Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you and includes sensitive health information.
Baptist Care SA follows the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act in handling personal information from clients, business partners, donors, members of the public and Baptist Care SA stakeholders (including volunteers, employees, delegates, candidates for volunteer work and prospective employees).
Baptist Care SA has developed a Privacy Policy to protect its stakeholders privacy.
The policy contains detailedinformation about Baptist Care SA’s responsibilities; stakeholders’ rights and the information that may be collected by Baptist Care SA and how it would be used.
The primary purpose for collecting personal information is to provide services to members of the community in need, including planning, funding, monitoring and evaluating Baptist Care SA’s services.
The kind of personal information collected will depend on the stakeholder’s relationship with Baptist Care SA (e.g. as a client, donor, business partner, employee, volunteer or online user of the Baptist Care SA website).
Baptist Care SA usually collects personal information directly from stakeholders.
However, sometimes personal information is collected from a third party such as carers, trustee or authorised representative or from a publicly available source, but only if:
Baptist Care SA only collects personal information for purposes that are reasonably necessary for one or more of its functions or activities.
Personal information may be used to:
Information may also be used for:
Stakeholders should be assured that wherever possible Baptist Care SA uses information in a de-identified form.
Personal information will not be disclosed to third parties without stakeholder’s permission, except where permitted or required under the Privacy Act.
Baptist Care SA takes steps to protect all personal, sensitive and health information and government related identifiers held by the organisation against misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Stakeholders can access their personal information that Baptist Care SA holds, and they can ask the organisation to correct their personal information.
If stakeholders are listed on one or more of Baptist Care SA’s network email lists they can opt out at any time.
Stakeholders can unsubscribe by using the ‘unsubscribe’ options noted in Baptist Care SA’s emails.
In order to provide you with the best service possible, we may require some information from you when using the Baptist Care SA website.
This information will be treated with the highest levels of confidentiality and will not be provided to third parties without your consent.
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Baptist Care SA acknowledges we work on the lands of the Kaurna, Peramangk and Boandik people. We respect the ongoing skilful custodianship of lands, skies and waters and the continuous deep cultural connection with Country. We pay respect to Elders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all Countries, Nations and Mobs.
