Privacy Policy

Introduction

Bendigo Church of Christ respects and upholds your rights to privacy protection under the 13 Australian Privacy Principles amended to the Privacy Act 1988.

We collect your personal details to administer your relationship with the Bendigo Church of Christ, to provide any personal ministry, and to provide you with information on Bendigo Church of Christ events and ministries.

We only collect information where it is necessary to do so in order to provide a service to you or where we are required by law to do so (e.g. staff superannuation and taxation information).

Without your personal details we may not be able to interact with you or provide ministry opportunities.

Information We Collect

The sort of information we may collect includes:

  • Name and Address;
  • Phone numbers and email addresses so we can communicate with you;
  • Family member details;
  • Details of donations where receipts for taxation purposes are required;
  • Communications you have with us (e.g. letters, prayer requests); your involvement in ministries so we can provide a meaningful ministry relationship;
    Records of visits, phone calls and pastoral matters;
  • Staff details for superannuation, payroll and taxation purposes;
  • Information you provide in surveys, registration forms, conversations, emails and online.

We endeavour to keep personal information up to date and accurate. If you want a copy of this information please contact the church office. We will also endeavour to protect your personal information from misuse, loss or unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

You can request us to modify your personal data if you believe it is not accurate, complete or up to date.

Contact Forms and Registrations

When visitors fill out any of our contact or registration forms, we collect the data shown in the contact form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Cookies

If you fill out a contact or registration form on our site you may opt-in to saving your contact details in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when when completing a form. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Disclosure

Bendigo Church of Christ will not disclose personal information about you to any person except:

  1. with your prior consent (for example, in the Church Directory);OR,
  2. in strict confidentiality to members of Bendigo Church of Christ or to those who have regular contact with Bendigo Church of Christ in connection with the Church’s activities in order to provide a service to you.

Data Storage

If any personal information collected by Bendigo Church of Christ is stored or managed by a third party on behalf of the church, Bendigo Church of Christ will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information will be held, used and disclosed by the third party consistently with the National Privacy Principles. Any data we collect is stored indefinitely.

The service provider managing the information for the Church may store certain personal information outside Australia. You consent to the transfer of your information outside Australia by submitting your personal information to Bendigo Church of Christ.

Your Rights

If you have filled out a contact or registration form on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Online Security

We have a public web site at www.bendigochurchofchrist.org.au and a public Facebook page (Bendigo Church of Christ) which is available to anyone. There is no personal data stored on these sites.

Additionally, ministry teams operate private Facebook pages for noticeboard purposes, with social interaction thereon being discouraged. Personal data is not stored on these pages. Interaction on these pages is closely monitored.

Video Recording and Still Photography

Bendigo Church of Christ may, from time to time, record video or images of services and activities for promotional, teaching and information purposes. By attending these services and activities you consent to the church taking the video and images and using and disclosing them for such purposes.

Images of children will not be displayed in any form without written consent from parents/guardians.

Policy Currency

Approved by Church Council: November 2016; Reviewed and approved November 2019.