Australian Industry Publication Consultation Collection Notice

The ABS is consulting with users of the Australian Industry publication to understand how the outputs are used. The consultation is open for submissions between 26 May 2023 and 31 May 2024.

The Australian Industry publication is released annually, within 11 months of the end of the financial year reference period. Australian Industry contains annual estimates of key economic and financial performance of industries in Australia, including income, expenses, profit and capital expenditure.

The ABS will use the outcomes of this consultation to inform changes to future releases of Australian Industry. Changes may include content, format or release schedule, and may be implemented from the 2023–24 release or beyond.

This Collection Notice explains the collection and use of personal information as part of the consultation through the ABS Consultation Hub (Citizen Space).

Your personal information is being collected by the ABS and ABS’s technology service provider for the consultation, Delib.

The ABS Privacy Policy for Managing and Operating Our Business provides details about how we (the ABS) manage and protect your personal information. 

As part of making a submission, you may provide your personal information to the ABS through our Consultation Hub. The Privacy Notice for the Consultation Hub explains how we use Delib and its technology (Citizen Space). We (the ABS) manage the website and Delib provides the technology behind this service and its operation. Delib’s Privacy Notice explains how Delib will collect, safeguard, and process your data on behalf of the ABS.

As part of a submission to the Australian Industry publication consultation, the ABS will collect and hold the following information. It is optional when making a submission to provide:

• Name
• Organisation
• Email address
• Phone number
• Responses to consultation questions

The ABS will use your submission to inform changes to future releases of the Australian Industry publication.

Your submission will not be published. We may publish summaries of submissions in the ABS Consultation Hub.

If you consent to being contacted about your submission, we may use your name, organisation, email address and phone number to contact you if we have follow-up questions in relation to your submission. If you consent to receiving email updates on the outcome of the consultation and the Australian Industry publication, we will use the email address you provide to send these updates to you.

We comply with the Privacy Act 1988 and the Archives Act 1983 in the storage, use and destruction of your personal information collected.

When personal information is collected as part of the Australian Industry publication consultation, it is stored in secure data centres in Australia.

The hosting provider for Delib (AWS) meets all Australian Government privacy and data storage requirements.

The ABS will also extract a copy of your submission from the Consultation Hub and store this in the secure ABS environment. We will then remove your contact details (name, organisation, email address and phone number) and store a de-identified version of your submission in the secure ABS environment for record keeping purposes.

Your submission containing contact details will be deleted from Delib data stores and the secure ABS environment no later than December 2024.

Where you have consented to email updates, your email address will be stored in the secure ABS environment, for the purpose of sending you updates on the outcome of the consultation and the Australian Industry publication.

The ABS Privacy Policy for Managing and Operating Our Business provides details about how we (the ABS) manage and protect your personal information stored in ABS systems.

As the technology service provider, Delib will only access your personal information when requested to do so by the ABS, and only for the purposes of assisting with the administration of the site.

Where you have consented to email updates, your name, organisation and email address will be stored in the secure ABS environment, for the purpose of sending you Australian Industry consultation updates.

Except for Delib in their data processing role, the ABS will not:

• share information in a way that would identify you or your organisation(s) without your consent
• share information with private organisations, such as direct marketing companies
• share information with other government agencies for compliance or regulation activities.

If you have identified you have provided a submission on behalf of an organisation, the ABS may share the information in your submission to an alternative contact within your organisation if there is a legitimate reason to do so.

The ABS Privacy Policy for Managing and Operating Our Business provides more information about how we handle your personal information.

Contact the ABS Privacy Officer using the details provided below if you need to access or correct your personal information.

A submission cannot be edited in the Consultation Hub once it has been submitted. If the consultation is still open, you can provide a new submission. Please contact australian.industry.statistics@abs.gov.au to request removal of your original submission.

You can revoke your consent to receive email updates by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the email update or emailing australian.industry.statistics@abs.gov.au.

The ABS Privacy Policy for Managing and Operating Our Business has information about how you can make a complaint if you feel we have not adequately protected your privacy. The Policy describes how we will respond to your complaint, and what you can do if you are not satisfied with our response.

You can contact the ABS Privacy Officer (details below) who will respond to enquiries or assist with complaints.

By email: privacy@abs.gov.au

By post: ABS Privacy Officer
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Locked Bag 10, Belconnen ACT 2617