Where you give us your personal information, you have a number of rights under the Privacy Act, including:
- when we get personal information from you, we must tell you why we're collecting the information, whether it's needed or authorised under law and whether we can give it to anyone else (IPP 2)
- your personal information must be protected against loss, unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure (IPP 4)
- you can look at our 'personal information digest' setting out the types of personal information we hold (IPP 5)
- you can access records containing personal information about you (sometimes this isn't possible, because other laws don't let you access certain information) (IPP 6)
- you can have personal information about you fixed if it's inaccurate or out of date (IPP 7).
Note: IPP refers to the relevant information privacy principle under the Privacy Act.
Tax file numbers - special laws
There are special laws under the Privacy Act on collecting and using tax file numbers.
We can't ask you to give us your tax file number. If you give us your tax file number, we can't record, use or disclose it.
For example, if you give us your group certificate / payment summary as evidence of amounts paid to you, we can't record, use or otherwise disclose the tax file number.