‘Tri-meridian Corporate and Commercial Law’ and our service trust ‘Tri-meridian Business Advancement Services’ understands the importance of confidentiality and your privacy and takes great care to adhere to the Commonwealth National Privacy Principles within the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
When we collect personal information we …
… Only collect information that is necessary to carry out our daily functions and activities to enable us to provide a high quality legal service. The type of personal information that we may collect includes:
Contact details such as name, address, phone numbers and email addresses
Your occupation
Information about your dealings with us or with our clients
Those areas of law in which you are interested
Information disclosed to us in communications between us and you
... Usually collect that information from:
information you provide to us
third parties for example those people with whom you deal with in business
publicly available sources
…Do not collect personal information (other than your internet address, domain name and the date and time of your visit to our website) through this website. This website does not use web bugs.
Our purpose for collecting personal information is to ….
… Provide a high quality legal service to our clients and to meet our legal obligations
… Improve the services that we offer
… Advise you of services that we offer that may be of interest to you
Quality of information collected ….
We always take every precaution to ensure that the personal information we collect and use is accurate, complete and up‑to‑date. If you make us aware that some of the information we hold is not accurate, complete and up‑to‑date, we will take all reasonable steps to make the necessary corrections.
Use of personal information and disclosure
Our primary purpose ….
Our primary purpose for using personal information is so that we can carry on our usual business of providing legal advice to our clients. Occasionally we may advise you of new or current services that we offer which may be of interest to you. You can advise us in the event that you do not wish to receive that information.
We may disclose your information ….
… for any purpose authorised by you such as to other advisers or regulatory authorities
... internally to our staff
…where required by law
Data security and confidentiality
We take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We are obliged to keep the information that we hold confidential. We also destroy or permanently de‑identify personal information in the event that we no longer need it, or where by law, we are no longer required to keep it.
Access to your personal information
Upon your request we will provide you with the personal information that we hold where we are required to do so by law. There are some cases where we may not be able to reveal that information for example where to do so would interfere with legal proceedings or would be in breach of our obligations to our clients.
Privacy Practices of Others
While we adhere to the National Privacy Principles we are not responsible for the practices of other organisations including those on our links.
Amendments
From time to time we may make amendments to our Privacy Policy which will then be updated and posted on our website.
Queries or Concerns
If you have any queries about out Privacy Policy or you believe that we have breached your privacy please contact us to discuss your concerns.
You can access further information about the National Privacy Principles from ….
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, 1300 363 992 or www.privacy.gov.au
