Privacy Policy
The Source has a Privacy Policy to ensure that it handles personal information about individuals responsibly. The Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time.
The Source collects, receives, maintains and handles information of a personal nature concerning its business partners, workshop attendees, event attendees, guest speakers, research participants, marketing associates and its chosen charitable organisations, in accordance with the requirements of the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
This Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the web site or to our handling of personal information generally. We do not make any representations about third party web sites that may be linked to our web site.
You should review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.
Collection
The Source usually collects this personal information from the person directly.
“Personal information” is information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable, whether the information is true or not; and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
The kinds of personal information collected by the Source may include:
- CVs and resumes of employment candidates;
- Employment history and references of employment candidates;
- Photos of employment candidates;
- Contact details of employment candidates; and
- Personal details and contact details of employer clients including key client personnel such as HR or management representatives.
The Source requests this information from stakeholders and stores this material for the purposes of delivering its services. Generally speaking, the information is sent to The Source by the individuals to whom the information relates. For example, an employment candidate will send The Source a CV and relevant employment material.
The Source may produce internal reports that analyse user activity in an anonymous aggregated form.
Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to The Source (for example about your authorised representatives, employer or employees). If so, we rely on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to us and to advise them that we can be contacted for further information.
If you have not directly supplied information to us, this Policy still applies and you may contact us via the details below to exercise your rights under the Australian Privacy Principles.
Request for anonymity
If you wish, you can remain anonymous or use a pseudonym when you contact us. We will respect your anonymity. If you choose not to provide us with your personal information, we may not, for example, be able to assist you fully with your query or complaint or provide our usual services.
Use and Disclosure
Records containing personal information are held by The Source for the primary purpose of enabling The Source to provide services to its business partners and associates, including:
- recruitment services;
- labour hiring services; and
- general employment consultancy services.
The information listed in the "Collection" section may be disclosed to relevant stakeholders by The Source for the purposes of providing the services listed above.
For example in providing recruitment services, The Source will "introduce" employment candidates to its employer client by sending employment candidate CVs, employment history and employment references.
There may be some circumstances in which we collect your personal information in Australia and transfer it to a party located in another country, for example, our international clients or recruitment partners.
Those partners include:
- Arpeo Solutions, Mumbai, India
You should be aware that a lesser degree of statutory privacy protection may apply in the overseas jurisdiction. Nevertheless we will continue to handle such personal information in a manner consistent with the standards prescribed by Australian privacy legislation.
Data Quality
We take reasonable steps to help ensure the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Personal information is typically held in electronic databases or hard copy document form, but information may also sometimes be contained in other record formats such as photographs or videotape.
Data Security
The Source takes reasonable steps to help make sure that the personal information it holds is not lost, misused or altered inappropriately. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may provide to us, whether online or otherwise by using physical security measures for hard copy paper and maintaining computer and network security devices and systems for the electronic holding of information.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
Cookies
Cookies are data that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are industry standard and are used by most websites, and may be used on the websites operated by us. Cookies can facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of a site. They allow us to customise the website to your needs. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the Cookie feature.
Links to other sites
We may from time to time provide links from our website to third party websites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that Web site and its privacy statement.
Access to Personal Information
If you wish to review or correct your personal, contact or demographic data or remove your name and related information from our records, please contact info@thesource.com.au. You will not incur a fee for the correction of your personal information.
We will comply with such a request, subject to any legal right or obligation to deny the request.
Before providing access to or correcting your personal information, we may also require you to verify your identity. In the unlikely event that we are unable to provide you with access to your personal information, we will provide you with written reasons for denying access.
We will take reasonable steps to correct your personal information where the information is not accurate or up to date. However the accuracy of this information is largely dependent on the information you provide.
You may opt out of any disclosure we may make to third parties in the future by sending an email to info@thesource.com.au. If you have any questions about this Privacy statement, the practices of our website or your dealings with our firm, you can contact us using the Contact Us facility on our website or by calling The Source's General Manager.
Name: General Manager, Level 2, 75-77 Flinders Street, Melbourne Vic 3000, 03 9650 665. Even if you don’t contact us, if we are satisfied that, having regard to the reasons for which we hold your personal information, that personal information is inaccurate, incomplete, out-of-date, irrelevant or misleading, we may take reasonable steps to correct that information
Complaints
If you have a concern relating to the privacy of your information via our service we require you to notify us as soon as possible by contacting info@thesource.com.au. We will respond to your compliant within 30 days.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may make a written complaint to the Australian Information Commissioner. For more information about our complaints process see our Complaints Policy. For more information about the Australian Information Commissioner visit https://www.oaic.gov.au/.
Legal constraints
Our various undertakings in this Privacy Policy are subject to any legal requirement for us to act in a contrary manner.
Further privacy information
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's privacy web site. http://www.privacy.gov.au/
You can request a copy of our privacy statement at any time by calling us 03-96506665 or emailing us at info@thesource.com.au