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GHD recognises applicable local laws and regulations and relevant data protection standards in respect of the collection, use, disclosure storage and transfer of personal information from individuals.<br /> <br /> This Privacy Policy details the practices we have adopted to protect your privacy so that you can understand how we manage your “personal information”, any “personally identifiable information” or “personal data” (as defined under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR”) (together collectively referred to as “personal information” in this Privacy Policy), you entrust to us.<br /> <br /> This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can contact us in relation to your personal information and, if requested by you, opt-out of this Privacy Policy, limit the use of, or amend, any personal information we may have about you.<br /> <br /> By providing us with personal information about yourself through your interactions with GHD, our website, any GHD webpage or otherwise, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and transfer of that personal information as set out in this Policy. If at any time, you wish to withdraw your consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and transfer of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, you may opt-out by contacting us (refer to the Contact Us information below) and by immediately ceasing to provide any further personal information about yourself to GHD via its website or otherwise.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="hero-block-summary contact-us-field-hide"> </div> <div class="row"></div> </section> </div> <div class="component accordion"> <section class="accordion-block" id="accordion" data-theme='light' data-spacing-top='large' data-spacing-bottom='medium'> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid-span-narrow"> <div class="accordions"> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 1. What is personal Information? </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you (either directly or indirectly), and may be collected directly from you, by a third party you have given consent to disclosing your personal information, or by a credit agency, government or statutory body. </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 2. When do we collect and hold personal information? </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>We collect and store personal information (including names, telephone numbers, address, email address, occupation, education, and qualifications etc.) both online and offline in a range of contexts, most commonly:</p> <ul> <li>when individuals interact, have conversations or otherwise communicate with us</li> <li>when individuals attend events hosted by us or which we also attend</li> <li>when individuals download white papers or other publications of GHD which may be of interest to them</li> <li>when entering into relationships with new clients or potential clients</li> <li>when individuals apply for employment or other business opportunities with us and enter employment arrangements</li> <li>when individuals register online for access to secure sites or collaboration services hosted by GHD or third parties on behalf of GHD including, SharePoint Online, ProjectWise, BIM360, ArcGIS Online, or other services</li> <li>when we conduct surveys, community consultation, environmental and other studies as part of our business</li> <li>from third parties in the course of, or our related to, our business activities such as our vendors, business or commercial partners</li> </ul> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 3. What do we do with personal information? </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>We may use your personal information as necessary which includes:</p> <ul> <li>in compliance with legal obligations;</li> <li>to enable us to provide services to you or our clients;</li> <li>to communicate information about our services;</li> <li>for our internal administrative, account management, planning, business development, and research requirements;</li> <li>to promote contact with you, clients and other business partners via marketing communications, execution and analysis of market surveys, and marketing strategies and campaigns.</li> <li>to conduct due diligence and compliance requirements such as screening against publicly available government lists;</li> <li>to consider the suitability of applicants for employment with us; and/or</li> <li>for any other purpose you provide your consent for.</li> </ul> <p>As an example, one of the key objectives of GHD’s website is to provide information about who we are, what we do and our local and global professional capabilities. We may collect personal information to update our website and provide relevant information to the website user about GHD, our services, our key people in our regions or our capabilities in a variety of contexts.</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 4. Reasons we may share or disclose your personal information </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>Whilst always complying with this Privacy Policy, and having primary regard for the protection of your personal information, GHD may share or disclose your personal information in several circumstances, such as:</p> <ul> <li>by authorised GHD personnel to the extent such access is necessary to serve the intended purpose and for them to perform their jobs, which may include sharing information between your GHD business contact, and personnel within our People, Finance, Internal Audit, Information Services, Marketing and Legal Services teams.</li> <li>with other GHD group entities, and with personnel at other GHD office locations.</li> <li>when remotely accessed from the Philippines by GHD personnel providing GHD internal technology support.</li> <li>when collecting and analysing empirical data relating to recruitment and personnel and making this available to our Global People team.</li> <li>when sharing employee CVs and work experience within our business for the purpose of identifying appropriate communications and resources to clients.</li> <li>to third-party service providers (such as those who provide due diligence and screening for compliance requirements such as employment and vendor pre–screening or credit references), professional advisors (such as auditors and lawyers), and law enforcement and regulatory bodies.</li> <li>to third-party service providers who support our Information Services function and provide services and technical support, data hosting, data analytics and other similar services for us, who may require access to information about you for this purpose.</li> </ul> <p>We require these people to protect your information as carefully as we do. Third parties will not be authorised to use your personal information for any other purpose than for which it is disclosed or for purposes you might reasonably anticipate as a disclosing person, such as a job applicant, employee, client, or business partner.<br /> <br /> Due to the global nature of GHD’s operations, access, use and storage of personal information may be effected across jurisdictions. The third parties we disclose your personal information to may also be based in, or have servers located in, a jurisdiction other than where you reside, including but not limited to<br /> <br /> Australia, Asia, North and South America and the Pacific Region. Where an international data transfer takes place, we will comply with the level of data protection required by applicable data privacy laws and take reasonable steps to ensure that this will not negatively affect the level of protection afforded to your personal information. Your consent to us disclosing and transferring your personal information to service providers is provided on the basis that the relevant third parties have the appropriate technical, organisational, and contractual means to protect your personal information.