Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Steinepreis Paganin Information Policy
Steinepreis Paganin recognises the importance of your privacy and understands your concerns about the security of your personal information. Accordingly, we are committed to protecting any personal information about you that we hold. This privacy policy details how we generally manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.
At the outset we wish to make clear that protecting confidential information is fundamental to our relationship with our clients and to our business. All information received in respect of a client matter is subject to strict duties of confidentiality. We will not disclose such information except in accordance with instructions.
The National Privacy Principles
From 21 December 2001, most private sector organisations in Australia must by law comply with the National Privacy Principles subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (NPPs). We are bound by the NPPs, and this policy accords with the NPPs.
What information do we collect?
From our Website
Unless you choose to give us information about yourself, we do not collect any personal identifiable information from the visitors to our Website. When you visit this Website or download information from it, our Internet Service Provider (ISP) makes a record of your visit that shows:
- the pages of our Website you visited;
- the date and time that you visited our site; and
- the kind of browser of that you used.
If you provide information to us, or correspond with our staff, via electronic mail, our ISP makes a record of:
- your full e-mail address and the full recipient address; and
- the time and size of your e-mail.
Your identity cannot reasonably be ascertained from this information, and we only use the information to prepare general statistics on the usage of our Website. We do not use cookies on our Website.
From our clients
We only collect personal information that is necessary for us to perform our functions. The kinds of personal information we collect and hold will depend upon the services you request from us. However it may include:
- information you give us when you instruct us to act for you. This information will include your name, address and contact details;
- information about individuals we collect in the course of acting for you; and
- communications between us and you.
Using and disclosing your personal information
Any personal information which we collect about you will be used and disclosed by us so that we can provide you with the services that you have requested, or otherwise to enable us to carry out our functions as professional legal service providers.
We will not pass on the personal information you have given us to anyone without first asking your permission, unless we are required to do so by law.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request access to and correction of the personal information we hold about you. We will handle requests for access to your personal information in accordance with the NPPs. We encourage all requests for access to your personal information to be directed to our Office Manager by e-mail: sp@steinpag.com.au or by writing to the address below:
Steinepreis Paganin
GPO Box 2799
PERTH WA 6001
We will deal with all requests for access to personal information as quickly as possible. In some cases, consistent with the NPPs, we may refuse to give you access to personal information we hold about you. This includes circumstances where giving you access:
- would be unlawful (for example, where a record which contains personal information about you is subject to a claim for legal professional privilege by one of our clients);
- would have an unreasonable impact on other people's privacy;
- would prejudice negotiations we are having with you;
- would prejudice an investigation of unlawful activity; and
- would prejudice activities carried out by, or for, a law enforcement agency.
If we refuse to give you access we will provide you with reasons for our refusal. Generally, if you request us to do so we will amend any personal information we hold about you which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
Security of the information
We use a number of mechanisms to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. This means that we cannot guarantee that someone else will not read the information you choose to give us when you transmit it. Therefore, any information you send to us over the Internet is done so at your own risk.
Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Links
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organisations which may be of interest to you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.