Who we are
Your information is being collected by the Long Service Corporation, an agency within the NSW Department of Customer Service. The NSW Department of Customer Service gives priority to protecting the privacy of your personal information, in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act).
If you have any questions about this document, or how we handle your personal information, you can contact our privacy team using the contact details at the end of this notice.
Why we collect your personal information
We collect personal information for the purposes of registering you as a building and construction long service levy payer in accordance with Part 5 of the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986.
The kinds of information we collect
We may collect the following information:
- your full name, and contact details including your address, email, and phone number
- details of the development, including information relating to the development approval and your owner builder permit number (if applicable)
Failure to provide information
If you do not provide your personal information, Long Service Corporation may not be able to register you as a levy payer or process your long service levy payment(s). In accordance with section 39 of the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986, the maximum penalty for failure to pay a long service levy is 20 penalty units.
How we may use this information
We may use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To process your long service levy payment in accordance with the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986.
- To enable us to administer the building and construction industry portable long service payment scheme, including sending you information that we consider important, such as payment receipts.
- To support more informed policy making, program management, evaluation, research and service planning as it can facilitate more efficient service delivery for the building and construction industry in NSW.
- Other directly related purposes.
Who we may share your information with
We will not disclose your information to anybody else unless we are authorised or permitted to do so by law or where you have given consent. Our privacy statement provides further information about how we may share personal information.
If required, we may make enquiries and exchange information with other NSW Government agencies, or other states, territories and/or the Commonwealth for the purposes of recognising eligible work and long service payments recorded in another state or territory, verifying the information you provide or requesting additional information. We may disclose your information with such bodies for these purposes.
Service NSW
Service NSW provides a digital front door for this application, and your MyServiceNSW Account may be used to initiate this application and verify your identity.
ServiceNSW collects and uses your personal information to:
- Initiate the application using your MyServiceNSW Account details.
- Verify your identity with the Document Verification Service.
- With your consent, share details from your MyServiceNSW Account with the Long Service Corporation.
- Process the levy payment on behalf of the Long Service Corporation.
Other information that you provide through the levy payment process will not be collected or stored by Service NSW.
Service NSW maintains and uses your personal information for internal administrative purposes, including for the purposes of our interactions with you.
For more information about how Service NSW handles personal information, please visit the Service NSW privacy statement or contact privacy@service.nsw.gov.au
Protecting your information
We have measures in place to help protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or other misuse.
We will store and manage your information in accordance with the provisions of the PPIP Act and HRIP Act.
We will only keep information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. After which, the information will be disposed of securely in accordance with the State Records Act 1998 and any other applicable legislation.
See our Privacy Management Plan or visit our page on Privacy, for more information.
Your rights
Subject to certain conditions, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:
- The right to request access to your personal information.
- The right to request correction of your personal information.
If you wish to invoke any of the above rights, please contact us using the details below.
Contact us
If you would like to make a privacy enquiry or complaint, you can contact us by writing to:
lscprivacy@longservice.nsw.gov.au
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Long Service Corporation
Locked Bag 3000
Central Coast MC NSW 2252