4.1 The College collects personal information, including sensitive information about students and parents or guardians before and during the course of a student’s enrolment at the College. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the College to provide schooling for your student.
4.2 Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the College’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the College to discharge its duty of care.
4.3 Certain laws governing or relating to the operation of colleges require that certain information is collected. These include Public Health and Child Protection laws.
4.4 Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act as of December 2001. We ask you to provide medical reports about students from time to time.
4.5 The College, from time to time, discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes. This includes to other schools, government departments, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the college, including specialist visiting teachers, coaches and volunteers.
4.6 If we do not obtain the information referred to above, we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your student.
4.7 Personal information collected from students is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians. On occasions, information such as academic and sporting achievements, student activities and other news is published in college newsletters, magazines and website and is at times, forwarded to local newspapers for advertising and publication purposes.
4.8 Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their student by contacting the College. Students may also seek access to personal information about them. However, there will be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the College’s duty of care to the pupil, or where students have provided information in confidence.
4.9 As you may know, the College from time to time, engages in fundraising activities. Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you. (It may also be disclosed to organizations that assist in the College’s fundraising activities solely for that purpose). We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.
4.10 We may include your contact details in a class list and college directory however if you do not agree to this, the College will need to be notified.
5.11 If you provide the College with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the College and why, that they can access that information if they wish and that the College does not usually disclose the information to third parties.
5.12 The Department of Education, Training and the Arts (DETA) is collecting the information on this form for the purposes outlined in the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 (EGPA 2006) and in particular for:
- Assessing whether your application for enrolment should be approved.
- Administering and planning for providing appropriate education, training and support services to students.
- Assisting departmental staff to maintain the good order and management of schools, and to fulfil their duty of care to all students and staff.
- Communicating with student and parents.
This collection is authorised by ss 155, 428 and 433 of the EGPA 2006. DETA will disclose personal information from this form to the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) when opening student accounts, in compliance with ss 253 and 254 of the EGPA 2006. Personal information from this form will also be supplied to Centrelink in compliance with ss 194 and 195 of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (Cth). De-identified information from optional questions is supplied to the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training in compliance with Commonwealth/State funding agreements.
Personal information collected on this form may also be disclosed to third parties where authorized or required by law and otherwise in accordance with Information Standard 42 – Information Privacy (http;//www.governmentict.qld.gov.au/02 infostand/standards/is42.pdf). Your information will be stored securely. If you wish to access or correct any of the personal information on this form or discuss how it has been dealt with, please contact this College in the first instance.
In the event of a breach of student or parent/carer personal information, the College is obliged to advise all parents/carers by email within 30 days of the breach, outlining the personal information involved in the breach, a description of the data breach, the College’s contact details and
recommendations for steps to be taken to minimise harm. The College is also obliged to notify the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).