Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd believes that all information contained within this website is accurate and reliable at the time of publication. Although our best efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, no warranty of accuracy or reliability as to such information is given, and no responsibility for loss arising in any way from or in connection with errors or omissions in any information presented (including responsibility to any person by reason of negligence) is accepted by the company or employees.

The material contained within this website is of the nature of general comment only and is not intended to be advice on any particular matter. Readers should not act on the basis of any material in the site without first obtaining advice relevant to their own particular situations.

Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd acknowledges its commitment to the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 in relation to the collection, storage, management and disclosure of personal and sensitive information in the course of conducting its business.

What is personal information?

Any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about you. It may range from the very sensitive (e.g. medical history or condition) to the everyday (e.g. address, email and phone number). It would include the opinions of others about your work performance (whether true or not), your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results and other information obtained by us in connection with your possible work placements. Personal information includes sensitive information.

What is sensitive information?

Sensitive information is a special category of personal information. It is information or opinion about your:

• racial or ethnic origin;
• political opinion;
• membership of a political association;
• religious beliefs, affiliations or philosophical beliefs;
• membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade union;
• sexual preferences or practices;
• criminal record;
• health or disability (at any time);
• expressed wishes about the future provision of health services.

It includes personal information collected to provide a health service. Sensitive information can, in most cases, only be collected or disclosed with your consent.

Who will be collecting your personal and sensitive Information

Your personal and sensitive information will be collected by Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd for its own use, who might require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with your work placements.

How your information will be collected:

Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd collects information about you in several ways:

• From you directly when you post, fax or email your details to us a response to advertising, a response to a request for personal information on our website, or response to a request to fill out a registration form;
• From you verbally when you are interviewed by an Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd consultant;
• 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.

Storage & Security of Personal Information:

We take all reasonable steps to ensure security of database system at Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd.

How does Computer Skills (VIC) Pty Ltd use your personal information?

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 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 Computer Skills (VIC) 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 CO-ORDINATOR. 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.

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