Privacy Statement & Student
Declaration
Privacy Notice
Under the Data
Provision Requirements 2012, the Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC)
is required to collect personal information (information or an opinion about me*),
collected from me, my parent or guardian, such as my name, Unique Student
Identifier, date of birth, contact details, training outcomes and performance,
sensitive personal information (including my ethnicity or health information)
and other enrolment and training activity-related information (together
Personal Information) and disclose that Personal Information to the National
Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER).
* In this context 'opinion' means any
information that MHCC gathers and/or uses for training, assessment, enrolment
and administration only.
Your Personal Information
(including the personal information contained on this enrolment form and your
training activity data) may be used or disclosed by MHCC for statistical, administrative,
regulatory and research purposes. MHCC may disclose your Personal Information
for these purposes to third parties, including:
· School - if you are a
secondary student undertaking VET, including a school-based apprenticeship or
traineeship;
· Employer - if you are
enrolled in training paid by your employer;
· Commonwealth and
State or Territory government departments (including the NSW Department of
Industry – the Department) and authorised agencies;
· NCVER;
· Organisations
conducting student surveys; and
· Researchers.
Personal Information
disclosed to NCVER may be used or disclosed by NCVER for the following
purposes:
· Issuing a VET statement
of attainment or VET qualification, and populating authenticated VET
transcripts;
· Facilitating statistics
and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage;
·
Pre-populating RTO student enrolment forms;
· Understanding how
the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer
information; and
· Administering VET,
including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation.
You may receive an
NCVER student survey which may be administered by a government department, an
NCVER employee, agent, third party contractor or other authorised agencies. You
may opt out of the survey at the time of being contacted.
NCVER will collect,
hold, use and disclose your Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy
Act 1988 (Cth), the National VET Data Policy and all NCVER policies
and protocols (including those published on NCVER’s website at www.ncver.edu.au).
The Department may
disclose my Personal Information to other Australian government agencies,
including those located in States and Territories outside New South
Wales.
The above
government agencies may use my Personal Information for any purpose
relating to the exercise of their government functions, including but not
limited to the evaluation and assessment of my training, the determination of
my eligibility to receive subsided training or for any Fee Exemptions or
Concessions. My Personal Information may also be disclosed to other third
parties if required by law.
I also acknowledge
and agree that the Department may contact me by telephone, email or post during
or after I have ceased subsided training with MHCC, for the purposes of
evaluating and assessing my subsidised training.
Student Declaration and Consent
I declare that the
information I have provided to the best of my knowledge is true and correct.
I consent to the collection, use and disclosure of
my Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Notice above.