This Privacy Policy describes how Assessment as Learning (https://assessmentaslearning.com.au) collects, uses, and manages your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

1. Information we collect

We collect information necessary to facilitate your learning journey and provide secure access to our resources:

• Account Information: Your learner email address, a Unique Identifier (UID), and the calendar year you will finish school.
• Product Access: Details of your purchases to ensure you can access specific restricted pages.
• Engagement Data: Information provided when you leave comments, including the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and your browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
• Cookies: Technical data used to improve your site experience, such as saving your details for future comments or maintaining your login session.

2. How we collect your information

We collect information directly from you when you:

• Register for an account or purchase a product.
• Leave comments or upload media to the site.
• Log in to our restricted learning areas.

3. Purpose of collection and use

Your data is used for the following specific purposes:

• Access Control: To verify your identity and provide the correct educational content based on your purchases.
• Spam Prevention: We use IP addresses and browser strings to protect the site and its community from automated spam.
• Product Development: We use your graduation year to understand our learner cohorts and improve resource timing.
• Identity Verification: An anonymised string (hash) from your email may be provided to the Gravatar service. Their policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

4. Disclosure and sharing

We do not sell your personal information. Disclosure occurs only in limited circumstances:

• Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security verification.
• Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be processed through an automated spam detection service.
• Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos or images). These third-party websites may collect data about you or use cookies as if you had visited their site directly.

5. Media and data security

If you upload images to our website, please ensure they do not contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as other visitors may be able to extract this. We take reasonable steps to secure all stored data, including:

• Restricting access to user profiles to the user and site administrators.
• Using temporary cookies for login verification that are discarded when your browser closes.

6. Data retention

• Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up contributions.
• User Profiles: For registered learners, we store the personal information provided in your profile indefinitely or until you choose to delete it.

7. Your rights over your data

If you have an account or have left comments, you may request:

• An exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
• The erasure of your personal data (excluding data we are legally or administratively required to keep).
• To see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (usernames cannot be changed).

8. Contact us

For any privacy-related enquiries, please contact us at:

• Website: https://assessmentaslearning.com.au
• Email: info@assessmentaslearning.com.au