We take the commitment to preserve the privacy of the personal information we collect quite seriously. To ensure our ongoing adherence of the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) established by the Australian Privacy Act, please see below our Privacy Policy and our Personal data collection consent & privacy notice.
The Wavelength Group takes seriously its commitment to preserve the privacy of the personal information that we collect. We will only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our activities or functions as a recruitment agency. We do not collect personal information just because we think it could be useful at some future stage if we have no present need for it.
We do not collect, use or disclose personal information for unlawful purposes including discrimination. During the course of your interaction with Wavelength, you may provide us with unsolicited information and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that this information is purged from our systems providing it is not required for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency.
Wavelength acknowledges that an individual has the right to not identify themselves or to use a pseudonym when dealing with us. However, this only applies if it is practicable for Wavelength to do so and it doesn’t impact our service delivery to our clients. Wavelength will not use government-related identifiers for the purpose of identifying you unless required by law.
If you have any questions please contact us: info@wave.com.au or +61 2 8353 9000.
It is necessary for our functions or activities as a recruitment agency to collect personal information about you. Information collection will commence at the point at which you either register your details on our website or contact us via email or phone. When we collect personal information we will:
The type of personal information that we collect and hold is information that is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency and is likely to differ depending on whether you are:
Sensitive information is only collected with consent and where it is necessary for the performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. Sensitive information will need to be collected where it relates to a genuine occupational requirement or an inherent requirement of the job or work being considered.
The type of information that we typically collect and hold about Workseekers ranges from personal to sensitive. Information will only be requested as is necessary to assess amenability to work offers and work availability; suitability for placements; to comply with state legislation our clients work under or to manage the performance in work obtained through us. It includes:
The type of information that we typically collect and hold about Clients is information that is necessary to help us manage the presentation and delivery of our services and includes:
The type of information that we typically collect and hold about Referees is information that is necessary to help make determinations about the suitability of one of our Workseekers for particular jobs or particular types of work and may include:
The type of information we typically collect and hold about Wavelength employees ranges from personal to sensitive and is used to perform the normal functions of an employer. This information may include:
We may request proof of identification from you including certified original copies of your passport, visa and or driver’s license and will only do so for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency.
You should also read the section about electronic transactions because sometimes your communications with us may attach profile images of yourself that you have uploaded to the Internet.
The purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information are those purposes that are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency and are likely to differ depending on whether you are:
Information that we collect, hold, use and disclose about Workseekers is typically used for:
Personal information that we collect, hold, use and disclose about Clients is typically used for:
Personal information that we collect, hold, use and disclose about Referees is typically used for:
Personal information that we collect, hold, use and disclose about employees is typically used for:
How we will generally collect your personal information is likely to differ depending on whether you are:
Sometimes the technology that is used to support communications between us will provide personal information to us - see point 8 for more information on electronic transactions.
Personal information 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.
Information will also be collected electronically via our telecommunications or email systems. See section 8 for more information on electronic transactions.
Personal information is also collected when:
We may also collect personal information about you from a range of publicly available sources including newspapers, journals, directories, the Internet and social media sites. We collect personal information about you from publicly available sources for inclusion in our records only as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency, and this information is managed following our Privacy Policy.
Personal information about you may be collected:
We may also collect personal information about you from a range of publicly available sources including newspapers, journals, directories; the Internet and social media sites. We collect personal information about you from publicly available sources for inclusion in our records only as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency, and this information is managed by our Privacy Policy.
Personal information about you may be collected when you provide it to us:
Personal information 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.
Information will also be collected electronically via our telecommunications or email systems. See section 8 for more information on electronic transactions.
Personal information is also collected when:
We may also collect personal information about you from a range of publicly available sources including newspapers, journals, directories, the Internet and social media sites. We collect personal information about you from publicly available sources for inclusion in our records only as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency, and this information is managed following our Privacy Policy.
We may use your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing. Where it is practicable to do so, we will obtain your consent, and you will be provided with the option to
unsubscribe from direct marketing at any time. When it is not practicable to obtain consent, you will be provided with the option to unsubscribe from direct marketing once communications are sent. We market to candidates and clients using a variety of methods including email, phone, SMS and print material.
We may provide mass email technology system providers with your personal contact information for marketing campaigns to which you have not unsubscribed.
