On the 21st December 2001 the Privacy Act 1998 (Commonwealth) was extended to cover the private sector, with the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000. The Act operates by applying a set of National Privacy Principles (NPP's) to the private sector, giving basic protection to sensitive and health information, and imposes obligations on most private sector agencies in relation to the collection, use and storage of personal information.

Quattro Professional Recruitment is a quality-accredited organisation with standard work procedures and policies that ensure that the personal and sensitive information collected by us is not disclosed to a third party. For example Quattro Professional Recruitment removes all personal information including Referee names and contact details from CV’s and Resumes before sending them onto clients for consideration.

The document provided on this page forms part of the registration process, copies of which are available in your Employment Handbook. Should you agree with the terms and conditions as laid out in the document, and the National Privacy Principles, please fill in and return the document to quattro professional recruitment.

National Privacy Principles:
The National Privacy Principles as they relate directly to Quattro Professional Recruitment are as follows:

Collection of Personal Information.
Use and disclosure of the use of this information.
Data Quality.
Security of the Information.
Openness about the use of information.
Access for customers to correct their information and update how it is used.
Identifiers of individuals in the information.
Anonymity of the information supplied.
Transborder data flow, which limits the external sources to which Australian organisations can send information to those with comparable privacy protection.
The use of sensitive information.

Types of Personal Information Held:
Personal information that Quattro Professional Recruitment collects and holds, falls into the following categories:

Candidate and contractor information submitted and obtained, and other sources in connections with application for work. This includes information for tax and banking purposes.
Work performance information.
Information about incidents in the workplace.
Staff Information.
Information submitted and obtained in relation to absences from work due to leave, illness or other causes.
Information obtained to assist in managing client and business relationships.

Purposes for which we hold personal information:
Quattro Professional Recruitment holds personal information for the following reasons:

Placement Operations.
Recruitment.
Training.
Client and business relationship management.
Marketing.
Disclosures:
We may disclose your personal information for the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a directly related purpose.
In some cases we may only disclose information with your consent.
We may disclose your personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so, including those circumstances where we are under a lawful duty of care to disclose. For example to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and to your superannuation fund.

Storage of Personal Information:
Information submitted and obtained from candidates, contractors and registrants and other sources in connection with applications for work are kept in a compliant records management system. All files and folder relating to this information are stored in lockable filing cabinets. Files belonging to candidates, contractors and registrants who do not wish to remain registered with Quattro Professional Recruitment are sentenced according to our internal records retention and disposal matrix, closed on the computerised Records Management System, archived and sent to secure offsite storage.
All paper and backup computer tapes due for destruction are sent to our offsite storage provider for destruction.