This initiative is still in the course of development. During this formative stage legal and editorial responsibility for the initiative is accepted by Brian Michael Coyne trading as Vias Tuas Communications (ABN 24 740 067 125). We are in the process of establishing some form of corporate entity to assume management and legal responsibility for this endeavour. (For further information see the ABOUT US explanation.)

In due course we will develop, and publish, a comprehensive privacy policy as required under government statute. In the meantime we would like to state these general objectives of our intention and the policies we seek to implement.

At the heart of this initiative is a primal desire to "build a community". Of its nature the building of community implies relationship between the members of that community and the entity that is forming, developing, encouraging and nurturing that community. Necessarily there has to be a sharing of private information between the members of that community and the organising entity.

We do encourage the use of pseudonyms in this community to protect privacy. It is not primarily though a community for people to come here anonmyously and vent their splean or get their rocks off from behind a veil of privacy or anonymity. We are "building a community" not seeking to cause division in society, or in the Catholic Church, which is the larger sponsor of our endeavour.

To protect the nature of this community it will be necessary for the governing entity to collect limited personal information. This will principally take the form of the first and last names of members, a valid email address through which they may be contacted, the limited geographic information of what country in the world they are participating in this endeavour from, and a nic-or user-name for identification purposes in the discussions. The minimum "required" personal information that a person needs to provide to participate in this endeavour is a valid email address and a nic- or user-name.

The only intention of the Catholica Australia endeavour in collecting this private information is for the objectives of building and, where necessary, any policing of this initiative to discourage individuals who either do not respect or who do not understand what the objective of this initiative is. No information collected from individuals for the aforesaid purposes will be disclosed to third parties or passed on to other individuals, organisations or governments except, in the case of civil governments, where we might be required to do so by some legal constraint.

Catholica Australia of its nature encourages individuals to provide far more information about themselves than is required for our purposes in building or policing the initiative. It provides a facility for members to publish personal profiles. Such information is volunteered by members of this intiative of their own free will and in furtherance of their desire to help build this community and provide a place of personal relationship, community and communio. Such information will be stored in our database on behalf of members but it is exclusively for the use of fellow members and will not be disclosed to third parties outside of this community except as might be required by legal constraint caused by civil government jurisdiction and fiat.

The developers of this initiative give an undertaking to members that at all times they will endeavour to respect their privacy and the levels of disclosure, that do vary from individual to individual, as to what they disclose about themselves in their efforts to integrate into this community. We are not engaged in the business of seeking to exploit or hurt any individual by the disclosure of personal information about them to any person or organisation who, or which, has no business or authority having access to their private information.

This endeavour is not a commercial endeavour. It is not engaged in the activity of seeking any remuneration or subscription from its ordinary members. It is not engaged in the activity of trading in any disclosure of personal information or even email lists to other businesses or organisations for commercial or other gain.