Your Privacy is very important to Parity Consulting
Parity Consulting Pty Ltd trading as Parity Consulting (ABN 46 155 067 182) (“Parity Consulting”, “we”, “us”, "our") is committed to protecting your privacy in compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) as amended, and relevant recuitment recruitment guidelines from the Office of the Autralian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and manage personal information, particularly for candidates, clients, contractors, and employees in our recruitment services. We review this policy annually or upon legislative changes - contact privacy@parityconsulting.com.au for questions.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us using the details set out below if you have any questions.
By providing us with personal information, you indicate that you have had sufficient opportunity to access this Privacy Policy and that you have read and accepted it, and consent to the collection, use, holding and disclosure of your personal information as outlined.
If you don’t want to provide personal information to us, then you don’t have to, however this may affect your use of this website.
Kinds of Information We Collect
We collect personal information necessary for the functionality of our site and for the provision of our recruitment services, including:
Identifiers: name, address, email, phone number, or similar identifiers;
Recruitment data: resumes, cover letters, qualifications, work history, references, skills test results, and other relevant recruitment data;
Sensitive information (with consent): health data, criminal records, visa/immigration status, or membership in professional associations;
Technical data: IP addresses, device info, website interactions, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website;
Profile data: username, website preferences, feedback and other relevant profile data;
Third-party source data: we may source data from LinkedIn with your consent; and
Marketing and communications data: your communication preferences, including preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third-parties.
If you would prefer to deal with us anonymously or use a pseudonym, feel free to do so.
How We Collect Information
Collection occurs directly, for example:
by applying to our job vacancies;
by downloading content from our website;
by completion of one of our website enquiry forms.
We notify you at collection about purposes, rights, and this Privacy Policy as per APP 5.
Sensitive information requires explicit consent and you may remain anonymous where lawful, for example during initial enquiries.
Purposes of Collection, Use, and Disclosure
We collect, hold, use and disclose information as is reasonably necessary for us to perform our core functions and activities.
Primary purposes and use:
Assessing candidate suitability for roles, and placing candidates in roles;
Communicating with candidates, clients, contractors, and visitors to our website;
Compliance relating to candidates and contractors with visa requirements;
Internal analytics and statistical purposes, and business improvement, including to market to you where applicable;
Internal record keeping via our CRM; and
As required by law, for example where we are required to disclose to employers, government agencies, or cloud providers.
Disclosure of Information:
Where we disclose your information to third-parties for these purposes, we will do our best to ensure that their privacy policy adheres to similar standards of privacy protection and/or request that the third-party follow this Privacy Policy regarding handling of your information. We will be diligent in ensuring that the information we disclose is accurate, up-to-date, complete and relevant.
We will not use or disclose personal information for the purpose of direct marketing unless you have consented to the use or disclosure of the information for that purpose.
Please note that we will not disclose your information for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was collected without your consent, unless we are required to do so by law.
Data Security and Breaches
We implement technical and organisational measures for the protection of data, including:
multifactor authentication;
data encryption;
access controls;
regular audits; and
antivirus protections.
Data is held on secure Australian servers.
Breaches
Under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, eligible breaches trigger OAIC notification and affected individuals within timeframes as per OAIC guidelines, per our response plan.
If you believe that we have breached this Privacy Policy and want to notify us about that breach, please contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.auor by using the details set out below. If you are unsatisfied with our response, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner may be able to assist you with a review of our decision. Contact the OAIC for more information.
Links to Other Websites
To help you find more useful information, we at times include links to other relevant websites to our website content. Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to information that we collect on our website (not any other site). As we aren’t responsible for data collection on those other sites, our Privacy Policy won’t apply, and we cannot guarantee the privacy practices of other websites.
Accessing and Updating Your Information
Accessing Information: You can request details of personal information that we hold about you on our website. We will respond to any request to access information within a reasonable time.
Updating Information: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.au. We rely in part on you advising us when your information changes. We will endeavour to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date and to notify you of the correction, unless it is impracticable or unlawful to do so.
Deleting Information: If you want us to delete information we hold about you on our website, or request that we not collect information from you for a specific purpose, such as targeted advertising, please contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.au or by using the Contact Details set out below. Please note that if we agree to delete your information, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to completely delete your information without retaining some residual information. We will functionally delete the information and not transfer, retain or use information relating to you collected from our website in any way moving forward without your consent or re-engagement via our website use.
We will respond to any request to access, correct or delete information within a reasonable time.
Scammers and Impersonators
If you believe an individual or organisation is impersonating or misrepresenting Parity Consulting, its employees, or brand, please contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.au to alert our team.
You may also report these potential scam and fraud attempts to the ACCC's ReportCyber team and to ScamWatch.
Unsubscribing and Opting-out
We like to keep our clients, candidates, contractors and website visitors up to date, so from time to time we will send you newsletters, invitations to events and updates. Not to worry - our emails will always come with an "Unsubscribe" button, so you can opt-out at any time. To unsubscribe from our email database, or opt out of communications, use the “Unsubscribe” button in our communication, update your profile on our website, or contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.au.
You can block the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You can opt out of third-party vendor cookies by visiting your Google’s Ad settings or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Please note that the website may not work as well for you if you disable cookies.
You can also opt out of information collecting for advertising targeting by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page.
Contact Details
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Parity Consulting’s treatment of your information, please contact us at privacy@parityconsulting.com.au or using these following contact details:
Contact person: Mirjana Males – Head of Finance, Risk & Legal
Email: mmales@parityconsulting.com.au
Phone number: 02 8068 2016
Address: Level 12, 35 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia