NOTICE OF COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
This notice explains how the College handles the personal information of students and parents or guardians (together: you).
1. The College collects personal information about students, parents and guardians before and during the course of a student's enrolment at the College. This may be in writing, through technology systems including artificial intelligence systems, or in the course of conversations. The types of personal information the College collects include sensitive information, which includes health information.
2. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the College to provide education to the students enrolled at the College and related activities, exercise its duty of care, and perform necessary associated administrative activities, which will enable them to take part in all the activities of the College.
3. The College has legal obligations that require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts, Public Health and Child Protection laws, as well as the College’s duty of care to students.
4. A student's enrolment may be delayed or prevented if the College cannot collect certain personal information. This is particularly so where the information is relevant to the health and safety of the student, other students and/or staff
5. Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We may ask you to provide medical reports and information about your daughter from time to time.
6. 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.
7. The College may disclose and use personal and sensitive information for educational, administrative and support purposes, and to seek support and advice. This may include:
● other schools and teachers at those schools, including a new school to which the student is transferred, to facilitate the transfer of the student
● government departments (including for policy and funding purposes)
● medical practitioners
● people providing educational, support and health services to the College, including specialist visiting teachers, coaches, volunteers and counsellors
● providers of learning and assessment tools
● assessment and educational authorities, including the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and NAPLAN Test Administration
Authorities (who will disclose it to the entity that manages the online platform for NAPLAN)
● third-party providers of our information management and storage systems, which may include artificial intelligence systems (for the purpose of the providers providing services to the College in connection with the systems)
● people providing administrative and financial services to the College
● anyone you authorise the College to disclose information to
● anyone to whom the College is required or authorised to disclose the information by law, including child protection laws.
8. Personal information collected from students is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians.
9. The College may use online or ‘cloud’ service providers to store personal information and to provide services to the College that involve the use of personal information, such as services relating to email, instant messaging, education and assessment applications, and artificial intelligence. Some limited personal information may also be provided to these service providers to enable them to authenticate users who access their services. This personal information may reside on a cloud service provider’s servers, which may be situated outside Australia. For further information, please refer to the College’s Privacy Policy.
10. The College’s Privacy Policy, accessible on the College’s website, sets out how parents or students may seek access to personal information collected about them; access may be refused in certain circumstances
11. The College’s Privacy Policy also sets out how you may complain about a breach of privacy and how the College will deal with such a complaint.
12. The College may, from time to time, engage in fundraising activities Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you. It may also be disclosed to organisations 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.
13. On occasions, information such as academic and sporting achievement, student activities and similar news is published in College newsletters and magazines and on our website and social media sites, such as Facebook and Instagram. This may include photographs and videos of activities such as sporting events and achievements, concerts and plays, College camps and College excursions. The College will obtain separate permissions from the student’s parents or guardians prior to publication or otherwise make this information available to the public, such as on the internet. On enrolment, you will be required to complete the Consent to Share Photos and Videos form to confirm consent or otherwise to such publication
14. The College may include your contact details in a class or year group list, sporting list, activity list or College directory. If you do not agree to this, you must inform the Privacy Officer in writing by emailing privacyofficer@plc.nsw.edu.au.
15. 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 this 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.
16. Any parent, guardian or other person concerned about any aspect of this notice or seeking further information (including about the particular information technology and artificial intelligence systems we use) should contact the Privacy Officer on (02) 9704 5666.