Terms, Policies & Conditions
Privacy & Data Protection Policy
reCare Australia Pty Ltd ABN 34 637 680 114 (we, us, our) is committed to protecting your privacy and that of your customers. As pharmacy professionals, we understand the particular sensitivity around prescription data and health information. We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and, in particular, by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), which set out the standards required by law for collecting, managing and disclosing personal information. This Privacy Policy explains the way in which we handle personal information and sensitive information, and the ways in which you can contact us regarding any personal information that we hold about you.
"Personal information" is information or opinion (in recorded form or otherwise) about an identified, or reasonably identifiable, individual.
"Sensitive information" is a type of personal information that is given more protection. It includes health, genetic and biometric information, as well as information about professional or trade association membership. As pharmacists, you handle sensitive health information daily, and we recognize the importance of properly protecting this data.
We put pharmacy data privacy at the centre of our business
reCare Australia collects data about the purchases of customers from our member pharmacies and reports that information to our member pharmacies and other clients. This information helps you understand dispensing patterns, stock requirements, and market trends to better serve your community.
Although we collect information about medications and other items that customers purchase from pharmacies, we go to great lengths to ensure that all patient information is completely deidentified and non-reidentifiable. Our deidentification processes exceed industry standards and comply with all regulatory requirements for handling health information. Because we only collect deidentified, non-reidentifiable information, neither we nor our clients can use the information we provide to identify individual patients.
What types of personal information do we collect?
As stated above, we collect almost no personal information from pharmacy customers. While we collect information about prescriptions and purchases, all patient identifiers are removed before data leaves your pharmacy system, ensuring complete anonymity.
The only personal information we collect is information about our pharmacy partners and their staff to enable them to use our products and services. We collect:
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the names and professional credentials of pharmacy staff members who require access to our systems, and
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the names and other relevant details of our business contacts within your pharmacy.
For what purposes do we handle your personal information?
We collect, hold, use and disclose the personal information that we collect about you:
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to deliver pharmacy analytics and business intelligence services to you
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to administer and manage transactions with your pharmacy
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to maintain our business records in compliance with pharmacy industry regulations
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to provide you with information about products and services that may be of interest to your pharmacy
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to conduct market research to help improve pharmacy services
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to obtain services that assist us to run our business, including obtaining professional advice
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for any purpose required or permitted by pharmacy legislation and health information laws
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for any purpose you would otherwise reasonably expect
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for any purpose disclosed to you and to which you have consented, and
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otherwise to support the operation of your pharmacy business.
Disclosing your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties, such as our related companies, business partners, our professional advisers (such as lawyers, accountants or auditors) and our external service providers (such as mailing houses and information technology service providers). We never disclose any patient-related data that could identify individuals.
We do not routinely disclose personal information overseas. All pharmacy data is stored on secure servers located in Australia.
Security of your personal information
We hold personal information in both paper-based and electronic files, with industry-leading security protocols. We seek to ensure that your personal information is protected from:• misuse, interference and loss; and
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unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
The personal information that we hold about you is treated as confidential and only accessed when necessary by authorized personnel. Our systems exceed the security requirements for handling pharmacy-related data. When we no longer require your personal information, including when we are no longer required by law to keep records relating to you, we destroy or de-identify it in accordance with pharmacy record-keeping standards.
Accessing your personal information
You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you by contacting us on the contact details set out below. We will deal with your request for access promptly. If we refuse access to your personal information, we will provide you with a written notice which sets out the reasons for our refusal.
We may recover the reasonable costs (if any) that we incur in responding to a request for access to your personal information.
Correcting your personal information
We seek to ensure that the personal information that we collect is accurate, up-to-date and complete and, in the case of our use or disclosure of that information, relevant as well. If you believe that any information that we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can ask us to correct your personal information accordingly. You may make such a request by contacting us on the contact details set out below. We will deal with your request to correct your personal information promptly.
We are not obliged to correct your personal information. If we refuse to correct any of your personal information following your request, we will give you a written notice which sets out the reasons for our refusal.
Marketing
We may use your personal information to provide you with information about products and services which we think may be of interest to your pharmacy. You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time if you no longer wish to receive this information. In order to do so, simply contact us on the contact details set out below and request that we no longer send marketing communications to you.
Questions and complaints
If you have any questions, or if you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under the Privacy Act (and, in particular, the APPs), or if you believe that the personal information that we hold about you has been compromised in any way, please contact us on the contact details set out below. We will respond to any question or complaint as soon as possible. If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may direct your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by email at enquiries@oaic.gov.au or by telephone on [1300 363 992](tel:1300 363 992).
Contact details
To contact us about any issue in this privacy policy, or about the way in which we handle your personal information, please contact us:
Privacy Officer, reCare Australia Tel: (03) 8578 4439 Email: privacy@recareaustralia.com.au
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you. Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 15 September 2025