Website Notices

When you contact Our Lawyer your personal information is protected. Your information ia collected and stored to help deliver useful information and where you decide to engage with Our Lawyer for the purpose of providing legal services.

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Here Our Lawyer explains what information is collected, how it is collected and what is actually done with it.

By giving Our Lawyer your information you are agreeing for it be to processed and used in the ways described here.

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Who is Our Lawyer

A Legal Practitioner.

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The legal basis I rely upon to process your personal information

Data protection laws set out various grounds on which Our Lawyer may lawfully collect and process your personal data. For  purposes which include:

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• Consent

Our Lawyer can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when Our Lawyer is processing sensitive or special personal data, such as information relating to your health or religious beliefs. In many circumstances, if Our Lawyer relies on your consent as our legal basis for processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

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• Legitimate interests

In many situations, Our Lawyer requires your personal data to pursue Our Lawyer's legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of generating business, and which does not materially impact on your rights, freedoms or interests. For example, it may be in Our Lawyer's legitimate interests to use your personal information for marketing purposes to assist with generating business.

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Personal data that Our Lawyer collects - What, when & why

Our Lawyer may collect personal data from you in the course of business, including when you engage with Our Lawyer through your use of the Our Lawyer website, social media platforms, when you contact or request information from Our Lawyer, or as a result of a relationship you enter into with the Firm that employs Our Lawyer.

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The personal information that Our Lawyer processes includes, but is not limited to:

• Contact information, such as your name, the company you work for, your title, position, your relationship to a person, your postal address, email address and phone number(s);

• Identification and background information provided by you or collected as part of engaging acceptance processes, this may include your full name, photographic identification and gender;

• Technical information, such as information collected from your visits to the Our Lawyer website;

• Information you provide to Our Lawyer for the purposes of attending meetings;

• Personal information provided to Our Lawyer by or on behalf of Firm clients or generated by Our Lawyer in the course or providing information.

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Our Lawyer collects your personal information for a number of reasons. These may be to:

• help Our Lawyer deliver information;

• confirm your identity;

• develop and market new information;

• comply with any applicable law or court order;

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Sharing your information

Our Lawyer may share your information with organisations that Our Lawyer works with or to collect, process and use your information. These include:

• Law firms;

• Insurers;

• IT service providers;

• Barristers;

• Translators;

• Various professional experts, including accountants and tax advisers;

• Document management services;

• Regulators or tax authorities.

• Data analysis programs

• Artificial Intelligence Legal Systems and Platforms

• Targeted Ads providers

• Marketing content providers

• Payment services providers

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Our Lawyer shares private information on a need-to-know basis. To find out how other groups use your information from the Our Lawyer website, see their privacy policies.

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It’s possible that these groups store some of your information overseas (including the US) under different information privacy laws and disclosure obligations to Australia. If these groups ever breach Australian privacy laws, they won’t be accountable in Australia, and you won’t have any remedy available under Australian laws like the Privacy Act.

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Our Lawyer will never sell your information (or give it away for free). However, the government might ask for your information - for example through certain laws or a court order. This might include the police investigating a crime, or a court hearing for failure to pay. If this happens, Our Lawyer will comply. Where Our Lawyer works as an employee with a law firm, your personal information will be shared with the law firm.

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Remember, when reaching out to Our Lawyer online, there is no guarantee that your information hasn’t been intercepted by someone else before reaching Our Lawyer. That’s your responsibility.

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How Our Lawyer collects information?

When you contact Our Lawyer through the phone, website, social media platforms or opened emails, you are telling Our Lawyer about yourself.

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This can be through online enquiry forms or questionnaires, surveys, when you download Our Lawyer free resources.

 

Our Lawyer also use software like cookies to identify how you use the Our Lawyer website and how Our Lawyer can help you.  Cookies are digital identifiers that are automatically stored on your computer. These help Our Lawyer personalise the information given to you.  It can be turned off or deleted at any time through your browser settings.

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How to contact Our Lawyer?

Our Lawyer will keep your data up to date as practicable as possible. You can view and ask Our Lawyer to correct any data Our Lawyer has about you. You can also ask Our Lawyer at any time to stop communicating with you.

 

If you’re unhappy with something Our Lawyer has done or you think Our Lawyer is not following privacy laws, let Our Lawyer know through the Our Lawyer website contact page.

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You can also make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.