SafeWork NSW GIPA Application Form – privacy collection notice

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1. Who we are

Your information is being collected and held by SafeWork NSW Agency. SafeWork NSW gives priority to protecting the privacy of your personal information, in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act) and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (HRIP Act).

If you have any questions about this document, or how we handle your personal information, you can contact our Privacy team using the contact details at the end of this notice.

2. Why we collect your personal information

Your personal and/or health information is being collected for the following purposes:

To process your application for information pursuant to the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act).
Internal administrative purposes, including liaising with you in relation to your application.

3. The kinds of information we collect

We may collect the following information:

Your full name and contact details (including your phone number, email address and postal address).
Proof of identity information, which may include your photo identity documents, like a passport or driver licence, your Medicare card details and/or other proof of identity.
Additional personal information that is reasonably necessary to support your application.

4. Failure to provide information

To process an application, you are required to provide certain information to us as outlined under Part 4 of the GIPA Act, for example: your name and your postal/email address.

If you choose not to provide us with the requested information, we may not be able to process your application.

5. How we may use this information

We may use the information we collect in the following ways:

To process your application pursuant pursuant to Part 4, Division 1 of the GIPA Act.
Internal administrative purposes, including liaising with you in relation to your application.
To support more informed policy making, program management, evaluation, research, and service planning as it can facilitate more efficient service delivery for residents and business in NSW.
Other directly related purposes.

6. Who we may share your information with

We will not disclose your information to anybody else unless we are authorised or permitted to do so by law or where you have given consent. For further information, please see our privacy statement.

6.1 Digital NSW

We are partnered with Digital NSW (part of the Department of Customer Service) who assist us with our business operations by providing software and storing data on our behalf. Digital NSW have a privacy statement which outlines how they look after this data.

7. Protecting your information

We will store and manage your information in accordance with the provisions of the PPIP Act and HRIP Act. We have measures in place to help protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or other misuse.

We will only keep information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. After which, the information will be disposed of securely in accordance with the State Records Act 1998 and any other applicable legislation.
See our privacy management plan for more information about how we handle your personal information.

8. Your rights

Subject to certain conditions, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

The right to request access to your personal information
The right to request correction of your personal information

If you wish to invoke any of the above rights, please contact us using the details below.

9. Contact us

If you would like to make a privacy enquiry or complaint, you can contact us at privacy@safework.nsw.gov.au.

SafeWork NSW
94-100 Donnison St
Gosford 2250 NSW