Privacy Policy

Background

CMSR Pty Ltd ACN 644 599 744 (referred in this document as “Talent Board”, “our”, “us” or “we”) is committed to respecting the privacy rights and Personal Information that we collect from you (referred in this document as “you” or “your”), including the Personal Information that we may collect from any third parties or independent contractors (such as Advocates’ Replicated Websites), or our mobile websites, mobile applications, and any other digital services and platforms operated or used by Talent Board (collectively referred to as the “Website” or “Websites”). This Privacy Policy describes the Personal Information we collect about you, as well as how we manage, use and disclose such information. We respect your privacy in handling Personal Information relating to you and your transactions with us, whether made through www.talentboard.com.au or one of our related Websites.

Talent Board created this Privacy Policy to give you confidence as you interact with us, visit and use the Websites, and to demonstrate its commitment to fair information practices and to the protection and management of privacy and Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the Personal Information collected by us and not through the collection of any Third Parties, which may have data collection, storage and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. Each time you engage with us or use our Website, the then-current version of this Privacy Policy will apply.


Purpose of collection

The purpose of our collection use and how we hold and disclose your Personal Information may depend on the particular nature of your engagement or interactions with us or our Websites. In general, we will collect, use, hold and disclose your Personal Information to:

  • provide you with products or services or information relating to such products or services;
  • provide you with information that you request;
  • provide you with responses to queries that you may raise with us;
  • assist with our internal business activities, including meeting our legal and regulatory obligations;
  • enable our analysis of the products and services that we offer and the manner in which we engage with you;
  • communicating new or existing products or services, including through promotional or other marketing activities.

Kinds of personal information and methods of collection

The kinds of Personal Information that we ordinarily collect includes your name, position of employment, residential, business and/or email address, telephone number, bank account or other financial details, or any other information in connection with providing you with products or services that you may wish to receive, along with others detailed below.

We collect Personal Information through various methods. Generally, Personal Information will be collected directly from you during our conversations over the phone, through email or other channels, including online and through our Websites. Personal Information may also be collected indirectly through third parties where it is unreasonable or impracticable for us to collect directly. We may collect Personal Information from Independent Contractors, some of whom may be described by us as Independent Contractor Advocates (“Advocates”). You will ordinarily be informed of this collection in advance or as soon as reasonably practicable after the collection.

We have summarised below other methods that use the Internet to collect Personal Information from time to time, which include:

Traffic Data. If you access its Websites, Talent Board may collect information that browsers automatically make available, including: (i) IP addresses; (ii) domain servers; (iii) types of devices accessing the Website; and (iv) types of Web browsers accessing the Website (collectively “Traffic Data”).

Cookies. Talent Board uses Cookies to customise your experience on the Website to your interests, to ensure that you do not see the same informational messages repeatedly, and to store your username so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Website. A “Cookie” is a string of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. The purpose of a Cookie is to identify the user as a unique user of the Website. For additional information on Talent Board’s uses of Cookies, see the section concerning Information Use and Disclosure Practices/Traffic Data and Information Gathered Using Cookies, below.

JavaScript. We use JavaScript to record your usage behaviour on our website in order to adapt our services to the needs of our users. In doing so, we determine your browser type, location, time, and duration of your use, URL, page name, and the website that referred you to our page.

We also use the following Internet-based tools to serve you more effectively and to communicate information to you about new or existing products or services that we may provide:

  • Google Analytics – This is a web analytics tool by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, California 94043, United States, in this document referred to as “Google”, to record your online activities on our site and to determine how many users are visiting us, what contents of our page are viewed, and how many times. The evaluation is done anonymously. Google Analytics cookies, including the Google Analytics tool “anonymous IP address” and usage data, are usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
  • Google AdWords – This is used to record website visits for advertising purposes (remarketing) in Google and in the Display Network. When you visit a website, your browser saves cookies that allow you to be recognized as a visitor when you visit websites that belong to Google’s advertising network. On these pages, ads that relate to content that you previously viewed on other websites that use Google’s remarketing function can be presented to you as a visitor.
  • Google AdWords conversion tracking – We use this to generate conversion statistics that measure the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.
  • Facebook Pixel — We use the “Facebook Pixel” by Facebook Inc., 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States (“Facebook”) on our website. This is a cookie (i.e., a small text file that is stored on your computer and can be accessed again later). With its help, actions of users can be tracked after they have seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. This allows us to track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, in other words, it does not provide any information on the identity of the users.

The following is a summary of other types of information which we may collect from time to time:

Personal Information. Through your engagement with us or use of, or visits to, our Websites, you may be required or requested to provide Personal Information to us, which may include, without limitation:

  • “Contact Data” (such as your name, membership number, title, gender, date of birth, mailing address, address coordinates (longitude and latitude), phone number(s), fax number, and e-mail address);
  • “Demographic Data” (such as your age, gender, profession, education level, relationship status, religious affiliation, country, state, city and likes and dislikes,); and
  • “Financial Data” (such as your credit/debit card number and expiration date).

Non-Personal Information. “Non-Personal Information” is anonymous information is that information we collect that is not traceable to any individual person or computer. We utilise this data to analyse trends and understand customer needs while shopping and interacting on our site so that we can provide a better user experience. For example, we may use cookies, web beacons, log files and other technologies to collect information about visitors to our Website, and interactions with our online advertisements and offerings.

