Quick guide to Privacy at St Georges

 

1. The church is committed to its obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (as amended) and the National Privacy Principles.We also understand our Duty of Care and conduct all activities, including meeting our obligations pertaining to privacy - according to the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne’s “Duty of Care” Handbook.

2. The church respects the privacy of individuals and will only collect personal information about individuals with their consent so as to enable us to undertake our normal activities.

3. Individuals have a right to access their personal information held by us.

4. The phone number and email of individual church members aged 18 and over will be made available to other church members unless privacy is requested.

5. Further information about individuals will be appropriately safeguarded and only accessible to those deemed suitable by the Vicar for the purpose of our normal activities.

6. The church will not disclose recorded information about individuals to third parties unless it is used for the sole purpose of carrying out normal activities or is required by law.

7. Personal information held by the church will, as far as practicable be accurate, complete and up to date and individuals should contact the church to correct inaccurate information.

8. The Vicar is the St Georges Privacy Officer.

9. The St Georges privacy statement must appear on the church website.

10. The types of information we collect include:

    • Name, Phone Numbers, Addresses, Email Addresses, Family Connections

    • Details about an individual’s / church involvement.

    • Medical and Emergency details for events and catering.

    • Communications to and from the church

    • Records of discussions (e.g. counselling or prayer ministry). We will always tell the individual when we keep a record.

    • Records of visits and pastoral matters.

    • Electronic or hardcopy form

11. We may receive or store private information in electronic or hardcopy form

12. Although we strive to ensure security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted on our website/Facebook stie, unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.