Bathurst Baptist Church Privacy Statement
Introduction
The Act
On 21/12/2001 The Federal Privacy Act 2000 came into effect. This act contains the National Privacy Principles which include legislation in regards to collection, use and disclosure, data quality, data security, openness, access and correction, identifiers, anonymity, trans-border data flows and sensitive information.
For more information about the Act and the National Privacy Principles visit the Australian Privacy Commissioner's website at www.privacy.gov.au.
At Bathurst Baptist Church
Bathurst Baptist Church (BBC) is a member of the Baptist Churches of NSW&ACT (BC). The BC are structured to support and serve the local Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT, but not to direct them. This means that each Baptist Church, including BBC, functions as an independent and autonomous Church and therefore any personal or sensitive information that is provided to BBC is NOT passed on to any outside organisations.
For the purposes of privacy, there are three broad groups of people associated with BBC:
| Church Attendees | These people are either formal members of BBC, or people who attend Church services or activities of BBC. |
| Specialised Group Attendees | These are people in groups such as Youth Group, Kids Church, etc. These people attend specific groups run by and associated with BBC and may or may not be Church Attendees. |
| Parents/Guardians of Specialised Group Attendees | Until an attendee of a Specialised Group has reached the legal age of adulthood, 18 years of age, details of that person's Parents/Guardian may be recorded. These people may or may not be members of the other two groups. |
What is personal information
Personal information is any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about an individual. It may range from the everyday and ordinary (e.g. address and phone number - information that any number of groups with which he or she is associated would record) to the very sensitive (e.g. medical history or condition - that a doctor or gym would record).
Who will be collecting sensitive and personal information
The church Pastors and their personal assistants, administration staff and various Special Group Leaders might collect such information.
How personal information will be collected
Personal information may be collected in a variety of ways including registration or enrolment forms, or in personal notes. The information collected may include names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, medical details, family details (including spouses, children, guardians & parents' details), and any notes taken for pastoral and counselling purposes.
What personal information will be used for
| Church Attendees | To enable information about the governance, financial position etc of BBC to be distributed to Church Attendees. |
| Specialised Group Attendees | To enable information about the running, co-ordination and administration of Special Groups to be distributed to Specialised Group Attendees. |
| Parents/Guardians of Specialised Group Attendees | To provide information that Specialised Group Attendees receive, for purposes of consistency and good communication. Most often this information will be received via the Specialised Group Attendees |
From time to time, one of the groups of people associated with BBC may run an event or wish to communicate information that may be of interest, because of their life stage, to another group/s of people associated with BBC. For example, an arranged Parenting Course could be of interest to parents/guardians of members of Youth group or play group. When this occurs the distribution will be approved by the BBC Pastoral Team (Pastors and Elders).
Personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to:
The church Pastors and general leadership team (ie Elders & Deacons), administrative staff, various Special Group Leaders, IT technicians etc may from time to time have access to personal details or as in the case of IT technicians, may inadvertently view such details (while maintaining our IT network).
Access to personal information to view, edit or remove it can be gained by:
Contacting BBC Office Administrator on:
| Office & Postal Address: | 180 Eglington Rd Bathurst NSW 2795 |
| Phone: | (02) 6332-2345 |
| Fax: | (02) 6331-8011 |
| Email: | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
