Protecting Your Privacy
We are committed to helping you understand and experience God’s love and forgiveness. However, we also realise that we must also adhere to the laws surrounding our earthly existance which includes protecting your privacy.
Set out below is information that we are required to communicate to visitors of our website. We recommended that you keep this information for future reference.
How We Collect Your Personal Information
We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:
- directly from you, for example, when you provide information by phone, in forms or other agreements, or when you communicate with us in writing or via email;
- from third parties such as persons within your current or past friendship groups;
- from publicly available sources of information; or
- when you visit our website.
Your Personal Information
Personal information held by us may include your name, date of birth, current and previous addresses, work or private telephone or mobile numbers, work or private email addresses. Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to us (e.g. about other members of your congragation). If so, we rely on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to us and if necessary, to advise them that we can be contacted for further information.
You Can Access Your Personal Information
You have a right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons.
How We Use Your Personal Information
Your personal information may be used to:
- provide ministry to yourself, your family or friends;
- inform you of ways the Alberton Lutheran Parish is providing ministry to the local area and beyond; and
- gain a better understanding of your ministry needs in order for us to provide you with better ministry.
If you do not wish us to contact you for any of these reasons, please contact us.
How We Disclose Your Personal Information
In order to provide the ministry that you desire, we may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of Alberton Lutheran Parish. Your personal information is disclosed to those organisations only in relation to us providing our ministry to you.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
Help Us To Ensure We Hold Accurate Information
We take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide.
That’s why we recommend that you:
- let us know if there are any errors in your personal information; and
- keep us up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name, address, telephone numbers or email address.