Breaking the Silence

Serving the Presbyterian Church of Australia in NSW, ACT, TAS & WA
SERVING THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA IN NSW, ACT, TAS & WA

Privacy Policy

The Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales (ACN 645 495 256) (the Church) values your privacy. 

This privacy policy sets out the Church’s practices in relation to the collection use, storage, and disclosure of personal information. The Chruch is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). 

The Conduct Protocol Unit has been established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales to serve the Church in preventing and responding to matters of abuse. 

The Church may modify or update this privacy policy from time to time by publishing a modified or updated version of it on our website. We encourage you to check the Church’s website periodically to ensure that you are aware of the Church’s current privacy policy. 

The Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales is an unincorporated association.  The Church and its property trust collect data from users of Church and Property Trust services, and from persons and businesses that provide services to the Church and/or to the Property Trust. The data collected by the church and the property trust includes information which can identify you as a person such as your name, your address and other details about you. This information is referred to in Australian legislation as “personally identifiable information”. 

Personal and Sensitive Information collected is used only for purposes relating to the spiritual, pastoral, social, educational, administrative, legal and historical functions of the Church and its Property Trust. The Church and its Property Trust will take all reasonable steps to keep personal, sensitive and all other confidential information secure and prevent its unlawful use and/or inappropriate disclosure. 

The Church and the Property Trust will use collected data including Personally Identifiable and Sensitive information in furtherance of the mission and activities of the Church and the Property Trust. The Church and the Property Trust will include some of the information it collects in the Church’s permanent Archival Records. The Church and the Property Trust will review information not included in the Church Archival Records, and delete information no longer required for Church or Property Trust activities.

The Church and the Property Trust will use data it collects to promote all of the spiritual, pastoral, social, educational, administrative, legal and historical functions of the Church and for the business requirements of the Property Trust including property management and obtaining services for and by the Property Trust.

These Church and Property Trust purposes include but are not limited to administration and communication throughout the Church and the Property Trust, analysing the role of the Church and the Property Trust in society, recording the histories of Church members, adherents, and persons in regular contact with the Church, and maintaining records in the public interest, including baptism rolls, wedding registers and other related purposes.

Data collected by the Church and Property Trust will be shared with third parties such as persons studying aspects of the life and work of the Church and society and of people who are or who have been associated with the Church, and the Property Trust, and with other third parties who provide services to or receive services from the Church and or the Property Trust.

The Church will take all reasonable steps to keep personal, sensitive and all other confidential or restricted information secure and to prevent its unlawful use and/or inappropriate disclosure.

Where the subject of data collected by the Church or the Property Trust seeks to access his or her personal information or sensitive information collected, it is the policy of both the Church and the Property Trust to grant access, subject to the production of identification.

Personal and Sensitive Information collected by the Church and its Property Trust will be used in conformity with our Privacy Policy which can be found at pcnsw.org.au or mailed to you on request. If you do not want your information to be used by us, please do not provide it to us. 

Enquiries concerning this Privacy Policy and complaints concerning failure of the Church to comply with this Policy, or relevant legislation should be addressed in the first instance to the Church’s designated Privacy Officer, who can be contacted on 1300 773 774, or PO Box 2196, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012 or general@pcnsw.org.au.