NDIS Access Changes Consultation
Privacy and Collection notice
Please read below the Privacy Notice for this consultation.
Your personal information is protected by law, including the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
Who is collecting your personal information?
Your personal information is being collected by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (the department/ we).
Who will the department disclose your personal information to?
We may disclose a limited set of personal and sensitive information to a contracted provider for the purpose of collecting phone submissions and analysing written submissions to inform policy development around NDIS access changes.
For phone submissions, this will include your personal information to record your submission and sensitive information, including whether you identify as a person with disability, are an NDIS participant, come from a Culturally or Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background, live in a regional, rural or remote area of Australia, or identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Asexual or Aromantic or other groups of sexuality, gender and bodily diverse people (LGBTIQA+). Providing this information is optional.
For written submissions, all consultation and survey responses will be de-identified before disclosure to our contracted provider.
Why does the department collect your personal information?
We collect your personal information for the purpose of informing development of advice to government about robust and consistent NDIS access decision-making processes and standardised evidence requirements for assessing substantially reduced functional capacity.
Your personal information may also be used for other purposes such as informing other projects or research purposes. In doing so, we will apply the Australian Privacy Principles to the handling of any personal information.
What would happen if the department did not collect your personal information?
If you do not or are unable to provide your personal information the department will not be able to use it, or the insights you wish to provide, to inform development of changes to accessing the NDIS.
Access to and correction of your personal information
The department’s privacy policy contains information about how you may access and seek correction of your personal information.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
The Department will not share any personal information with third parties. We may disclose de-identified submissions to any organisation contracted to the department to complete this work, the National Disability Insurance Agency and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
Privacy complaints
The department’s privacy policy contains information about how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or the Australian Government Agencies Privacy Code and how the department will deal with complaints.
Overseas disclosure of your personal information
We will not disclose your personal views to any overseas recipients.
Further information
You can read the department’s privacy policy here. You can obtain a copy of the APP privacy policy by contacting the department using the contact details set out at the end of this notice.
Consent
By providing your sensitive information to us, you consent to the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing collecting a range of your personal information about you for the purposes indicated above.
Personal information that may be collected about you includes whether you identify as a person with disability, are an NDIS participant, come from a Culturally or Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background, live in a regional, rural or remote area of Australia, or identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Asexual or Aromantic or other groups of sexuality, gender and bodily diverse people (LGBTIQA+). Providing this information is optional.
If you are providing the department with personal information about another individual, unless you are authorised to consent on their behalf, you will need to inform that individual of the contents of this notice, and obtain their consent to the department collecting their personal information.
Contact details
If you wish to contact the department about a privacy-related matter, including questions about this notice, please contact the department’s Privacy Officer by one of the following methods:
- Post
Privacy Officer
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
23 Furzer Street
WODEN ACT 2606 - Email
privacy@health.gov.au - Telephone
02 6289 1555