Data Collection on Blockchain Academy International Website

This statement applies to any personal information collected from you by Move Academy Pty Ltd via one of the websites owned or operated by us, or websites within our network, or related third party promotional partners. This statement does not apply to the practices of organisations that we do not own or control or to people that we do not employ or oversee even if links to their websites appear on our Promotional Platforms. We recommend you examine the privacy policies and statements of such other parties. In order to provide training and assessment services, Move Academy lawfully collects personal information from staff and clients that is necessary both for appropriate marketing and promotional information to be sent to potential clients; and for the business to function.

We understand the importance of protecting the privacy of an individual’s personal information. This statement sets out how we aim to protect the privacy of your personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information managed by us and the way we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information.

In handling your personal information, we will comply with the Data Provision Requirements of 2012, the Privacy Act 1988 and with the thirteen Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act.

This policy statement may be updated from time to time.

1. What Personal Information is collected

Personal information is information or an opinion about an identified, or reasonably identifiable, individual. During the provision of our services, including if you access our Promotional Platforms, register an account, opt-in to receive product or service information, deals and competitions, or complete surveys, we may collect your personal information. Generally, prior to becoming a customer of Move Academy, the kinds of personal information we collect includes your name, company name, address, telephone number, date of birth, email address, and course, product, and services preferences. In some circumstances we may also hold other personal information provided by you.

We may collect information about you in the course of your interaction with our website, learning, and Promotional Platforms including your internet protocol (IP) address, the date and time of your visit, the pages you have accessed, the links on which you have clicked on our websites and emails, and the type of browser that you were using, which may be linked to your personal information.

2. How personal information is collected

Generally, we collect your personal information directly from you, if you:

• request information on our websites about any of our courses, products, or services;

• setup or update an account or other registration on our Promotional Platforms;

• opt-in to offers, deals and competitions;

• complete surveys;

• actively participate and use our Promotional Platforms; or

• submit an enquiry to us via our Promotional Platforms.

There may be other occasions when we collect your personal information from other sources such as from an information services provider or a publicly maintained record. Generally, we will only collect your personal information from sources other than you if it is unreasonable or impracticable to collect the personal information from you.

 

We may also collect statistical information if you access and use our Promotional Platforms by utilising features and technologies of your internet browser, including cookies and pixel tags. If you have provided personal information to us, we may link this statistical information to your personal information for the purpose of providing services to you.

3. Disclosure to third parties

We may disclose your personal information to third party advertisers for the purposes specified in Section 6 or for any other purposes specified in Section 5. We may also disclose your personal information with your consent or if disclosure is required or authorised by law.

4. Data Provision Requirements 2012

Under the Data Provision Requirements 2012, Move Academy is required to collect personal
information about you and to disclose that personal information to the National Centre for
Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER).

 

Your personal information (including the personal information contained on this enrolment
form and your training activity data) may be used or disclosed by Move Academy for
statistical, regulatory and research purposes. Move Academy 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 and authorised

• agencies;

• NCVER;

• Organisations conducting student surveys; and

• Researchers.
   

Personal information disclosed to NCVER may be used or disclosed 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 ;

• 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 an NCVER employee, agent or third party contractor. 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 VET Data Policy and all NCVER policies and protocols (including those published on NCVER’s website at www.ncver.edu.au).

5. Overseas disclosure
We may disclose personal information to overseas recipients for the following purposes:

•  in order to provide our services and/or products;

•  for administrative or other business management purposes; or

•  where you have provided your consent to us disclosing your personal information to a specified third party promotional partner that is located overseas
   

Recipients of such disclosures for the purpose of our administrative or business management purposes are located in New Zealand and Australia and may also be located in other countries notified to you from time to time.

By providing personal information on our websites, through any of our Promotional Platforms you consent to us disclosing your personal information to a Partner that is located overseas. Before disclosing any personal information to an overseas recipient, we take steps reasonable in the circumstances to ensure the overseas recipient complies with the Australian Privacy Principles or is bound by a substantially similar privacy scheme unless you consent to the overseas disclosure or it is otherwise required or permitted by law.

Direct Marketing

By providing personal information on our websites, or through any of our Promotional Platforms promoting our courses, products and services, you consent to allow us and other third parties elected by us to send out marketing materials including, but not limited to their promotions and special offers, product information, information about services, newsletters, and other forms of electronic communication, as well as other methods of communication from time to time such as phone and mail.

As such, we may disclose your personal information to the Partner for the purpose of the Partner contacting you for promotional purposes and direct marketing purposes, and the Partner may contact you with special offers via the communication channel and contact details provided by you at the time you provided your personal information to us.

 

In the event you do not wish to receive such communications, you can opt-out by contacting us via the contact details set out in Section 9, through any opt-out mechanism contained in a communication or by logging in to your account and using the info and feedback form. If you unsubscribe or opt-out, you will be unsubscribed from our email channels, and you will not have your data provided to any third party advertisers or people for marketing or other purposes (except to the extent as required by law to disclose it). You may at any point resubscribe by re-registering, or logging a new enquiry for any of our course, products, or services on our website or through any of our Promotional Channels.

