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WELLINGTON REGIONAL CHARITY HOSPITAL TRUST

Website Privacy Statement

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Introduction

The Wellington Regional Charity Hospital Trust (we / us / our) understands that privacy is important to our members, subscribers and to the other individuals that we have dealings with.  As a privacy conscious organisation, we protect the information that we gather from you and only use it for permitted purposes and in appropriate ways, in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 and any related legislation.  We do not sell our member lists for commercial gain.

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By using this website and any associated sub-domains (Website), you agree to the use of such information in accordance with this privacy statement.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, please contact us using the contact details below.

 

Collection of Personal Information

We collect personal information from you in connection with our purpose to provide charitable hospital services.  We collect this personal information from you when you:

  • access the Website;

  • register as a member or subscriber through our Website;

  • access the Supporters Hub; or

  • contact us through the Website.

 

When you access our Website, we collect personal information from you, that you have voluntarily submitted, including:

  • your name, organisation, email address, postal address and other contact details;

  • donation details (including bank account details and credit card details);

  • login details in respect of the Supporters Hub (such as your username);

  • records of your interactions with us (for instance, emails, any comments that you might make on our pages and articles or submitted to email addresses displayed on the Website); or

  • the content of electronic forms you submit via the Website (for example to make payments, for enquiries or to provide feedback).   

Security of Personal Information

We have in place reasonable standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by you via this Website from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

If you are a member or subscriber, your username and password for the Supporters Hub are essential for you to use the certain restricted-access sections of this Website.  For your own protection, we encourage you to keep these confidential.     

Use of Personal Information

 

We will only use the personal information we collect about you:

  • for the purposes for which it was collected or related purposes within reasonable expectations, including, but not limited to:

    • responding to your requests submitted through the Website; or

    • providing you with information on Wellington Regional Charity Hospital events or products that you may be interested in and that we believe are relevant to you; or

  • where you have expressly consented to its use.   

 

Disclosure of Personal Information

We will only disclose personal information to third parties to assist with the purposes set out above.  This may include disclosure to:

  • other grant-making organisations, where we have received your express consent to disclose your personal information;   

  • third party service providers including organisations that assist us by providing consulting services, information technology services, troubleshooting, compliance auditing and monitoring, and electronic payment services; or

  • law enforcement, regulatory, or government agencies, or to other third parties, in accordance with our legal or regulatory obligations, or where permitted by law.

 

These disclosures may involve the transfer of personal information to overseas organisations.  We will only disclose personal information to overseas organisations if we are satisfied that they are subject to the Privacy Act 2020 or to laws that provide comparable safeguards.

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Login information, Cookies and Web beacons

The Website’s web server automatically logs the following non-personal clickstream data for statistical and system administration purposes only.  This includes:

  • the domain name of visitors to our Website;

  • the IP addresses of visitors to our Website;

  • the URL of the website that referred you to our Website (if applicable) or the search engine which referred you to our Website (if applicable);

  • aggregate information on the date and time when our Website are accessed;

  • aggregate information on the browsers and operating systems used by visitors to our Website; and

  • aggregate information on what pages are accessed.

 

Cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) or Web beacons (electronic images that allow the Website to count visitors who have accessed a particular page and to access certain cookies) are required to use our member and subscriber services.

We use cookies to record current session information, but do not use permanent cookies.  You are required to re-log in to access the Supporters Hub area after a certain period has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your content.  We do not use these cookies to identify you as an individual unless required by law.

 

Right to Access and Correct of Personal Information

You have the right to ask for access and correction of any personal information that we hold about you.  We will respond to requests in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

 

Questions

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact:

Privacy Officer

Wellington Regional Charity Hospital Trust

info@heringaawhina.org.nz

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