Privacy Statement

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through any Anglican Diocese of Bathurst public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst does not read any of your private online communications.

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst and Anglican Diocese of Bathurst family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst collects and uses your personal information to operate the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website and deliver the services you have requested. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst and its affiliates. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website, in order to determine what Anglican Diocese of Bathurst services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Anglican Diocese of Bathurst websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Anglican Diocese of Bathurst or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website uses “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Anglican Diocese of Bathurst pages, or register with the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst site or services, a cookie helps the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst website features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the
Anglican Diocese of Bathurst services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect organisational and customer feedback. The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst at karen.trafford@bathurstanglican.org.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.