Collection and use of information through Website access

When you access this Website (as that term is defined in the Terms of Use for the web pages of the Firm located at pmlawyers.com.au), the Firm may collect certain information on the website activity of users of this Website. Such information will be information in the nature of statistical data that may include the number of visitors to the Website and the dates on which visits occurred, the pages accessed by visitors, browser type and the desktop systems used by visitors as well domain names or IP addresses. The Firm will only use this information for website administration and other internal purposes.

In addition, we may also use cookies for appropriate reasons such as to facilitate your access to secure pages on this Website (if any).

However, you are able to visit and use this Website anonymously if you wish as we do not collect personal information in the ordinary course of Website visits.

Collection of other information

If you contact us for the purposes of receiving further information or services from the Firm, we may ask you to provide us with personal information, such as your name and organisation and an email or contact address, and we may collect and store that information. This may be the case where, for example, you contact us directly or through other parts of this Website such as an online form. In those cases, you will be aware that you are providing that information to the Firm and of your purpose for doing so.

In some circumstances, we may collect personal information about you from a third party source. If that occurs, we will take reasonable steps to contact you and inform you of this.

The firm may also collect and store personal information for other internal management or business purposes such as, for example, in respect of actual or potential providers of services to the Firm, current or prospective employees, etc.

The Firm may:

hold any personal information about you in a variety of media, including without limitation, paper, scanned documents, disks, hard drives or other electronic records such as in databases or e-mails; and

from time to time, use any personal information collected from you to send you further relevant information about the Firm or its services or to inform you about the Firm’s wider activities, publications about recent developments in law, marketing or upcoming events which we believe may be interesting or beneficial to you.

You may request, at any time, that the Firm ceases to contact you and we will respect that request.

Disclosure to third parties

The Firm will not disclose personal information collected from you to a third party unless your prior consent has been obtained or the disclosure is required by law.

However, we may in some cases disclose your personal information to our agents and service providers where the disclosure is in connection with the provision of legal services by the Firm to you. For example, we may contract out certain management functions such as file storage, website administration and courier deliveries. We may also brief barristers or expert consultants in connection with the conduct of our clients’ legal affairs.

You agree that we may copy, distribute or disclose your information to such third parties, whether it has been collected or stored electronically, in hard copy documents or otherwise.
Keeping personal information secure and up-to-date

The Firm takes reasonable precautions to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate, complete and current. For that reason, we request that you inform us promptly if you are aware of any errors in your personal information and keep us up-to-date in respect of any changes to that information, such as your name or contact details.

The Firm also takes all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Such steps may include ensuring the physical security of our paper and electronic data stores and premises, maintaining appropriate computer access and network security, controlling or limiting staff access to personal information, inserting appropriate confidentiality notices in emails and electronic correspondence and generally requiring our staff, agents and consultants to act in a manner which respects your privacy and confidentiality.

However, you should be aware that information sent through the internet may not be secure and you agree to send us any information in that manner entirely at your own risk.

In the event that the Firm no longer requires your personal information for any relevant purpose, it will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify that personal information.

Access to information

As a general rule, you have a right to gain access to the personal information we hold about you and we will take reasonable steps to attend to a request by you for access as quickly as possible. Where we consider it to be appropriate in the circumstances, we may recover from you our reasonable cost of providing you with access.

However, there may be situations under the relevant privacy legislation which prevent us from allowing you to access that information. In such cases, we will provide you with the reasons for the denial of access.
Further information

If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Alternatively you may contact our offices at 1 Richardson Street, West Perth, WA 6005 or by telephone (08) 9321 0522.