Black Dog Institute – Privacy Statement
Your privacy is important to us. This statement summarises how the Black Dog Institute collects, uses and manages personal information when carrying out recruitment and selection activities.

It is the policy of the Black Dog Institute to respect the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals. The Black Dog Institute is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (as amended) (Australian Act) in Australia.

This statement is in addition to the Black Dog Institute Privacy Policy.

Types of Personal Information Collected
Personal information includes information regarding your contact details, work experience, qualifications, aptitude test results, opinions about your work performance (eg references), and other information obtained or received by us in connection with your possible and actual work employment.

Sensitive Information
Sensitive information is a special category of personal information under the Australian Act. It is information or opinion 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 affiliations, philosophical beliefs, or sexual preferences or practices. As outlined in the Australian Act, sensitive information can, in most cases, only be disclosed with your consent.

Collection of Information
We may collect personal or sensitive information about you when:

• You complete one of our application forms or provide any other information in connection with your application
• We receive any reference about you
• We receive the results of any competency or medical test or any background check, including credit and criminal record checks
• You provide us with any additional information about you

Use
The Black Dog Institute will use the personal information you provide to assess your suitability for employment opportunities with us. Your details will be stored in our database of candidates. Your personal details may be disclosed to people within the Black Dog Institute, to referees nominated by you, to your former employers.

Application
We provide all applicants with the ability to create an individual profile (My Profile) based on areas such as Experience, Education and Qualifications, Licences and References. This profile only needs to be set-up once. Please ensure that your Profile is completely entered and up-to-date so that your application can be considered.

Incomplete data
If you do not provide all of the personal information that we request then we may be unable to communicate with you, process your application or offer you employment.

Access
At any time you can access your account on the Black Dog Institute recruitment web site to update your personal information and your resume, to ensure that the information we hold is complete, accurate and up-to-date.

Security
We take significant measures to protect the database from access by unauthorised people. It is your responsibility to ensure that you keep your login details secure to prevent unauthorised access to your account.

How do we store and protect personal Information?
Safeguarding the privacy of your information is important to us, whether you interact with us personally, by phone, mail, over the internet or other electronic medium. We hold personal information in a combination of secure computer storage facilities and paper-based files and other records, and take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, interference and loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We may need to maintain records for a significant period of time. However, when we consider information is no longer needed, we will remove any details that will identify you or we will securely destroy the records.

However, you may remove your personal information from our database at any time by closing your account, or by instructing us to remove it.