Privacy Policy

2.2       Where practicable we collect personal information about you directly from you.     However, we may have collected information about you from a third party such as a   client, a third party information provider, the courts or a person responding to our       questions or inquiries.

2.3        We are required to collect the full name and address of our clients by the Solicitors           Rules made under the Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW). Accurate name and         address information must also be collected in order to comply with the trust account          record keeping requirements in the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 (NSW) and to          comply with our duty to the courts.

2.4        If you are a client and do not provide us with name and address information we    cannot act for you.

2.5        If you do not provide us with accurate personal information we may not be able to             carry out our instructions or achieve the purpose for which the information has been            sought.

3.         The purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information

3.1        We collect, hold, use and personal information in order to:

(a)          respond to your enquiries;

(b)          provide legal services;

(c)           employ competent and diligent personnel;

(d)          monitor or improve the use of and satisfaction with our legal services; and

(e)          let you know about legal developments, our expertise and legal services that may be of interest to you.

3.2        We disclose personal information:

(a)          in order to carry out the instructions of our clients; and

(b)          subject to our confidentiality obligations, when using services in support of our legal practice.

4.         The parties to whom your personal information is disclosed

4.1        Subject to our confidentiality obligations, we may share some relevant personal    information with:

(a)          parties related to a matter you have with us, government authorities and service providers as reasonably required to carry out your instructions;

(b)          our e-mail marketing provider for the purposes of providing you our newsletter, invitations and legal updates; and

(c)           third party service providers who assist us with archival, auditing, accounting, legal, business consulting, website or technology services.

4.2        We also will disclose your information if required by law to do so or in circumstances        permitted by the Privacy Act – for example, where we have reasonable grounds to suspect that unlawful activity, or misconduct of a serious nature, that relates to our          functions or activities has been is being or may be engaged in, in response to a        subpoena, discovery request or a court order.

5.         Disclosure of information outside the jurisdiction of collection

5.1.1.1 We do not disclose personal information to overseas recipients.

6.         Opting out of marketing communications

6.1        We may, from time to time, send you newsletters, invitations and legal updates about       our services. You can opt out of receiving further such communications by notifying us using our contact details below by clicking the “unsubscribe” option at the bottom          of any marketing e-mail received from us.

7.         Security

7.1        We take reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect your       personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. For example, we maintain our files in secure offices and      limit access to personal information to individuals with a need to know.

8.         Access/correction/updating personal information

8.1        You can contact us to access, correct or update your personal information. Unless           we are subject to confidentiality obligation or some other restriction on giving access to the information and we are permitted to refuse you access under the Privacy Act,         we will endeavour to make your information available to you within 30 days.        Examples of circumstances where we may refuse to give you access to your            personal information include where:

(a)          giving access would be unlawful;

(b)          we reasonably believe that giving you access would pose a serious threat to the life, health or safety of any individual or to public health or public safety;

(c)           giving access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others;

(d)          the information could reveal the intentions of a party in negotiations;

(e)          giving access could prejudice the taking of appropriate action in relation to unlawful activity;

(f)            giving access could reveal evaluative information in a commercially sensitive decision making process.

8.2        If you request to correct your personal information, we will correct, or, if we consider         more appropriate, note your request for amendment of the information on your         record.

8.3        We will not charge you to make a request to access your record but we may charge         you to actually provide access depending on the costs associated with obtaining and            providing the material.

8.4        These actions can usually be taken by contacting a customer relations representative      using the contact information on the “Contact Us” section below.

    9. Notification of Changes

9.1        If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will send you a copy of our revised policy or post a copy on our website.

10.       Complaints / Contact us

If a breach of this Privacy Policy occurs, a complaint may be made to us by sending it to