7. Security of personal information
We take all steps reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that the personal information we hold is protected from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We hold personal information in both hard copy and electronic forms in secure databases on secure premises, accessible only by authorised staff. We will destroy or de-identify personal information in circumstances where it is no longer required, unless we are otherwise required or authorised by law to retain the information.

8. Access and correct personal information held
We take steps reasonable in the circumstances to ensure personal information we hold is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant and not misleading. Under the Privacy Act, you have a right to access and/or seek correction of your personal information that is collected and held by us.

If at any time you would like to access or correct the personal information that we hold about you, or you would like more information on our approach to privacy, please contact us via the contact details set out below. We will grant access to the extent required or authorised by the Privacy Act or other law and take steps reasonable in the circumstances to correct personal information where necessary and appropriate.

To obtain access to your personal information:

• you will have to provide proof of identity. This is necessary to ensure that personal information is provided only to the correct individuals and that the privacy of others is protected;

• you must be reasonably specific about the information you require; and

• we may charge you a reasonable administration fee, which reflects the cost to us, for providing access in accordance with your request.
   

If we refuse your request to access or correct your personal information, we will provide you with written reasons for the refusal and details of complaint mechanisms. We will also take steps reasonable in the circumstance to endeavour to provide you with access in a manner that meets your needs and our needs. We will endeavour to respond to your request to access or correct your personal information within 7 days from your request.

9. Contact us
For further information or enquiries regarding your personal information held by us, or if you would like to opt-out of receiving any promotional communications from us or our Partners, please contact us at admin@moveacademy.edu.au or call us on 1800 125 002 (AUS) or 0800 668 300 (NZ)

10. Complaints Process
If you believe that we have breached the Privacy Act, the Australian Privacy Principles or any binding code under the Privacy Act, you can make a privacy complaint to us. Please direct all privacy complaints to us on the contact details below. At all times, privacy complaints:

• will be treated seriously;

• will be dealt with promptly;

• will be dealt with in a confidential manner; and

• will not affect your existing obligations or affect your commercial arrangements with us.
   

We will commence an investigation into your complaint. You will be informed of the outcome of your complaint following completion of the investigation. In the event that you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may refer the complaint to the Federal Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Personal Information collected
The information collected and held will depend upon the products and service requested. This information is required to be reported to ASQA under the requirements of the Australian
Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS).
Information collected may include, but is not limited to:
1. Full Name
2. Address
3. Contact details (telephone and email)
4. Date of Birth
5. Gender
6. Cultural Background (Indigenous)
7. Country of birth
8. Language spoken at home
9. Level of English spoken
10. Disability information
11. Highest schooling completed
12. Other qualifications completed
13. Current employment status

As part of the enrolment process, Move Academy discloses why the personal information is collected and how it is to be used. Clients are informed of the Privacy Policy and their agreement to the use of their personal information on the official enrolment forms.

Use and Disclosure
Generally, Move Academy will only use and disclose personal information:
1. To establish and maintain the relationship to Move Academy
2. To promote and market its products and services
3. To provide the products and services requested from Move Academy and other learning providers in which you enrol or apply to enrol
4. To promote and market the products and services of third parties elected by Move Academy that may have products or services of interest to clients and potential customers
5. To administer and manage those products and services
6. To comply with Commonwealth and State Government laws and regulations including the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 and the Education (Queensland Studies Authority) Act and Regulation 2002 where applicable.
7. To report to National Registering Bodies in relation to training services provided.

Unique Student Identifier
From January 1, 2015, the Australian Government has set a requirement that all students who are enrolled in VET qualifications must apply for a Unique Student Identifier (USI) with the VET Registry System. The USI is a reference number which allows access to the records and results from all VET training completed by the individual from 1 January 2015 onward. For further information about the Unique Student identifier, please access this link:
http://usi.gov.au/create-your-USI/Pages/default.aspx

 

The USI Registry System keeps student information safe and secure. The student decides which training organisation can view the information and when. Please refer to the Student Identifiers Registrars Privacy Policy by accessing this link:  http://usi.gov.au/Pages/privacy-policy.aspx

Unsubscribe
Students have the option to request no further contact from Move Academy by clicking the “UNSUBSCRIBE” link provided on emails received.

 

Agents, Contractors and Other Third Parties
Our agents, contractors and other third parties, who require personal information to provide a legitimate service, are also bound by these terms of privacy to ensure that client and participant personal information remains protected at all times.

Use of Internet
The internet may be used to transmit client and participants personal information from delivery sites to other sites and to state/federal registering bodies. Security of data transmitted to state and federal registering bodies is managed by the respective bodies and we have taken all reasonable steps to protect and secure personal information when using the internet.

Data Quality
We will ensure that personal information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Clients and participants are encouraged to assist by contacting Move Academy and informing us of any changes.

Access to Enrolment Records
Move Academy will not disclose enrolment information that we gather about our students to any third party (apart from those exceptions previously stated). If student information is requested by a third party we will require authority from the relevant student prior to release of any information. Students will be asked to supply their name, date of birth and address as identification before this authority can be given. This authority will be kept on the Student Profile for as long as the student endorses it.

Should staff or students seek access to their information, they will be asked to supply their name, date of birth and address as identification before this can occur. Access to student personal information is available on application through the Administration Team of Move Academy. Access to personal information will be controlled at all times.