Privacy Policy

Managed Construction Solutions Privacy Policy

Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). We take our obligations seriously and have adopted internal policies and procedures to ensure that all personal information is dealt with in accordance with the Privacy Act. Please take a moment to read our Privacy Policy as this Privacy Policy explains why we collect your personal information and how we manage it.

Please note that this policy may be updated from time to time, without notice to you, in order for us to comply with the Privacy Act or to improve our privacy practices. An up-to-date Privacy Policy will be published on our website.

In this policy, personal information means any information about you (whether true or not) which identifies you or from which your identity is reasonably identifiable.

1. Why do we collect personal information?

We collect and hold personal information about you where it is reasonably necessary for one of our functions or activities. For example, we may collect your personal information to:

  • offer or provide you with our goods and services;
  • communicate with you, including to email you tax invoices and receipts, notify you of changes to your contract, and provide you with information about your property;
  • deal and transact with you, including to process payments, respond to any queries from you or to attend to your complaints;
  • verify your identity;
  • meet our legal obligations, including to enforce our contractual obligations; and
  • otherwise, to conduct and manage our business.

You are not obliged to provide us your personal information. You also have the option of not identifying yourself or of using a pseudonym when dealing with us. However, we may not be able to supply you the relevant goods or services where it is impracticable for us to deal with you anonymously or with you operating under a pseudonym.

2. What kind of personal information do we collect?

The type of information we may collect and hold from time to time may include:

  • your name;
  • addresses;
  • contact details;
  • age;
  • employment details;
  • government related identifiers such as your driver’s licence where it is reasonably necessary to verify your identity; and
  • financial information, which includes bank account details, credit card information, or any other information required for our business and finance management.

We may collect other personal information that you choose to disclose to us. If we determined that we are not permitted to collect that information, then we will destroy or de-identify it.

As at the date of this policy, we are not likely to collect sensitive information. Sensitive information includes, among other things, criminal record, information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or affiliations, membership of a trade union or trade association, or sexual orientation, or health information.

3. How do we collect personal information?

We will only collect personal information by lawful and fair means. This means the method of collection will not be unreasonably intrusive, involve coercion or deception, or conducted without your knowledge. Sometimes, we may be permitted to collect personal information about you without your knowledge, for example, where it is necessary to undertake a fraud investigation.

We will generally collect personal information from you directly, for example, by way of forms, face to face meetings, interviews, business cards, telephone conversations. We may also collect personal information through our website and through applications (including job applications with us) and emails.

Sometimes, we may collect your personal information from a third party, for example, through government agency, by referral, or through our business partners. Where this is the case, we will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances (if any) to notify you of such matters, including, for example, the fact that we have so collected your personal information, the purposes for which we collect your personal information, and how we handle or manage your personal information.

4. How we use and disclose your personal information?

4.1 General

We may use and disclose your personal information for the primary purpose for which it is collected, or for reasonably expected secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose.

For example, we may use and disclose your personal information for the following primary purposes:

  • fulfilling or enforcing our contractual obligations;
  • delivering goods or services to you, such as to quote a scope of works, or to conduct required works where you have engaged us for these purposes;
  • communicating with you;
  • complying with our legal and regulatory obligations, such as the requirements under the Electrical Workers and Contractors Licensing Act 1966;
  • verifying your identity; and
  • conducting our business.

In addition, we may use and disclose your personal information for a secondary purpose that you would reasonably expect us to perform, for example:

  • to facilitate communications between the primary contractor and other parties;
  • to notify you of changes affecting your property or scope of works;
  • to improve the delivery of our services and customer experience; and
  • to de-identify your personal information where your personal information is no longer required for any other purpose;

We may also disclose your personal information to our related body corporate in the Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd group, or to a third party to help us fulfil our contractual obligations. For example, we may disclose your personal information to the following third parties:

  • the lessor or owner of the property;
  • a tradesperson or technician, where you have lodged a request;
  • a government agency, for government-related activities such as verifying your identity; and
  • a specialist or sub-contractor, who may perform functions on our behalf.

If we disclose your information to a third party, we will generally require the third party protect your information to the same extent that we do.

