Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

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Privacy Statement

Madisons Lawyers is committed to protecting your privacy and your personal information and aims to maintain a high standard of compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the National Privacy Principles. This Privacy Statement forms part of Madisons Lawyers’ Privacy Policy and is intended to inform you about the following:

• the manner in which Madisons Lawyers collects your personal information;

• the main purposes for which Madisons Lawyers uses that information;

• how you can access, correct or update any personal information that Madisons Lawyers holds about you; and

• how Madisons Lawyers keeps the information secure.

Collecting your personal information

Most of the personal information about you is collected by Madisons Lawyers either directly from you or indirectly from your employer or professional advisers. The personal information is typically collected in connection with Madisons Lawyers delivery of services to its clients.

This information typically comprises contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses, and may also include other personal information. Where necessary we may also need to ask you for other specific personal information to enable Madisons Lawyers to provide its services to you.

IP Addresses

Our web servers gather your IP address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services. Information is gathered in aggregate only and cannot be traced to an individual user.

Cookies

We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. These cookies allow us to increase your security by storing your session ID and are a way of monitoring single user access. This aggregate, non-personal information is collated and provided to us to assist in analysing the usage of the site.

Use and disclosure of information

Any personal information about you held by Madisons Lawyers will only be used lawfully and fairly primarily for the purpose of providing legal services to our clients, and also to inform you of news on legal issues and developments and invitations to events.

If Madisons Lawyers wishes to use or disclose any of your personal information other than as set out above, Madisons Lawyers will not do so unless:

• Madisons Lawyers has your express consent to do so;

• Madisons Lawyers has reasonable grounds to believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent a threat to life or health; or

• Madisons Lawyers has reasonable grounds to believe that the use or disclosure is required by law or to enforce the law.

Madisons Lawyers will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information Madisons Lawyers collects uses or discloses is stored in a secure environment that is accessed only by persons authorised by Madisons Lawyers so as to prevent misuse, loss or unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Accessing or correcting your personal information

You may access your personal information held by Madisons Lawyers, subject to some exceptions by making a request in writing to the Madisons Lawyers Privacy Officer. We will respond to your request for access as soon as practicable and endeavour to provide the requested information within 30 days. We may charge you a reasonable fee to recover our costs for providing access based on the quantity of material and time involved in providing access. We may not be able to provide access to information in some situations and will inform you of our reasons in writing if that is the case.

Further Information

If you have any other queries relating to privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer by telephoning our office on +61 (0)3 9824 5100 or by email at sdunn@madisonslawyers.com.au

You can also write to the Privacy Officer – Madisons Lawyers at:
Privacy Officer Madisons Lawyers Office 7, 8 Clay Drive Doncaster VIC 3108
Facsimile +61 (0)3 9824 6500