privacy/terms

Our commitment to you 

Your security and privacy is important to us. We will ensure that we take all measures to protect the information of candidates, clients, suppliers and employees. We will: 

  • Never pass on your details to a third party without your consent, except as noted in this Privacy Policy
  • Never store resume information on our website
  • Implement best practice measures for securely storing your information
  • Provide you with current warnings relating to relevant scams we are aware of
  • Respond in a timely manner to your enquiries

Privacy Policy 

Best Practice Resource Group Pty Ltd and its related entities (referred to as “us”, “we” or “our”) are committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information that we collect from you and complying with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the “Privacy Act”), including the Australian Privacy Principles (the “APPs”). This Privacy Policy details how we comply with our privacy obligations and how we manage the personal information you provide to us. By submitting personal information to us, you agree to our use of such information as described herein. We note that under the Privacy Act the employee records exemption exempts employers from the Privacy Principles in relation to an act done, or practice engaged in if it directly relates to a current or former employment relationship between the employer and the individual and the employee record is held by the organisation and relates to the individual. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time and all personal information held by us will be governed by the most recent version of our Privacy Policy. 

What is personal information? 

The Privacy Act 1988 (the Privacy Act) defines personal information as information or an opinion about an individual (whether true or not) whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you. If the information you provide to us identifies you or your identity can be reasonably ascertained from such information, it will be considered personal information and we will manage such information in accordance with the Privacy Act, APPs and this policy. 

What is sensitive information? 

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

  • racial or ethnic origin;
  • political opinion;
  • membership of a political association or religious beliefs, affiliations or philosophical beliefs;
  • membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade union;
  • sexual orientation or practices;
  • criminal record;
  • health (at any time), genetic or biometric
  • 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 disclosed with your consent. We do not actively seek to collect sensitive information unless it is necessary for our business purposes. If we do have to collect sensitive information, we will do so in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles. 

What kind of information do we collect? 

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including via the Just Recruitment website, www.bprg.com.au (such as when users register, apply for employment), when you respond to email questionnaires or when you provide personal information to us by other means, such as in person, over the phone or by email. Personal information that we collect and hold usually falls into the following categories: 

  • Candidate Information submitted and obtained from the Candidate and other sources in connection with applications for work;
  • 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;
  • Sensitive Information such as health information, criminal record, trade and professional memberships (including trade unions) etc.

 Some information that we collect may not be personal information. This may include aggregated information about how users use the Just Recruitment website, anonymous answers to surveys and other information that does not personally identify you. Information that is not personal information is not subject to the Privacy Act or the APPs and we can use such information for any purpose. 

Use of your personal and sensitive information Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with: 

  • Your actual or possible work placement;
  • Checking your work rights status with any government department or body (or their agents);
  • Payment for work completed on a temporary/contract assignment;
  • Follow up with you to offer you work or ascertain your availability for work;
  • Your performance appraisals;
  • Our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
  • Any test or assessment (including medical tests and 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;
  • Ensuring our internal business processes are running smoothly which may include quality assurance audits, quality and services evaluations, fulfilling legal requirements and conducting confidential systems maintenance and testing;
  • To undertake directly or through agent criminal reference checking with relevant government agencies;
  • To send you material about our company, job postings that fit your profile, or information to assist with your employment or association with Just Recruitment (opt out/opt in available).

Providing information to third parties 

We may provide links to third-party web-sites as a service to our users. We cannot control and do not accept responsibility for the information collection practices of such third-parties. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of the relevant third-parties before providing any information to them. 

Disclosures 

We may disclose your personal information for the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a related secondary purpose and in some cases we may only disclose information with your consent. Your Personal and Sensitive Information may be Disclosed to:- 

  • Prospective, potential and actual employers and clients of Just Recruitment;
  • Your referees;
  • Other members of Just Recruitment;
  • 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;
  • Any government department or body (or their agents) to verify;
  • Your work rights status;
  • A designated, registered training provider in relation to training and personal development opportunities;
  • Our contractors and suppliers – e.g. Our I.T. contractors and database designers any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

 We will not intentionally disclose (and will take commercially reasonable steps to prevent the accidental disclosure of) your personal information to third-parties, whether for such third parties’ marketing purposes or otherwise, except when we believe we are under a lawful duty of care to do so. Storage We will store a candidate’s personal information for a reasonable period of time necessary for us to provide services to the candidate. At any time, and at the candidate’s request, we will destroy the personal information of that candidate. We will do this for any lawful request. Security We have in place industry-standard technological and operational security in order to protect your personal information from misuse and unintended disclosure, alteration, or deletion. Only authorised personnel will be provided with access to personal information. These parties are required to treat this information as confidential, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, we cannot guarantee the complete security of data transmissions or communications over the internet. As such, you provide information to us over the internet at your own risk. 

Access Subject to some exceptions which are set out in the Australian Privacy Principles (Principle 12 – access to personal information), 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 may access and update some personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer. 

Changes to our Privacy Policy If at any time our privacy policy changes, the updated details will always be available on our website for your perusal. If at any time you have a question or concern regarding Just Recruitment and privacy, please contact us at info@bprg.com.au. Your Consent By using our website, you consent to our privacy policy. 

Feedback Best Practice Resource Group has several areas on our website where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of Just 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 website. 

How to contact us If you have any inquiries or complaints in relation to the use of personal information please contact the Privacy Officer on the details below. Your complaint will be dealt with in a timely manner. 

The Privacy Officer:Email: info@bprg.com.au General information about privacy may be found via www.privacy.gov.au and www.oaic.gov.au

Terms of Use These conditions govern the use of the bprg website. If you do not agree to be bound by these conditions you must not use this website. By using this website you agree to be bound by these conditions. Please read these conditions in conjunction with our Privacy Policy. We may alter these conditions at any time. 

