The Australian Jobspec (AJ) collects and uses your personal information primarily for the purpose of providing you with the products and services you have requested from us.

Your personal information is used to communicate with you about your account and, with your consent, to provide you with information related to AJ’s products & services. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from selected The AJ’s sponsors or advertisers, your personal information would also be used to contact you or to send you e-mail materials and other mailings about products and services that might be of interest to you. You always have the option, however, to tell us not to share your personal information with other members of The AJ or to exclude you from offers for other products or services.

If you enter a contest or other promotion offered by a member of The AJ or on The AJ website, your personal information will be used to administer the promotion, including the use of your name and selected other information for the purposes of contacting, announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion.

The members of The AJ may also contact you from time to time to conduct market research and surveys in an effort to continually improve our product and service offerings.

Unless you specifically authorize us to release your personal information, or release is required or permitted by law, The AJ will not sell, lease or trade your personal information to other third parties.

Anonymous or "non-personal" information gathered by The AJ through our websites may be used for technical, research and analytical purposes. Such information collected through surveys, existing files and public archives may be used by members of The AJ to analyze their markets and to develop or enhance service offerings.

The AJ will only ask for information about you that we need and will only ask for it when we need it. When we ask you for the information, we will explain to you why we need it and what we are going to do with it.

We will seek your prior consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the information as required by applicable privacy legislation. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you can refuse to consent to our collection, use or disclosure of information about you. You may also withdraw your consent to any further collection, use or disclosure of information about you at any time by giving us reasonable notice. If our intended disclosures or uses of information change, we will notify you accordingly.

Your personal information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent.

To enable us to more efficiently provide the products and services you have requested from us, The AJ Group may share your personal information with other members of The AJ and with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers. Such other member of The AJ and third party service providers are provided only with such information as is necessary in the circumstances. Information provided to third parties may be used only for the purpose stipulated and is subject to strict terms of confidentiality.

The AJ use a browser feature called a "cookie" to collect information anonymously and track user patterns on The AJ websites. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website. "Cookies" contain a unique identification number that identifies your browser, but not you, to our computers each time you visit one of our websites. Cookies tell us which pages of our websites are visited and by how many people.

The use of cookies is an industry standard and many major browsers are initially set up to accept them. You can reset your browser to either refuse to accept all cookies or to notify you when you have received a cookie. However, if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features available on our websites.

The AJ will try to ensure that information about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, please inform The AJ to whom you provided your information of any change of name, address or other information. In the event you have questions about the accuracy of factual information we have collected about you, you will have access to that information in order to verify and update it. If we have disclosed inaccurate information about you to a third party, we will be pleased to contact the third party in order to correct the information.

The AJ is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as locked cabinets, restricted access and the use of passwords and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at all times and those employees with access to your personal information shall use your personal information strictly in accordance with The AJ Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.

If you have any questions about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by The AJ, or if you simply want to know whether we have any of your personal information on file, you may contact our Customer Service Department. Except in limited circumstances, as specifically provided by applicable privacy legislation, The AJ can tell you whether they hold personal information about you. They can tell you the source of the information, allow you access to your personal information and find an account of the use that has been made or is being made of the information and the third parties to which it has been disclosed.

The AJ will only refuse access to information about you in those circumstances permitted or required by applicable privacy legislation. If The AJ refuses access to you, it will provide you with the reasons for its refusal upon request. Exceptions may include information that contains references to other individuals, information that cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, and information that is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege. The AJ will respond to your requests for access in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.

If you have any questions or concerns about the personal information about you held by The AJ, please contact our Customer Service Department for more information.

The AJ has procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about its handling of personal information. They will describe the complaint procedures to anyone who makes inquiries or lodges complaints. If you are not satisfied with the response from our Customer Service Department after making a complaint, you may have recourse to additional remedies under applicable privacy legislation.

For further information, please contact Privacy Victoria-Australia on 1300 666 444 or from outside Australia on 613 8619 8719 or your provincial Privacy Commissioner, as applicable.