Blurred Minds Academy for QLD – Terms of Use
1. About Blurred Minds Academy for QLD
QLD Academy is an online learning platform operated by Blurred Minds, a project of Griffith University.
The platform provides curriculum-aligned educational resources, activities, quizzes, surveys, games, and other learning content intended to support alcohol, vaping and drug education programs in schools.
By accessing or using QLD Academy, users agree to comply with these Terms of Use.
2. Definitions
In these Terms:
- QLD Academy and Service means the “Blurred Minds Academy for Queensland” online learning platform.
- Blurred Minds means the Blurred Minds project operated within Griffith University.
- Griffith University means Griffith University ABN 78 106 094 461.
- School User means an authorised teacher, school staff member, administrator or student accessing the Service.
- Content means educational resources, activities, quizzes, surveys, media, reports and related materials available through the Service.
3. Eligibility and Access
QLD Academy is intended for use by authorised educational institutions and their authorised users.
Schools are responsible for:
- approving users who may access the Service;
- ensuring that user information supplied to the Service is accurate and appropriate;
- managing student participation in accordance with their own policies and obligations.
Students may access the Service using identifiers supplied by their school.
The Service does not require students to maintain a personal email account.
4. School-Supplied User Identifiers
Student accounts may be created using unique identifiers supplied by schools.
Queensland state schools are recommended to use existing student identifiers such as MIS IDs.
Other schools may generate and use their own unique student identifiers.
The Service does not verify, authenticate against, or otherwise integrate with external government identity systems.
Identifiers are used solely for managing participation, progress tracking and account administration within the Service.
5. Acceptable Use
Users must:
- use the Service only for lawful educational purposes;
- comply with applicable school policies;
- keep account credentials secure;
- respect the privacy and rights of other users.
Users must not:
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to systems, data or accounts;
- interfere with the operation or security of the Service;
- upload malicious software, scripts or code;
- impersonate other users;
- attempt to access content or information belonging to another school without authorisation;
- use the Service in a manner that is unlawful, harmful, abusive, threatening or discriminatory.
6. Privacy
Personal information collected through QLD Academy is managed in accordance with applicable privacy legislation, including the Queensland Information Privacy Act 2009, Griffith University’s Privacy Statement, and the QLD Academy Privacy Notice.
QLD Academy is operated by Blurred Minds, a project administered by Griffith University.
Information collected through the Service is used for the administration and delivery of educational programs and related activities supported by the Service.
Users should refer to the QLD Academy Privacy Notice for further information regarding collection, use, disclosure, retention, research use, and privacy rights.
7. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated:
- all Content made available through QLD Academy remains the intellectual property of Griffith University, Blurred Minds, or their licensors;
- users are granted a limited, non-exclusive licence to access and use Content for legitimate educational purposes.
Users must not:
- reproduce Content for commercial purposes;
- redistribute Content outside authorised educational use;
- modify or remove copyright notices or ownership information.
Ownership of user-created content remains with the original creator unless otherwise specified by law or written agreement.
8. Availability and Service Changes
QLD Academy is provided on a reasonable endeavours basis.
While efforts are made to maintain availability and reliability of 99% uptime during business hours, uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed.
The Service may be suspended, restricted or unavailable due to:
- maintenance activities;
- upgrades or improvements;
- security-related activities;
- incidents or events outside the reasonable control of Griffith University or Blurred Minds.
Reasonable efforts will be made to minimise disruption where practical.
9. Security
Users must immediately report suspected security incidents or unauthorised access.
- Griffith University and Blurred Minds reserve the right to:
- investigate suspected misuse;
- suspend access where security concerns exist;
- take steps necessary to protect users, data and systems.
Access controls and administrative permissions are assigned according to the role of the user and operational need.
10. Suspension and Termination
Access to the Service may be suspended or terminated where:
these Terms are breached;
- a school requests account removal;
- misuse or unlawful activity is detected;
- continued access presents a security, privacy or operational risk.
Suspension or termination may occur without prior notice where immediate action is considered necessary to protect users, data or systems.
11. Data Retention and Removal
User information and learning records may be retained for operational, educational, legal, security, backup and audit purposes.
Where a school requests removal of information, the request will be managed in accordance with applicable legal obligations, retention requirements and privacy obligations.
Backup information may continue to exist for reasonable retention periods following deletion from active systems.
12. Third-Party Services
QLD Academy relies on a number of third-party technologies and service providers to support the delivery, hosting, security, monitoring and operation of the Service.
Information on these providers can be found here.
Griffith University and Blurred Minds take reasonable steps to ensure third-party providers are selected and managed in accordance with applicable security, privacy and operational requirements.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by law:
- Griffith University and Blurred Minds exclude liability for indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from use of the Service;
- users acknowledge that educational outcomes depend on many factors beyond the operation of the Service;
- nothing in these Terms excludes rights or guarantees that cannot legally be excluded.
14. Changes to These Terms
These Terms may be updated from time to time.
The current version will be published through the Service on this page.
Continued use of the Service following publication of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
15. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia.
Any dispute arising from use of QLD Academy shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland, Australia.
16. Contact
Blurred Minds
Griffith University
1 Parklands Drive
Southport QLD 4215
Australia
For support, privacy enquiries or account matters, users should contact the QLD Academy team using the appropriate contact form found here on the Blurred Minds website.
Last updated: 01/10/2026