The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) is a statutory authority established under the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic). All personal information collected by the VCAA is handled in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).
If required, personal information is collected from you via this website only with your knowledge and consent. It is used only for the purpose for which it is collected unless its disclosure is required by law or regulation.
The VCAA collects personal and health information about an individual to enable it to perform its statutory functions and comply with its legal responsibilities. When your personal information is collected online by the VCAA, details of the reason for collection and how your data is used are available on the relevant web page.
In addition, your visit to this website may be logged by web analytical services such as Google Analytics (http://www.google.com.au/analytics/index.html) for statistical purposes only, recording details such as:
- user server addresses and domains
- the times and dates the site was visited
- the pages users access
- users' browsers and operating systems.
This information does not identify individual users but does identify the computer that is used to access the site.
This website only uses session cookies during online applications. These identify the application session and cannot be used to identify you as an individual.
The Internet is not a secure medium, hence the VCAA has made every effort to implement security policies, rules and measures to protect your information from unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, destruction and loss. Your personal information will be removed from the VCAA system when no longer required.
This website may link to other websites. If you visit linked sites the privacy policies of those sites will apply to your interaction with those sites.
You have the right to request access to information held about you by the VCAA and to have that information corrected if inaccurate. In some circumstances, you may need to request access under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic).
Please refer to the VCAA Privacy Policy for further information.
If you have concerns about privacy issues in relation to this website, please contact:
The Manager, Legal Services Unit
vcaa.privacy@education.vic.gov.au
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
200 Victoria Parade
East Melbourne VIC 3002