Legal notice

The results of the QPS Entrance Assessment are used by Queensland Police Service (“QPS”) for their selection process with the aim of providing comparative information on candidates’ abilities across a number of generic skills (“the Aim”). In the course of your registering for and participating in the QPS Entrance Assessment, The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd (ABN 19 004 398 145) (“ACER”) may collect your personal information. Personal information is that information or opinion that tends to identify a particular individual such as name and date of birth.

ACER will only collect, store, use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of administering and reporting on the QPS Entrance Assessment (“the Purpose”).

If you do not provide your personal information, you may not be able to participate in the QPS Entrance Assessment.

ACER, in pursuing the Purpose, may collect your sensitive information such as health information, for example, in case you need special consideration in sitting the QPS Entrance Assessment. By ticking the box, during registration in the ACER portal, you consent to ACER collecting, using, storing and disclosing your sensitive information as specified in this Privacy Statement.

ACER may disclose your personal information (including sensitive information) to:

1. government or statutory bodies which have instigated the QPS Entrance Assessment or have an interest in the Aim;
2. ACER contractors which may assist ACER in pursuing the Purpose from time to time;
3. medical or other professionals for the purpose of assessing any sensitive information; and
4. where ACER is required to do so by law, to government agencies, or individuals appointed by government, responsible for investigating and resolving disputes or complaints connected with the QPS Entrance Exam.

ACER may transfer some of your Personal Information (but not any sensitive information, such as health) outside of Australia as specified in the ‘remote proctoring’ section below.

If you sit the Test by remote proctoring:

• Personal Information will be provided to ProctorU, ACER’s current provider of remote proctoring for the purpose of account generation to sit the test. ProctorU is a company based in the United States. Personal Information that is provided to ProctorU may be stored outside of Australia. You may view ProctorU’s privacy policy at https://www.meazurelearning.com/privacy-policy; and
• in pursuit of the Purpose ACER will transfer to ProctorU some of your Personal Information such as any adjustments you have been granted to your Test sitting conditions as a consequence of you using ACER reasonable adjustments procedure. For the sake of clarity no health information is transferred.

In compliance with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“the Act”) ACER has taken steps, reasonable in the circumstances, to ensure ProctorU complies with those Principles.

ACER discloses your de-identified QPSea responses to its current contracted plagiarism review contractor, TURNITIN, LLC, a Californian limited liability company which is based in the USA. It processes QPSea test taker responses in the USA to ascertain instances of plagiarism. You may view its privacy policy HERE . This privacy statement will be amended in the event the supplier changes.

ACER will abide by the Act.

You have the right to:

1. inspect your Personal Information;
2. request amendment of your Personal Information; and
3. make a complaint in respect of a breach of your privacy.

To exercise any or all of the above rights please review ACER’s Privacy Policy which sets out the processes of how you may attend to the same.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or consider that we have breached your privacy, you can contact us at: qps@acer.org