as at February 2023
AussieLegal Pty Ltd (also means “us”, “we”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We implement information security measures and policies in all of our offices and in our subcontractor’s offices, whether onshore or offshore, to ensure that your personal information is secured.
We discuss in this Privacy Policy the types of information we collect from you, how we manage, collect, deal with, use, disclose, and correct your personal information. You provide us or we collect from you your personal information in order for us to effectively deliver our products and/or services, and improve our business with you.
We implore you to thoroughly read and understand this Privacy Policy. Please also check out regular updates to this Privacy Policy, for from time to time, we update this Privacy Policy and post such update on this page.
If you do not agree with any of the terms in this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use our website, and please do not submit any personal information to us. You agree to this Privacy Policy when you access or continue to access our website, when you log-in as a user, or when you order any of our products and/or services.
When you communicate with us or enquire about our products or services, you either voluntarily provide us or we collect from you your personal information. Personal information may also be collected from third parties including law firms, government units, referees, brokers, agents, and your adviser/s for the provision of our products or the rendition of our services.
For prospective client enquiries submitted through our website, our email address/es or contact details, we may collect your name, business name, phone number, email address, and other details to contact you. Other information we may collect from you or you provide to us are those necessary to complete the forms, legal kits, products or services that you have ordered from us.
For enquiries in relation to working with us, and for job applications, we may collect your name, email address, contact details, information you provide in job interviews, and information gathered in pre-employment checks. You also provide us with your consent in the collection of your sensitive personal information when you upload your CV or résumé in our website contact form. We encourage you to not provide sensitive personal information in your CV or résumé uploaded in our website.
For prospective clients in the European Economic Area, we only collect personal data that were freely given by you. When you provide us with your personal information, you give your consent that we will only use your data in the implementation of our contractual agreement. Please advise us of any other restriction in the use of your personal data.
We are using session cookies, persistent cookies, and 3rd party cookies in our website. Cookies are in plain text format stored in your device to store data once you access our website. Information such as browser type (for example, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox), and registered public IP address may be collected when you visit or access our website. A public IP address is a decimal number registered to you for use to communicate in the Internet. We may also collect general geographic area associated with your IP address, etc. Such information may be used by us for marketing analysis in line with the marketing and promotional information that we provide to you. Traffic statistics are also used by us to monitor the efficiency of our website. We will never sell, share, loan or trade information relating to these statistics with any unrelated parties.
You may set your internet browser to reject the cookies or prompt you each time a cookie is offered. Cookie rejection may, however, limit your browsing capacity.
AussieLegal Pty Ltd employs a fully encrypted secure e-commerce facility for all credit card transactions. Please observe the https: prefix in the URL when providing your card details. This will only appear if the page is secure and encrypted. Your card details are not recorded by, or visible to us, or any other party.
AussieLegal Pty Ltd uses secured cloud-computing technology from third party service providers in the storage of your personal information and in providing the products and/or the services to you. We may also store your personal information in hardcopy or in our own database. We are committed to ensuring that the security of your personal information is held at the highest standard. We regularly monitor possible threats and hazards in the storage of your information in any of our or our related entity’s offices or our subcontractor’s offices.
We utilise robust precautions to protect the confidentiality and security of your data by employing technological, physical, and administrative security safeguards, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. While we implement processes and means of securing and protecting your data, we nevertheless cannot guarantee full and absolute security and protection of your data.
We will only use or disclose your personal information for the purpose for which it was collected.
The information collected will be used:
If we collect further data from you, we will provide you with the reason and the use for this further collection.
You may opt not to provide your personal information, or to deal with us anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym. Please note however that if we do not have sufficient personal information or data, we may not be able to directly address your concerns, provide you with our full service, or provide you with the appropriate information on our products and/or services.
Please also note that some information collected from you may be shared or disclosed to our related entities, or our subcontractors or outsourced providers, whether onshore or offshore, or to firms we work with. These entities have their own legal structures, and they operate hand-in-hand with us. We do not share any information unless the sharing of information is with your consent, or the information is necessary for the execution of our contractual agreement. The entities with whom we share your personal information may operate outside of Australia. Where this occurs, we take all reasonable and necessary steps to protect your personal information against misuse or loss, ensure that the overseas recipient complies with the relevant privacy laws in Australia (including the APPs, specifically APP6 and APP8), and may enter into an enforceable contractual arrangement with the overseas recipient that they will handle all personal information accordingly. In addition, a regular compliance check is being implemented to all our related entities, subcontractors, and outsourced providers.
We may also share your information to third-party providers such as cloud storage services that store your personal data. We take the utmost precaution and verification that our third-party providers are able to deliver the highest security in storing your data before any transfer is made.
Further, we will use or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, such as those relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing.
All information that has been collected will be retained on the basis of the retention period provided by law or regulation or until it is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual arrangement. You have the right to direct us to delete your personal data unless there exists a legal requirement for the retention of the information. For IT and administration, all personal information will be permanently deleted or de-identified when the data are no longer required, or when our services contract ends.
Please advise if you require us to delete your data for either of the following reasons: (1) it is already inapplicable for the purpose of which it was collected; (2) withdrawal of consent; and (3) your data was unlawfully or incorrectly processed.
Reasonable steps are taken to ensure that all information are accurate, up-to-date, and complete. Please contact us immediately should you require an update, correction, or addition of new information in your data.
Access to your data will be provided to you so you could easily amend or correct or delete your personal data. You may also opt to provide us information with the corrections, if necessary, and we will amend any incorrect information for you. We could also provide you with the means of collection and the reasons why we have collected your data.
Access to your data will be provided to you so you could easily amend or correct or delete your personal data. You may also opt to provide us information with the corrections, if necessary, and we will amend any incorrect information for you. We could also provide you with the means of collection and the reasons why we have collected your data.
Our website and this Privacy Policy are designed for individuals of legal age of their country. We do not deliberately and directly collect any personal information from children or underage individuals. Please advise us immediately if any of your children have accessed our website and we will immediate delete or de-identify any data that has been shared by your child.
We update our Privacy Policy on a periodic basis as we deem appropriate. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
AussieLegal Pty Ltd welcomes feedbacks, suggestions, and complaints about privacy issues. We will endeavour to resolve all complaints within 30 days. Please address all questions and complaints through:
If the matter has not been resolved, the aggrieved party may file complaints to the nearest relevant privacy commission or authority.
