ACER uses a security carrier for its online payment functions to act as its interface with the banking system. Credit card and accompanying personal details are not recorded or stored by ACER but are encrypted at point of capture and transmitted direct to the bank. Thus you can be assured this is a safe payment option.

The online registration form will ask you for information needed to process your registration, and a limited amount of information important to the test development process and to the HPAT-Ulster research programme. The information collected on the HPAT-Ulster registration form relates only to your registration to sit HPAT-Ulster. It is not related to any application you may make for a university place.

All information collected will be treated as confidential and used only as agreed by candidates, and in de-identified form for research purposes. Candidates are assured that the provisions of all privacy legislation will be strictly adhered to.