Privacy Policy

2.1 We collect personal information by various means including when:

(a) you contact us with a question or inquiry;
(b) you subscribe to our newsletter or legal updates service;
(c) you attend a seminar or event where we are hosting or presenting;
(d) you instruct us to act for you and we open a file and conduct a conflict check;
(e) our clients provide information relating to related and adverse parties relevant to the advice or services we are providing;
(f) we undertake a search or investigation;
(g) you visit our website.

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 Rules made under the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW). Accurate name and address information must also be collected to comply with the trust account record keeping requirements under the Rules.

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.

3.1 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) to carry out the instructions of our clients; and
(b) subject to our confidentiality obligations, when using services in support of our legal practice.

4.1 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.

5.1 We do not disclose personal information to overseas recipients.

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 or by clicking the "unsubscribe" option at the bottom of any marketing e-mail received from us.

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.

8.1 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.

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

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

info@clearlylegal.com.au

or

Clarence Chambers,
Level 13, 111 Elizabeth Street,
Sydney NSW 2000
Attention: Privacy Officer

or by calling (02) 8076 6005

We will endeavour to respond to any complaint within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint you may seek a review by contacting the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner using the information available at Privacy Complaints OAIC.