WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
This Privacy Policy is issued by the Little Company of Mary – Australia (herein called the “Little Company of Mary”, “LCM”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy Statement applies to the use of website: www.lcm.org.au
The Little Company of Mary complies with the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act), the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) as defined in the Privacy Act, the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW) (HRIP) and the Health Privacy Principles (HPPS) as defined in the (HRIP).
This Privacy Policy Statement applies to members of the Little Company of Mary, and to information kept by the Little Company of Mary.
The activities and functions of the Little Company of Mary necessitate the handling of personal information of members.
The Little Company of Mary regards its privacy obligations as extremely important, and its privacy policies are directed at complying with the laws to which it is subject. The Privacy Policy details what information is collected, why it is collected and how it is used, stored and retained.
This policy seeks to ensure that the information held by the Little Company of Mary is accurate, complete and up to date.
The Little Company of Mary maintains physical security, such as locks and security systems, over its electronic data servers, computers and premises, to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.
Your Personal Information
The LCM will collect and maintain .in our database and file certain personally identifiable information from you only when you provide it to use on a voluntary basis, for example, when you make an enquiry, contact us, subscribe to publications, use an opt-in mailing list, or agree to be interviewed or photographed.
You can choose not to provide your personal information, or you may just want to deal with us anonymously or by using a pseudonym. If this happens, we may not be able to provide you with the product you asked for or give you the level of service you expect.
Use of Information
The LCM may use your personal identifiable information for the purpose of IT mailing, to improve our website, for providing a service to you and for system administration.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that all the information we collect, or use is accurate, complete, up to date, stored in a secure environment and accessible only by authorised people.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss or unauthorized access, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit or receive from our online service. These activities are conducted at your own risk. As soon as we receive your transmission, we will make our best efforts to ensure its security.
We will not share any information about you with third parties, except as provided by the Privacy Act.
If personal information is sent overseas the Little Company of Mary will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the overseas recipient will either handle the personal information in accordance with the APPs or in accordance with an enforceable law that protects personal information in a way similar to the APPs.
Your Rights
If you do not want your personally identifiable information to be published in the LCM Address Guide or to be used on our website, or for promotional purposes, you may contact the Region at rac@lcm.orq.au
You may always review your personally identifiable information and may change, update or correct it as needed in line with legislation. To do this you should email the Region at rac@lcm.org.au
Children
The safety of children is very important to us.
We ask that children under the age of 18 have a parent or guardian verify their contact with us. Whilst we make every reasonable effort to ensure that children’s privacy and other rights are not compromised, it is ultimately the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s internet usage.
Cookies
Our website does not currently use cookies. However, at some future date we may use cookies to allow you to use our services with greater ease and efficiency.
Cookies contain no personally identifiable information but are small alphanumeric text files transferred from our website to your hard drive to facilitate access to and use of our site. They may also provide us with aggregate statistical information about site usage.
You may configure your browser so that you are notified before a cookie is downloaded or so that your browser does not accept cookies.
To disable or clear your cookies, please refer to the help menu within your Internet browser.
Your Consent
By using our www.lcm.org.au website, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy.
The Little Company of Mary periodically reviews this Privacy Policy, and if we ever change our Privacy Policy, we shall post any changes on this page so that you are always kept informed of the information we collect, how we use it and the circumstances under which we disclose it, if at all.
Notifiable Data Breaches
If there is a notifiable data breach, the Little Company of Mary will notify the affected individual and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Complaints Procedure
If you are unhappy with how your personal information is handled, accessed, stored, or disseminated, you can make a complaint in the following manner:
- Set out the complaint in writing to the Privacy Officer, who will deal with the complaint in accordance with the relevant legislation.
- If you are not satisfied you may appeal to the Privacy Sub-Committee of the Little Company of Mary.
- If you are still not satisfied, you may appeal to the Region Leader for a review of the Committee’s decision.
- Complaints made under the Commonwealth Privacy Act may appeal to the Privacy Commissioner.
- Complaints made under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act may appeal to the Information and Privacy Commission NSW or the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please contact: –
Privacy Officer
Little Company of Mary Region Administration Centre
Suite 4.02 247 Coward Street
Mascot NSW 2020
Email: dcrowe@lcm.org.au