Privacy Policy

Under the Privacy Act 1988, Assembly Church is a small business operator, and therefore exempt from the application of the Australian Privacy Principles. Notwithstanding this, Assembly Church is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies to the Assembly Church website and its various websites operate by Assembly Church and governs data collection and usage. By using the Assembly Church website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

There are many aspects of the site which can be viewed without providing personal information, however, for access to the registered content you are required to submit personally identifiable information. This may include but not limited to a unique username, password, name and email address or provide sensitive information in the recovery of your lost password. Assembly Church may also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Assembly Church. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the website, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Assembly Church for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Assembly Church website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Assembly Church public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. NOTE: Assembly Church does not read any of your private online communications.

Assembly Church encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Assembly Church so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Assembly Church is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Assembly Church website and its various websites operate by Assembly Church.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide services on our behalf. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. Assembly Church takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information. In addition, Assembly Church may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, arrange for deliveries, or assist in the provision of other requested products or services.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

For each visitor to reach the site, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your IP address, browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the website, access times and referring website addresses. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalized content to you while you are at Assembly Church website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Assembly Church public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Assembly Church does not read any of your private online communications.

Assembly Church encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Assembly Church so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Assembly Church is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Assembly Church website and its subdomains.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will use for these new purposes only, data collected from the time of the policy change forward will adhere to our updated practices.

USE OF COOKIES

Assembly Church website use "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a webpage server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the webpage server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Assembly Church pages, or register with Assembly Church site or services, a cookie helps Assembly Church to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Assembly Church website.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Assembly Church secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Assembly Church secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Assembly Church reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use Assembly Church website and its various websites operate by Assembly Church.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and/or would like further information, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Terms of Use

AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND ASSEMBLY CHURCH

The Assembly Church website is comprised of various web pages operated by Assembly Church. The Assembly Church website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the Assembly Church website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

Assembly Church reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Assembly Church website is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Assembly Church website.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

The Assembly Church website may contain links to other websites (“Third Party Sites”). The Third Party Sites are not under the control of Assembly Church and Assembly Church is not responsible for the contents of any Third Party Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Third Party Site, or any changes or updates to a Third Party Site. Assembly Church is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Third Party Site. Assembly Church is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Assembly Church of the site or any association with its operators.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

As a condition of your use of the Assembly Church website, you warrant to Assembly Church that you will not use the Assembly Church website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Assembly Church website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Assembly Church website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Assembly Church website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Assembly Church Web Sites.

USE OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES

The Assembly Church website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:

  • Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

  • Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

  • Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.

  • Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer.

  • Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.

  • Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.

  • Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.

  • Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.

  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.

  • Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.

  • Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.

  • Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

  • Assembly Church has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Assembly Church reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Assembly Church reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Assembly Church reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Assembly Church’s sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Assembly Church does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Assembly Church specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorised Assembly Church spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Assembly Church.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

MATERIALS PROVIDED TO ASSEMBLY CHURCH OR POSTED AT ANY ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE

Assembly Church does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Assembly Church (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Assembly Church website or its associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Assembly Church, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Assembly Church is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Assembly Church’s sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

TERMINATION/ACCESS RESTRICTION

Assembly Church reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Assembly Church website and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES

The material on the Assembly Church website is the copyright of Assembly Church and/or its suppliers and is protected by copyright under the laws of Australia and other countries. You may (a) save an electronic copy, or print out a copy, of any part of this site for your own information and research; or (b) reproduce and communicate to the public any part of this site in connection with non-commercial use of social media websites, provided that in each case you do not modify the reproduction and you include the copyright notice on or in close proximity to the reproduction. You may link to Assembly Church website from other websites provided that you must permanently remove any such link if requested to do so by Assembly Church in its absolute discretion. You must not otherwise reproduce, publish, perform in public, communicate to the public or make an adaptation of the Content, including audio and video excerpts, except as expressly permitted by statute or with Assembly Church's prior written consent.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The example companies, organisations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

APPLICABLE LAW

The site (excluding any linked third party sites) is controlled by Assembly Church. By accessing the Assembly Church website, you accept that any disputes about this site or the Content are to be determined by the courts having jurisdiction in New South Wales in accordance with the laws in force in New South Wales (subject to the application of any principle of conflict of laws inconsistent with this requirement). This site may be accessed throughout Australia and overseas. Assembly Church makes no representation that the content of this site complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside Australia. If you access this site from outside Australia, you do so on your own responsibility and are responsible for ensuring compliance with all laws in the place where you are located.

LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. ASSEMBLY CHURCH AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE AT ANY TIME. ADVICE RECEIVED VIA THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PERSONAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION.

ASSEMBLY CHURCH AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ASSEMBLY CHURCHURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. ASSEMBLY CHURCH AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL ASSEMBLY CHURCH AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH website, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ASSEMBLY CHURCH OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE ASSEMBLY CHURCH WEBSITE.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Terms of Use and/or would like further information, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.