CPA Australia Ltd ("CPA Australia") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
The personal information you provide may be used by CPA Australia to:
- process your application for membership with CPA Australia
- process your application for General Skills Migration with CPA Australia
- record your membership details and profile information
- manage your membership of CPA Australia
- ensure you comply as a member with CPA Australia's Constitution and By-Laws
- conduct market research in order to identify and analyse the ongoing needs of CPA Australia members
- provide you with access to and information about a range of current and future membership benefits
- enrol you in the CPA Program
- administer the CPA Program
- administer your enrolment examination(s)
- administer your examination(s)
- customise future service offerings, such as examinations for the CPA Program
- notify you about CPA Australia events
- arrange study group contact if required
- aggregate and use for internal review to analyse trends and statistics
Failure to complete the Application Form correctly may delay or render CPA Australia unable to process your application.
CPA Australia may disclose the personal information you provide to:
- Deakin University and other assessment providers (and other third party providers) or change to CPA Program business partners
- Member Benefits+ business and marketing partners so that they may contact you about their products and services
- external service providers to whom we have contracted out functions such as printers, mailing houses and IT companies, but only for the purposes of processing your application
- Universities and other education providers, professional and regulatory bodies, Governmental Departments i.e. the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australian Education International - National Office for Overseas Skills Recognition and Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- If you engage the services of a migration agent it is understood that the agent is authorised to be party to all details pertaining to your assessment.
The personal information you provide will be treated by CPA Australia in the following ways:
- your personal information may be transferred or stored outside the country by CPA Australia and other assessment providers (and other third party providers) where the information was collected for the purposes stated above
- you have the right to access any personal information which CPA Australia holds about you, subject to exceptions in any applicable privacy legislation
- you may also request the correction of information which is inaccurate. Access and/or correction requests can be made at your local CPA Australia office or via our online 'Update your profile' service
CPA Australia processes assessment payments using EFTPOS and online technologies. All transactions processed by CPA Australia meet industry security standards to ensure member details and payments are protected.