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Privacy Policy
The Uniting
Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria,
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.
1.1
Information collected
When you look at this web site, our server or our
Internet Service Provider
makes a record of your visit and may log the
following information for
statistical purposes:
- your server address (which includes your top level domain name - e.g com, .gov, org );
- the date and time of your visit to the site;
- the pages you accessed and documents downloaded;
- the previous site you have visited;
- the type of browser you are using.
1.2
Access to information collected
The Uniting Church in Australia will not make an attempt to
identify users
or their browsing activities. However, in the unlikely event
of an
investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency
may exercise its legal authority to inspect our Internet Service
Provider's
logs.
1.3 Use of information
collected
We will only record the details which you proffer if you
send us a message. Your e-mail address will only be used for the purpose
for which you have provided it and it will not be added to a mailing list or
used for any other purpose without your consent.
This site does not
provide facilities for the secure transmission of
information across the
Internet.
Users should be aware that there are inherent risks
transmitting information across the Internet.
1.4 Cookies
This web site will use persistant cookies for statistical purposes,
and
session cookies to enable users to remain signed in to the
website.
Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session" based.
Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain an expiration date,
and may be used to track your browsing behaviour upon return to the issuing
web site. Session cookies are short-lived, are used only during a browsing
session, and expire when you quit your browser.
Upon closing your
browser the session cookie set by this web site is
destroyed and no personal
information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web
site at a later date.
When signing in, you may opt for a persistant
cookie to enable you to remain signed in to the website after you have closed your browser.
Contact this office
Please contact
this Office for further information at the following email
address
privacy@vic.uca.org.au, or use the form below.