Device Information. Depending on the permissions you have granted and other factors, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device when you download from our Websites, including a unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, certain player search results, and other personalized content. Examples of the device information we collect include:

  • Attributes such as the operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types, battery and signal strength, and device identifiers.
  • Device locations, including specific geographic locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals.
  • Connection information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number and IP address.
  • Candidate and Employer Registration. In order to become a Candidate or an Employer, an applicant must provide Personal Information to us.

Information that you make Public. The Website may contain features (e.g. public profiles, forums, and message boards) that permit you to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute content, information or other material, including some of your Personal Information. Any information that you choose to disclose by means of such features becomes public information over which Talent Board is unable to exercise control. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information by means of such features, and you agree to assume all responsibility for doing so.

Inaccurate or incomplete information provided to us

If you provide Personal Information to us and the information is not accurate or is incomplete, then we may not be able to provide the products or services that you may be seeking from us.

Information use and disclosure practices

General. In general, we hold, use and disclose your Personal Information for the purpose for which it was collected, being those purposes detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may also disclose your Personal Information from time to time to:

  • our related companies and other entities in Talent Board corporate group;
  • our third-party service providers, such as information technology and communications providers, and other service providers, consultants, and professional advisers (some of whom may not be under an obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy);
  • our affiliated businesses, vendors and partners, including independent contractors and Advocates (as the term is defined in this Privacy Policy); and
  • Traffic Data and Information Gathered Using Cookies. We use “cookies” to recognize you as you use or return to our Websites. This is done so that we can provide a continuous and more personalized shopping experience for you. A cookie is a small text file that a website or email may save to your browser and store on your hard drive. Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive once you sign out from talentboard.com.au or close your web browser. We use cookies to provide features and services, such as:
  • allowing you to enter your password less frequently;
  • remembering your preferences;
  • presenting information that is targeted to your interests;
  • measuring the effectiveness of our sites, services, content, and advertising; and
  • providing other services and features that are available only through the use of cookies.

Talent Board analyses Traffic Data and information gathered using Cookies to help Talent Board better understand who is using the Website and how they are using it. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, Talent Board is able to better design the Website to improve your experience, and to serve you more relevant and interesting content. From time to time, Talent Board may release Traffic Data and information gathered using Cookies in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Website. Talent Board does not attempt to link information gathered using Cookies to Personal Information.

Web Beacons. We may also use web beacons. A “web beacon” is an electronic image placed in the code of a web page. Beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited, an email was opened, or if ad banners on our website and other sites were effective. We use web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page to another and to improve site performance.

Personal Information. Personal Information that is collected from a Candidate or an Employer through Candidate and Employer Registration.

Disclosure to overseas recipients. Due to the nature of our business, we are likely to disclose your Personal Information to recipients that are based outside of Australia. In many cases, such information may be technically disclosed to recipients overseas because of the companies within its corporate group, service providers that we have engaged, or the cloud-based electronic storage systems that we use or other recipients or service providers which are based in overseas countries, which include recipients based in New Zealand, the United States of America, the Uniting Kingdom and Canada.

Communications from us

  1. Service Announcements. On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send Advocates and/or Customers an email. Generally, Advocates may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.
  2. Candidate, Employer and Customer Service. Talent Board communicates with Candidates and Employers via email, regular mail and telephone on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their Talent Board business.

Miscellaneous

  1. Links. Talent Board’s websites may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Talent Board is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects Personal Information. This Privacy Policy and collection statement applies solely to information collected by Talent Board websites.
  2. Text Messaging. If you so elect, you may provide your mobile phone number to Talent Board. By submitting your mobile phone number, you consent to receive text message alerts from Talent Board containing event information that may be sent using automated dialling systems (“Text Messages”). Your consent to receive Text Messages is not otherwise required to purchase any goods or services from us. You may not consent to receive Text Messages on behalf of someone else or provide someone else’s phone number. You agree to enter into, sign and receive your consent to receive Text Messages electronically.
  3. Security. We take reasonable steps to maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure of Personal Information in our custody and control. We also are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our Websites. We will take reasonable measures which we believe are appropriate to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, and, where possible, will ask that any third parties to whom we may disclose or transfer such information to take comparable steps to protect that security.
  4. Passwords. To provide you with an increased level of security, online access to your Personal Information is protected with a password you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. Talent Board will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication (including unsolicited correspondence such as letters, phone calls or e-mail messages).
  5. Lost or Stolen Information. You must promptly notify us if your credit, banking, other financial information, username or password is lost, stolen or used without permission. In such an event, we will remove that credit card number, bank account information, other financial institution information, userame or password from your account.
  6. Amendments. Talent Board reserves the right to amend or change this Privacy Policy at any time at its sole discretion.
  7. Access and Correction. You may request to access the Personal Information that we hold about you by contacting us using the contact details below. For completeness, we may charge a reasonable fee for processing your request. There is no charge in making your request. If permitted under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), we may decide to refuse your request. Unless it would be unreasonable to do so, we will provide you with written reasons for our refusal.

You may contact us on the details below if you receive access to your Personal Information and wish to make a correction to the Personal Information that we hold. Where applicable and permitted, you may also update your Personal Information directly by logging into your Talent Board Accounts, which allows you to access and edit your registration account information. Candidates and Employers may contact us at talentboard2020@gmail.com to update their profiles as well.

Please contact us using the contact details set out below if you wish to make a complaint about a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) or Australian Privacy Principles. Upon receiving your response, we will take reasonable steps to investigate your complaint or feedback and respond to you in due course. You may also raise a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your Personal Information should be directed to talentboard2020@gmail.com. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. You may wish to visit the website for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner if you are seeking more general information about privacy in Australia by visiting its website: http://www.oaic.gov.au.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.