Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals’ personal information. This Privacy Policy sets out the principles that Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will follow in collecting, using, holding, disclosing and otherwise managing personal information.
“Personal information” is information or an opinion about an identified individual or an individual who is reasonably identifiable, whether true or not and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited is bound by the Privacy Act 1998 (Commonwealth) (Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles that are contained in that Act.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited may collect personal information about an individual in a variety of ways, including when an individual interacts with Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited in person or electronically, for example when an individual accesses our website.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will only collect personal information about an individual where the information is reasonably necessary for one or more of our functions or activities. The kinds of personal information collected and held, how that information is collected and held and the purposes for which that information will be collected, held, used and disclosed will depend on the circumstances.
Examples of instances where personal information may be collected by Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited include:
Examples of the kinds of personal information Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited may collect and hold include:
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that is collected, used or disclosed by it is complete and up to date. Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will only collect personal information about an individual from that individual unless it is unreasonable or impractical to do so.
At or before, or if that is not practicable, as soon as practicable after, the time that the personal information is collected, Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will take reasonable steps to ensure that the individual is aware of the matters required by the Australian Privacy Principles, including:
If Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited collects personal information about an individual from someone else, Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will take reasonable steps to ensure that the individual is aware that Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited has collected the information and of the above matters.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will only use or disclose this personal information for:
Examples of instances where Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited may disclose personal information about individuals to third parties include disclosure to providers of services to Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited, government agencies, regulatory authorities, related bodies corporate of Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited and professional advisers of Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited. Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited requires its service providers to keep the personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose other than performing those services.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited is unlikely to disclose personal information to overseas recipients.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that it holds is protected from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will also take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information it holds that is no longer necessary for the disclosed purpose is destroyed or permanently de-identified, subject to any legal obligation to keep the personal information for any required period of time.
At the request of an individual, Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will, in most circumstances, provide access to an individual to any personal information that is being held by Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited about that individual.
There are certain circumstances where Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited will not provide an individual access to such personal information in accordance with the Act. These circumstances include where providing access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where providing access would reveal commercially sensitive information about the organisation or where providing access would be unlawful.
An individual can seek access to, and update or correct, any personal information that is being held by Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited about that individual by contacting us here.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited may amend this Policy from time to time.
This Policy as amended from time to time is to be placed on the Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited intranet and website and is also available upon request.
If a person has any concern, query or complaint about:
they are to be referred to the Company Secretary/Chief Financial Officer.
Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited takes complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of the complaint.
Approved 12 March 2014.