Any opinions you provide to us such as testimonials may be passed onto a third party for the purposes of creating marketing material. In these cases, we will ask for your consent before passing this information on to the third party.
We provide candidates and clients with the option to opt out of marketing material and upon receipt of this request, their marketing preferences are updated on our systems.
If you do not wish to have your personal information used for direct marketing purposes, you
may contact your recruitment consultant or our Privacy Officer and request not to receive direct marketing communications from us. At this time your marketing preferences will be updated on our systems.
This section explains how we handle personal information collected from our website and by other technology in the course of electronic transactions.
It is important that you understand that there are risks associated with the use of the Internet and you should take all appropriate steps to protect your personal information. It might help you to look at the OAIC's resources on online privacy.
It is important that you:
Sometimes, we collect personal information that individuals choose to give us via online forms or by email, for example when individuals:
In order to assess your suitability for positions and to assist you in finding work, we will need to collect, use and disclose personal information about you. We will conduct background checks via social media sites, Google, regulatory and immigration sites and medical registration boards, for the purposes of assessing suitability for representation by Wavelength.
When you visit our website, we collect certain information about your device and web browsing activity including:
We collect this information using cookies and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They allow websites to track your browsing activity and remember your preferences.
We use the information we collect about your web browsing activity to:
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit before providing them with any personal information.
We do not accept responsibility for the privacy policy of any other site to which our site has a hyperlink and it is advisable to look at the privacy policy of other sites before disclosing personal information.
We use a variety of technologies and platforms to obtain publicly available contact information for the purposes of direct marketing, see section 6 for information on direct marketing. Steps will be taken within 5 days of receipt of the personal information to verify it and give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving direct marketing.
Cookies are uniquely numbered identification numbers like tags which are placed on your browser. By themselves, cookies do not identify you personally, but they may link back to a database record about you. If you register on our site, we will then link your cookie back to your personal information details.
This site uses cookies to monitor usage of our website, including session-level usage, to create a personal record of when you visit our website and what pages you view. Cookies are necessary to enable various activities, such as retaining and allowing you to update your registration details and work preferences, login, username and search queries on our website, but if you do not wish us to retain any information about your visit to our site you can delete the cookies in your browser and change the settings in your web browser program.
The website statistics for wave.com.au are generated from this usage data, as outlined above, and analytics programs such as Google Analytics are used to view and access the data.
In cases where we use cloud computing services we will take reasonable steps to ensure that:
Our technology systems log emails received and sent and may include voting and read and receipt notifications to enable tracking. Our mass email technology systems also collect usage data such as receipts, bounce backs, open, open location and click-through rates and subsequent wave.com.au website actions.
When your email address is received by us because you send us a message, the email address will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided. It may be added to a mailing list for the purposes of communicating with you information we feel you would be interested in unless you have specifically requested not to be added to any mailing lists, or you opt out of receiving communications.
Our telephone technology (systems and mobile phones) logs telephone calls and messages received and sent and enables call number display.
When your call number is received by us because you phone us or send us a message, the number will only be used or disclosed as is reasonable for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency.
Our cloud computing system will also log any SMS messages sent to and received from your mobile phone number and will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided it.
Teleconferences and video conferences may be recorded with your consent. In cases where it is proposed that they be recorded, we will tell you first the purpose for which they are to be used and retained.
We use an ATS/CRM to log and record recruitment operations. This is cloud based that allows disclosure to cross-border recipients, only as is reasonable for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. The database will contain personal details and documentation you have provided to us and will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided it.
Our staff use laptops, tablets, phones and other portable electronic devices that allow them to access, retrieve and store your personal information. This is used for recruitment purposes and will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided it.
When your personal information is collected it will be held in our cloud-based ATS/CRM, on our website and on our network drive, all of which restrict user access without the use of approved login credentials. Financial information is held for a period of seven (7) years or at which time it will be de-identified or destroyed provided that it is lawful for us to do so.
Personal information will be held for a minimum of three (3) months after which we will destroy or de-identify it if it no longer serves our functions or activities as a recruitment agency.
Wavelength is a 100% shredding organisation; therefore, all hard copy documentation is disposed of using a company that provides secure shredding services or it will be shredded on-site.
We take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information remains secure and confidential and is only used as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency.
