This Privacy Policy for The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd informs you what personal information of yours we may hold, what we do with it, who we will disclose it to and how you can access the personal information we hold about you. You can also find out here how to change inaccurate personal information and how to opt out of receiving communications from us.
The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd respects and upholds your rights under the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”). The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd also adheres to the Privacy (Market and Social Research) Code 2014 (“Code”). For more information about the Privacy Act, the Australian Privacy Principles and the Code visit www.oaic.gov.au.
What Information We Collect
Information that The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd collects will include identifiable research information e.g. name, DOB, occupation, etc. When providing personal information you have the option of remaining anonymous or using a pseudonym to be identified by. However, in certain circumstances, such as where we receive your contact details from a third party or where the research data itself may potentially allow for identification, this may not always be practicable.
Depending on the nature of the research we conduct, we may also collect sensitive information from you, e.g. political opinion, health information etc. Sensitive information will only be collected with your prior consent and only if it is directly related to, or reasonably necessary for, the research we conduct.
Where we obtain the information
Participation in all of our research is voluntary. The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd will generally collect your personal information directly from you in the course of you participating in our research and/or surveys. However, we may also from time to time be provided with personal information about you from third parties, such as clients e.g. clients may provide us with a list of potential participants for the research. If so, we will inform you as soon as practicable of the source of this information.
When we share your information
We will only use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of conducting our research and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will not use or disclose your personally identifiable information for the purpose of advertising, promotions or direct marketing activities. If you declined to participate in our research, we may use your personal information to re-contact you for a research purpose if we have valid reasons to believe a genuine research concern warrants such re-contact. If you have participated in our research, will only re-contact you if you were informed of this or we have valid reasons to believe a genuine research concern warrants such re-contact
The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd will not disclose any personally identifiable research information we collect from you unless we have your express prior consent and will only report the information you provide in an aggregate form that will not personally identify you. We will not disclose any personal information or personally identifiable research information to a third party for a purpose other than conducting our research unless we have your express prior consent or are required to do so by an Australian law or court/tribunal order.
Third party sites
In the course of conducting our research we may rely on third party service providers to host or store the data we collect who are located overseas. In most cases, this survey data and research information will not be personally identifiable. We will also take reasonable steps to ensure any service providers (and their employees and contractors) comply with the Privacy Act and this Privacy Policy and/or are subject to similar privacy laws and you have the ability to enforce those rights.
Openness
You have the right to request access to any personal information we hold about you. You can request this information by contacting the Privacy Officer at the details listed below. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will respond to your request in a reasonable time and endeavour to provide you with a suitable range of choices as to how access is provided (e.g., emailing or mailing it to you). A fee may be charged to cover the cost of retrieval. However this fee will not be excessive and will only apply to the facilitation of your request.
If at any time you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request amendment of it and we will either amend the information or make a record of your comment, as we think appropriate.
Quality Manager, The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd, 3/18-20 Cliff Street, Manly, 2095, Australia
Telephone: +61299772570, email operations@leadershipfactor.com.au
We will respond and advise whether we agree with your concern or not. If we do agree, we will advise what (if any) action we consider it appropriate to take in response. If we do not agree, we will provide reasons. If you are still not satisfied after having contacted us and given us a reasonable time to respond, then we suggest that you contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by using the following contact details:
GPO Box 2999 Canberra ACT 2601 Fax: +61 2 9284 9666, Phone: 1300 363 992, email enquiries@oaic.gov.au
The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd Website
When visiting The Leadership Factor’s web site, the site server makes a record of the visit and logs the following information for statistical and administrative purposes:
The user’s server address – to consider the users who use the site regularly and tailor the site to their interests and requirements;
The date and time of the visit to the site – this is important for identifying the website’s busy times and ensuring maintenance on the site is conducted outside these periods;
Pages accessed and documents downloaded – this indicates to The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd which pages or documents are most important to users and also helps identify important information that may be difficult to find;
Duration of the visit – this indicates to us how interesting and informative The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd site is to candidates; the type of browser used – this is important for browser specific coding
In order to optimize The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd web site and better understand it’s usage, we collect the visiting domain name or IP address, Computer Operating System, Browser Type and Screen Resolution
A cookie is a piece of information that an Internet web site sends to your browser when you access information at that site. Cookies are either stored in memory (session cookies) or placed on your hard disk (persistent cookies). The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd Web site does not use persistent cookies. Upon closing your browser the session cookie set by this web site is destroyed and no Personal Information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web site at a later date.
Retention
The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd will destroy or de-identify your personal information as soon as practicable once it is longer needed for the purpose for our research purposes. However, we may in certain circumstances be required by law to retain your personal information after our research has been completed. In this case your personal information will continue to be protected in accordance with this Policy. If we destroy personal information we will do so by taking reasonable steps and using up-to-date techniques and processes.
Security
The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd will take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information as you transmit your information from your computer to our website and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, you should keep in mind that the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this website may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.
Miscellaneous
In this policy “personal information” has the same meaning as under the Privacy Act.
This policy is effective from 3 April 2020. We may change this policy from time to time. Although we intend to observe this Privacy Policy at all times, it is not legally binding on The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd in any way. From time to time we may regard it as necessary or desirable to act outside the policy. The Leadership Factor Pty Ltd may do so, subject only to any other applicable contractual rights you have and any statutory rights you have under the Privacy Act or other applicable legislation
