Information privacy
The Information Privacy Act 2014 (the Information Privacy Act) promotes the protection of the privacy of individuals and instructs how personal information must be managed and protected by ACT public sector agencies including Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate (CMTEDD).
The Information Privacy Act has a set of 13 principles called the Territory Privacy Principles (TPPs). We must apply the TPPs when we collect, store, use, disclose, provide access to or correct your personal information.
The CMTEDD Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, and the Privacy Notice details why we collect personal information and how we might use or disclose it.
Our Privacy Policy is available to download:
CMTEDD Information Privacy Policy PDF 762 KB
CMTEDD Information Privacy Policy DOC 402 KB
Our Privacy Notice is available to download:
CMTEDD Privacy Notice PDF 427 KB
CMTEDD Privacy Notice DOC 182 KB
Contact Information
Postal address
CMTEDD Corporate - Privacy Officer
Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate
GPO Box 158
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Email
CMTEDDPrivacy@act.gov.au
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How to access and correct information about you
You have the right to ask:
- for access to personal information that we hold about you
- that we correct personal information we hold about you.
We will take steps to verify your identity before we disclose or correct any personal information.
If you ask, we must give you access to your personal information and take reasonable steps to correct it if we consider it is incorrect, unless there is a law that allows or requires us not to.
We will notify you and explain our reasons if we refuse to give you access to, or correct, your personal information.
Requests for access may be refused, for example, where the information also contains third party information or is subject to an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act 2016 (FOI Act). In those circumstances we may redirect you to FOI to request information. Visit our Freedom of Information webpage for more information.
If you are aware of which CMTEDD business unit or officer holds your personal information, apply to them in the first instance or contact the CMTEDD Privacy Officer.
Complaints about privacy
If you believe CMTEDD has breached the TPPs with respect to your personal information you may make a complaint to CMTEDD or the ACT Information Privacy Commissioner.
More information about how CMTEDD manages complaints is detailed in the Complaint Handling Policy.
You can make a formal privacy complaint to the ACT Information Privacy Commissioner in the ACT Human Rights Commission if you are unhappy with our response to your complaint, or you believe we have breached your privacy. Visit the ACT Human Rights Commission website for more information.