by us take place in Australia. 

 

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website or application.

 

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES 

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their Privacy Policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

 

SECURITY

Data is readily available online, however, ICT ANALYST CONSULTING assures its visitors and users that the website uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect information transmitted on the website. Along with this, ICT ANALYST CONSULTING safeguards personal information from unauthorised access, network firewalls, and other security measures.