General Policy Handbook

 

Privacy Policy

  1. ACAS and its member colleges are committed to protecting the privacy of personal information of staff and students.
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  2. Personal information collected will be used only for ACAS's internal purposes and administrative processes.
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  3. Personal information will not be disclosed to third parties, unless:
    1. stated in ACAS policies to which students and/or staff have agreed
    2. the person provides prior, written consent to release information to other parties, or,
    3. government organizations require details on enrolled students for the purpose of surveying and statistical management, or,
    4. disclosure is required by legislation.
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  4. ACAS qualifications are verifiable.1 In the case of students and past students who hold qualifications and/or statements of attainment, ACAS will verify them to third parties that already have adequate identifying information on the individual. However, ACAS shall not disclose any information other than the verification.
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  5. Student's names and qualification or Statement of Attainments may be announced at graduation ceremonies and published in graduation literature.
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  6. Theses are public documents unless ACAS agrees in writing to keeping them confidential.
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  7. As there are inherent risks associated with transmission of information via the Internet, ACAS cannot ensure the confidentiality of information during electronic transmission.
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  8. The Internet Service Provider for ACAS web sites will make a record of visits and may log the following information for statistical purposes:
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    1. visitors' server address (which includes your top level domain name (e.g .com, .gov, .org);
    2. the date and time of visitors' visit to the site;
    3. the pages visitors' accessed and documents downloaded;
    4. the previous site visitors have visited;
    5. the kind of browser visitors are using.
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  9. ACAS will not attempt to identify users or their browsing activities or through cookies. However, law enforcement agencies or other government agency may exercise their legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Provider's logs.
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  10. In the case of persons enquiring to ACAS by email, their e-mail address will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided and it will not be provided to third parties or used for any other purpose without the sender's consent.
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  11. Student records shall be confidential and available only to the officers and staff of the Centre or college, duly authorized auditors, and duly authorized officers of Australian government departments. Until the time of the student’s death, those records may only be made available to other parties with the prior, written consent of the student involved. This shall not include the inclusion of such data in statistical information where the content and identity of individual student records remains confidential.
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  12. Records may be used for staff training purposes.
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1 Privacy laws allow information to be used for the primary purpose for which it is obtained, that is, so that you can graduate with a qualification or statement of attainment, and have it recognized by potential employers and other institutions to which you might want to continue studies..