Legal notice - Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV)

The results of the FRV Written Selection Test (WST) are used by Fire Rescue Victoria (“FRV”) 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 WST, 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 FRV WST(“the Purpose”).

If you do not provide your personal information, you may not be able to participate in the FRV Written Selection Test (WST).

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.

Some of your personal information may be disclosed to service providers located outside Australia

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

FRV 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.

Transfer outside of Australia

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.

Remote proctoring

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.

Your rights

ACER will abide by the Act.

You have the right to:

inspect your Personal Information;
request amendment of your Personal Information; and
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: frv@acer.org

ACER acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. 