We take a range of measures to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, these measures include:
This section deals with our disclosure policies. Personal Information that we hold about you is only disclosed for the primary and related purposes for which it was collected, and with your consent. In this section you will find out about our policies dealing with:
We may disclose your personal information for any of the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a related purpose where lawfully permitted.
We may disclose your personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so, including circumstances where we are under a contractual duty to disclose information.
Disclosure will usually be:
In addition to disclosures for general purposes, we may also disclose your personal information for a range of related 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:
We take reasonable steps to ensure that terms of service with our CSPs recognise that we are bound by obligations to protect the privacy of your personal information and that they will not do anything that would cause us to breach those obligations.
Some of your personal information is likely to be disclosed to overseas recipients, or in the case of health records, outside of NSW in accordance with the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. The likely states and countries, type of information disclosed and likely recipients are indicated, so far as is practicable, in the following table:
| Country |
Type of Information |
Likely Recipients |
|
New Zealand |
Personal and sensitive information including but not limited to resumes, qualifications, results of background checks, photo identification and or any other documentation required for the purpose of your job search or applications with regulatory or immigration bodies. |
Our New Zealand-based clients as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. Contacts at the Medical Council of New Zealand for the purpose of medical registration applications. New Zealand immigration lawyers for the purpose of immigration applications. |
|
Singapore |
Personal and sensitive information including but not limited to resumes, qualifications, and results of background checks. |
Our Singapore-based clients are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. |
|
The Philippines |
Personal and sensitive information including but not limited to resumes, qualifications, and results of background checks. |
Contractors for the purpose of providing recruitment support as necessary for our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. |
|
India |
Personal and sensitive information including but not limited to resumes, qualifications and results of background checks. |
Contractors for the purpose of providing recruitment support as necessary for our functions and activities as a recruitment agency. |
|
United Kingdom |
Any personal or sensitive information held on our database system. |
Wavelength employee based remotely in the UK. |
|
France |
Any personal or sensitive information held on our database system. |
Wavelength employee based remotely in France. |
|
Australian states and territories |
Health information |
To clients based in states and territories, other than NSW when required as a condition of your employment |
We take reasonable steps to ensure that terms of service with overseas recipients recognise that we are bound by obligations to protect the privacy of your personal information and that they will not do anything that would cause us to breach those obligations.
You have a right to access, correct and request deletion of personal information under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This section sets out our policy dealing with:
Subject to some exceptions that are set out in privacy law, you can gain access to the personal information that we hold about you.
Important exceptions include:
If you wish to obtain access to your personal information you should contact our Privacy Officer at +612 8353 9000 or info@wave.com.au. You will need to be in a position to verify your identity.
We might impose a moderate, but non-excessive charge, in providing access. Our Privacy Officer will discuss these with you.
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 will generally respond to your request for access within five (5) working days.
If we refuse to give access to the personal information or to give access in the manner requested by you, we will give you a written notice that sets out:
We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date where it is practicable to do so. We also rely on you to tell us when there are changes to the personal information that we hold about you. This could be for example a change of address or employment status.
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 our Privacy Officer: info@wave.com.au. You will need to be in a position to verify your identity.
We will take such steps as 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 should also anticipate that it may take a little time to respond and process your application for correction as there may be a need to retrieve information from storage and review information in order to determine what information may be corrected. We will generally respond to your request for access within five (5) working days.
There is no charge to correct information. In some cases, we may not agree that the information should be changed. If we refuse to correct your personal information as requested by you, we will give you a written notice that sets out:
You may also ask us to associate a statement that the information is contested as being inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading and we will take such steps as are reasonable to do so.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal information Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, to complete transactions or to comply with our legal obligations.
If you wish to request that your personal information be deleted, you should contact our Privacy Officer info@wave.com.au. You will need to be in a position to verify your identity.
You have a right to complain about our handling of your personal information if you believe that we have interfered with your privacy in this section you can learn:
If you are making a complaint about our handling of your personal information, it should first be made to us in writing.
When we receive your complaint:
If the complaint cannot be resolved by the means that we propose in our response, we will suggest that you take your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
This policy may change over time in light of changes to privacy laws, technology and business practices. If you use our website regularly or conduct transactions with us that involve the collection of your personal information, you must check this policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the extent of any consent, authorization or permission you might give.
You can find out more or make complaints about our handling of your personal information to our Privacy Officer by email info@wave.com.au or phone +61 2 8353 9000.