This privacy statement applies to all information gathered by and held by Pastoral Care Ministries, Jeem Services Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries.

Any references to “we” in this statement refers to Pastoral Care Ministries, Jeem Services Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries.

Any references to “you” in this statement refers to end users of Pastoral Care software, or any person or persons or organizations that have entered information into this website.

Any references to “this website” refer to any page or link associated with www.pastoralcare.com.au.

On this web site, we gather information from you for the following conditions.

1)             When registering Pastoral Care Software.

2)             When obtaining access for downloading information from our website.

3)             When sending us comments and questions regarding Pastoral Care Software.

4)             When registering for Training.

This information is held by us in a secure off line database, and is not available to any person via our web site. The database that stores any gathered information is not on line live to the internet at any time, and can not be accessed by any people other than employees of Jeem Services Pty Ltd.

This information is treated as private and confidential and has never in the past nor will it ever in the future be divulged to any other person, persons or organizations for any purpose whatsoever.

Information gathered by us has never and will never be sold or distributed to any other person, persons or organizations for any purpose whatsoever.

The information gathered on this web site is used for the following purposes:

1)    It assists us with statistical analysis of the usage of Pastoral Care in Australian Churches.

2)    It assists us in keeping track of registered users of Pastoral Care Software.

3)    It provides us a mechanism for notifying users of Pastoral Care Software of any important or critical issues relating to the use of Pastoral Care Software.

4)    It provides us a mechanism to notify users of new version of software as they are developed.

5)    From time to time, we have invited people to join our Beta Software Testers group, this is also facilitated through the gathered information.

If you do not wish for your information to be used in any of the ways described above, you can Contact Us using our contact us option on most web pages, select the Feedback Form link, then select Privacy from the first selection, and in the comments box, enter your email address and other contact information so that we can remove you from our database. (If you enter an incorrect email address, we will not be responsible for further emails sent to you, as we can only unlist the email address you send us)

One area that we are constantly challenged with in terms of privacy, is churches asking us for references to other churches who use our software, we never have divulged information for this purpose, and will continue to keep your personal contact information private.

These have always been our policies for information gathered on out web site, this is simply a formal statement to bring us into line with current Australian privacy legislation.