This Privacy Statement sets forth the practices of ELIA, a trademarked initiative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SPD) Limited, (collectively referred to as “ELIA, “ELIA Wellness”, “South Pacific Division”, “SPD Ltd,” “we,” “us,” and/or “our”) with respect to Personal Data (also referred to as "Personally Identifiable Information" or " PII") and other information that is collected from Individuals, including unions, conferences, missions, schools, universities, colleges, clinics, hospitals, cafes, shops and churches (collectively referred to as “Participating Organisations”) through various websites, mobile applications, events and social profiles owned and operated by us, which include eliawellness.com, ELIA.kitchen, livemore.me, MyWellness Apps and MyWellness Snapshot.
We act as the controller of any personal information provided to or gathered by our websites, applications and
events (our “Services”). This Privacy Statement describes the choices available to you regarding the use of
your Personal Data, and how you can access this information to update and correct it.
It is important to note that the privacy practices of Participating Organisations and Partners may differ from
those of ELIA. We are a separate entity from those that participate in our Services and thus do not have
control over their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of Participating
Organisations’ before submitting any Personal Data to them.
This Privacy Policy explains how ELIA manages the personal information it holds.
ELIA complies with the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles
in the collection, management, use and disclosure of personal information.
We recognise the sensitive nature of your Personally Identifiable Information. It is our highest priority to
ensure the confidentiality of any Personally Identifiable Information you provide and take a proactive
approach in protecting your privacy. Personally Identifiable Information is information or an opinion that can
be used to identify you. This includes any personal information we collect from you when dealing with you in
relation to ELIA services.
ELIA provides comprehensive wellness products and services, so the quantity and detail of Personally
Identifiable Information will directly correlate to the engagement you have, and what you choose to provide to
ELIA services.
Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, contact details
including your email address, and any additional information you provide to us directly or indirectly through
a website, apps, services or via a representative.
ELIA services require the collection and analysis of non-personally identifiable information including health
and wellness data which may include but not limited to health data, lifestyle habits and opinions,
relationship information and the recording of completion of challenges. This data is collected by your
voluntary responses and inputs to our services, and also by connecting third party devices like wearable
health hardware, that through your authorisation, share health data to our services. Although this data is not
able to personally identify you, we recognise the sensitive nature of this information and take a proactive
approach in protecting this information. All account holders have the capacity to self manage their online
non-PII wellness data
When you interact with our Services, we may also automatically collect and store information through various
technologies used on our websites. This information is used to provide us with statistical information such as
the number of visitors to a website (or multiple websites) or the number of visitors to each page of our
Services. Other information collected may include your public IP Address, browser type, ISP, pages you visit,
your operating system, and date/time stamps. This information is merely statistical and not used to identify
you.
In operating our Services as described above, we and our third party partners use cookies and similar
technologies. These technologies are used to provide additional functionality, analyse usage and behaviour
more accurately, temporarily store our pages and images, and store content and preferences.
For more information on the cookies we use, please check our Cookie policy below.
ELIA is part of the South Pacific Division, which is comprised of independent unions, conferences and
missions (collectively referred to as “Participating Administrations”). Participating Administrations have
been established as regional offices serving a defined geographical area. We integrate and share your
information with various Participating Administrations to allow us to perform the various duties discussed
above and provide you with valuable Services. Whenever we are required to do so, we shall take steps to ensure
that necessary level of protection so the disclosure will occur in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations.
We may provide your Personal Data to third party service providers that help us with our business activities
such as shipping, marketing, and processing of credit cards. These companies are authorised to use your
Personal Data only as necessary to provide these services to us and in line with relevant data processing
agreement(s).
We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation such as a subpoena or a similar legal process; (ii) protect
and defend the rights or property of the South Pacific Division; or to (iii) act in urgent circumstances to
protect against legal liability or protect the personal safety of users of the Services, visitors to our
centres, or the public.
If the organisation is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will
be notified with a notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your information, as well as
any choices you may have.
ELIA organises, manages and participates in ongoing Lifestyle Medicine Research (LMR), and the wellness data
collected by our services, is de-identified and donated to this research initiative. The data is considered
Non-PII, as no information that can identify an individual, including but not limited to name, contact
details, street, or relationships, is included in the data-donation. LMR services is not a third party, as it
is an ELIA managed research initiative. LMR holds the data in isolation from all public engagement platforms,
and there is no capacity to track, trace, or connect the lifestyle data back to an individual. The act of
holding an ELIA account and using ELIA products and services, constitutes a users authority for ELIA to
de-identify and donate their non-PII wellness data to Lifestyle Medicine Research as part of the ELIA Terms
and Conditions of Use.
If you leave information on the contact forms on this site, it will only be used for contacting you and will not be disclosed to any third party other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use ‘cookies’ (small files) to store information provided by your browser when you visit our website. This
includes the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed and any documents downloaded. We also use cookies
to measure demographic usage patterns to determine which areas of our website have been visited.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your
browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
For users who register to have an account and utilise our products and services, we store the personal
information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information
at any time. ELIA administrators can also see and edit that information. This data is kept indefinitely until
a user either self-removes or requests the data to be removed.
Data that is donated to Lifestyle Medicine Research is no longer considered ‘personal’ as the data is not able
to be used to identify an individual. This data remains within the LMR data pool indefinitely, and if
requested, there is no way to identify which LMR data is associated to an individual, and therefore cannot be
selected for removal.
ELIA will take reasonable steps to ensure the quality of your personal information at two points in the
information handling process: (i) collection and (ii) use or disclosure.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive from us an exported
file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request
that we correct, up-date, complete or erase any personal data we hold about you by contacting us (see the
‘Contacting Us’ section below). We will need to establish the identity of the individual requesting the
information prior to providing it. Your right to require us to erase your personal data does not include any
data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes. There are a number of situations
where we may deny an individual access to personal information. These can include where it would have an
unreasonable impact on the privacy of other individuals, the information relates to existing or anticipated
legal proceedings, we have reason to suspect that unlawful activity or misconduct of a serious nature is being
or may be engaged in, or where the law requires or authorises such access to be denied. We will advise you if
any of these circumstances apply.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is secure. We maintain appropriate safeguards to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We implement administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your personal information and data that we use and hold. Where practical, your personal information is de-identified or destroyed when it is no longer required. The security of information transmitted on the internet will require you to take specific measures to protect against unauthorised access or use. These include:
If ELIA becomes aware of an actual or potential unauthorised access to or disclosure of your personal information, we will manage the unauthorised access in accordance with the Notifiable Data Breach requirements under Part 3C of the Privacy Act. This may include notifying both you and the Privacy Commissioner where that breach is likely to result in serious harm as defined by the Privacy Act.
ELIA may apply analytics to data from our website (including your personal information) to describe, predict, and improve products and services delivered to you via our digital programs and applications.
ELIA may send you direct marketing information about our products and services that may be of interest to you. These communications may be sent in various forms including mail and electronic media which do not infringe marketing laws such as the Australian Spam Act 2003. If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method. In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing information from ELIA by using the opt-out facilities provided within the account profile settings and within digital marketing communications.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, would like to know more about ELIA privacy policy, or if you have any concerns or would like to make a complaint regarding the treatment of your personal information, you can contact us using the details set out below. We treat any concerns or complaints that you may have with respect and confidentially. An ELIA representative will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved. We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. Please contact us by:
If your concerns are not resolved to your satisfaction or you would like further information in regards to the Privacy Act, the matter can be referred to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on 1300 363 992.
ELIA reserves the right to change this policy from time to time as necessary. This privacy policy last was updated on 27 August 2018.