Privacy
When entering Australia, The Department of Home Affairs (including the Australian Border Force) is required to collect an image of your face/shoulders, a copy of your travel document, and information on your:
- health
- character
- travel history
- other personal identifiers.
This is according to the Migration Act 1958.
Failure to provide these may mean you are unable to use automated border processing.
Home Affairs is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) in Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The APPs regulate how we collect, use, store and disclose personal information that we hold about you.
Your personal information is collected for the purposes of administering immigration, customs, quarantine, statistics, health, and other laws of Australia.
Your personal information may be disclosed to other Government agencies permitted to receive it under Australian Law. For a full list of usual recipients, see our Privacy Notice Form 1442i.
We may disclose your personal information to overseas recipients. In most cases, it will be to officials in/from your country of origin or of usual residence.
Our privacy policy explains:
- how to contact us
- how to seek access to or correct personal information that we hold
- how to make a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we’ll deal with such a complaint.
For more information, see
Privacy.
Thank you for learning how to use SmartGate Automated Passport Control, and we look forward to welcoming you to Australia.
