Collection and Use of Personal Information
Privacy Amendment Act
Personal information collection, holding, use and disclosure of personal information by this organisation is protected by
the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (Cth) (Privacy Act).
Personal information is any information or an opinion that identifies you or could identify you and includes information
about your health.
The purpose for collecting personal information from you is to:
- provide services, including planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, monitoring and reviewing our services
- report to NDIS, government or other funding bodies of how funding is serviced by us,
- take photographs and videos for therapeutic, marketing purposes and family engagement platform
- responding to your feedbacks, and
- responding to your queries.
*Please note that St Anthony’s is required to release information about service users (without identifying you by full name or
address) to the Disability Services Commission and to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, to enable statistics about
disability services and their participants to be compiled. The information will be kept confidential. This information is used
for statistical purposes only and will not be used to affect your entitlements or your access to services. As a user of National
Disability Agreement services you have the right to access your own files and to update or correct information included in the
Disability Services National Minimum Data Set collection.
This organisation will not disclose/use information about you for any secondary purpose unless:
- You have consented to the use or disclosure; or
- You would reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information for the secondary purpose as it is directly
related to the primary purpose; or - The use or disclosure of the information is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal
order; or - Our organisation reasonably believes the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to
life, health or safety of an individual or to public health and safety; or - Our Organisation has reason to suspect an individual may have done something unlawful or engaged in serious
misconduct that relates to organisational functions or activities; - Our organisation reasonably believes that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist another person
to locate a person reported as missing.
Note: Where a participant does not have the capacity to give informed consent and does not have a legal guardian who
has the authority to make decisions on behalf of the participant, the participant’s parent, family member or other person
with a close personal relationship to the participant may sign this form. The person who signs on the participant’s behalf
must print their relationship to the participant next to their name.
Consenting to Release of Personal Information
- In order to comply with privacy legislation, this consent is necessary when participants ask third parties to either
advocate or make inquiries on their behalf regarding various issues or services provided by the organisation. - In all cases, the organisation will only release as much information as is needed in order to respond to the inquiry
or participant’s concern. - Certain information will not be released by the organisation e.g. information about other individuals, records
subject to solicitor-participant privilege, records relating to a current lawful investigation, records the release of
which would affect the safety or health of anyone). - In the event a subsequent inquiry is made by the same third party which is unrelated to any previous participant
concern, another consent form will need to be completed.
Participant Consent for Third Party Release Information
Pursuant to The Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (Cth) and The Health Information Protection
Act.
The purpose is to provide consent to the release of personal information to third parties as requested by the Participant which
is protected and governed by the privacy provisions of The Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012
(Cth) and The Health Information Protection Act.