The drafting of application and consent forms is crucial to the success of a business’s privacy compliance regime. The drafting stage can determine what an organisation can and cannot do with personal information that it collects.

An organisation must accurately identify the types of consents it needs to obtain. This will primarily depend on:

• the purposes for which the information is collected;

• the purposes for which the information will be used or disclosed;

• the industry in which the organisation operates (as some industries are regulated differently. eg. telecommunications, health and credit reporting industries).

Privacy Law Consulting Australia can assist clients to identify the types of consents that need to be obtained and to draft application and consent forms appropriately to ensure that customer information may be used and disclosed for the purposes for which it is required.