Privacy Policy

By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Privacy Policy. Please note that this policy does not extend your rights or our obligations beyond those defined in the Privacy Act.

Should there be any inconsistency between this policy and the Privacy Act, this policy shall be interpreted to give effect to and comply with the Privacy Act.

This policy includes examples but is not intended to be restricted in its application to such examples. Where the word ‘including’ is used, it shall mean ‘including without limitation’.

Personal information is information about you, such as your name and address. Personal information may also include opinions of others about work performance, work experience and qualifications, aptitude other information obtained by JV in connection with your possible work placements.

Where necessary, personal information we collect may also include sensitive information, such as your medical history.

For each visitor to reach our website, we expressly collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing our website, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalised content to you while you access our website.

At all times we try to only collect the information we need for the particular function or activity we are carrying out, such as obtaining a placement for you.

The main way we collect personal information is when you give it to us directly, including:

• When you submit an application through print advertising or the internet;
• When you attend an interview with one of our consultants;
• When you access materials on the JV website;
• When you submit or provide JV with personal information.

The personal information collected includes your name, address, email address, telephone number and work history.

Personal information will also be collected when:

• We receive any reference about you;
• We receive correspondence or make enquiries from former employers, work colleagues, professional associations or registration bodies;
• We receive results of any competency or medical test;
• We receive feedback on your performance (whether positive or negative);
• We receive any complaint from or about you in the workplace;
• We receive any information about a workplace accident in which you are involved;
• We receive any information about insurance investigation, litigation, registration or professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry in which you are involved; or when
• You provide us with any additional information about yourself.

We do not share your personal information, except as required to manage our business, deliver our products and services to you, or to comply with legal requirements. This means that we may disclose your personal and sensitive information to:

• Our clients and your potential and actual employers;
• Referees;
• Our insurers;
• A Professional Association or Registered Body that has a proper and genuine interest in your personal information;
• A Workers Compensation body;
• Our contractors and suppliers – (inclusive of our I.T contactors and database designers);
• Any person with lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

We may occasionally hire other organisations or individuals to provide services on our behalf, including to deliver marketing services and process financial transactions. Those organisations or individuals will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the relevant service. We take reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations and individuals are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

We may share aggregate and non-personal information we collect about you with other organisations or individuals as part of our normal business operations, including advisors, suppliers

and investors. In these circumstances, all personally identifiable information is removed from our data.

We do not rent, lease or in any other way provide your personal information to other organisations or individuals for marketing purposes.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use a website upon a future visit. We may include cookies and other similar technologies on our website and may use them to recognize you when you return to our website.

We may use Google to collect and store information generated by cookies when you visit out website. If we use Google (Google Analytics) such information is stored on Google’s servers in the United States and is used for the purpose of maintaining and improving our website and enhancing your browsing experience.

You may set your browser so that it does not accept cookies or use Google Analytics.

Should you choose not to provide us with information, including personal information, we ask from you, this will limit our ability to provide you with our services. This includes inhibiting our ability to locate suitable work for you.

We will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. This includes taking appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorised access and disclosure. For example, your personal information is stored in secure offices and in computerized and encrypted databases which can only be accessed by authorised employees for permitted business functions. No system can be completely secure however, and while we take all reasonable steps to secure your personal information, we do not promise, and you should not expect that your personal information or communication with us will always remain secure. If there is a notifiable data breach, we will take all reasonable steps to notify you if your personal information is involved in an eligible data breach that is likely to result in serious harm.

We encourage you to take care with how you handle and disclose personal information and avoid sending personal information through unsecure email.

External sites that are utilised by JV, such as job search sites, are not under our control and we encourage you to review their individual privacy policies. Users should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the internet and you should therefore make your assessment of the potential risk to security of your information.

If you wish to complain to us about how we have handled your personal information, you should complain in writing. If you need help lodging a complaint, you can contact us.

If we receive a complaint from you about how we have handled your personal information, we will respond within a reasonable period of time and determine what action (if any) we should take to resolve the complaint.