Randwick City Council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and personal information. Please read the following carefully to understand how your personal information will be used, stored and accessed. 
  
&quot;Personal Information&quot;, is any information that enables us to identify you, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as your name, address, email address or date of birth. 
 
We collect personal information from you during the recruitment process, which may include: 
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<li>Information that you provide when you apply for a role. This includes information provided through an online job site, via email, in person at interviews and/or by any other method. We process personal details such as name, email address, address, telephone number, date of birth, qualifications, experience, information relating to your employment history, and skills and experience that you provide to us </li>
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<li style="color:windowtext;line-height:normal;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;">If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence </li>
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<li>A record of your progress through any hiring process that we may conduct.</li>
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We may use information held about you in the following ways: 
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<li>To consider your application in respect of a role for which you have applied </li>
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<li style="color:windowtext;line-height:normal;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;">To consider your application in respect of other roles </li>
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<li>To communicate with you in respect to the recruitment process.</li>
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We take appropriate measures to ensure that all personal information is kept secure including security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. All Council staff have legal obligations in relation to privacy and handling personal information and when they can and cannot disclosure, use or collect it. 
   
The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIPA) requires all councils to prepare a <a href="https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/25641/Privacy-Management-Plan.PDF">Privacy Management Plan</a> outlining their policies and practices to ensure compliance with the requirements of that Act and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (HRIPA). 
   
The objectives of the Privacy Management Plan are to inform: 
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<li>the community about how their personal information will be used, stored and accessed after it is collected by the Council; and </li>
<li>Council staff of their obligations in relation to handling personal information and when they can and cannot disclose, use or collect it.</li>
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Any questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to <a href="mailto:employee.experience@randwick.nsw.gov.au">employee.experience@randwick.nsw.gov.au</a>.