West Epping Uniting Church
Privacy Policy
This policy has been adopted by West Epping Uniting Church in order to comply with the requirements of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act No 155 of 2000. The policy should be read together with the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) set out in the Privacy Act.
1. In this policy, a reference to
“Church” means The Uniting Church in Australia
2. West Epping Uniting Church will comply with the NPPs. If there is any inconsistency between this policy and the NPPs, then the NPPs prevail.
3. Subject to paragraph 4, West Epping Uniting Church will only use personal information for the primary purpose for which it is collected. In most cases, the purpose will relate to the spiritual, pastoral, social educational and administrative functions of West Epping Uniting Church.
4. Those functions include maintaining personal information for the purpose of analysing the role of the Church in society and recording the family histories of its members. The information may be disclosed to scholars studying the Church and to relatives of Church members.
5. West Epping Uniting Church will only use personal information about an individual for a secondary purpose (i.e. something beyond the scope of the primary purpose) if that individual has consented or the use is otherwise permitted by the NPPs.
6. West Epping Uniting Church will take reasonable steps to keep personal information secure and will, subject to the NPPs, comply with any request from a person to correct or remove his or her information. West Epping Uniting Church will appoint a Privacy Officer who will be responsible for storing, correcting and giving people access to personal information collected about them. West Epping Uniting Church may charge fees for access to personal information.
7. Personal information collected by West Epping Uniting Church may be sensitive information for the purpose of the NPPs (e.g. information about a person’s religious beliefs). As a non-profit organisation, West Epping Uniting Church is permitted to collect sensitive information without a person’s express consent. However, West Epping Uniting Church will endeavour to seek consent from a person if sensitive information is sought for something other than the primary functions of West Epping Uniting Church described in paragraph 3.
8. The operating procedures (whether or not they are formalised in a manual) of West Epping Uniting Church will comply with this policy and the NPPs.
9. West Epping Uniting Church’s Privacy Officer will be empowered to receive and deal with any complaint that West Epping Uniting Church has not complied with this policy or the NPPs
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact the Privacy Officer for West Epping Uniting Church (Morris Ross) who can be contacted on (02)9868-3574 or weppinguca@netscape.net.
