WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

Your Personal Information
1 The Social Action Office of the Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes will collect amd maintain in our database certain personally identifiable information from you only when you provide it to us on a voluntary basis, for example, when you make an inquiry, contact us or subscribe to SAO BYTES, INFORM-ACTION or an occasional publication.

Use of Information
2 The Social Action Office may use your personally identifiable information to enable mailing, to improve our website, for providing service to you, and for systems administration.

3 We may also use your personally identifiable information for our own marketing or promotional purposes.

4 We will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect or use is accurate, complete, up-to-date, stored in a secure environment and accessed only by authorised persons.

5 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 unauthorised access, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to use or receive from our online services. These activities are conducted at your own risk. As soon as we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security.

6 We will not share any information about you with third parties, except as provided by civil Privacy Legislation.

Your Rights
7 If you do not want your personally identifiable information to be used for marketing or promotional purposes, you may contact our office by email and ask that you do not receive promotional mail.

8 You may always review your personally identifiable information, and may change, update or correct it as needed. To do this you should email our office.

9 If the Social Action Office does not allow you to access your personal information, we will provide you with the reasons for our decision, and how to appeal that decision.

Children
10 The safety of children is very important to us.

11 We ask that children under the age of 18 have a parent or guardian verify their contact with us. Whilst we will 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
12 We may use "cookies" to allow you to use our services with greater ease and efficiency. Our 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.

Your Consent
13 By using our sao.clriq.org.au website, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy. The Social Action Office reviews this Privacy Policy periodically, 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.

14 If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please write to our Privacy Officer at PO Box 3246, South Brisbane Q 4101 or email sao.admin@sao.clriq.org.au.

2 July 2002