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HCIC collects information from members and those who wish to be in contact with HCIC in order to administer the organisation properly. The information is kept on the membership forms and on our computer database system in the national office and branch offices. Our staff and committee members may participate in the collection of this information from membership application/renewal forms, conferences and other events and via email.

Member and contact information will be used to mail newsletters and other information and for account and billing purposes. Member contact details may be distributed to those in the organisation who are appointed as state or regional leaders, coordinators of special interest groups or other authorised people for the purpose of administration of the organisation on a "need to know" basis.

Contact information will be distributed in a printed or electronic format such as read only CD-ROM but not in an insecure form such as by unencrypted email.

If you consent for us to do so, we may give your business address and phone number to people looking for a Christian practitioner.

Health Care in Christ Inc is committed to protecting your privacy and we respect the right of members to decide how their contact information is used or disclosed. We will not disclose (by selling or exchanging) any personal information you give us in any form with any other party except where legally obliged to do so.

All steps will be taken to update the data collected to ensure that it is correct. The website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is kept in a secure environment.

Members are entitled to view their own information and accounts. This access can be denied where:

There is a legal impediment to access

Access would unreasonably impact on the privacy of another

The request is frivolous or vexatious

Denying access is in the interest of national security

We ask that requests for information be in writing. Where there is a dispute concerning the accuracy of the information that has been recorded, the member is entitled to correct that information. All steps will be taken to record all corrections made by members in these circumstances, and place them with the member details, but there is no guarantee that the original record will be erased.

Law requires that we make it possible for contacts to remain anonymous. However, we do require to know your identity for membership purposes.

Should a member have a complaint about breaches of privacy, this may be taken up in writing to:

The National Administrator,

Health Care In Christ Inc

PO Box 2183 ROSE BAY NORTH

NSW 2030

who shall refer the matter to the governing body of the organisation. Complaints about alleged breaches of privacy can be made to the Federal Privacy Commissioner. The Commissioner can conciliate &, if necessary, make determinations about complaints. However the Commissioner will not investigate, unless the complainant has first complained formally to the HCIC Inc.

The office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner is listed on the web site at