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PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT

The Glen Waverley Uniting Church in Australia, acknowledges and respects the privacy of individuals. We support and endorse the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Amendment [Private Sector] Act 2000 and will comply with these principles whenever personal information as defined by the Act is collected by us.

In accordance with the National Privacy Principles —

1. We will only collect personal information about you with your prior knowledge and consent;
2. We will only use personal information provided about you for the purposes for which it was collected;
3. We will not disclose your personal information to a third party without your consent.
4. We will not disclose your personal information to other institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation;
5. We will remove personal information from our records when it is no longer required [except where archiving is required];
6. We will continue to ensure, and improve where necessary, processes and policies to protect the personal information that we have under our control from:
   1. unauthorised access
   2. improper use
   3. alteration
   4. unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss.

Approved by Church Council 21 August 2002
Updated and approved as of 15 Sep 2010, council reaffirmed the policy.
Updated and approved by Church Council on 23 Mar 2011.
Incorporated into Safe Church policy April 2015
Linked to MedicalForms July 2016