VIP Portfolio understands the importance of privacy to you. VIP Portfolio has adopted this Privacy Policy as we recognise the right of our clients, customers and candidates to keep their personal information confidential, secure and private.

This Privacy Policy covers VIP Portfolio's treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect or hold. Like many other organisations, VIP Portfolio must comply with the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act in dealing with personal information.

Information Collected

VIP Portfolio may collect information about you, such as your name, contact details, skills, qualifications, nationality, languages spoken, professional association memberships or accreditations, interests and your employment history and past responsibilities. We may also collect this and other types of personal information, such as references and employment objectives during the course of dealing with you, for example if you are considered for a particular position of employment.

Where practicable, the purpose for which we collect personal information and the consequences of not providing it will be made clear at the time of collection.

How We Use Information

VIP Portfolio will use the personal information we collect for the purpose disclosed at the time of collection, or otherwise as set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not use your personal information for any other purpose without first seeking your consent, unless authorised or required by law. Generally we will only use and disclose your personal information:

a) to provide the services you have requested from VIP Portfolio;

b) to answer your inquiry;

c) to assist us to make VIP Portfolio services more valuable to our clients and candidates;

d) to keep you informed of new developments we believe may be of interest to you. If we contact you in this way without obtaining your prior consent, we will provide you with the opportunity to decline any further communications;

Security

VIP Portfolio will take reasonable steps to keep secure any personal information which we hold and to keep this information accurate and up to date. Personal information is stored in a secure server or secure files.

The Internet is not always a secure method of transmitting information. Accordingly, while we have sought to protect your personal information by implementing digital security systems in various sections of our website, VIP Portfolio cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send to or receive from us over the Internet or for any unauthorised access or use of that information.