Privacy Policy

We are required to comply with the National Privacy Principles contained in the Australian Privacy Act 1988. This Statement is a requirement of the National Privacy Principles and should assist you in understanding how we deal with your personal information.

This Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to this website. We do not make any representations about third party websites that are linked to our website.

Collection of Personal Information

We most commonly collect information from contacts in the following circumstances:

Upon enquiry or booking application regarding any of our fellowship weeks.
From submitting a Booking Form from our website.

The information collected would generally comprise personal name, address, phone, and email contact details as well as details of gender, ecclesial membership and details about accommodation at a fellowship week.

Use of Information

We use your personal information in the following way.

We collect personal information so that we can communicate with you about our fellowship weeks. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, postal mail or in person.

We take steps to limit the content we send you to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you information which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on your information.

Copies of correspondence that may contain personal information, are deleted after the purpose they relate to is concluded.

Silver Strands Fellowship Week does not rent or sell personal information.

Security

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by us, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your personal information in our email system or Mailchimp account.

We make no warranties that this website is free of computer viruses, defects or contamination.

Squarespace Hosted Website

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Squarespace Website Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Disclosure

We may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.

Links to Other Websites

We may provide links to websites outside of our website. These linked websites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of entities in control of websites linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that website and its privacy statement.

It is your responsibility to determine for yourself the accuracy, reliability and correctness of any information found in linked websites. Although care is taken to provide links to suitable material from linked sites the nature of the internet prevents us from making any guarantees concerning these linked websites. Content in linked websites may not necessarily reflect our views.

General

Your use of this website is deemed to signify your acceptance of this privacy policy and disclaimer.

Should you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Information Management Statement or to issues generally surrounding the private information that we hold about you, please contact our Privacy Officer (refer to contact details below). Similarly, any complaints in relation to privacy-related issues should also be directed to our Privacy Officer.

From time to time, this statement may be amended. An up-to-date version of the Privacy Statement will always appear on the Silver Strands Fellowship Week website. Alternatively, you may request a hard copy of the Privacy Statement from our Privacy Officer (refer to contact details below).

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection but we recommend that you contact us first. For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's website.

Privacy Officer Contact Details

P: +61 412 293 808

E: info@silverstrandsfellowshipweek.com

The Privacy Officer

Silver Strands Fellowship Week