Privacy Policy

Effective 11 May, 2009

The St Paul’s Anglican Church ,Symonds St, Auckland (“St Pauls”) is committed to protecting your privacy. By visiting StPaulsReport.org, you agree that your use of our site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

The information we collect falls into two categories: (1) personal information that you provide to us when you register for an e-mail or text alert, register for a mailing service (for example the Leader’s Letter), or register to report links or make comments on links already reported by StPaulsReport.org, and (2) certain anonymous information that is generated and collected automatically as you navigate online through the StPaulsReport.org pages.

We may use information: (a) to provide the services requested by you, and to provide information to you about other websites, products and services which we consider may be of interest to you (b) to send you e-mails only from St Pauls (c) to enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services for StPaulsReport.org (including carrying out direct marketing, market research and surveys), and (d) use your IP address (the location of your computer on the internet) to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, (e) to provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate (non-personally identifiable) information about our user base and usage patterns.

Browser-Level Information and Cookies

When you visit StPaulsReport.org, we or our advertising network partner may use a cookie file containing information that can identify the computer you are working on and its configuration. The cookie file is anonymous as it only gives us details of your IP address, PC Platform (Windows or Mac) Browser (Microsoft, Mozilla or other) and Domain (whether you are accessing the site from Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere). We may use the information generated by the cookies to track traffic patterns to and from our site, including which pages of our site you visit, and to help deliver advertisements. This information does not contain your personal information or otherwise tell us who you are. We or our advertising network partner uses this information to make our site as useful as we can for as many users and advertisers as possible.

We are currently using Google as an advertising network partner to monitor certain pages of our web site for the purpose of reporting web site traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and other activities on our website. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to Google. For more information about how the information is collected and used, please see Google's privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy.html

If you leave StPaulsReport.org to visit our advertisers’ web sites or to visit any other web sites which we may provide hyperlinks to, some of those operators also may place cookies on your computer. We don't have access to those cookies or to any information they contain, and the use and collection of your information by such third-parties is governed by the privacy policy of those parties, which may be different from ours. You should check the privacy policy of the third party site you are visiting if you have any concerns about the use of cookies on another site or about another site's use of your information.

Because cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our web site, you can set your browser to refuse cookies and can delete them from your computer. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our website.

Aggregate Information Used to Serve and Target Ads

We may aggregate the information we collect from our users and use this anonymous, aggregated information to target ads on our site. (For example, we may use this information to tell advertisers the geographic location of the audience the advertisers will be reaching.) When we aggregate your information, no specific personal information is included, and you cannot be identified from this aggregate information.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties on our  site – for example, in a post, comment, or on other forum areas of our site we may develop in the future – that information becomes public and can be seen, collected and used by anyone who visits the site. We advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on our site. We cannot control and therefore cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information. Please respect the privacy of others by not posting their personal information on our site without their permission.

Disclosure of Information

We respect information about our users and we are not in the business of selling it to others. StPaulsReport.org will not rent, sell, or share your personal information with unaffiliated entities or people except (1) as necessary to provide you with products or services you' have requested, (2) when we have your permission, or (3) as follows:

• We may disclose your personal information to trusted partners and associates who work on behalf of StPaulsReport.org under confidentiality agreements. These individuals or companies may use your personal information to help us serve you. However, these individuals and companies only have access to your personal information to perform their functions for StPaulsReport.org. They are not allowed to share this information or to use it for their own purposes. Examples of their use of your personal information include responding to and sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from mailing lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing user services. 
• We may disclose your personal information when release is appropriate to comply with law, or to protect the rights, property or safety of members of the StPaulsReport.org community, other visitors to our site, our advertisers and other customers, the public, or St Pauls and its employees.
• In the event that StPaulsReport.org or some or all of our assets are acquired by a company, information about our users may be among the transferred assets.

Links to Other Sites

StPaulsReport.org, and users who post information on StPaulsReport.org, may provide links to third-party web sites whose content and privacy policies we do not control. When you access another site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you're visiting.

Archiving and Storage

All StPaulsReport.org postings may be stored in our database, even after deletion from the site. Our web logs and other records may be stored indefinitely. In addition, search engines and other sites not affiliated with StPaulsReport.org may cache or archive postings from StPaulsReport.org, and may make such postings available for viewing on their sites. (For example, some search engines take a snapshot of each web page examined by the search engine as it crawls the web, and may cache these pages as a backup in case the original page is unavailable. Search engine users can view the cached pages simply by clicking on the “cached” link.) We have no control over this.

Security

StPaulsReport.org has taken steps to protect the confidentiality of the personal information it collects from members of the StPaulsReport.org community. Information we gather on StPaulsReport.org is stored within StPaulsReport.org-controlled databases (or databases hosted on our behalf) on servers maintained in protected environments, and we limit access to your personal information to StPaulsReport.org employees and associates who we believe need to see that information to provide you with services or otherwise do their jobs. However, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that the information that you supply to us won't be intercepted during transmission over the Internet.

Opt-Out

You can remove yourself from our e-mail alert, or from our other mailing services at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of each email alert or other mailing service, or by making a request to opt out to [unsubscribe@stpaulsreport.org]

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Because the web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we'll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this web site and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the StPaulsReport.org web site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.

Holding Correcting and Updating

Any personal information that you provide to us will be collected and held by us at Level 2, 25 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have rights of access to and correction of personal information that we hold. We offer the ability to correct or change the information collected at any time and as often as necessary. If you have any questions about the practices of our website, how our services work or regarding this privacy policy, contact us by email at [enquiry@stpaulsreport.org] or by mail to St Paul’s Marketplace Group, PO Box 6349, Wellesley Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

For information about New Zealand's Privacy Act 1993 and how it protects the personal information of individuals in New Zealand refer www.privacy.org.nz/