ASC Training & Development is dedicated to keeping your details private.
We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our website, particularly personal information that may identify you.
Any information we collect in relation to you is kept strictly secured. We do not pass on, sell or swap any of your personal details with anyone.
As a registered training organisation (RTO), we collect your personal information so we can process and manage your enrolment in a vocational education and training (VET) course with us.
We use your personal information to enable us to deliver VET courses to you, and to comply with our obligations as an RTO – as needed.
We are required by law under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth) (NVETR Act) to disclose the personal information we collect about you to the national VET database kept by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER).
The NCVER is responsible for collecting, managing, analysing and communicating research and statistics about the Australian VET sector.
We are also authorised by law (under the NVETR Act) to disclose your personal information to the relevant state or territory training authority.
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER) will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth) (NVETR Act).
Your personal information may be used and disclosed by NCVER for purposes that include populating authenticated VET transcripts; administration of VET; facilitation of statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage; and understanding the VET market.
The NCVER is authorised to disclose information to the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Commonwealth authorities, state and territory authorities (other than registered training organisations) that deal with matters relating to VET and VET regulators for the purposes of those bodies, including to enable:
- administration of VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation
- facilitation of statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage
- understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information.
The NCVER may also disclose personal information to persons engaged by NCVER to conduct research on NCVER’s behalf.
The NCVER does not intend to disclose your personal information to any overseas recipients.
For more information about how the NCVER will handle your personal information please refer to NCVER’s privacy policy.
If you would like to seek access to or correct your information, please contact your RTO.
For more information about how the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations handles your personal information, please refer to the department's VET Data Privacy Notice.
You may receive a student survey which may be 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.
At any time, you may contact ASC Training & Development to:
- request access to your personal information
- correct your personal information
- make a complaint about how your personal information has been handled
- ask a question about this privacy notice.
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we regularly review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
In addition, our employees and contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
Cookies are data that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies, which are industry standard and are used by most websites, including those operated by us, can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a site. They allow us to customise the website to your needs. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers have a simple feature that allows you to deny or accept the cookie. But you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with some features of our online services.
We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
We provide links to businesses outside of our websites, as well as to third-party websites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website.
We do not make any representations about third-party websites that may be linked to the ASC T&D website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that website and its privacy statement.
If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our website, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our privacy policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us.
We welcome your comments and feedback.
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s website.
