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The Queensland Police Service (“QPS”) uses the QPS Entrance Assessment to support its recruitment and selection processes by evaluating candidates’ capabilities across a range of general skills (“the Assessment”). The Assessment is administered by The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd (ABN 19 004 398 145) (“ACER”).

This Privacy Collection Notice explains how ACER collects, uses, stores, and discloses your personal information in connection with your registration for and participation in the Assessment, in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (“APPs”).

Collection of Personal Information

ACER may collect personal information about you, including information that identifies you such as your name, date of birth, contact details, and information relevant to your Assessment registration and participation. ACER collects this information for the purpose of administering, delivering, reporting on, and quality‑assuring the Assessment (“the Purpose”).

If you do not provide the personal information requested, ACER may be unable to register you for, or allow you to participate in, the Assessment.

Collection of Sensitive Information

ACER, pursuing the Purpose, may also collect sensitive information, such as health information, where reasonably necessary to consider or implement reasonable adjustments for your Assessment session.

By ticking the box, during registration for the Assessment in the ACER portal, YOU CONSENT to ACER collecting, using, storing and disclosing your sensitive information as specified in this Privacy Statement.

If you do not wish to provide such consent please use the contact details provided below in respect of ACER’s privacy policy or for making an enquiry.

Disclosure of your personal information (including sensitive information)

ACER may disclose your personal information (including sensitive information, where permitted) to the following parties where reasonably necessary for the Purpose:

  • QPS and other government or statutory bodies connected with the administration or oversight of the Assessment;
  • ACER’s service providers and contractors, including providers of assessment delivery, marking, scoring, data services, and administrative support;
  • medical or other professionals, where required to assess or verify requests for reasonable adjustments; and
  • regulatory or oversight bodies, government agencies, or entities authorised by law to receive such information, including for handling complaints or investigations relating to the Assessment.


ACER will not disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those described above unless permitted or required by law.

Cross-Border Disclosure

Some of your personal information may be disclosed to service providers located outside Australia, in accordance with APP 8. 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.

Plagiarism and Integrity Checking

ACER discloses your de-identified QPSea responses to its current contracted plagiarism review contractor, Copyleaks, Inc., a Delaware company which is based in the USA. It processes QPSea test taker responses in the EU and 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.

Your rights

Under 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