C&M LAWYERS Privacy Statement

Welcome to the C&M Lawyers Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Statement sets out C&M Lawyers’ policy relating to its collection, use, disclosure and handling of your personal information.

You must agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy before using the C&M Lawyers website. By accepting this Privacy Policy and your use of the C&M Lawyers website, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and handling of your personal information in the matter described in this Privacy Policy.

C&M Lawyers understands that your personal information is very important to you and that appropriate steps should be taken to ensure that the collection, use, disclosure, and handling of your personal information are done responsibly. We want to make your experience with our firm as enjoyable and as rewarding as possible.

C&M Lawyers has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm’s commitment to your privacy and security of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Collection and Use of Information

During the ordinary course of our business, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information depending on the nature of the legal advice being sought and to better meet your legal needs.

Generally, we may hold personal information about you including but not limited to your name, date of birth, occupation, address, email address, telephone number, medical information and financial circumstances.

If you choose not to provide us with any or all of your personal information as requested, then we may not be able to provide legal advice and representation for you as our client.

C&M Lawyers may share personal information with select persons or entities such as experts and government instrumentalities, in order to prepare legal advice and gather information sometimes of a personal nature and in matters involving legal proceedings in various jurisdictions for our clients.

As a general proposition, C&M Lawyers will not sell, rent or willingly supply any personally identifiable information about you to any third party other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Special Cases

Whilst C&M Lawyers will ensure that all necessary steps are taken to ensure that your personal information is protected from abuse, we cannot guarantee that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information provided to C&M Lawyers will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

For example, we may be forced to disclose your personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.

We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or
appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

C&M Lawyers’ Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998 and other applicable laws. You must be 18 to use the Services. C&M Lawyers does not attempt to ask or collect information from any person under the age of 18 except through a guardian.

C&M Lawyers may have products and services and legal issues which involve children and must be under the direct supervision of an adult.

C&M Lawyers recommends that children ask a parent for permission before sending any personal information to us.

C&M Lawyers’ Commitment to Data Security

C&M Lawyers has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining this information.

Third Party Sites

This website may contain links to third party websites (“Third Party Websites”) which are not maintained or controlled by C&M Lawyers.

C&M Lawyers provides these links solely for your convenience and the existence of a link to a Third Party Website does not imply any endorsement or approval by the operators of C&M Lawyers of the Third Party Website.

Whilst browsing through the C&M Lawyers website you may click through to these Third Party Websites from our site. In such a case we strongly recommend that you visit the privacy policy of these third party sites. This Privacy Policy is designed and intended to apply only to C&M Lawyers and its website.

C&M Lawyers does not endorse, and accepts no responsibility for, the content or use of any Third Party Websites.

Accuracy

We strive to ensure that all personal information we hold is correct, accurate and up-to-date. To assist us in achieving this, please let us know if your details change or if you become aware that information we hold is in error. We will, when appropriate, ask you for confirmation that the information we hold about you is correct, accurate and up-to-date.

Access, Further Information and Complaints

You have a qualified right of access to personal information held by C&M Lawyers which identifies you. This is “qualified” because there are some circumstances in which the Privacy Act entitles or requires us to withhold access.

If you would like to exercise your right of access please contact the C&M Lawyers privacy officer via the link below.

Questions about C&M Lawyers’ Privacy Policy

Any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy should be directed to C&M Lawyers by sending an email to info@candmlawyers.com.au.

Also, you may wish to refer to the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner, which may be contacted at the following site: http://www.privacy.gov.au for more information on the Privacy Act.

If you have any additional questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact:

Michael Coorey, Solicitor
5 Crown Street
Harris Park NSW 2150
Telephone: 02 9897 1188
Fax: 02 9897 0755
mfcoorey@bigpond.com.au

Revisions to This Policy

C&M Lawyers reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner.