Privacy

Version 2, November 2026.

The Bulletproof Goth Pty Ltd (ACN 703 701 535) as trustee for the TBPG Intellectual Property Trust (ABN 49 592 042 902) runs Dinkum Jobs at dinkumjobs.com.au and is responsible for the personal information it holds. We've chosen to be covered by the Privacy Act 1988 and follow the Australian Privacy Principles. Questions, requests and complaints: privacy@dinkumjobs.com.au.

The short version

• Anyone can browse and search jobs without an account. We count visits with a random number, not your name.
• An employer sees your details only when you apply to their job, or if you choose to let employers find you.
• Your minimum pay is never shown to employers.
• The fit check looks at your application against what the job asks for. It doesn't judge you as a person, and the employer, not the site, decides who gets the job. Employers can't pay to rank higher.
• We don't sell personal information or use it for advertising.
• You can change your details or delete your account at any time.

What we collect

Visitors: a random number kept in a cookie, the pages you visit, your searches, the jobs you click Apply on, and the website or campaign link that brought you here. It isn't linked to your name unless you're signed in. Our web server also records IP addresses, for security.

Everyone with an account: your name, email address and password (stored only in a form that can't be read back), and, if you turn on two-step sign-in, the key your authenticator app uses.

Job seekers can add where they live, how far and how they'll travel, the pay, hours, shifts and days they need, when they can start, their dealbreakers, the roles they're after, their licences, tickets, checks and right to work, a résumé and saved searches. When you apply for a job here we also keep your note or cover letter to the employer, your phone number (if you give it) and the employer's answer. If you turn on the monthly job-search summary, we keep your reporting date, and any jobs you add to it that you applied for somewhere else.

Businesses and the people who use their accounts: the business's name, ABN, industry, website, phone and work sites; the name and email address of each person on the account; its jobs, how people can apply for them, and how it answered each applicant.

Businesses that pay for listings: a record of each payment: the business's name and ABN, the email address of the person who paid, what it was for, the amount, the dates and the invoice number. Stripe takes the card details; we never see or keep the full card number.

People who post jobs in local Facebook groups: we list a job from a group post only after the person who posted it says yes. We keep their name, how they asked to be contacted, the group, and how and when they said yes. If they say no, we delete the job and their details.

Admins of local Facebook groups: before we post in a group someone else runs, we ask its admin. We keep the admin's name, how to reach them, and each answer they give, with its date. We ask again every six months.

Employment services offices that get our weekly jobs list: the office's email address, the name it gives the list, the area and kinds of work it chose, and when and how it agreed to get the list. We use these only to send the list. When an office stops the list, we keep a record that it stopped, so we never send it again. We never ask for or keep details of the people the office supports.

People who email us: your email and what you tell us.

Checks and sensitive information: for a police check or Working with Children Check we only ask whether you have it, have applied, or are willing to get one. We don't ask about criminal records, health or other sensitive information. Please leave them out of your résumé and notes unless you want employers to see them.

Where it comes from

Mostly from you. We check a business's ABN on the public ABN Lookup. We also show jobs from public job sites, such as Careers.vic and APS Jobs: a short summary with a link to the original ad. An ad can name the person to contact about the job, as the employer published it. When an employer answers your application, we record their answer.

How we use it

• To run accounts and send the emails they need (confirming an address, password resets, application updates and reminders, notices about a business's jobs).
• For job seekers: to show how well your application fits a job, send your application to the employer, and, if you turn it on, email you your monthly job-search summary.
• For businesses: to check the business is real, publish and manage its jobs, show it its applicants, and take payments and issue invoices.
• To keep the site secure and working.
• To count what's used, so we can improve the site and see which local groups and posts help people find work.
• To share jobs on our Facebook Page and in local groups whose admins have said yes. We share the job, not anyone's personal details.
• To ask a business whose account hasn't been used for six months whether it wants to keep the account.

We don't send marketing emails unless you've asked for them. We may email a business at an address it publishes for business enquiries, to tell it about the site. Every such email says who we are and has an unsubscribe link, and we stop when asked.

How the fit check works

The fit check compares what's in your application and profile with what the job asks for. It assesses how well the application matches the role's requirements, not you as a person. A computer program does it, using simple rules (version "rules-v1"), with no AI. It looks at travel time from home (20 points), pay against your minimum (15), hours, days and shifts (15), the job's must-haves against your licences, tickets and checks (35) and the roles you're after (10). The total is scaled to 100 and put in a band: Strong (80 or more), Good (60 to 79), Good but needs a "can get it" item, or Stretch (below 60, missing a required item, or against one of your own dealbreakers).

