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This Privacy Policy provides information on
how the McCowans Solicitors manages personal
information collected; including personal
information collected through their website at
http://www.mccowans.com.au/
McCowans Solicitors realises the
importance of ensuring that personal information
held by the company is treated confidentially
and is committed to ensuring that all personal
information is only collected, disclosed, used
and stored in accordance with the National
Privacy Principles set out under the federal
Privacy Act 1988.
What is 'personal
information'
'Personal Information'
is information or an opinion (including
information or an opinion forming part of a
database) whether true or not, and whether
recorded in a material form or not, about an
individual whose identity is apparent, or can
reasonably be ascertained, from the information
or opinion
Use and disclosure of
personal information
Any personal
information that we collect will only be used
and disclosed for the purpose for which it has
been provided to us.
Personal information may need to
be disclosed to external service providers
engaged by McCowans Solicitors in order for
those service providers to fulfill their service
obligations to the firm. For example:
Where personal information is
disclosed to an external party, McCowans
Solicitors will take steps to ensure that the
external party treats such information
confidentially and in accordance with the
federal Privacy Act 1988.
Email
Communications
If you have registered through
our website to receive email communications from
us, we may use your contact details to send you
newsletters, marketing emails or invitations to
McCowans Solicitors seminars or events, which
may be of interest to you. However, you may at
any time opt out of receiving such materials by
visiting www.mccowans.com.au/unsubscribe. Upon
receiving such a request, McCowans Solicitors
will remove your contact details from our
distribution lists.
Accessing and Correcting
Personal Information
You may request
us to provide you with access to personal
information we hold about you. We will process
all requests for access to personal information
in accordance with the National Privacy
Principles. In most cases, we will provide you
with access to your personal information.
However, we may refuse access in certain
situations as listed in the National Privacy
Principles. If we refuse to give you access, we
will provide you with reasons for our refusal.
If any personal information we
hold about you is not accurate, complete or up
to date, please let us know and in most cases,
we will use all reasonable efforts to update the
information.
Personal information
security
McCowans Solicitors is
committed to keeping secure the data you provide
to us and we will take all reasonable
precautions to protect your personally
identifiable information from loss, misuse or
alteration.
Changes to our privacy
policy
From time to time it may be
necessary for us to revise our privacy policy.
We reserve the right to change our privacy
policy at any time without prior notice. We will
notify you of the changes by posting an updated
version of the policy on our
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