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St Columbans Mission Society Web Privacy Statement

The St Columbans Mission Society is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the National Privacy Principles. Consistent with the Privacy Act 1988 as amended by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (the Act), the St Columbans Mission Society endorses fair information handling practices. Any information provided, including identification of individuals, will be used only for the purpose for which it has been collected.

Personal information is confidential and is not passed on to any other agency without your permission.

If you wish to access the information we hold about you or have any questions about this please contact the St Columbans Mission Society Regional office the details of which can be found at www.columban.org.au .

Information that has been collected will be amended if you consider details are incorrect.

Any personal information that is considered to be beyond its "use by" date will be destroyed.

Reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that any personal information collected will be held secure and only accessible by authorised persons.

Email Addresses

Email addresses provided via this site will be used to respond to specific user queries and will only be added to our information mailing list if your permission is given. Your email address will not be disclosed to any other party without your knowledge and consent and as intended, unless required by law.

When you visit this site, our various internet service provider computer server logs the following information which is provided by your browser for statistical purposes only:

the type of browser and operating system you are using;
your top level domain name (for example .com, .org, .au, .uk etc);
the address of the referring site (for example, the previous site that you visited);
your server's IP address (a number which is unique to the machine through which you are connected to the Internet: usually one of your service provider's machines).

In addition, the server logs the following information:

the date and time of your visit; and
the address of the pages accessed and the documents downloaded.
All of this information we use only for statistical analysis or systems administration purposes. No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities, except in the unlikely event of an investigation where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant.

Subscriptions

Some pages of this internet site provide the facility for users to subscribe to email mailing lists. To subscribe to these services users must provide a valid email address. These email addresses will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and you will not be added to any other mailing lists unless you specifically request that this be done.

Your email address will not be disclosed without your consent.

Links to other sites

This site contains links to other sites. The St Columbans Mission Society is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Our privacy policy covers the privacy practices for the St Columbans Mission Society web site, but does not extend to links to other web sites. When you leave the St Columbans Mission Society Web site (http://www.columban.org.au), you will be going to sites that are beyond our control. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

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