GRG respects your privacy and values your right to know how we handle your personal information
Godfrey Remuneration Group Pty Limited Privacy Policy effective 1 July 2023
GRG has always valued the privacy of personal information. When GRG collects, uses, discloses or handles personal information, GRG will be bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the ‘Act’).
Why do we collect your personal information?
GRG may collect personal information for the purpose of conducting analytics processes, to be able to develop and identify products and services that may interest you, to conduct market or customer satisfaction research or to develop, establish and administer alliances and other arrangements with other organisations in relation to the promotion, administration and use of our respective products and services.
GRG may collect information about you because we are required or authorised by law to collect it. There are laws and regulations that affect the provision of our many services and products and require us to collect certain personal information.
How do we collect your personal information?
GRG will generally collect information directly from you or your agents (e.g. your employer), unless impracticable or unreasonable to do so. This information is usually not personal because it is not able to be attributable to you so that you can be identified.
However, upon your request, we will take reasonable steps to let you know how we have sourced any of your personal information, unless it is obvious from the circumstances that you would know or would reasonably expect us to have the information (such as where we are dealing with your employer).
When an employer gives GRG personal information about individuals, we rely on the participant to make the employees aware that it will or may provide their personal information to us, the types of third parties we may provide it to, the relevant purposes we and those third parties will use it for, and how they can access it. If it is sensitive information, we rely on the employer to have obtained their consent on these matters. If the employer has not done either of these things, the employer must tell us before the relevant information is provided.
What can happen if the employer does not provide us with your information?
If the employer does not provide the information we request, we or those involved with the provision of the service or product may not be able to provide the appropriate type or level of service or product.
How can I access and correct my personal information or resolve my privacy issues?
You have the right to access or correct your personal information that is being held GRG. If you wish to seek access to or correct the personal information we collected or disclosed about you, please telephone or email your GRG representative.
You can choose not to receive product and service offerings from us (including product or service offerings from us on behalf of our affiliates and business partners) or related bodies, by contacting your GRG representative.
ERS Data Suppression and Statistical Methodologies – October 2025
GRG’s Executive Remuneration Survey (ERS) presents a combination of data sources in an aggregated, anonymised format.
Data represents a combination of publicly available annual report information (KMP) and information that is privately collected via data submissions provided directly to GRG. Keeping privately collected client data confidential, while ensuring it can be usefully incorporated into statistics, is an essential feature of our business and we adopt industry leading practices to achieve this outcome.
Data Collection Process
All privately collected information is reported to GRG via a secure, password protected portal that utilises the Microsoft 360 Sharepoint platform and leverages the associated security features. Data drawn into the ERS database is anonymous – no individual names are uploaded.
All KMP data from publicly listed companies is collected by GRG employees from publicly available documents.
Data Reporting Methodologies
The ERS platform reports data on a ‘per position’ basis according to various filters such as company size and sector. The individual constituent privately collected data that may be included in any sample is never revealed to database users.
For aggregated data to appear according to any filter combination, there must be:
- a minimum of 3 organisations providing a minimum of one data point each (i.e. a total sample size of 3) to display a median/P50 value
- a minimum of 3 organisations providing a total sample size of 5 to display P25, P62.5 and P75
- no average data is displayed in the ERS.
There are scenarios where an organisation’s data will be displayed as a percentile (as percentile data represents actual data points) but given there is a minimum of 3 organisations required to return any statistical information, and no average is reported, there is no way of identifying an individual organisation’s data point. It would also be coincidental for the same organisation to appear at any given statistical point across all package elements. At no stage are individual organisations’ names associated with a data point, revealed.
Peer Cut Requests
The ERS allows a participant to request a ‘peer cut’ or a selected organisation sub-set of the entire data set. GRG recommends a minimum of 20 organisations are selected to complete this process. Should a secondary ‘peer cut’ be requested, a minimum of 5 differences in selected organisations must exist between ‘peer cuts’. This ensures that individual company or incumbent practices are not revealed.
