Privacy statement
Our approach to privacy and spam
Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) respects your privacy. We have
developed our own privacy principles, which embody the National Privacy
Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act).
AAR also complies with the Spam Act 2003, which deals with restrictions on sending emails.
Although our policy specifically addresses AAR's obligations in respect of the laws of Australia, AAR applies, where practicable, those principles and the processes set out below to its offices globally, subject to any requirements of local law.
We collect personal information when we provide our
services to you, or a client requires us to collect information on their behalf.
Generally, if appropriate, we will tell you why we are collecting personal
information and how we plan to use it, or these things will be obvious when we
collect the information.
If you are a client, or employed by a client, we usually collect personal information such as your business contact details, job title or position
and your expertise and interests. Where relevant, we may ask you for other information – for example your membership of
professional associations or boards or, in rare cases, financial information. We may collect other personal information in the course of providing legal services to you or your employer,
or to someone else.
Collecting your information using this website
We generally only collect personal information from this
website when it is provided voluntarily by you – for example, when you fill in a
form to subscribe to our publications or to register to attend a seminar.
When you visit this website or download information from
it, our Internet Service Provider (ISP) makes a record of your visit and records
the following information:
- your Internet address;
- your domain name, if applicable; and
- the date and time of your visit to the website.
Our ISP also collects information such as the pages our
users access, the documents they download, links from other sites they follow to
reach our site, and the type of browser they use. However, this information is
anonymous and is only used for statistical and website development purposes.
We use your information to provide and market our
services to you, and to enhance and develop our relationship with you. We may share your
information with other members of the Allens Arthur Robinson group, including
those who are located outside Australia.
AAR may disclose your information to service providers,
agents, contractors and strategic partners from time to time to help us to
provide and market our services to you. If we do this, we generally require these
parties to protect your information in the same way we do.
We will handle personal information relying on the
employee and related bodies corporate exemption in the Privacy Act where these
exemptions are relevant.
AAR is bound by professional obligations of
confidentiality and legal professional privilege. We will continue to treat and
protect information we receive (including any personal information) in
accordance with these obligations.
A cookie is a small message given to your web browser by
our web server. The browser stores the message in a text file, and the message
is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the
server.
We make limited use of cookies on this website. We use
cookies to measure usage sessions accurately, and to gain a clear picture of which
areas of the sites attract traffic. We also use cookies to improve the
functionality of our website – for example,
to manage subscriptions on vietnamlaws.com; or, if we provide a notice or update
regarding a significant change to the law, we may use cookies to ensure that you
do not receive this notice with each page you access on our website.
When cookies are used on this site, they are used to
store information relating to your visit such as a unique identifier, or a value
to indicate whether you have seen a web page. We use session (not permanent)
cookies apart from for subscription management for vietnamlaws.com. They are used to distinguish your Internet browser from the thousands
of other browsers. This site will not store personal information such as email
addresses or other details in a cookie.
Most Internet browsers are set up to accept cookies. If
you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of
your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent
to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not.
We use a variety of physical and electonic security
measures, including restricting physical access to our offices, and firewalls and
secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or
unauthorised use or disclosure.
The Internet is not a secure environment. If you use the
Internet to send us any information, including your email address, it is sent at
your own risk.
You have a right to access most personal information we
hold about you. Please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer (see below) to ask
for access to your information, or if you have a complaint concerning your
information privacy. We may deny your request in some circumstances. If we do
this, we will tell you why.
If you think that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us at:
PrivacyCompliance@aar.com.au
or on +61 3 9613 8432 and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is
corrected.
If you would like more information concerning how we
handle your information, or our approach to privacy, please contact:
Nicole Newman
Privacy Compliance Officer
Allens Arthur Robinson
PrivacyCompliance@aar.com.au
Tel: +61 3 9613 8432
Allens Arthur Robinson
Level 28, Deutsche Bank Place
Corner of Hunter and Phillip Streets
Sydney NSW 2000
ABN: 47 702 595 758
Tel: +61 2 9230 4000
Fax: +61 2 9230 5333
Mail: GPO Box 50, Sydney NSW 2001
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