Thread Recruitment respects the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals and manages personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 and Australian Privacy Principles. This policy applies to information collected by Hemmings & Associates Pty Ltd trading as Thread Recruitment (ABN 176 747 955 76). It outlines how we collect personal information and how we maintain, use, store and disclose the personal information we hold and reflects our commitment to you.

Thread Recruitment's Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time to consider new laws, technology, changes to our operations and practices and to make sure it remains appropriate to the ever-changing landscape. Please regularly check our Privacy Policy so that you are aware of these updates and changes. Any information we hold will be governed by the most current version of the Thread Recruitment Privacy Policy, which is available at any time on Thread Recruitment’s Website.

For Candidates, it includes information regarding your contact details, residential address, date of birth, employment history, qualifications, aptitude/psychometric test results, opinions about your work performance (e.g. references), incidents at workplace, and other information obtained or received by us in connection with your possible and actual work placements.

For Clients, it includes information regarding your company contact details, employee details, job descriptions, conversation logs, proposals for recruitment assignments, billing details and records, and other information obtained or received by us in connection with managing the presentation and delivery of our service to you.

For Referees, it includes information regarding your contact details, employment experience and the relationship to the Candidate along with any other information obtained or received by us in connection with the verbal or written reference.

Sensitive Information is a special category of personal information under the Privacy Act 1988. It is information or opinions about you, including membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade union; criminal record; health information, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or practices. As outlined in the Privacy Act 1988, sensitive information can, in most cases, only be disclosed with your consent. text goes here

For Candidates, information that we collect, hold, use and disclose is typically used for work placement operations, recruitment functions, statistical purposes, and statutory compliance requirements, client requests for contact details, service standard surveys for post-registration functions, referral of candidates to clients (with candidates’ permission), and direct marketing services.

For Clients, information that we collect, hold, use and disclose is typically used for client and business relationship management, recruitment functions, direct marketing services, statistical purposes and statutory compliance requirements, service standard surveys for post-recruitment functions.

For Referees, information that we collect, hold, use and disclose is typically used to confirm the identity and authority to provide references, candidate suitability assessments, validation of candidate provided information, recruitment functions.

If you do not give us the information, we seek we may be limited in our ability to act and provide recruitment services to you.

Personal information from Candidates 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.

Sometimes, we collect personal information that individuals choose to give us via online forms or by email, for example when individuals:

• Request to be included on email lists such as job notifications or exceptional candidate summary reports; and

• Send general applications via our website or other job boards.

It is important that you are aware of the risks associated with the use of the Internet, and you should ensure that you are undertaking appropriate measures to protect your personal information.

Thread Recruitment utilises both internet search engines and social media to conduct relevant background checks. These may include details such as your name, or any other applicable identifying details.

Users are advised that there are inherent risks in transmitting information across the internet. The Internet is an open system and Thread Recruitment cannot guarantee that the personal information you submit will not be intercepted by others. Our websites may include links to external websites operated by other organisations. They may collect personal information from visitors to their site. Thread Recruitment cannot guarantee the content or privacy practices of any external websites and does not accept responsibility or liability for those websites.

To improve your experience on our site, we may use ‘cookies’. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our site may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

If you have provided your personal details to Thread Recruitment, we may use personal information to send you direct marketing material, but only subject to the following:

• Your personal information is only used for marketing purposes to allow Thread Recruitment to provide:

•   Candidates with updates in relation to employment opportunities, market information and promotions

•   Clients with market information and promotions

• Your personal information is not used by or disclosed to any third party for marketing purposes.

• Client lists are not generally obtained from third parties for marketing purposes.

In accordance with the anti-spam legislation, individuals to whom marketing communications are sent are:

• Chosen on the basis of having given their express and/or implied consent for such communications to be sent to them.

• Always given an opt-out or unsubscribe option in relation to such communications – please see complaints section.

We check that it is reasonably necessary for our functions or activities as a recruitment consultancy firm. We check that it is current, complete and accurate. This will sometimes mean that we must cross-check the information that we collect from you with third parties.

We hold personal information in a combination of secure computer storage facilities, paper-based files and other records at our secure premises and take a range of measures to protect your personal information from misuse, interference and loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Thread Recruitment upholds strict policies, procedures and processes surrounding the collection, storage, and security of information that we hold. Information includes:

• IT Usage Policy; and

• Social Media Policy

Our Information Record System (Loxo) is a recruitment ATS/CRM system produced by a company called Loxo, LLC and Loxo Holdings, LLC. Information is stored in electronic format on a server hosted by Loxo & Loxo Holdings. A copy of their ‘Privacy Policy’ can be located at https://www.loxo.co/privacy-policy

We may disclose your personal information for any of the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a lawful related purpose. We may disclose your personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so. Disclosure will usually be:

• Internally and to our related entities;

• To our clients;

• To refers for suitability and screening purposes;

We outsource a number of services to contracted service suppliers (CSPs) from time to time. Our CSPs may see some of your personal information. Typically, our CSPs would include:

• Software solution providers;

• Internet service providers;

• Legal and other professional advisors; and

• Insurance brokers.

Subject to some exceptions set out in privacy law, you can obtain access to your personal information that we hold. Important exceptions include:

• Evaluative opinion material obtained confidentially by us when undertaking reference checks; and access that would impact on the privacy rights of other people.

• Evaluative opinion material obtained confidentially by us when sourcing feedback from involved parties.

• Evaluative opinion material created by us when assessing candidate suitability.

If you wish to obtain access to your personal information you verify your identity. You should also anticipate that it may take a little time to process your application for access as there may be a need to retrieve information from storage and review information in order to determine what information may be provided. We may impose a moderate charge to cover the administration of processing the request (Please refer to our ‘Terms of Business / Candidate Agreement’. Any time delay or charge will be discussed with you at the time you request access to your personal information.

If you find that personal information that we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can ask us to correct it by contacting us. We will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to correct that information to ensure that, having regard to the purpose for which it is held, the information is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant and not misleading.

If we have disclosed personal information about you that is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can ask us to notify the third parties to whom we made the disclosure and we will take such steps (if any) as are reasonable in the circumstances to give that notification unless it is impracticable or unlawful to do so.

You can make enquiries, requests to access/delete or correct your information, or complain about alleged breaches of the APP’s to our Legal Counsel: connect@threadrecruitment.com Or via our postal address listed on our website.

We aim to acknowledge receipt of all complaints within 10 working days and aim to resolve all complaints within 30 working days. This may not be possible in all circumstances depending on the contents of the complaint. In this situation, we will respond to your complaint in a reasonable time. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint you can contact the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

Individuals have the option to unsubscribe from receiving marketing material at any time. If you would like to unsubscribe from receiving marketing material, please contact us or use the ‘unsubscribe’ link available in the marketing email.

Thread Recruitment has several areas on our website where you can submit feedback, under the ‘contact us’ section. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of Thread Recruitment. We may use this feedback, such as success stories or responses to surveys, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site.

Personal information means information or an opinion about you.

Sensitive information is a special category of personal information under the Privacy Act 1988. It is information or opinions about you, including membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade union; criminal record; health information, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or practices. As outlined in the Privacy Act 1988, sensitive information can, in most cases, only be disclosed with your consent.

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