What is the Privacy Act?

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The Privacy Act makes rules about how information about you is collected and used. Training providers and the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) need to know some information about you so they can do their jobs. Information is collected on the enrolment form and a record of your progress is kept during training.

Q: Who uses this information?

A: The information may be shared with training providers, Work and Income, NZQA, the Ministry of Education, the Inland Revenue Department, the NZ Immigration Service, Workbridge and employers. The training provider and the TEC may also get information
about you from those agencies.

They use this information to:

• check if you meet the entry rules for a programme
• check your participation on previous training programmes
• check your progress on training programmes
• check if you are eligible for income support
• check the credits you may have earned on the national qualifications framework
• put together national education statistics.

Seeing the information
Information about you is held by the training provider and the TEC. You have the right to see this information, and ask for it to be changed.

When information about you can be easily retrieved, you have a right to:

• find out from the Training Provider and the TEC what information they have about you
• see that information.

If you think the rules have been broken

Contact the TEC, explain what has happened, and ask that it be put right.