Matthew Flinders Anglican College – Privacy Notice

1. The College collects personal information, including sensitive information about pupils and parents or guardians before and during the course of a pupil's enrolment at the College. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the College to provide schooling for your son/daughter.
   
2. Sensitive Information’ is defined by the Privacy Act 1988 and means information or an opinion about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association religion, religious beliefs or affiliations; philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, sexual preferences or practices, or criminal record. ‘Sensitive Information’ also means health information about individual or genetic information about an individual that is not otherwise health information. Our Privacy Policy is available for your information on www.mfac.edu.au .
   
3. Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the College's legal obligations, particularly to enable the College to discharge its duty of care.
   
4. Certain Public Health and Child Protection laws governing or relating to the operation of schools require that certain information is collected and, in some circumstances, disclosed
   
5. Health information about pupils is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We ask you to provide medical reports about pupils from time to time.
   
6. The College from time to time discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes. This includes to other schools, government departments, the Anglican Schools Commission, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the College, including specialist visiting teachers, coaches and volunteers. Personal information collected from you may also be disclosed by the College to debt collection agencies for the purpose of recovering outstanding tuition fees, however this action would not be taken unless amounts owed to the College were considerably overdue.
   
7. If we do not obtain the information referred to above, we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your son/daughter.
   
8. Personal information collected from pupils is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians. On occasions, information (text and/or photographs) such as academic and sporting achievements, pupil activities and other news will be used by the College for the purpose of creating marketing material to market the College externally. This marketing material could take the form of College newsletters, magazines and DVDs and may be published on the College website www.mfac.edu.au. The College may also disclose marketing material to third parties (e.g. media outlets) for the purpose of marketing the College to the general public.
   
9. Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter by contacting the College. Pupils may also seek access to personal information about them. However, there will be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the College's duty of care to the pupil or where pupils have provided information in confidence.
   
10. As you may know, the College from time to time engages 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.
    
11. We may include your contact details in a class list and in the Ship's Company (a director of parent and student addresses and contact details). If you do not agree to this you must advise us immediately. Please contact Parents & Friends Association Liaison Officer on 5477 3264.
    
12. If you provide the College with the personal information of others we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the College. Please tell them the reason why you are disclosing their information, what it will be used for and that they may access the information if they wish by contacting the College. Please also inform them that while the College does not usually disclose the information to third parties, this may be necessary and let them know the types of organisations to which the College would disclose their information (e.g. Hospitals or health care facilities).

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