Medical Jobs Limited (owner and operator of Ahpra.net) understands the importance of protecting clients’ and staff members’ privacy. We are committed to complying with the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles.
We will only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our Ahpra.net website activities or functions.
Medical Jobs Limited’s Privacy Policy and Collection Notice & Consent to Electronic Transaction Policy complies with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles.
We do not collect personal information just because we think it could be useful at some future stage if we have no present need for it. We do not collect or use personal information for the purposes of unlawful discrimination.
If we receive unsolicited personal information from you or about you, Medical Jobs Limited will take such measures as we think appropriate to purge it from our systems.
This policy is designed to provide guidelines on how Medical Jobs Limited manages personal information relating to free and paid stand out directory listings on our website as an APP Entity and the Australian Privacy Principles.
The following privacy policy applies to all Medical Jobs Limited (www.Ahpra.net) users and conforms to Internet privacy standards.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact: [email protected]
Medical Jobs Limited manages personal information, as an APP Entity, under the Australian Privacy Principles.
Information we collect from you will commence when you request information, submit an online enquiry with us via our website, and submit information to create a free or paid stand out listing on our website.
When we receive personal information, we:
This policy may change over time in light of changes to privacy laws, technology and business practices. If you use our website regularly or conduct transactions with us that involve collection of your personal information, it is important that you check this policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the extent of any consent, authorisation or permission you might give.
The purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information are those purposes that are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a health and medical online directory website.
The following are also relevant to our use and disclosure of your personal information:
The means by which we will generally collect your personal information are likely to differ depending on whether you are:
Personal information will be collected from you directly when you fill out an online enquiry form, request technical support and submit an online application form for a free or paid stand out listing on Ahpra.net
Information will also be collected electronically via our telecommunications or email systems. See section 9 for more information on electronic transactions.
Personal information is also collected when you provide us with any additional information about you;
When submitting advertiser information via Ahpra.net’s online application form, advertisers are required to complete relevant contact information fields. When a advertiser submits information via our online advertiser form, you are:
Healthcareeraustralia.net free and paid advertisers must comply with our Terms of Use, Privacy policies and the Privacy Act. Medical Jobs Limited is not responsible for any third party, health and medical employer's use of your directory information. You have the right to contact the health and medical employer directly to request access to your directory information.
Personal information about you may be collected:
The type of information that we typically collect and hold about Health and Medical organisations is information that is necessary to help us manage the presentation and delivery of our services and includes:
The security of your personal information is important to us. Payments are done through a secure payment provider. We never store credit card details.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
All user generated contact information and uploaded content is stored on secure Medical Jobs Limited servers and controlled facilities. Medical Jobs Limited employees and contractors are bound to the confidentiality and privacy of your personal information. In the event that your contact information is obtained through unauthorised means, Medical Jobs Limited will not be held legally responsible.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can email us at: [email protected]
Medical Jobs Limited does not collect any information that identifies you individually unless you submit it.
When a health and medical organisation chooses to create a free or paid stand out listing on our website, the user is specifically consenting to Medical Jobs Limited’s (Ahpra.net.) use of your personal information as outlined in our Terms and Conditions and Privacy sections.
We take a range of measures to protect your personal information.
Whilst your free or paid stand out listing is active, your personal information is held in our secure database which has restricted access to employees with approved login credentials. Information is may also be stored in hard copy filing systems that are locked and only accessed by persons authorised to do so as is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as a health and medical online directory website.
There are some inherent risks in the use of the Internet Communications and other Technologies. For more information, see link: www.oaic.gov.au/privacy
It is important that you read the section on Electronic Transactions if you are using Internet Communications or other technologies to communicate with us.
We market to health and medical professionals (doctors, nurses and midwives, dental professionals and allied health professionals) and health and medical organisations using a variety of methods including email, phone, SMS and print materials. We will only use personal information related to our business, except where you have specifically requested, we don’t. We may use personal information for the purposes of contacting you about our goods and services. If you do not wish to have your personal information used for direct marketing purposes, you may contact us at: [email protected], and request not to receive direct marketing communications from us. Upon receipt of this request, your marketing preferences will be updated on our systems.
Any opinions you provide to us such as testimonials may be passed onto a third party for the purposes of creating marketing materials. In these cases, we will ask your consent before passing this information onto the third party.
This section explains how we handle personal information collected from our website Ahpra.net and by other technology in the course of electronic transactions.
It is important that you understand that there are risks associated with use of the Internet and you should take all appropriate steps to protect your personal information. It might help you to look at the OAIC's resource on Social Media and Online Privacy.
It is important tht you:
Please contact us at: [email protected] if you have concerns.
Sometimes, we collect personal information that individuals choose to give us via online forms or by email, for example when individuals:
In cases where we use cloud computing services, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that:
Logos should only be used from companies who have given consent to the display of their logo. Displaying logos without the company's consent may breach privacy laws and you may be responsible for any legal consequences.
Our technology systems log emails received and sent and may include voting and read and receipt notifications to enable tracking.
When your email address is received by us, it may be added to a mailing list for the purposes of communicating with you information we feel you would be interested in unless you have specifically requested not to be added to any mailing lists, or you opt-out of receiving communications.
Our staff use laptops, tablets, phones and other portable electronic devices that allow them to access, retrieve and store your information.
