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Last updated 6 November 2026
OpalHyre is a small recruitment service operating from Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, and it is responsible for opalhyre.com. We help people living in Australia find home-based roles that independent businesses offer. This notice tells you what happens to your personal information when you use the site or contact us.
We follow the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Send any privacy question to careers@opalhyre.com.
The site does not have an application form yet. You get in touch with us through WhatsApp or by email, so we only receive the details you include in your messages, which tend to be:
We will list each question on this page before a form is ever added to the site.
OpalHyre does not purchase contact information or gather it from social media. An employer may let us know the result of an introduction, for example that a job has been filled, and we may keep a brief note so we can update you.
As pages load, our hosting provider records ordinary technical facts: your IP address, browser and device type, the page you asked for and the time. We rely on these records to keep the site running and secure, not to identify visitors.
To reply, we need a way to reach you, either a WhatsApp number or an email address. Everything else is optional. Choosing not to share it will not affect your enquiry.
OpalHyre will never ask you for a password, a one-time code, internet banking login details or a picture of your identity documents. We do not ask applicants to make payments or to give access to their bank accounts. Any message that asks for these things while using our name is not ours. Please do not reply, and forward it to careers@opalhyre.com.
We use your messages to answer you, explain the training course and the jobs, suggest the one that suits you best and, if you wish, arrange an introduction to an employer. A short record of our chat saves you from repeating yourself later.
Applicant details are never sold, rented or traded. We do not send marketing about unrelated products. Your details go only to an employer you agree to, and to nobody else unless you give permission first.
We tell you the employer's name before introducing you. When you agree, we pass on only what is needed, normally your name and mobile number. The employer must then look after its copy under the privacy rules that apply to it.
We use these outside services to run the site and stay in touch:
Any new provider that would handle applicant information will be named here before we begin using it.
We may disclose information if Australian law, a court or tribunal order, or an authorised government agency requires it, or where it is reasonably needed to prevent serious harm to a person.
You always decide whether to message us. Our WhatsApp links simply open the app with a suggested message, and it is only delivered when you press send. We can then see the message, your WhatsApp name and your phone number.
opalhyre.com does not use analytics or advertising cookies at present. Your browser may hold small technical files that help pages work properly. Before any measurement or advertising tool is added, it will be described here with its identifier.
No Google Ads tag or other advertising code is installed on the site today. If that changes, this section will name the tag, explain what it records and confirm that names, phone numbers and answers are never included.
Cloudflare, Google and WhatsApp may store or process information in other countries, including the United States and countries in the European Union, under their own published privacy and security terms.
We delete WhatsApp and email records within 12 months of our most recent contact with you. Technical logs are deleted within 30 days, and backups are overwritten within another 30 days.
Applicant messages can only be accessed by the OpalHyre staff who look after applications. Our accounts are protected by strong, unique passwords and two-step sign-in where offered. Because no online service is fully secure, please keep sensitive details out of your messages unless we ask for them.
A copy of your WhatsApp chat stays on your phone, and employers keep their own records. Deleting ours does not change theirs.
Email careers@opalhyre.com if you would like to know what we hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. We reply within 30 days. You can stop at any point and we will no longer use your details, although we cannot recall anything already shared with an employer at your request.
If any part of this notice is unclear, or you would like it explained in simpler words, just ask. We are happy to go through it with you by email before you share anything.
No software decides on applications. Someone on our team reads every message and responds personally.
Roles offered through OpalHyre are for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from people under 18.
If you are unhappy with how we have dealt with your information, email careers@opalhyre.com describing the problem. We will look into it and give you a written answer.
Please share our website link with anyone you think might be interested, instead of sending us their contact details. That way they can read this notice and decide what to share.
This notice is updated when our practices change, and the date at the top shows which version is current. For significant changes, such as adding a form or provider, we will also let applicants we are in contact with know.
OpalHyre, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. Email careers@opalhyre.com. Open daily, 9am to 5pm AEST.