Sometimes, we may be required or authorised by law or a court or tribunal order to disclose or use your personal information. We may also be permitted to disclose your personal information for law enforcement related activities, or as permitted by the APPs.

We will otherwise only use or disclose your personal information for any other purposes with your consent.

4.2 Direct marketing

Like most businesses, marketing is important to our continued success. We believe we have a unique range of products and services that we provide to customers at a high standard. We therefore like to stay in touch with customers and let them know about new opportunities. We may provide you with information about new products, services and promotions either from us, or from third parties which may be of interest to you.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your consent.

You may opt out at any time if you no longer wish to receive commercial messages from us. You can make this request by contacting our Privacy Officer (contact information listed at the end of this policy).

5. Management of personal information

We will take reasonable steps to protect the security of your personal information. Our personnel are required to respect the confidentiality of personal information and the privacy of individuals.

We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of the information and only authorised persons are given access. We also take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Where we no longer require your personal information for any other purposes, we take reasonable steps to de-identify or securely destroy it, unless we are required by law to retain that information.

6. Cookies policy

By using or accessing this website, you acknowledge and consent to Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd‘s use of cookies in accordance with this policy. Please note that cookies and analytical information are generally not considered personal information as your identity is not reasonably ascertainable. Where we can reasonably ascertain your identity based on your cookies or online activities, we will treat that information as personal information in accordance with this policy.

This section helps to explain the occasions when and why cookies may be sent to visitors to the website. “Cookies” are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the website to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the site regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not.

Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience, for analytics and for marketing, but specifically we use cookies on the website for the following purposes:

1. Analytical Purposes: we use cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the website.

2. Your Preferences: we use cookies to store certain user preferences on our website.

3. Marketing: we use cookies from third-party partners such as Google for marketing purposes. These cookies allow us to display Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd may also share information about your behaviour on the website with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customised for you.

4. Referral Tracking: we use cookies to associate user activity with the third party website that referred the user to our website, or to associate user activity that

Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd referred to a third party website. These third party partner websites receive credit for the activity of users they refer to our website, or give Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd credit for the activity of users referred to such third party websites. We do not share any personal information or information about individual user activities with these partner entities.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website.

Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). When we use session cookies to track the total number of visitors to our website, this is done on an anonymous aggregate basis (as cookies do not in themselves carry any personal data). We may also employ cookies so that we remember your computer when it is used to return to the website to help customise your Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd web experience. We may associate personal information with a cookie file in those instances. Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.

7. Disclosure to overseas recipients

As at the date of this Privacy Policy, we are not likely to disclose your personal information to overseas recipients.

If in future we do propose to disclose personal information overseas, we will do so in compliance with the requirements of the Privacy Act. We will, where practicable, advise you of the countries in which any overseas recipients are likely to be located.

If you do not want us to disclose your information to overseas recipients, please let us know.

8. Accessing and correcting your personal information

Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd endeavours to ensure that the personal information it holds is accurate, complete and up-to-date. We encourage you to contact us to update any personal information that we hold about you.

You may contact our Privacy Officer (contact information listed below) to request access to the personal information that we hold about you and/or to make corrections to that information, at any time. On the rare occasions when we refuse access, we will provide you with a written notice stating our reasons for refusing access. We may seek to recover from you reasonable costs incurred for providing you with access to any of the personal information about you held by us.

We are not obliged to correct any of your personal information if we do not agree that it requires correction and may refuse to do so. If we refuse a correction request, we will provide you with a written notice stating our reasons for refusing.

We will respond to all requests for access to or correction of personal information within a reasonable time.

9. Resolving privacy concerns

If you would like a copy of Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd‘s Privacy Policy or access to your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer at:

Attn: Privacy Officer
Managed Construction Solutions Pty Ltd

PO Box 5042, ALBERTON SA 5014

Telephone: 08 8244 0818

Email: administration@mc-solutions.com.au

We take all complaints seriously and will attempt to respond to your complaint within a reasonable period. If you are dissatisfied with the way we handled your complaint, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner:

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

GPO Box 5288

Sydney NSW 2001

Telephone: 1300 363 992

Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au

This document was last updated on June 30, 2023.