Privacy
GQtool Pty Ltd ABN 77 144 871 036 (“GroupQuality”) complies with the Australian Privacy Principles which can be found at http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-resources/privacy-fact-sheets/other/privacy-fact-sheet-17-australian-privacy-principles In relation to each principle GQTool Pty Ltd complies as follows:
1. Collection
1.1 GQTool Pty Ltd collects information from you on the paidfocusgroups website to enable GQTool Pty Ltd, and other research companies on behalf of GQTool Pty Ltd to conduct online research. The research may be online qualitative or online quantitative research.
1.2 GQTool Pty Ltd collects information from you. That information includes, without limitation:
(a) information that you enter when prompted to do so;
(b) information about your computer including without limitation its IP address and configuration; and
(c) information about how you used GQTool Pty Ltd’s website including, without limitation, which pages you visited, how you used the paidfocusgroups website and when you used it.
1.3 In relation to that information:
(a) The entity which collects that information is GQTool Pty Ltd. It may be contacted by:
(i) post: GPO Box 442, Hobart TAS 7001
(ii) email address: support@paidfocusgroups.com.au
(iii) internet: www.paidfocusgroups.au
(b) You can gain access to that information by sending an email to admin@paidfocusgroups.au
(c) That information is collected for the reasons set out above in paragraph 1.1.
(d) That information (save for your name, contact details and bank details) may be published anywhere in the world.
(e) There is no law that requires collection of that information.
(f) If you do not provide that information then you are unable to participate in the paidfocusgroups.au website.
1.4 The information is only collected from you and your computer.
2. Use and disclosure
2.1 The information collected may be published to the world save for your name, contact details and bank details.
3. Data Quality
3.1 GQTool Pty Ltd shall promptly update any information that it collects about you to ensure that it is accurate, complete and up to date.
4. Data security
4.1 GQTool Pty Ltd shall protect the information that it collects from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
4.2 GQTool Pty Ltd shall destroy or permanently de-identify information if it is no longer needed for any purpose for which the information may be used or disclosed.
5. Openness
5.1 This document can be found at https://paidfocusgroups.au/integrity/ and is available upon request to admin@paidfocusgroups.au
5.2 The information collected is held in the computer systems and books and records of GQTool Pty Ltd.
6. Access and correction
6.1 Subject to the limitations set out in Australian Privacy Principle 12, you can obtain access to the information as set out in paragraph 1.3(b) above.
6.2 If providing that information would reveal information generated in connection with a commercially sensitive decision making process then an explanation for that decision may be provided.
6.3 If the information is not provided by reason of the application of exemptions set out in Australianl Privacy Principle 6 intermediaries will be considered.
6.4 There is no fee for providing access to the information.
6.5 If the information is not accurate, complete and up to date, GQTool Pty Ltd shall promptly update any information that it collects about you to ensure that it is accurate, complete and up to date.
6.6 If there is a disagreement about whether or not the information is accurate, complete and up to date and you ask for a statement to be associated with that information GQTool Pty Ltd shall do so.
6.7 If GQTool Pty Ltd denies access or refuses to correct information it will provide reasons.
7. Identifiers
7.1 GQTool Pty Ltd shall not use as an identifier ABN 77 144 871 036 any identifier which has been assigned by an agency, an agent of an agency acting in its capacity as agent; or a contracted service provider for a Commonwealth contract acting in its capacity as contracted service provider for that contract.
7.2 GQTool Pty Ltd shall not use or disclose an identifier assigned to an individual by an agency, or by an agent or contracted service provider mentioned in subclause 7.1, unless the provisions in Australian Privacy Principle 9 are satisfied.
8. Anonymity
8.1 Where lawful and practicable, GQTool Pty Ltd shall provide you with the option of not identifying yourself when entering into a transaction and will not disclose your name, contact details and bank details to any third party ANZ.
9. Transborder data flows
9.1 No information collected from you shall be transferred to a foreign country other than in compliance with the provisions set out in the Australian Privacy Principle 8 are satisfied.
10. Sensitive Information
10.1 GQTool Pty Ltd shall not collect sensitive information from you unless you have consented to such collection or the requirements set out in Australian Privacy Principle 3 are satisfied.
10.2 GQTool Pty Ltd shall not collect health information from you unless you have consented to such collection or the requirements set out in Australian Privacy Principle 3 are satisfied.