Wesley Mission Privacy Policy

Wesley Mission is a parish mission of the Uniting Church in Australia. It conducts worship services, a pastoral ministry, ethnic ministries, fellowship groups, a national television, radio, audio-visual and video ministry and an international television, internet and film ministry.

As an integral part of its "Word and Deed" ministry, the Mission has developed services of support to the needy and disadvantaged. These caring services include hospitals and hospices, retirement villages, hostels and a nursing home, home care and other services for the aged, facilities for persons with disabilities , homeless persons services, Lifeline, Creditline, suicide prevention programs, gambling counselling, a community legal centre, children's homes, foster care and support programs, before and after school care, family counselling, respite care, recycled clothing and furniture shops, employment, training and work for the dole programs, conference centres and a tertiary evangelical college.

This policy has been adopted by Wesley Mission in order to comply with the requirements of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act No 155 of 2000. The policy should be read together with the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) set out in the Privacy Act.

Wesley Mission will comply with the NPPs. If there is an inconsistency between this policy and the NPPs, then the NPPs will prevail.
Subject to paragraph 3, Wesley Mission will only use personal information for the primary purpose for which it is collected. Individuals will be informed of the purpose for which the information is being collected. These purposes will relate to the spiritual, pastoral, social educational and administrative functions of Wesley Mission to enable the provision of the services and activities included above.
Primarily the Mission collects personal information for the benefit of its members adherents and clients. Additionally the Mission has an important function of maintaining personal information for the purpose of analysing the role of the Mission and the Uniting Church in society and recording family histories of its members. This information may be disclosed to scholars studying the church and to relatives of church members.
Wesley Mission will only use personal information about an individual for a secondary purpose if that individual has consented or the use is otherwise permitted by the NPPs.
Wesley Mission will take reasonable steps to keep personal information secure and will, subject to the NPPs, comply with a request from a person to access, correct or remove their information.
Wesley Mission has appointed a Privacy Officer. The Privacy Officer will provide advice on the storage and security of information and the procedures to permit individuals to access and/or correct the personal information collected by Wesley Mission about them. The Privacy Officer will receive and deal with any complaint that Wesley Mission has not complied with this policy or the NPPs.
Personal information collected by Wesley Mission may be sensitive information for the purpose of the NPPs (eg information about a person's religious beliefs). As a non-profit organisation, Wesley Mission is permitted to collect sensitive information without a person's express consent. However, Wesley Mission will endeavour to seek consent from a person if sensitive information is sought for something other than the primary functions of Wesley Mission described in paragraph 2.

Wesley Mission's operating procedures will comply with this policy and the NPPs.

Please address any enquiries in relation to this policy to :

The Privacy Officer
Wesley Mission
PO Box A5555
Sydney South NSW 1235

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