BackYard Ministries Inc. is subject to the Privacy Act 1988 and complies with the principles for handling your personal information.
Your privacy and personal information is important to us and we will do each of the following:
- Only collect, use and disclose personal information about you that is required in the provision of information about or the promotion or delivery of our products and services to you; administration of BackYard Ministries; business analysis.
- Only use de-identified information for any statistical or other analysis or similar research purposes.
- Collect personal information directly from you if it is reasonable and practicable to do so.
- Take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
- Take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if we no longer need it for any purpose.
- On request, we will give you access to the personal information we hold about you. If any personal information we hold about you is out of date or inaccurate, we encourage you to let us know, and ask us correct it. If we cannot deal with your request, you will receive our reasons in writing.
Contact Forms
The site’s Contact Form requires users to provide contact information (such as name; email; and postal address). This information is stored on a database that allows us to send out email list updates and serves as a mechanism for clients to sign-on to our online services. The contact information is also used by us to get in touch with the site visitor when necessary.
External links
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the information handling practices or content of these external sites but we do endeavour to monitor these sites to ensure that they are appropriate to our site, its visitors and members.
Discussion Groups (mailing lists)
This site makes discussion groups available to its users (mailing lists). Any information disclosed in this media becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Your email address is not publicly available to anyone until you send a message to these lists. At this point, visitors are informed that they may reply personally if they feel a reply to the list is inappropriate.
We also maintain several email lists to keep subscribers and clients informed about areas of specific interest. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone.
Web site access by children
This site encourages children to obtain their parent’s permission before sharing personal information online.
Your contact details
We recommend that you notify us if you change your address or contact details as soon as possible. This will help us to maintain your privacy by ensuring that any communications are sent to the correct postal address, email address, or telephone number.
For further information on changing your address, please call us at info@backyardministries.org.au