Copying and use of content You may: 

  • print or download a single copy of the content of an individual page for your personal and non-commercial use; and/or
  • have your computer make a single transient, electronically stored copy of the content of this website for the purpose of viewing it while connected to the internet

 but, except as stated above, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post, transmit, cache or mirror any part of the content of this website in any form or by any means without our prior written permission. 

Site Security You must not: 

  • do or attempt to do anything which may or is intended to infringe the security of this website or to breach security measures employed on it
  • access or attempt to access information and/or data which you have not got express authority to access
  • use or attempt to use any program, software or other means to interfere with this website or its content or functionality in any way
  • do or attempt to do anything which may or is intended to result in any server or other computer crashing or the deletion, corruption, loss or removal of any information or data on any server or other computer or the transmission of any computer virus; and/or,
  • in any way do or purport to do any act or thing in relation to this website or its content in the name or on behalf of any third party without that third party’s express authority to do so
  • We will take any infringement of the above extremely seriously and will take or prosecute and/or co-operate in the taking or prosecution of proceedings (whether civil or criminal and whether on our own behalf or by or on behalf of any other person or authority) for any infringement of the same.

 Registration details and password If you register as a candidate (by either applying for a job(s) or completing our Contact Us form) or you register a vacancy with us you must keep your registration details and any password issued confidential and not disclose them or allow any third party to have access to them. You are entirely responsible for the use and misuse of your registration details and any password by third parties whether authorised by you or not. As it is extremely difficult to verify the identity of a person accessing or using this website with your registration details and/or password we are entitled to assume that any person accessing or using this website with your registration details and/or password is authorised by you to do so. You must notify us of any unauthorised use of your registration details and/or password immediately. 

Materials, information, images and data 

You must ensure that all information, images and data supplied to us are complete, accurate and in no way misleading and are provided on time and in such form as we require. You warrant that any materials, information, images and data supplied by you and their use by us for any purpose expressly or by implication authorised by you will not: 

  • infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third party
  • infringe any relevant legislation or the applicable rules and requirements of any relevant statutory or regulatory authorities
  • infringe any applicable rules, regulations or codes of practice governing or otherwise relating to advertising
  • be in any way offensive, obscene or indecent
  • be defamatory
  • be in any way illegal or immoral; or
  • contain any computer virus or disrupt or corrupt any computer system (or part thereof) or data or other information held or maintained thereon
  • and you must indemnify us against any loss, damages, costs expenses or other claims arising from any breach of this warranty.

 We reserve the right to remove from this website any materials, information, images or data which breach any of the foregoing warranties without notice to you. WE SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ACCIDENTAL LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, IMAGES AND DATA SUPPLIED BY YOU AND IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO RETAIN COPIES AND TO INSURE AGAINST THEIR ACCIDENTAL LOSS OR DAMAGE. We reserve the right to correct any typographical or other errors or omissions without any liability to you. 

Provisions relating to registration of personal details by candidates It is your responsibility to ensure that any personal details which you register on this website are kept up to date and accurate. WE WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU IN RELATION TO ANY INACCURACY OR ERROR IN OR OMISSION FROM YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS. By registering your personal details on this website and/or submitting an application for any vacancy you acknowledge, agree and accept that: subject to the provisions of any applicable laws and regulations governing the protection and processing of data we may use and register on our recruitment database such personal information in the course of our business 

  • such personal information may be seen by and/or accessed by third parties over whom we have no control whatsoever
  • we cannot guarantee that you will be contacted by Best Practice Resource Group or receive any invitation to attend an interview, offer of employment, or other communication or enquiry in relation thereto from any third party whatsoever; and,
  • we cannot be held responsible for and are not liable to you for the use to which your personal details or any CV that you may attach to any application for a vacancy.

 You will have the opportunity to attach a copy of or paste your CV to an application for a vacancy. When you submit an application for a vacancy or submit an email comprising your personal details and any CV or other file attached this will be sent to the person(s) advertising the vacancy. We will we have no liability to you for or in relation to any delay in delivering, or failure to deliver any such email or attachment. It is your responsibility to ensure that any file that you send as an attachment will not cause or result in any server or other computer crashing or the deletion, corruption, loss or removal of any data or from any server or other computer or the transmission of any computer virus and accordingly you must indemnify and keep us indemnified against any loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims which arise out of or in connection therewith. 

Disclaimer THIS WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION TERM CONDITION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. YOU SHOULD NOT RELY UPON THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE IN MAKING OR REFRAINING TO MAKE ANY DECISION OR TAKING OR REFRAINING TO TAKE ACTION. THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE MAY AT TIMES BE OUT OF DATE AND WE ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR KEEPING THE CONTENT UP TO DATE. SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE MAY HAVE BEEN CREATED OR POSTED BY THIRD PARTIES AND WE ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT PART OF THE CONTENT. THIS WEBSITE MAY CONTAIN LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND MAY BE ACCESSED FROM OTHER WEBSITES (WHETHER BY HYPERTEXT LINK OR OTHERWISE) WHICH ARE NOT UNDER OUR CONTROL AND ARE NOT MAINTAINED BY US. WE ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENT OR ACCURACY OF THOSE WEBSITES AND DO NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSE THE MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THEM. ACCESS TO LINKED WEBSITES IS MADE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. 

How to contact us in relation to Terms If you have any inquiries or complaints in relation to our terms, please contact us on info@bprg.com.au. Your complaint will be dealt with in a timely manner.