Recognising the environmental advantages and efficiencies it provides, we operate as a partially paperless office as a result of which your paper-based communications with us may be digitised and retained in digital format. It is therefore important that, except where specifically requested, you do not send us originals of any paper-based document and that you retain copies for your own records.
We use an internal company software and database to log and record business operations. Your information is stored in our internal company software, database and network drives. Your information is also securely retained as part of our backup and Disaster Recovery processes. Backups are secured with access by authorized IT persons only.
Where we utilise Cloud computing services, please also refer to Electronic Communications – Cloud Computing Services to understand our obligations.
When you look at our website, our Internet service provider makes a record of the visit and logs (in server logs) the following information for statistical purposes:
We do not identify users or their browsing activities except, in the event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the Internet service provider's server logs.
We do not accept responsibility for the privacy policy of any other site to which our site has a hyperlink, and it is advisable to look at the privacy policy of other sites before disclosing personal information.
Cookies are uniquely numbered identification numbers like tags which are placed on your browser. By themselves cookies do not identify you personally, but they may link back to a database record about you. If you register on our website, we will then link your cookie back to your personal information details.
This website uses cookies to monitor usage of our website to create a personal record of when you visit our website and what pages you view. Cookies are necessary to enable tracking/measurement of our visitors on our website, but if you do not wish us to retain any information about your visit to our website you could delete the cookies on your browser and change the settings on your web browser program.
The website analytical statistics, your preferences, marketing and referral tracking for Ahpra.net are generated from this usage data, as outlined above, and analytics programs such as Google Analytics are used to view and access the data.
Our cookies policy may change over time. If you use our website regularly, it is important that you check this policy from time to time for future updates.
If we use web beacons, we will display a clearly visible icon on the page. The icon will include the name of the company collecting information and will be labelled as a tracking device. The web beacon will be linked to a page disclosing what data is collected, how it is used, and which companies receive the data. Web visitors will be able to opt out of data collection by web beacons. Web bugs will not be used to collect sensitive information.
If you have any feedback or questions about this Statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Medical Jobs Limited/Ahpra.net, you can contact us in the following way:
Email: [email protected]
Your personal information will be collected by Medical Jobs Limited (Owner and Operator) of www.Ahpra.net for its own use as we require access to your personal and sensitive information in connection with our role as an online directory.
Your personal information will be held by Medical Jobs Limited. Some of your personal information may be held on portable devices such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, other portable electronic devices or in diaries operated and held by our staff members.
If you wish to contact us about your personal information, please contact us at: [email protected]
Medical Jobs Limited collects, stores and uses personal information that health and medical users and health and medical organisation users actively submit on our website including but not limited to: health and medical user and health and medical organisation contact details. In addition, when a health and medical organisation user lists a paid stand out listing, Medical Jobs Limited collects payment information including credit card number and related payment verification information.
The type of personal information that we collect and hold is information that is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of our functions and activities as Ahpra.net and is likely to differ depending on whether you are:
Medical Jobs Limited collects personal information that users actively submit on our website including but not limited to: contact form enquiries and submitting information for a free or paid stand out listing. When a user actively submits information on our website, they are specifically consenting to Medical Jobs Limited’s use of their your personal information as outlined on our website's Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.
Sometimes we may collect sensitive information. Sensitive information as defined in the Privacy Act is only collected with consent and where it is necessary for the performance of our functions and activities. Sensitive information will need to be collected where it relates to a genuine information requirement for user registration or a health and medical employer's user registration for the listing of a paid medical job ad. Our collection of some types of sensitive information is also governed by equal opportunity and anti-discrimination laws.
The use of your personal information will depend on whether you are a health and medical user or a health and medical organisation. Medical Jobs Limited uses personal information for the following functions:
For Ahpra.net – Health and Medical Users
For Ahpra.net – Health & Medical Organisations
We market to professional health and medical users (doctors, nurses and allied health professionals) and health and medical organisations using a variety of methods including email, phone, SMS and print material.
We will only use personal information related to our business, except where you have specifically requested we don’t. We may use personal information for the purposes of contacting you about our goods and services. If you do not wish to have your personal information used for direct marketing purposes, you may contact us at [email protected] and request not to receive direct marketing communications from us. Upon receipt of this request, your marketing preferences will be updated on our systems.
Any opinions you provide to us such as testimonials may be passed onto a third party for the purposes of creating marketing materials. In these cases, we will ask your consent before passing this information onto the third party.
Personal information that we hold about you is only disclosed for the primary and related purposes for which it was collected. This includes:
We may disclose your personal information for any of the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a related purpose where lawfully permitted. We may disclose your personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so. Disclosure will usually be: internally and to our related entities. In addition to disclosures for general purposes, we may also disclose your personal information for a range of related purposes.
We outsource a number of services to contracted service providers from time to time. Our contracted service providers may see some of your personal information. Typically our contracted service providers would include: Software solutions providers; IT contractors and database designers and Internet service suppliers; legal and other professional advisors; insurance brokers, loss assessors and underwriters; background checking and screening agents and media, communications and marketing consultants.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that terms of service with our CSP's recognise that we are bound by obligations to protect the privacy of your personal information and that they will not do anything that would cause us to breach those obligations.
We conduct transactions electronically as well as in hard copy. It is important that you understand that there are risks associated with the use of electronic technologies and the use of the Internet and you should take all appropriate steps to protect your personal information. It might help you to look at the OAIC's resource on Social Media and onine privacy