Who is collecting: Field Ops Australia (RTO 45729),
[email protected].
Why we collect it: to manage your enrolment, deliver and assess
training, issue Statements of Attainment, report training activity to NCVER as required by the
National VET Data Policy, verify your USI under the Student Identifiers Act 2014,
and contact you about this course.
Who we share it with:
- NCVER (Australian Government statistical agency) — training activity records
- USI Registry (Australian Government) — to verify your USI and link your record
- ASQA or other regulators — only on lawful request or audit
- Stripe Payments Australia Pty Ltd — if you pay by card (Stripe is US-based; data is processed under their AU agreement)
- Xero Limited (NZ) — if your employer is being invoiced (NZ-hosted accounting platform)
- Anthropic / Groq Inc. (USA) — for short AI-assisted text grading of free-response answers (your name is not sent; only your written answer + the question)
- DigitalOcean (Sydney AU) — our hosting provider; data stays in Australia at rest
We do not sell your information. We do not use it for marketing beyond your own training.
Access, correction, and complaints: you can request a copy of
what we hold, ask us to correct it, or lodge a privacy complaint by emailing
[email protected].
If you are unsatisfied with our response, escalate to the
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner ↗.
Retention: training-activity records are kept for at least
7 years as required by NCVER. You can request anonymisation of personal contact details (name, address,
phone) under Australian Privacy Principle 11 after course completion; the legally-required
AVETMISS demographic codes are retained.
If you do not provide it: some fields are required by law (USI,
AVETMISS demographics) — without them we cannot enrol you in nationally recognised training. Other
fields are optional and marked as such.