Collection notice

The Sexual Violence Review Board (the Board) is committed to protecting personal information in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009. This notice explains how the Board will collect, use, and disclose personal information.

What is being collected?

The Board is collecting personal information, including your name, contact details, and details of your consultation conversation or interview, submission or your response to survey questions. This information is being collected under the Victims’ Commissioner and Sexual Violence Review Board Act 2024 to inform the systemic reviews undertaken by the Board.

People may also choose to provide their post code, information about their cultural background, and gender, if they register to receive updates about future consultation. This information helps the Board to understand who they are engaging with.

How will the personal information be used or disclosed?

Personal information will only be used for the purpose for which it was collected or as authorised or required by law.

Personal information from a consultation or interview will only be used in accordance with the Participant information sheet and consent form, that is, that any information collected which is directly referenced in a Board publication will be presented in an anonymised deidentified manner.

Personal information included a submission or survey will not be published without consent. Dependent on the level of consent, a written submission may be treated as:

• Public, meaning that the submission will be published online, including a person’s name, and the submission and person’s name may be referred to in a report.
• Anonymous, meaning that the submission will be published and may be referred to in a report, but will not include any identifying details such as a person’s name.
• Confidential, meaning that the submission will not be published or referred to in a report.

Private information (such as personal addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers) is removed from all public submissions prior to publications.

The following details will not be published:

• survey responses
• audio submissions
• submissions that breach laws or name specific people or dates, or talk about specific events
• submissions that promote a product or service
• submissions that contain offensive language
• submissions that may be defamatory
• submissions that express sentiments that are likely to be offensive
• submissions that do not substantively comment on the relevant issues pursuant to the review

Anonymous submissions are not accepted

Where a submission or survey response indicates risk of serious harm, security, safety and health to the person who submitted or to another person, personal information and/or submissions may be shared with law enforcement agencies. Personal information, including the submission, may be shared with other relevant agencies for investigation when the information indicates suspected misconduct, including corrupt conduct, fraud or maladministration.

In Queensland, all adults have a legal obligation to report suspected child sexual abuse by another adult to the police, unless there are reasonable excuses not to. We will report information about child sexual abuse to police.

Where will personal information be stored?

Personal information, including submissions and notes of consultation or interviews, is collected in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009. Data will be securely stored and will only be shared with authorised personnel undertaking the review.

The Board will only store personal information in Australia in the information technology systems of the Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support.

How can a person access their personal information or ask for it to be changed?

A person has the right to access and amend their personal information held by the Board. To do so, contact:

• privacy@victimscommissioner.qld.gov.au or 1800 714 100.