General
MDRN Pty Ltd trading asMcCarthy Durie Lawyers is committed to protecting your personal information.This policy sets out how McCarthy Durie Lawyers manages your personal information. McCarthy Durie Lawyers encourages you to check McCarthy Durie Lawyers website regularly for any updates toMcCarthy Durie Lawyers privacy policy. McCarthy Durie Lawyers is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act"), including the National Privacy Principles ("NPPs"). However acts done or practices engaged in by McCarthy Durie Lawyers, which are related to:
- A current or former employment relationship between McCarthy Durie Lawyers and you; and
- An employee record held by McCarthy Durie Lawyers as your employer and relating to you are exempt from the Privacy Act, including the NPPs.
Collection of Personal Information McCarthy Durie Lawyersmay collect and hold personal information about you, including your name, gender, date of birth, address, phone number, facsimile number, email address, bank account details, place and type of business, tax file number if we have money invested in our trust account for you and/or other information relevant to providing you with the services you are, or someone else you know is, seeking. The personal information thatMcCarthy Durie Lawyers collects and holds about you depends on your interaction with us. Generally, we will collect and hold your personal information for the purpose of:
- providing legal services to you or someone else you know
- Verifying your identity
- establishing your authority to provide us with instructions in relation to specific matters
- providing you with information about other services thatMcCarthy Durie Lawyers offers that may be of interest to you
- providing you with information relevant to your type of business or other area of expertise or interest
- providing you with the opportunity to meet other people and attend seminars and conferences in your type of business, other areas of expertise or interest
- facilitating McCarthy Durie Lawyers internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements
- analysingMcCarthy Durie Lawyers services and customer needs with a view to developing new and/or improved services.
- Complying with any legal obligations that we may have collect and hold such information.
Personal information will generally be collected byMcCarthy Durie Lawyers directly from you, generally by verbal interaction or through correspondence with you. There may, however, be some instances where personal information about you will be collected indirectly because it is unreasonable or impractical to collect personal information directly from you. We will usually notify you about these instances in advance or, where that is not possible, as soon as reasonably practicable after the information has been collected.
If you access McCarthy Durie Lawyers website, McCarthy Durie Lawyers may collect additional personal information about you in the form of your IP address (that is, the single numerical address for your computer on the internet which consists of four consecutive numbers ranging between 0 and 255) and/or domain name (that is, the textual address for your location on the internet which corresponds to your IP address, which the internet computers can read). If the personal information you provide to McCarthy Durie Lawyers is incomplete and/or inaccurate, McCarthy Durie Lawyers may be unable to provide you, or someone else you know, with the services you, or they, are seeking.
Copying / Scanning of Identification In certain circumstances a copy (paper copy or electronic) of your identification may need to be taken and retained on our files as evidence that we have established your identity. This evidence may be required for insurance reasons or to be provided by us in the future in the event that a claim arises indicating fraudulent activities being conducted.
Use and disclosure Generally,McCarthy Durie Lawyers only use and/or discloses personal information about you for the purposes for which it was collected (as set out above). However, MDRN Solicitors may disclose personal information about you to:
- service providers, who assist McCarthy Durie Lawyers in operating its business, including IT service providers who assist in managingMcCarthy Durie Lawyers servers and networks,
- a purchaser of the assets and operations oMcCarthy Durie Lawyers business, providing those assets and operations are purchased as a going concern
- its related entities.
- Entities where McCarthy Durie Lawyers is compelled by law (eg: under the Social Security Act or Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988 or Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 etc)
- Others such as the Court, the Other party, Parties to litigation, Valuers, Experts, Barristers, where necessary in furtherance of your claim or matter
- Government authorities where we are of the reasonable opinion that we are legally required to do so with or without reference or notice to you.
Security McCarthy Durie Lawyers stores your personal information in different ways, including in paper and in electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to McCarthy Durie Lawyers. McCarthy Durie Lawyers takes all reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is stored safely to protect it from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, including electronic and physical security measures. Access You may access personal informationMcCarthy Durie Lawyers holds about you, upon making a written request. McCarthy Durie Lawyers will endeavour to acknowledge your request within 14 days of its receipt and to provide you with access to the information requested within 30 days. McCarthy Durie Lawyers may charge you a reasonable fee for processing your request. McCarthy Durie Lawyers may decline a request for access to personal information in circumstances prescribed by the Privacy Act.
If, upon receiving access to your personal information, or at any other time, you believe the personal information McCarthy Durie Lawyers holds about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, please notify McCarthy Durie Lawyers immediately.
McCarthy Durie Lawyers will take reasonable steps to correct the information so that it is accurate, complete and up to date. If McCarthy Durie Lawyers disagrees with you about whether your personal information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, and you ask McCarthy Durie Lawyers to associate with your personal information a statement claiming that your personal information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date,McCarthy Durie Lawyers will take reasonable steps to do so. Links to other websites McCarthy Durie Lawyers website may contain links to other websites. McCarthy Durie Lawyers is not responsible for the privacy practices of linked websites and any linked websites are not subject toMcCarthy Durie Lawyers privacy policies and procedures. Updates This privacy policy may be updated by McCarthy Durie Lawyers from time to time.
Feedback If you have any queries or concerns about
McCarthy Durie Lawyers privacy policy or the way in which McCarthy Durie Lawyers handle your personal information, please contact McCarthy Durie Lawyers General Manager Shane McCarthy at:
Postal address: Po Box 122 Capalaba QLD 4157
Telephone: 07 3370 5100 Fax: 07 3245 5150
Email: shanem@mccarthydurie.com.au
More information For more information about privacy in general, you can visit the Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website at www.privacy.gov.au.
