This Policy was last reviewed and updated on: 29 April 2025

1. Privacy Policy
Beck Engineering Pty Ltd ACN 113 083 060 of 9 Reid Drive, Chatswood West, NSW 2067 (Beck Engineering) is committed to providing quality services and values and respects the privacy of the people we deal with. Beck Engineering is committed to protecting your privacy and where applicable complying with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and other applicable privacy laws and regulations.
This Privacy Policy (Policy) describes how we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information.

2. What is personal information?
“Personal information” means any information or opinion, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, that identifies an individual or allows an individual to be reasonably identifiable. In general terms, this includes information or an opinion that personally identifies you either directly (e.g. your name) or indirectly.

3. What personal information do we collect?
The personal information we collect about you depends on the nature of your dealings with us or what you choose to share with us.
The common personal information we collect about you may include, without limitation:
● name;
● mailing and/or street address;
● date of birth;
● email address;
● phone number.

Under certain circumstances, you may provide Beck Engineering with sensitive information about you. This might include any information or opinion about your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, sexual preferences, criminal record or health information.

If we collect your sensitive information, it will only be used by us:
● for the primary purpose for which it was obtained;
● for a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose;
● with your consent; or
● where required or authorised by law.

You do not have to provide us with your personal information. However, if you choose to deal with us in this way or choose not to provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with our services or otherwise interact with you.

4. How do we collect your personal information?
We collect your personal information directly from you when you:
● interact with us over the phone;
● interact with us in person;
● interact with us online;
● participate in surveys or questionnaires;
● attend a Beck Engineering event;
● subscribe to our mailing list;
● apply for a position with us as an employee, contractor or volunteer.

5. Collecting personal information from third parties

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your personal information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

6. How do we use your personal information?
We use personal information for many purposes in connection with our services, including the following purposes:
● provide you with information or services that you request from us;
● deliver to you a more personalised experience and service offering;
● improve the quality of the services we offer;
● internal administrative purposes;
● marketing and research purposes.

7. Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We may share your personal information within our corporate group as well as with third parties involved in the running of our business. This may involve sharing information across national borders.

We may share your personal information (which may sometimes include sensitive personal information) within our corporate group who require the information for the purposes in this policy. This will include sharing your personal information with Beck Engineering entities in countries other than where the information was originally collected.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in accordance with this Policy in circumstances where you would reasonably expect us to disclose your information. For example, we may disclose your personal information to:
● our third-party service providers;
● our professional services advisors.
Some of the third-party service providers we disclose personal information to may have part of their business based in or have servers located outside of Australia.

8. How do we protect your personal information?
Beck Engineering will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that we hold about you is kept confidential and secure.
Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

9. Online activity

Cookies
The Beck Engineering website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers the website puts on your device if you allow it. These cookies recognise when your device has visited our website(s) before, so we can distinguish you from other users of the website. This improves your experience and the Beck Engineering website(s).
We do not use cookies to identify you, just to improve your experience on our website(s). If you do not wish to use the cookies, you can amend the settings on your internet browser so it will not automatically download cookies. However, if you remove or block cookies on your computer, please be aware that your browsing experience and our website’s functionality may be affected.

Hyperlinks
Beck Engineering website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. If you access a third-party website through our website, personal information may be collected by that third party website. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third-party provider or website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third-party provider or website. Third-party providers/websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Website analytics
We may use website analytics services to help us better understand visitor traffic, so we can improve our services. Although this data is mostly anonymous, it is possible that under certain circumstances, we may connect it to you.

Direct marketing
We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our services, opportunities, or events that we consider may be of interest to you if you have requested or consented to receive such communications. These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, SMS and email, in accordance with applicable marketing laws, such as the Australian Spam Act 2003 (Cth). You consent to us sending you those direct marketing communications by any of those methods. If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so.
You may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by contacting us using the details set out in the “How to contact us” section below.

10. Retention of personal information
We will not keep your personal information for longer than we need to. In most cases, this means that we will only retain your personal information for the duration of your relationship with us unless we are required to retain your personal information to comply with applicable laws, for example record-keeping obligations.

11. How to access and correct your personal information

Beck Engineering will endeavour to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up to date.

If you wish to make a request to access and/or correct the personal information we hold about you, you should make a request by contacting us and we will usually respond within two business days.

12. Country-specific rules
Additional privacy rules and restrictions relating to our management of your personal information may apply in some countries where we operate (including the United Kingdom and EU).

Interpretation
For the purposes of all applicable UK and EU legislation, references in this notice to ‘personal information’ shall be read as references to ‘personal data’ and Beck Engineering is the “controller” in relation to your personal information.

Legal bases for processing your personal information Beck Engineering will only process your personal information where we have a legal basis for doing so. This means we will process your personal information:
● where necessary in connection with the entry into or performance of a contract between you and us;
● to comply with our legal obligations;
● where it is in Beck Engineering’s legitimate business interests; or
● where you are given a genuine choice as to whether or not we collect your data and you have given us your consent. Where you have consented, you will always have the option to withdraw this consent at a later stage and you will never suffer any detriment if you choose not to consent.

Your Rights
In addition to the rights set out above, you have the right, in certain circumstances, to request:
● delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process any personal information that we hold about you;
● the restriction of processing of any personal information that we hold about you; and
● the transfer of your personal information from Beck Engineering to a third party.
● You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information by Beck Engineering in certain circumstances.

13. Inquiries and complaints
For complaints about how Beck Engineering handles, processes or manages your personal information, please contact us using the details listed below. Note we may require proof of your identity and full details of your request before we can process your complaint.

14. How to contact us
If you have a question or concern in relation to our handling of your personal information or this Policy, you can contact us for assistance as follows:

Email
info@beckengineering.com.au

Contact number
+61 448 467 485

Post
Attention: Administrator 
Address: 9 Reid Drive, Chatswood West, NSW, 2067 Australia

15. Policy Updates
This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.