ACE Community Colleges collects personal information from prospective students in order to process enrolment applications, manage the enrolments of successful applicants and to comply with our obligations as a registered training organisation. There is no provision to opt out of providing personal information where that information is required for an essential purpose, including any purpose associated with our obligation to deliver the services we advertise or to comply with relevant laws and standards. As such, we are unable to accept enrolment applications in which relevant personal information is withheld. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further details.
• ACE Community Colleges does not profit from the use or disclosure of personal information.
• Personal information will not be used for marketing/promotional purposes without written consent.
• Personal information is held securely and disclosed only to trusted third parties for legitimate reasons.
We are required under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (NVETR Act) to disclose personal information we collect about you to the National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Data Collection held by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) which has responsibility for collecting, managing, analysing and communicating research and statistics about the Australian VET sector. We are also authorised, under the same Act, to disclose your personal information to relevant state or territory training authorities. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further details relating to disclosure of personal information.
Handling of personal information by government bodies
NCVER will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance the NVETR Act, Privacy Act 1988 and other relevant laws. Your personal information may be used and disclosed by NCVER for purposes that include populating authenticated VET transcripts, facilitating the generation of statistics and research relating to education (including surveys and data linkage), VET administration and understanding the VET market.
NCVER is authorised to disclose information to the Australian Government Department of Employment and Work-place Relations (DEWR), Commonwealth, State and Territory authorities (that deal with matters relating to VET) and to VET regulators for purposes including:
• administration of VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation
• facilitation of statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage
• understanding VET market operation, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information.
NCVER may also disclose personal information to persons it engages to conduct research on its behalf. NCVER will not disclose personal information overseas. Please refer to the NCVER privacy policy for further information.
DEWR is authorised by law, including both the Privacy Act and the NVETR Act, to collect, use and disclose your personal information to fulfil specified functions and activities. For more information about how DEWR handles your personal information, please refer to the DEWR VET Data Privacy Notice.
Personal information disclosed to a state training authority will be managed by that authority in accordance with the privacy practices of the relevant state government. Further information can be obtained by referring to either of the following: NSW government privacy statement or Queensland government privacy statement.
You may receive a student survey run by a government department or an NCVER employee, agent, third-party contractor or another authorised agency. Please note you may opt out of the survey at the time of being contacted.
Consent to the use and disclosure of personal information
Please note that enrolment applications cannot proceed until applicants acknowledge that they have read this notice and accepted that their personal information will be disclosed in accordance with the organisation’s Privacy Policy and with its obligations as a registered training organisation.
Where applicants are seeking to benefit from a NSW government training subsidy, acknowledgment and acceptance of this privacy notice will be taken to include acknowledgement and acceptance of NSW Department of Education consent requirements.
Contacting us about a privacy matter
Please contact us at info@acecolleges.edu.au should you wish to:
• ask us a question about our privacy policy or about this notice
• request access to your personal information or ask us to correct an error
• provide feedback or make a complaint about how your information has been handled.