PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to the website ("Site") of Palmer Holt. Please read the following terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy carefully before using this Site.

Palmer Holt, as owners of www.palmerholt.com, believes that the responsible use of personal information collected from you through this Site is critical to its business objectives and reputation. As part of our commitment to privacy, we have adopted this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy relates solely to personal information supplied by you on this Site. Any personal information provided by you to Palmer Holt through this Site may be used for the purposes of your request and/or for the purposes of providing services or other products to you.

Palmer Holt has received or may receive personal information from you in connection with your seeking work through us. This may be in the form of a resume and/or commentary from referees you have nominated or from other persons when we need to find out more information from persons you may not have nominated. We will let you know whenever we propose to seek information from persons whom you have not nominated.

1. Your personal information has been or will be collected by Palmer Holt and all related subsidiary entities.
   
2. Our privacy policy can be viewed on-line at www.palmerholt.com; alternatively a copy can be provided on request from the Privacy Officer at privacy@palmerholt.com.
   
3. You have a qualified right to access personal information, which we hold about you. If you wish to do so please write to us as indicated above. We may charge you a moderate fee to cover the cost of providing access. We will discuss those fees with you if they apply.
   
4. Normally, we collect personal information from or about candidates such as your self for the following purposes, namely, to:
   
   

   a)	Assess your suitability for referral to our clients with a view to interviewing you for a prospective position and following-up reference checks and other screening and cross-checking services Palmer Holt provides to its clients to assess your suitability;
   b)	Provide copies of your personal information to appropriate clients who may be interested in interviewing you for a position.

5. We may disclose your personal information to the following types of organisations and persons:
   
   

   a)	Palmer Holt's clients whom we deem suitable for consideration of your personal information, qualifications and experience. We will try to let you know who they are before we provide your personal information. However in some cases our clients wish to remain anonymous during the early stages of their considering a candidate's suitability. We will let you know when this occurs and seek your consent to our providing your personal information. Alternatively, we may provide information in a way that does not identify you.
   b)	Referees and former employers you have nominated for the purposes of obtaining references;
   c)	Other potential referees whose identity we will discuss with you
   d)	Palmer Holt's consultants who perform recruitment services on behalf of Palmer Holt as independent contractors rather than employees;
   e)	Independent contractors performing services for Palmer Holt on its information technology. Such persons may from time to time have access to our database, which may include your personal information. Such persons would not take interest in the content of the database, but rather its functionality from an I.T. perspective.
   f)	All related subsidiary entities of Palmer Holt adhere to the same practices as are described in this disclosure. If you would like more details of them please contact our privacy officer.

6. As regards referees, if you have or at some future date nominate a person for us to contact, we assume that you consent to our receiving a full and frank reference from that referee and that we are entitled to pass on the content of the referee's remarks to our clients, irrespective of the presence of derogatory material. If that is not the case, please notify us immediately. If you do not consent to this, however, it may devalue references that we do obtain or may place us in a position where we would decline to offer further assistance.
   
7. You may have provided us with or we may collect “sensitive information”, as defined in the Privacy Act that is necessary for us to collect. If you have done so we take this to mean that we have your consent to retaining that information and using it for the above-mentioned purposes and disclosing this information to the types of organisations to which we normally disclose information as listed above. If you do not wish us to do so, please contact us immediately to inform us.

Palmer Holt regards privacy and confidentiality as important principles of its business. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

The information which you are requested to provide on this Site may be transferred within Palmer Holt comprising Palmer Holt, its subsidiaries, affiliates and associated companies. This may include transfer, with your consent, to other members of Palmer Holt in different jurisdictions. In providing your telephone and facsimile numbers you are agreeing that Palmer Holt may contact you by telephone and facsimile. Palmer Holt will not reveal your details to any external body, unless Palmer Holt either has your permission, or is under a legal obligation or any other duty to do so, or such disclosure is for the purposes of your request and/or for the purposes of providing services or other products to you.

Palmer Holt wishes to assure you that your personal information will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security and confidentiality. Palmer Holt pledges its intention fully to meet internationally recognized standards of personal data privacy protection and to comply with the requirements of applicable data protection/privacy laws. In doing so, we will ensure compliance by our staff with the same high standards of security and confidentiality.

In order to improve our Internet service to you, we will occasionally use a "cookie". A cookie is a small amount of data that our web server sends to your web browser when you visit certain parts of our web site. We use cookies to assist our understanding of your interest in our Site and to store and maintain user preferences.

Palmer Holt reserves the right to amend its prevailing Privacy Policy at any time and will place any such amendments on this Site. This Privacy Policy is not intended to, nor does it, create any contractual rights or any other legal rights whatsoever. Nothing in this notice shall limit the rights of data subjects under the Privacy Act, 1988 .

You have the right to ascertain Palmer Holt's policies and practices in relation to personal data, to be informed of the kind of personal data held by Palmer Holt and to check whether Palmer Holt holds data about you. You also have the right to request correction of and, on payment of a fee, access to personal information about you held by us. If you wish to have access to, or ask for correction or deletion of, any of your personal data held by us, or if you have any questions concerning our data protection and privacy policies and practices generally, please contact the Palmer Holt Privacy Officer at privacy@palmerholt.com . You may also use that email address to communicate any concerns you may have regarding compliance with our Privacy Policy.