Westside Law Firm :: Site Policy

		PRIVACY POLICY OUR COMMITMENT TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our privacy policy in respect of personal information that we may collect. Our Privacy Policy strives to ensure your personal information remains confidential and is protected. Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the National Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant law. WHO IS WESTSIDE LAW FIRM? Westside Law Firm Pty Ltd is an organisation that provides legal services. PERSONAL INFORMATION When we refer to personal information we mean information from which your identity is apparent. This information may include information or an opinion about you, from which your identity can reasonably be ascertained. WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION We collect and receive personal information from our clients or from other business referrers in order to conduct our business, including assessing and obtaining approval for the sales, or marketing and promoting our products and services. From time to time we may offer other products and services. To enable us to maintain a successful business relationship with you, we may disclose your personal information with other organisations that provide products or services used or marketed by us. The types of organisations to which we are likely to disclose information about you include banks, financial and data collection organisations (for credit, credit cards, cheque, rental, leasing, transaction approvals), industry related organisations, warranty and service agencies, credit reporting agencies, and lawyers. We may also disclose your personal information to any other organisation that may have or is considering having an interest in your business, or in our business. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information only directly from you. TO WHOM WILL WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? Where possible, we will inform you, at or before the time of collecting your personal information, the types of organisations that we intend to disclose your personal information to. Prior to disclosing any of your personal information to another organisation, we will take all reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that: (a) the organisation has a commitment to protecting your personal information at least equal to our commitment; and (b) you have consented to us doing so. Sometimes we are required or authorised by law to disclose your personal information. Circumstances in which we may disclose your personal information would be to a Court or Tribunal in response to a request or in response to a subpoena or to the Australian Taxation Office. DIRECT MARKETING From time to time we may use your personal information to provide you with current information about other products and services, promoitons, special offers you may find of interest, changes to our organisation, or new products or services being offered by us or any company we are associated with. We have no intention or have any interest in selling information about you or your business to any third party companies, without your permission. If you do not wish to receive marketing information, you may at any time decline to receive such information by contacting our offices by; Tel: (02) 9793 9888 Fax: (02) 9793 7666 or Mail Westside Law Firm Pty. Ltd. P.O. Box 3338 Bankstown Square NSW 2200 We will not charge you for giving effect to your request and will take all reasonable steps to meet your request at the earliest possible opportunity. UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION It is important to our relationship that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. During the course of our relationship with you we will ask you to inform us if any of your personal information has changed. If you wish to make any changes to your personal information, you may contact us. We will generally rely on you to assist us in informing us if the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete. ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION You may request access to any of the personal information we hold about you at any time. To access personal information that we hold about you use the contact details specified above. We may charge a fee for our costs in retrieving and supplying the information to you. DENIED ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION There may be situations where we are not required to provide you with access to your personal information. For example, such a situation would be information relating to an existing or anticipated legal proceeding with you, or if your request is vexatious. An explanation will be provided to you, if we deny you access to your personal information we hold. BUSINESS WITHOUT IDENTIFYING YOU In most circumstances it will be necessary for us to identify you in order to successfully conduct business with you, however, where, it is lawful and practicable to do so, we will offer you the opportunity of doing business with us, without providing us with personal information. Where sensitive information is collected, stored, used or transferred about you, we will only use this information if you have consented or in the exercise or defence of a legal claim. Sensitive information is information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political persuasion, memberships in trade or professional association or trade unions, sexual preferences, criminal record, or health. HOW SAFE AND SECURE IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE HOLD? We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information by storing it in a secure environment, and when the information is no longer needed for any purpose for which the information may be used or disclosed, it will be destroyed or permanently de-identified. We will also take reasonable steps to protect any personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. FURTHER INFORMATION You may request further information about the way we manage your personal information by writing or email. CHANGE IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY We are constantly reviewing all of our policies and attempt to keep up to date with market expectations. Technology is constantly changing, as is the law and market place practice. As a consequence we may change this privacy policy from time to time or as the need arises without notice to you. ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTION INFORMATION COOKIES (INTERNET E-COMMERCE ENABLE TECHNOLOGY) A cookie is a small amount of information sent from our server to your computer and vice versa . We require the use of cookies for our e-commence system and various functionality of the web site, however we do not use cookies for marketing, promotional or advertising purposes. Nor do we use cookies to track your internet activities before or after you leave the our site. For security reasons, we may monitor activities while you are at our site. This privacy policy came into existence on the 1st January 2006.