Privacy Policy.
Nemeth McLachlan respects your rights to privacy and data security. This policy explains how we collect personal information, what we do with it, how it is stored and who we might share it with. The Policy also describes how you can access or correct information we hold about you and how you can ask further questions or make a complaint.
Why we collect your information
You will generally be required to identify yourself when you deal with Nemeth McLachlan (such as when you become a client of ours) and provide other types of ‘personal information’ in order for us to assist you and provide you with other services. Personal information may include your name, identity details (such as your title and position and employing entity), contact details and other personal details relevant to the engagement. Without such information, we may not be able to assist you at all or may have to cease providing services to you.
How we collect your information
While we endeavour to collect personal information about you directly from you, to the extent that it is reasonable or necessary, we may also collect your personal information from third parties including your adviser(s), employer (or its affiliates), agents, public sources and service providers (including credit reporting bodies).
We take reasonable steps to be transparent about how and why we collect personal information.
How we use your information
We use personal information about you for the purpose for which it was provided to us, including to:
communicate and deal with you or investigate any complaints or enquiries;
administer and manage our service and any relevant engagement; and
business development including sending legal updates, publications and details of events.
In addition, we may use your personal information to the
extent permitted or required by law.
We may also anonymise your information (including interactions with our website) for our own purposes including market research and new product or service development.
Who do we share your information with
We may share personal information within Nemeth McLachlan, and may disclose personal information outside the Nemeth McLachlan to:
any third parties that we engage on your behalf or which you engage directly
in connection with the services we are providing to you, including barristers, auditors, accountants, third party experts and other consultants or advisors;if our engagement is on behalf of your employing entity, with that entity;
our service providers, who provide services in connection with our products and services;
our insurers and our professional advisors, including our accountants, business advisors and consultants; and
any regulatory body.
With your consent, we may share your personal information to other authorised persons or for other purposes (including marketing of Nemeth McLachlan). We do not sell personal information for marketing purposes to other organisations or allow such companies to do this.
In some circumstances the parties to whom we disclose personal information may operate outside of Australia. Where this occurs, we take steps to protect personal information against misuse or loss and to comply with local law in respect of the transfer of your data from one jurisdiction to another. Those parties, in turn, may make such information available to the governments of such other countries in accordance with local law requirements.
How we store your information
We keep personal information in physical and electronic records, at our premises and the premises of our service providers, which may include processing or storage in the cloud, which may mean in practice that this information is stored outside Australia. We also keep records of our interactions with you (including by telephone, email and online).
We take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of personal information from misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Our website
When you visit our website we may send a ‘cookie’ to your computer. This is a small data file stored by your computer to help improve functionality or tailor information to provide visitors to our website with more relevant pages. If you disable the use of cookies on your web browser or remove or reject specific cookies from Nemeth McLachlan websites or linked sites, you may not be able to gain access to all of the content and functionality on those websites.
We may also analyse website traffic to identify what visitors find most interesting so we can tailor our website accordingly.
As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website. Third party website providers are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.
How you can access or correct your information
You can contact us to request access to or correction of your personal information. In normal circumstances we will give you all reasonable access or make the requested corrections to your information. However, there may be some legal or administrative reasons to deny these requests. If your request is denied, we will provide you with the reason why (if we can).
In addition, we also reserve the right to charge for access, in order to cover the costs involved in providing the information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change, modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time, without liability to you, by publication of the revised version on website. The revised version shall take effect immediately upon publication.
Contact us
If you have any questions or complaints regarding privacy or information handling, please write to cheryl@nemethmclachlan.com.
Privacy Policy updated June 2020