Privacy

How Ironbark Search handles personal information.

Who we are

Ironbark Search, [ABN TBC], of Level 3, 117 King William St, Adelaide SA 5000, recruits for construction, engineering, trades and mining.

This policy explains how we handle personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). It applies to this website, to notes people send through the contact form, and to candidate profiles registered here.

To ask for access, a correction, or deletion, use the contact form or write to us at the Adelaide office above. There is no phone number and no public email address on this site.

What we collect

The contact form collects:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Whether you are an employer, a candidate, or someone else
  • Your organisation, if you give one
  • Your message

If you are a candidate, the message may include recruitment information: the work you do, the states you will work in, and anything else you choose to write. Do not send information you do not want us to hold.

Candidate profiles

The register form collects a profile so we can consider you for construction, engineering, trades and mining roles, including permanent, contract and labour hire. If you apply from a role page, we also keep which role you applied for. We ask for it on the form, and this policy is the notice of what we do with it (APP 3 and APP 5). The profile can include:

  • Your first name and last name
  • Your email address and mobile number
  • Your suburb, postcode and state
  • Your current or most recent job title
  • Your discipline, and any detail you add
  • Your Australian work rights
  • When you are available, and whether you want permanent work, contract work, or either
  • A salary expectation, if you give one
  • A LinkedIn address, if you give one
  • A short message, if you write one
  • A CV, if you attach one (PDF, DOC or DOCX, up to 10 MB)
  • Your agreement to this policy
  • Whether you want to hear about suitable roles

Do not attach a CV, or write a message, that includes information you do not want us to hold. That includes someone else’s personal information.

We also run a security check on the forms (Cloudflare Turnstile). To slow repeated submissions we keep a hash of the network address, not the address itself, with a counter for that hour. We do not use the hash to identify you for marketing.

Job briefs

The submit a job form collects a brief from an employer: company, the name, email and phone of the person sending it, the job title, location, whether it is permanent, contract, labour hire or not yet decided, how many people, a rate or salary if you give one, a start date if you give one, a description, and a position description file if you attach one. We use it to fill that role. The same storage, security check and deletion rules apply as for a candidate profile. The file is not published.

Why we collect it

We collect this information so we can:

  • Read and reply to your note
  • Hold a candidate profile in our recruitment system and consider you for a role
  • Speak with you before your name goes to a client
  • Run a search we have been asked to run
  • If you tick the box, tell you about suitable roles
  • Keep the forms from being abused

If you do not tick “keep me informed about suitable roles”, we still hold the profile so we can consider you, and we still speak with you before a client hears your name. We do not use the profile to send you a list of roles unless you asked. You can ask us to stop. Use the contact form or write to the Adelaide office.

We do not sell personal information. We do not use it for advertising. This site does not use analytics cookies. We use a profile for the recruitment purpose you gave it to us for (APP 6).

Where it is held, and who sees it

Enquiries are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database used by this website. Cloudflare may hold that database outside Australia. When email delivery is switched on, a copy of the enquiry is sent to our team through Resend. Those providers handle the information only so we can run the site and read the note.

A profile you register is sent to our recruitment system, which we use to run searches. That system holds the profile, including the CV if you attached one, so the people who run the firm can consider you for a role. The recruitment system may hold the information outside Australia.

If the recruitment system is unavailable, we keep the profile in the same Cloudflare D1 database until it can be delivered. The CV sits only in that temporary copy. It is not given a public web address. We delete the CV from the website database once delivery succeeds. The profile in the recruitment system is then the copy we use. Access to both stores is limited to the people who run the firm (APP 11).

The security check is provided by Cloudflare. Their processing of that check is covered by Cloudflare’s own terms. We do not receive a copy of any identity document from that check.

If you are a candidate and we put your name to a client, we do that only after we have spoken with you. The client then holds whatever you and we have agreed to share, for their own recruitment decision.

How long we keep it

We keep an enquiry for as long as we need it to reply. We keep a candidate profile for as long as it is relevant to roles we search, unless you ask us to delete it. A temporary copy on the website, including the CV, is kept only until the recruitment system has accepted it, or until you ask us to delete it. The hourly rate-limit counter is not a profile. It expires with the hour it belongs to.

We take reasonable steps to keep the information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access. The forms are served over HTTPS. The CV is not published on this site. Access to stored enquiries and profiles is limited to the people who run the firm.

Cookies

We do not set analytics or advertising cookies. The security check may set a cookie so that the check can be completed. That cookie is part of the check, not a record of your visit for our marketing.

Access, correction and complaints

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it (APP 12 and APP 13). That covers the contact note, the profile in our recruitment system, and any temporary copy still waiting to be delivered, including the CV. Use the contact form or write to the Adelaide office. We will need enough detail to find the record, which will usually be the email address you used.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The OAIC’s website is oaic.gov.au.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will publish the new version on this page. This version was published on 11 November 2026.