You see your band and the reasons before you apply. The employer sees the same band with reasons written for them, never your minimum pay, though pay is part of the score. Anyone can apply in any band, the employer sees every application, and the employer, not the site, decides who to shortlist, decline or hire. The same rules sort jobs for you when you search.

"Use my résumé" reads your résumé while you wait, picks out job titles and builds a search from them. Nothing it reads is stored. If you think a fit check is wrong, tell us at privacy@dinkumjobs.com.au and a person will look at it.

Your monthly job-search summary

If you turn it on in your account, we email you a printable list of the jobs you applied for through Dinkum Jobs three days before your reporting date. Each list covers the month from one reporting date to the day before the next. It goes only to you: you decide whether to give it to anyone, such as your employment services provider. It lists applications made here, and any jobs you add yourself, marked “Added by you”. We never send it to a provider. Turn it off, or delete what you've added, at any time.

Who sees it

• Everyone: jobs are public, including the business's name and how to apply.
• Employers you apply to see your name, email, phone, note or cover letter, résumé, licences and checks, and how your application fits. Once they have your application they may keep their own copy (for example, a downloaded résumé), which their own privacy policy covers.
• Employers looking for staff see your profile only if you tick "Let employers find my profile": your licences and what you're looking for, not your minimum pay or contact details. Untick it at any time.
• Companies that run the site for us, only as needed to do that: BinaryLane (our server, in Sydney); Amazon Web Services (sends our emails and keeps backup copies, both in its Sydney region); Obble (our own mailboxes and their backups, in Sydney); and Stripe (card payments for businesses).
• Our accountant and lawyers, when they need it to advise us.
• Anyone the law requires us to tell, such as a court or the police with a warrant.

Where it's kept, and overseas

The site, its database, résumés and backups are kept in Australia, in Sydney. Amazon Web Services and Stripe are United States companies, so people outside Australia could be required to give them access. Stripe may handle payment details in the United States and other countries where it works; its own privacy policy covers what it holds. Emails pass through the recipient's own email provider, wherever that is.

Cookies

We use two cookies of our own: one that keeps you signed in (up to 30 days), and the random visitor number (one year). Stripe's payment page sets its own cookies. We don't use advertising cookies. If we add an analytics service from another company, we'll ask first, it will stay off unless you say yes, and saying no will be as easy as saying yes.

Keeping it safe

The site uses HTTPS. Passwords are stored in a form that can't be read back. Two-step sign-in is available to everyone and required for our staff. Résumés and cover letters are checked for viruses on our own server before they're kept, and only the employers you apply to can open them. Our staff see personal information only to run the site, and every admin change is logged. If a data breach is likely to cause someone serious harm, we'll tell them and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

How long we keep it

• A job seeker's account, until you delete it. Deleting it removes your profile, résumés, saved searches and applications (with their cover letters) straight away, and employers lose access to them too.
• A résumé: a new one replaces the old one, unless the old one is part of an application.
• A business account, until it's deleted. Deleting it removes the account and the business's details, and closes its jobs straight away. Paid weeks not yet used aren't refunded.
• A business account that hasn't been used for six months: we email to ask whether to keep it. If there's no answer, it stays as it is.
• Payment records and invoices, 7 years after the payment, even if the account is deleted, as tax records.
• A Facebook group poster's yes, 2 years after their job closes. A no is deleted at once.
• A group admin's answers, at least 2 years.
• Visit and search records: after 12 months the random visitor number is removed, so they can't be linked to anyone. We keep the counts.
• Our web server's logs (with IP addresses), about two weeks.
• Backups: 14 days on our server and 90 days in Amazon Web Services' Sydney storage. Something deleted can stay in a backup until then, but isn't used.

Seeing, changing or deleting your information

Account holders can see and change most of their details, and delete the account, from the account page. To ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or to correct or delete something you can't change yourself, email privacy@dinkumjobs.com.au. We'll answer within 30 days, at no cost. You can browse without giving your name; to apply for a job, employers need your real name and a way to contact you, and a business account needs real details, because we check them.

Age

You must be 16 or over to open an account. If you're under 18, please talk to a parent or guardian before you apply for a job.

Complaints

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, email privacy@dinkumjobs.com.au and tell us what happened. We'll reply within 30 days. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: oaic.gov.au or 1300 363 992.

Changes to this policy

We'll post changes on this page, and tell account holders by email before a change that affects them takes effect. Version 2.

Dinkum Jobs is not a government service or an employment services provider.