Privacy
SCC adheres to the thirteen Australian Privacy Principles issued by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Keeping information secure is a priority for the College. The College respects the privacy of both its students and its staff. Information provided by individuals to the College is to facilitate access to (including enrolment) and participation in the College's education and training courses. The College takes all steps to ensure that the personal details of its students and staff are not released to unauthorised persons or organisations and personal information received by the College is kept secure in appropriate filing systems and record repositories before the ultimate secure destruction of the records. If you have an urgent concern that the personal information collected by the College is incorrect and/or is not properly secure please notify principal@sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au.
When you enrol as a student in a vocational education and training (VET) course with the College we need to collect your personal information as an important part of your enrolment. This is because the College is required by law to provide personal information about you to the NSW Government and to Federal Government’s National Centre for Vocational Education Research (the NCVER) and the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. The Department is authorised by law to collect, use and disclose your personal information to meet functions and activities related to VET courses. These functions and activities include:
- administering VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation
- facilitating statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage
- understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information.
To understand more about this process please email VET-DataPolicy@dese.gov.au. To make a complaint or ask a question email privacy@dese.gov.au.
You must give written consent to the College to use your personal information and our VET course enrolment process includes your permission for your information to be used or disclosed in the way outlined above.
If you would like to seek access to or correct your personal information held by the College please contact us by email at principal@sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au.
The College will from time to time, send mail and email to students and past students for marketing. Students may at any time request that all such marketing cease. All requests will be promptly complied with. The College will from time-to-time contact students by other means such as post and telephone for College-related marketing activities. Students who request so will be removed from any marketing lists. No personal information is ever or will ever be disclosed to overseas recipients.
The College does not allow for the use of student information for any secondary marketing not related to the College.