OUR PERSONAL INFORMATION HANDLING PRACTICES
| We handle your personal information when performing our functions under the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 (ABS Act) and the Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Census and Statistics Act). For further information about the legislated functions of the ABS, please see ABS Legislative Framework |
Your personal information collected by the ABS under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act is protected by additional secrecy provisions.
The Census and Statistics Act secrecy provisions contain standards, rules and obligations for the collection, use and disclosure of information (which may include personal information) which operate alongside the requirements of the Privacy Act. The Census and Statistics Act prohibits the disclosure of your personal information, except in the case when it is returned to the person from whom the ABS collected the information or, in certain circumstances, where the data needs to be queried with a contact person from the business that the data is about. As a result, your personal information remains confidential to the ABS.
For further information, please refer to the ABS Privacy Policy