PRIVACY STATEMENT
Wheatland District Church appreciate that privacy is very important. Wheatland District Church has adopted this Privacy Policy as we recognise the right of people to keep their personal information private. This Privacy Policy covers Wheatland District Church ’s treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect or hold. Wheatland District Church must comply with the National Privacy Principles contained in the Australian Privacy Act when dealing with personal information.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Wheatland District Church may collect general information about you, such as your name, address and contact details so Wheatland District Church can contact you. The information collected may include some sensitive information (as defined by the Privacy Act), such as health information or information about your beliefs, relevant to the services or assistance you have requested from Wheatland District Church. Wheatland District Church also operates still and video cameras within and around some church premises and at external church events which may collect personal information in the form of images. Where practicable, the purpose for which we collect personal information will be made clear at the time of collection. Wheatland District Church will not collect any personal information about visitors to the website except when they knowingly provide it.
USING YOUR INFORMATION
Wheatland District Church will use the personal information we collect for the purpose disclosed at the time of collection, or otherwise as set out in this Privacy Policy. The primary purpose of collecting your personal information is to enable the Wheatland District Church to function efficiently and effectively and to assist it and community activities. We will not use your personal information for any other purpose without first seeking your consent, unless authorised or required by law. Generally we will only use and disclose your personal information as follows:
(a) to establish and maintain your involvement with Wheatland District Church, including answering any queries raised;
(b) to provide the products or services you have requested from Wheatland District Church ;
(c) to register you for events;
(d) to keep you informed of new developments we believe may be of interest to you. If we contact you in this way without obtaining your prior consent, we will provide you with the opportunity to decline any further promotional communications;
(e) to different parts of Wheatland District Church to enable the development and promotion of other products and services and to improve our general ability to assist attendees and the wider community.
ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION
You can request access to the personal information that Wheatland District Church holds about you by contacting Wheatland District Church ’s Administration Staff as set out below. We will provide you with access to your personal information unless we are legally authorised to refuse your request.
Users will be able to access their personal information stored in the central Church Management System and it is their personal responsibility to keep the information accurate, complete and up to date. Alternatively, after notice from you, we will take reasonable steps to correct any of your information which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. If you wish to have your personal information deleted please let us know and we will delete that information wherever practicable.
Photographs & Video
In the digital age, Wheatland District Church may from time to time stream or publish photographs or videos of our church services, events and activities. These images are used to record, promote and celebrate our ministries in print and digital formats (i.e. on our website, social media, newsletters, brochures, invitations, PowerPoint presentations, etc).
Please let us know if you do not wish to have your image used in this way. We will never knowingly publish anything that would be objectionable, embarrassing or hurtful to anyone, and will gladly remove any photographs or videos upon request.
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
We or a trusted third party, request information from a user on our site if the user performs a financial transaction. In this case, a user must provide information including but not limited to name, address, and financial information, including but not limited to credit card information or bank account information. Wheatland District Church uses a third party intermediary to perform the transaction processing. This intermediary is solely a link in the distribution chain, and uses the information provided for the sole purpose of processing the transaction. Personal financial information is stored by the third party only if a recurring payment is set up.
SECURITY
Wheatland District Church will take reasonable steps to keep secure any personal information which we hold and to keep this information accurate, complete and up-to-date. Personal information is stored in secure servers or secure files. Wheatland District Church uses a private dedicated Offline Church Windows System as its primary datastore for personal information. Wheatland District Church has full control over who is authorized to access and use this system. Access rights are regularly reviewed and updated or removed as appropriate. Misuse or abuse of the System will result in immediate suspension of access. Users of the System are also able to set their own privacy and communication settings. Recipients of official emails have the opportunity to opt-out of email messages.
COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
LINKS
This website may at times contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we Wheatland District Church are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
NOTIFICATIONS OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
CONTACT
If you would like any further information, or have any queries, problems or complaints relating to the Wheatland District Church’s Privacy Policy or our information handling practices in general, please contact our Administration Staff.