Under the Privacy Act, you have a right to seek access to information which SVS holds about you (although there are some exceptions to this). You also have the right to ask us to correct information about you which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
If you wish to exercise your right under the Privacy Act to seek access to the personal information that SVS holds about you, we ask that you contact SVS’s Privacy Officer (details at point 7 below), who will explain how SVS will handle your access request.
We will assume (unless you tell us otherwise) that your request for access relates to our current records about you. These current records include personal information about you which is included in our databases and in paper files, and which may be used by SVS on a day-to-day basis.
To provide you with access to this personal information, SVS would ordinarily provide you with a print-out of the relevant personal information from our databases, or with photocopies of records which are held only on paper files. If personal information about you (for example, your name & address details) is duplicated across different databases, we will generally provide you with one printout of this information only. Ordinarily, SVS will not charge you for the cost of providing this type of access to these records.
For legal and administrative reasons, SVS may also store records containing personal information in its archives. You may seek access to the records held by SVS which are not current records, but if you do so, we may charge you for the cost of providing access.
If you are of the view that personal information about you is not accurate, complete or up to date, please provide SVS’s Privacy Officer with your request for correction (contact details are set out at 7 below). SVS’s policy is to consider any requests for correction in a timely way. |