Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information in compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Australian Privacy Principles therein and any other applicable privacy laws.
This Privacy Policy applies to Star of the South Wind Farm Pty Ltd (ABN 71 623 105 091) (we, us, our) and our affiliates (including trusts), and sets out how we collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information (as described below).
What is personal information?
We may collect personal and non-personal information about you. When we refer to
personal information, we are referring to information or an opinion about an identified or
reasonably identifiable individual. Examples of personal information we may collect
include your name, signature, email address, phone number, postal or residential
address, date of birth, other property information, financial details, identification
documents, photographs, IP addresses, employee record information and anything else
we may consider necessary.
On occasion, we may collect sensitive information about you. However, we will only do
this with your consent or otherwise in accordance with applicable laws. Sensitive
information is a type of personal information that includes information about an
individual's racial or ethnic origin, professional, political or religious affiliations or
memberships, sexual orientation or practices, criminal record, health, genetics and/or
biometrics.
Careers at Star of the South
We also collect personal information when recruiting people to work with us. This may
include the types of information listed above, along with your qualifications, work history
and reference details. Before offering you a position, we may collect additional details
such as your tax file number, superannuation information and other background check
information (such as police clearances, to the extent required or permitted by
applicable laws).
Generally, we will collect this information directly from you. We may also collect this
information from third parties (such as recruitment agencies, background check
agencies or your referees).
Why do we collect personal information?
We collect your personal information for the primary purpose of:
responding to your requests for information, complaints, or other enquiries
concerning our business;informing or updating you about our activities, events and developments;
complying with our contractual, legal or regulatory obligations or exercising our
legal rights;monitoring, analysing or improving our business or website;
facilitating recruitment;
managing our internal record keeping, administration, risk management, training
and accounting;subject to our legal obligations and your requests to opt-out, providing you with
promotional and marketing information about us on an ongoing basis, by any
means including telephone, email and other electronic messages (we may also
share your personal information with our related bodies corporate and partners
for this purpose); andmanaging our relationship or interactions with you, including obtaining your
feedback on our business.
We may also use your personal information for secondary purposes closely related to
these primary purposes in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use
or disclosure.If we use your personal information for any mailing lists, you may opt-out and
unsubscribe from our mailing lists at any time by contacting us in writing at the address
below.
How do we collect personal information?As far as reasonably practicable, we will only collect your personal information directly
from you. We may collect your personal information via your interaction with our:website;
contact, queries, complaints or mailing forms or email addresses;
community consultation processes or events (in person or online); and
marketing initiatives, promotional activities or other events.
In some circumstances, we may obtain your personal information (including sensitive
information) from publicly available sources or third parties. In these circumstances, we
will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware that the information was
obtained from publicly available sources or third parties.
How do we store and protect your personal information?We endeavour to take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from
misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We
maintain physical security over paper and electronic data stored at our premises
including locked document storage and shredding and onsite servers. We also maintain
computer and network security on our computer systems such as network perimeter
firewalls and endpoint security monitoring. Where we store data offsite or in storage
centres, we will ensure that your personal information is treated in accordance with the
applicable laws by those third-party providers.We will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal
information (including sensitive information) when we no longer need it for the purpose
for which it was obtained, or if there is no regulatory or legal requirement for us to keep
your information.We encourage you to exercise care in sending personal information to us via the
internet, particularly where no encryption is used.
How might we use and disclose your personal information?We will not use or disclose your personal information except in accordance with this
Privacy Policy and the applicable laws.We may disclose your personal information for legitimate business purposes, including
to achieve the purposes set out above in relation to our collection of personal
information as well as disclosing personal information to:our related bodies corporate (within the meaning of section 50 of the
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth));to our partners, consultants, contractors and their sub-contractors;
to our agents and other third-party service providers for the purpose of providing
contracted services to us, including research and analytics, information
technology, hosting, telephone, mailing or other documentation-sending, financial,
accounting, legal, auditing, marketing, archival, recruitment, technology and data
processing services;to other third parties:
where an obligation of confidentiality applies to the information disclosed;
to a potential investor or purchaser of any part of our business;
with your consent; and
where required or authorised by law.
We may disclose your personal information to our international investors or third-party
data centres in Australian major cities and outside of Australia, including the United
States and Denmark.
How can you access and correct your personal information?
You may request access to the personal information we hold about you or a summary of
it (including to correct it) by contacting us in writing at the email below.
We will endeavour to provide access promptly. To protect your personal information, we
may require your identification before releasing the requested information.
It is important to us that your personal information is accurate and up to date. If you find
that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please contact us as
soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to
provide quality services to you.
Privacy Policy updates
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
Complaints and enquiries
If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy or the way your personal
information has been handled, please contact us at:
Star of the South
Level 19, 477 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
info@starofthesouth.com.au
1800 340 340
We endeavour to address complaints as quickly as possible. If you are not satisfied with
our response, or we have not responded within 30 business days, you may wish to
contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 2001
enquries@oaic.gov.au
1300 363 992