ASSEMBLY OF GOD (WELLINGTON) TRUST BOARD t/a Lifepoint Church Website Privacy Policy

Introduction

ASSEMBLY OF GOD (WELLINGTON) TRUST BOARD t/a Life­point Church complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when deal­ing with personal infor­ma­tion. Personal infor­ma­tion is infor­ma­tion about an iden­ti­fi­able indi­vid­ual (a natural person).

This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose, protect and retain your personal infor­ma­tion.

This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act. If you wish to seek further infor­ma­tion on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy by upload­ing a revised policy onto the website. The change will apply from the date on which we upload the revised policy.

Who do we collect personal information from

We collect personal infor­ma­tion about you from:

• you, when you provide that personal infor­ma­tion to us, includ­ing via the website, through any regis­tra­tion process, and through any contact you have with us (e.g. tele­phone call or email).
• third parties, if you have autho­rised this, or if the infor­ma­tion is publicly avail­able.

How we may use personal information

We will use your personal infor­ma­tion:

• to verify your iden­tity
• to provide services to you
• to contact you by text or email
• to improve the services that we provide to you
• to respond to commu­ni­ca­tions from you, includ­ing a complaint
• in an anonymised form, to conduct research and statis­ti­cal analy­sis
• to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and inter­ests, includ­ing defend­ing any claim
• for any other purpose autho­rised by you or the Act.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal infor­ma­tion if:

• you autho­rise the disclo­sure
• disclo­sure of the infor­ma­tion is one of the purposes for which we obtained the infor­ma­tion, or if disclo­sure is directly related to the purposes for which we obtained the infor­ma­tion
• in an anonymised form, to any third party that supports our services, includ­ing any person that hosts or main­tains any under­ly­ing IT system or data centre that we use to provide our website or other services and prod­ucts
• disclo­sure is other­wise permit­ted under the Act.

Protecting personal information

We will take all reason­able steps to keep your personal infor­ma­tion safe from loss, unau­tho­rised activ­ity, or other misuse.

Retaining personal information

We will not retain your personal infor­ma­tion for longer than is required for the purpose for which the infor­ma­tion may lawfully be used.

Accessing and correcting your personal information

Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your read­ily retriev­able personal infor­ma­tion that we hold and to request a correc­tion to your personal infor­ma­tion. Before you exer­cise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the indi­vid­ual to whom the personal infor­ma­tion relates.

In respect of a request for correc­tion, if we think the correc­tion is reason­able and we are reason­ably able to change the personal infor­ma­tion, we will make the correc­tion. If you want to exer­cise either of the above rights, email us at [email protected]. Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal infor­ma­tion, or the correc­tion, that you are request­ing).

Internet use

While we take reason­able steps to main­tain secure inter­net connec­tions, if you provide us with personal infor­ma­tion over the inter­net, the provi­sion of that infor­ma­tion is at your own risk.

If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relat­ing to your personal infor­ma­tion. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal infor­ma­tion.

We use cook­ies (an alphanu­meric iden­ti­fier that we trans­fer to your computer’s hard drive so that we can recog­nise your browser) to moni­tor your use of the website. You may disable cook­ies by chang­ing the settings on your browser, although this may mean that you cannot use all of the features of the website.