PRIVACY STATEMENT
Your privacy is important.
This statement outlines the National Self-Employment Association's policy on how the National Self-Employment
Association uses and manages personal information provided to or collected by it.
The National Self-Employment Association is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Commonwealth
Privacy Act and is compliant with the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012.
The National Self-Employment Association may, from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy to take
account of new laws and technology, changes to the National Self-Employment Association’s operations and practices and
to make sure it remains appropriate to the changing legal environment.
This privacy policy assumes that you are resident in Australia.
The type of information the National Self-Employment Association collects and holds includes (but is not limited to)
personal information, including sensitive information, about:
• Name of members and their designated staff members.
• Contact details of members and their designated staff members.
• Name and contact details of organisation who consent to become members.
Personal Information you provide:
The National Self-Employment Association will generally collect personal information held about an individual
by way of email or meeting attendance. You do have the right to seek to deal with us anonymously or using a pseudonym, but in
almost every circumstance it will not be practicable for us to deal with you or provide any services to you
except for the most general responses to general enquiries, unless you identify yourself.
Personal Information provided by other people:
In some circumstances the National Self-Employment Association may be provided with personal information about an
individual from a third party, for example Australian Government staff, and members of other Australian Government programs.
The National Self-Employment Association will use personal information it collects from you for the primary purpose
of collection, and for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose of collection and reasonably
expected, or to which you have consented.
In relation to direct marketing, the National Self-Employment Association will use your personal information for direct marketing
where you have provided that information, and you are likely to expect direct marketing: only then you will be sent direct marketing containing an opt out. If we use your personal information obtained from elsewhere, we will still send you direct marketing
information where you have consented, and which will also contain an opt out. We will always obtain your consent to use sensitive information as the basis for any of our direct marketing.
• government departments,
• people providing services to the National Self-Employment Association, and
• anyone you authorise the National Self-Employment Association to disclose information to.
Sending Information Overseas:
The National Self-Employment Association will not send personal information about an individual outside Australia without:
• obtaining the consent of the individual (in some cases this consent will be implied); or
• otherwise complying with the Australian Privacy Principles or other applicable privacy legislation.
We do not use overseas providers of IT services including servers and cloud services.
- “information relating to a person’s racial ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional or trade association membership, sexual orientation or criminal record, that is also personal information; about an individual”.
Sensitive information will be used and disclosed only for the purpose for which it was provided or a directly related secondary purpose, unless you agree otherwise, or the use or disclosure of the sensitive information is allowed by law.
Management and Security of Personal Information
The National Self-Employment Association’s staff are required to respect the confidentiality of personal
information and the privacy of individuals.
The National Self-Employment Association has in place steps to protect the personal information the National
Self-Employment Association holds from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification, interference or disclosure by use of
various methods including locked storage of paper records and passworded access rights to computerised records.
We have a data breach response plan, which we would follow in the unlikely event of a privacy or data breach.
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Updating Personal Information
The National Self-Employment Association endeavours to ensure that the personal information it holds is
accurate, complete and up to date. A person may seek to update their personal information held by the National
Self-Employment Association by contacting the Chairperson or Chief Executive Officer of the
National Self-Employment Association at any time.
The Australian Privacy Principles and the Health Privacy Principles require the National Self-Employment
Association not to store personal information longer than necessary. In particular, the Health Privacy Principles impose
certain obligations about the length of time health records must be stored.
You have the right to check what personal information the National
Self-Employment Association holds about you.
Under the Commonwealth Privacy Act and the Health Records Act, an individual has the right to obtain
access to any personal information which the National Self-Employment Association holds about them and to advise the
National Self-Employment Association of any perceived inaccuracy.
There are some exceptions to this right set out in the applicable legislation. To make a request to access any
information the National Self-Employment Association holds about you, please contact the Chairperson or Chief Executive
Officer in writing.
The National Self-Employment Association may require you to verify your identity
and specify what information you require.
Although no fee will be charged for accessing your personal information or making a correction, the
National Self-Employment Association may charge a fee to retrieve and copy any material. If the information sought is
extensive, the National Self-Employment Association will advise the likely cost in advance.
or destroyed. In many circumstances, however it will be kept for marketing purposes, as you will have consented to that
in writing with us.
Enquiries and Privacy Complaints
If you would like further information about the way the National Self-Employment Association manages the
personal information it holds, please contact the Chairperson or Chief Executive Officer. If you have any concerns, complaints
or you think there has been a breach of privacy, then also please contact the Chairperson or Chief Executive Officer
who will first deal with you usually over the phone.
If we then have not dealt satisfactorily with your concerns, we will meet with you to discuss further. If you are not
satisfied with our response to your complaint within 30 days from this meeting, then you can refer your complaint to the
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner via:
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Tel: 1300 363 992
Fax: +61 2 9284 9666