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SQA Connect Terms and Conditions

SQA CONNECT

USER TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The SQA Connect system is operated and hosted by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Access to SQA Connect is limited to employees of those organisations to whom SQA has granted access to SQA Connect.

Any use of SQA Connect, or attempt to use SQA Connect, or any information stored in it, without the express permission of SQA will constitute an offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and may render you liable to criminal and/or civil sanctions and disciplinary action.

In order to use SQA Connect, you must be authorised by your employer as an authorised user and have a designated user account together with a reason to use SQA Connect governed by your current role within your employer. If you are not sure whether you or your employer is authorised to access SQA Connect then you must click cancel and seek direction from your line manager.

You may only use SQA Connect, and information and knowledge obtained from it, for the purpose of ensuring that SQA award data is complete, accurate and up-to-date.

You must ensure that:

  1. any data you submit to SQA via SQA Connect is complete, accurate and up-to-date;
  2. you do not use or disclose any data obtained from SQA Connect for any purpose other than ensuring it is accurate, complete and up-to-date;
  3. you do not do anything which could reasonably be expected to damage, disable, overburden, or materially impair SQA Connect or which is likely to interfere with any other party's use of SQA Connect; and
  4. you use SQA Connect strictly in compliance with applicable laws relating to data protection, the processing of personal data and privacy from time to time, including:
    1. the Data Protection Act 1998;
    2. (with effect from 25 May 2018) the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
    3. the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (as may be amended by the proposed Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications); and
    4. any legislation that, in respect of the United Kingdom, replaces, or enacts into United Kingdom domestic law, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the proposed Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications or any other law relating to data protection, the processing of personal data and privacy as a consequence of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.

By continuing to use SQA Connect you confirm that you are entitled to use SQA Connect and that you have read and agree to abide by the terms of this notice.