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Privacy Policy

1. We respect your privacy

The Australian Network for Spiritual Direction (ANSD) Inc. respects your privacy. We are committed to protecting your personal information that we receive from you via this website or via other avenues such as emails and at conferences.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit our website (ansd.org.au) and when you purchase products or memberships from us.

We comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

2. What personal information we may collect

We may collect the following types of personal information:

  • Contact details: name, email address, phone number, billing and shipping address

  • Account information: username, password, purchase history

  • Payment details: limited payment information necessary to process transactions

    • Important note: credit card details are processed securely by our payment gateway and not stored on our servers or within any of our information systems.

  • Device and usage data — purely for website analytics: IP address, browser type, device information, and how you use our website

  • Marketing preferences and communications

3. How we collect your personal information

We collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including: when you interact with us via email or electronically via our online form, phone, or in person; when you access our website to make a purchase; and when we provide our services to you.

4. Use of your personal information

We use your information to provide our service(s) to you. We also use your information to improve our service and to notify you of opportunities that we think you might be interested in.

We do not provide your information to third parties, except that we may provide your information to our business partners who assist us in the provision of our services to you.

We will not under any circumstances sell or rent your information to a third party.

5. Security of your personal information

We take reasonable steps and care to protect your personal information. However we are not liable for any unauthorised access by bad actors to this information.

6. Access to your personal information

You can access, update or request the removal of your personal information by contacting us. If you are a member, you can log into your membership area and change any of your details, or cancel your membership.

7. Policy changes

Any changes to this privacy policy will be updated on this site.