Little Company of Mary Christchurch
Little Company of Mary Christchurch
This Privacy Policy is issued by the Little Company of Mary – New Zealand (herein called the “Little Company of Mary”, “LCM”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy applies to you when you access the website: www.lcmchristchurch.org.nz or sign up to our newsletter or when you use our services.
The services, activities and functions of the Little Company of Mary necessitate the handling of personal information.
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.
We comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act) when dealing with your personal information. In this policy we set out how we use, collect, disclose and protect your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not limit your existing rights under the Privacy Act and data protection laws.
We strongly encourage you to go through this Privacy Policy carefully. A thorough understanding will help you make an informed decision when giving us your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to you when you access our website and/or engage with us to provide any service, including web services. By accessing and engaging with our website and services you automatically consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by it.
The LCM will collect and maintain in our database and will 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.
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 unauthorised 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.
Personal information will not be released to third parties unless:
• You have consented; or
• The release is the purpose for which the personal information was collected; or
• The Little Company of Mary is required or authorised by law to do so.
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 Privacy Act or in accordance with an enforceable law that protects personal information in a way similar to the Privacy Act.
This Policy seeks to ensure the information held by the Little Company of Mary is accurate, complete and up to date.
If any information provided has changed or is considered incorrect, the person concerned should contact the Privacy Officer in writing.
The Little Company of Mary maintains physical security, such as locks and security systems, over its electronic data servers, computers and premises. The Little Company of Mary also maintains computer and network security, for example firewalls (security measures for the Internet), anti-virus software, identification codes and passwords and other security measures, to control access to computer systems. Electronic data is also regularly backed up to minimise loss of data in the event of system failures.
The purpose is to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
If you do not want your personally identifiable information to be published or used for promotional purposes, you may contact the Privacy Officer.
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 Privacy Officer.
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.
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.
By using our www.lcmchristchurch.org.nz 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.
The Privacy Act gives you a general right to access your personal information, when you request it, except where the law allows us to refuse your request:
• LCM cannot give access if it would unreasonably affect someone else’s privacy if giving the individual access poses a serious threat to someone’s life, health or safety; or
• The request for access is frivolous or vexatious; or
• The request relates to an existing or anticipated legal proceeding.
If we declined your request for information we will explain our reason for the refusal.
You can request access to your own information by contacting our Privacy Officer at the contact details below.
If there is a notifiable data breach, the Little Company of Mary will notify the affected individual and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
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 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.
• If your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you are able to apply to the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner to see what courses of action may be available to you.
For more information, you can contact the Commissioner’s hot line service on 0800 803 909, or via the website at enquiries@privacy.org.nz.
LCM reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. The amended Privacy Policy will be considered effective as soon as it is posted to this website. If you continue to access and use our website and/or receive our Services, you will be considered to have accepted the amended Privacy Policy.
If you have any enquiries, questions or concerns about our privacy policy or practices, or if you would like more information, please contact:
Privacy Officer / Business Manager
Little Company of Mary
442 Durham Street North
St Albans, Christchurch, 8014
NEW ZEALAND
Email: nzadmin@lcm.org.au