Privacy Collection Notice – Business Insights Initiative

Why are we collecting your personal information?

The NSW Small Business Commission is collecting your personal information through this web form. For the purposes of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, the NSW Small Business Commission is part of the Department of Customer Service.

The purpose of this collection is to enable us to contact you and discuss your feedback and experiences of operating a small business in greater detail.

What personal information do we collect?

As part of the initiative, we collect the following information which may comprise personal information:

  • Your name
  • Business name (optional)
  • Email address 
  • Industry Classification (optional)
  • Location (Suburb names or Local Government Areas) (optional)
  • Your responses to other questions.

How will we disclose this information?

The NSW Small Business Commission may share overall research findings with other parties. Where this occurs, it will be done in a way that does not identify you or any organisation you represent (unless your permission is provided).

The NSW Small Business Commission may use the personal information we collect about you to contact you to discuss your feedback and experiences with operating a small business in greater detail.

We will not disclose this information to any other party, unless you provide your consent or we are required or authorised to do so by law.

Are you required by law to provide us with this information?

Providing us with the requested information is voluntary. However, if you choose not to provide us with the requested information, we won’t be able to contact you to discuss your feedback in greater detail.

Further information

You have a legal right to access and update your personal information. To access or amend your personal information please contact the NSW Small Business Commission Privacy Co-ordinator via commission@smallbusiness.nsw.gov.au or on 1300 795 534.

For all other privacy enquiries, you can contact the Department of Customer Service’s Privacy Officer by email at privacy@customerservice.nsw.gov.au, by phone at 13 77 88 or by mail at Level 14, McKell Building, 2-24 Rawson Place, Sydney NSW 2000.