<br /> <br /> GHD will not use, share, or disclose your personal information collected for a particular purpose for another secondary purpose (which you would not reasonably expect) without your consent unless we are required or authorised by law, or compelled for legitimate legal reasons by government authority or law enforcement agency. GHD must seek additional consent from you to use or retain your personal information other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, and you have the choice to opt-out at any time by contacting us (as outlined below).</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 5. Your personal information is never sold or rented </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>GHD is driven by a client service driven culture. For this reason, we may send marketing material or communicate information that we think may be relevant or of interest to you or your industry or provide you with details about our latest services that you may benefit from.<br /> <br /> At any time, you may opt-out of receiving any communications from us (other than as required for the operation of our business, for example, regarding payment of accounts) or change your marketing communication preferences.<br /> <br /> Electronic marketing or communications material will have an “unsubscribe” link or contain instructions allowing you to opt-out or change your preferences. Alternatively, you can contact us directly about our marketing and communications by using the contact details below.</p> <p><strong>5.1 California residents and direct marketing</strong><br /> <br /> California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding GHD’s disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. It should be noted that GHD does not disclose personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes, regardless of jurisdiction.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 6. How do we use "cookies", "log files", data analytics and other similar technology? </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> The <a href="/en/cookie-policy">GHD Cookies Policy</a> should be read in conjunction with this Privacy Policy. </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 7. Links to third party websites </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>Websites operated by us may contain links to other websites that are operated by third parties. Whilst GHD tries to link only websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we make no representations or warranties as to the privacy practices of any third-party site and cannot be responsible for the privacy policies, content, or security of other sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, or cover, linked websites.</p><p /><p>If you access or share information to websites linked to our website, the operators of those websites may collect your information in accordance with their own privacy policies that may differ to ours. You should review the privacy, “cookie” and other policies displayed on these websites to find out how your personal information may be used and stored.</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 8. Data security </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>We will take all reasonable steps and apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to maintain the security of any personal information we receive from you and protect it from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, or modification.</p><p /><p>We use a variety of secure techniques to store and protect your information. Although GHD is constantly reviewing its information security technology and practices we cannot guarantee absolute data security.</p><p /><p>We will only keep your personal information when we consider it necessary for one of the purposes for which you have disclosed it or as required to be retained by law. If it is no longer necessary to keep your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify your personal information safely, if required.</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 9. How can you access and correct information? </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>You may have a right in certain circumstances to request a copy of the personal information about you we may hold, request the removal of personal information from our records and to have inaccurate information changed or out-of-date information amended.</p> <p>Please submit a request to the <a href="mailto:dataprotection.officer@ghd.com" title="dataprotection.officer@ghd.com">dataprotection.officer@ghd.com</a> or via the Contact Us link on our website, and we will respond to your request as required by applicable law.</p> <p>For security reasons, we may ask you to verify your identity to ensure that we do not give information to the wrong person or change or remove your personal information without your express consent.</p> <p>If there is no applicable legal or regulatory requirement for GHD to respond to your request, GHD will respond at its discretion.</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 10. Children’s information </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> GHD websites and collaboration services hosted by GHD or third parties on behalf of GHD are intended to be used by adults and corporate entities interested in GHD and are not directed to children. To the extent GHD was to collect any personal information from children under 13 years of age, it would be limited to collection with a parent or guardian’s consent. </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 11. Data breach notification </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> In the highly unlikely event of a data breach, GHD will act promptly to comply with applicable local laws. As required by applicable laws where it is reasonably foreseeable that an individual will suffer serious harm as a result of an unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information and GHD has not been able to prevent the risk of serious harm with remedial action, the relevant regulatory body and, where possible, the affected individual will be contacted without undue delay. This notification shall include such things as the nature of the breach, the personal information possibly involved, and measures taken to address the breach (including to reduce the harm of negative consequences) and the contact details from whom affected individuals can obtain further information. </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 12. Future changes to our Privacy Policy </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>Your privacy is important to us and GHD is committed to our privacy practices being up to date with prevailing best practices and changes in local laws, regulations and data protection standards and technology.</p><p /><p>Given this, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time and will notify you by posting an updated version of our Privacy Policy on our website. The amended policy will apply between us as and when it is posted on our website. This document represents GHD’s Privacy Policy as at 12 March 2023</p> </div> </div> </details> <details class="accordion"> <summary> 13. How to contact us </summary> <div class="accordion__content rte __left"> <figure class="accordion-picture-container"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <div class="__text" style="flex: 1 1 0%;"> <p>If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, wish to opt-out of our Privacy Policy or have any complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or personal information by us, please contact a local GHD office, use the Contact Us link on our website, or contact our Data Protection Officer using the details set out below. Any genuine concerns or complaints will be investigated and responded to in line with local law.<br /> <br /> Integrity Officer </p> <p>c/- Office of the Company Secretary </p> <p>Level 15, 133 Castlereagh Street</p> <p>Sydney NSW, 2000</p> <p>Email: <a href="mailto:DataProtection.officer@ghd.com">DataProtection.officer@ghd.com</a></p> <p>Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ghd.com" target="_blank">www.ghd.com</a><br /> <br /> If you are not satisfied with a response, dependent on your location, you may have an option to refer your complaint to a relevant privacy regulator. 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