Privacy Policy

Your consent

By providing us with information about yourself through this website or otherwise, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy. By using this website you also consent to our use of cookies as set out in this Privacy Policy.

If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this website and may place notices on other pages of this website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we always use it. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.

The information about you which we collect, and how we use and disclose it

We may collect information about you in a number of circumstances, including when you seek legal advice from us; when you use any on-line client services; when you make an enquiry on any area of the website; when you attend a seminar or other event provided by us; when you sign up to receive information from us, including training; when you apply for or accept employment with us; or when you offer to provide or provide services to us.

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The information we collect may include your name, job title, postal address, email address, password, telephone number, information regarding your job and/or other information regarding your preferences or where it is relevant to legal services that we provide. From time to time, it may include information about your membership of a professional or trade association or union, health information and details of any criminal record you may have.

If you do not provide information requested by us from time to time, we may not be able to provide services to you or otherwise fulfil the purpose for which we have requested the information.

In some circumstances, we collect personal information about you from a third-party source. For example, we may collect personal information from a company for whom you work, other organisations with whom you have dealings, government agencies, a credit reporting agency, a recruitment agency, an information or service provider or from a publicly available record.

We, our members, employees, agents, consultants and sub-contractors, may use any of the information about you which we have collected to provide you with legal advice or information; on-line or legal technology services or solutions; to send you information on news, publications, seminars and events; to improve our services and communications to you; for the purposes of employment, partnership or the supply or retention of services; for insurance purposes, to send you invoices or reminder notices; to process your requests of, and applications to, us; and for any other purpose for which this information was provided to us or for any purpose related or ancillary to any of the above. We may also use personal information or data where we are permitted by law to do so. This includes circumstances where you have expressly or impliedly consented to such use.

We may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances

If you are a client of Obsequium, or you are employed by, contracted to or are an agent of, a client of Obsequium, we may disclose your personal information to:

• Barristers, other legal specialists (including mediators), consultants or experts engaged in your matter.
  

• Foreign law firms for the purpose of obtaining foreign legal advice, who may not be within the European Economic Area.
  

• If we have collected your personal information while providing legal or professional services to any of our clients, we may disclose it to that client, and where permitted by law, to others for the purpose of providing those services.
  

• We may disclose your personal information to our members, employees, agents, consultants and sub-contractors who assist us in running our business, including this website, or provide related services, and who are subject to security and confidentiality obligations.
  

• We may disclose your contact details on a confidential basis to third parties for the purposes of collecting your feedback on the firm’s service provision, to help us measure our performance and to improve and promote our services.
  

• We may disclose your personal information between the various Obsequium Entities on a confidential basis for our internal administrative, billing and other business purposes, or for the purpose of providing legal services.
  

We will make whatever disclosures of your personal information that the law requires or authorises us to make.



We may also collect, use and disclose personal data or information where it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal or equitable claim, or for the purposes of a confidential alternative dispute resolution process.



We may also use aggregate information and statistics for the purpose of monitoring website usage to help us develop this website and our services.

Information about other people which you provide to us

If you provide personal information to us about someone else (such as one of your directors or employees, or someone with whom you have business dealings) you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that information to us and that, without our taking any further steps, we may collect, use and disclose that information as described in this Privacy Policy. In particular, you must ensure the individual concerned is aware of the various matters detailed in this Privacy Policy, as those matters relate to that individual, including our identity, how to contact us, our purposes of collection, our information disclosure practices (including disclosure to overseas recipients), the individual’s right to obtain access to the information and make complaints about the handling of the information, and the consequences if the information is not provided (such as our inability to provide services).

Cookies

This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively and on occasion to advertise online through third party vendors.

To provide you with a more personalised and responsive service we need to remember and store information about how you use this Website. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this Website. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this Website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognise you and remember things like your user preferences.

Whenever you use this Website, information may be collected using cookies and other technologies. By using this Website you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice and to the use of cookies on the other country, regional or practice specific websites contained in deloitte.com that you may visit, as described in their accompanying cookie notices.

Cookies we use

Some of the cookies we use are necessary to enable you to move around the Website and use its features such as accessing secure areas that may contain content for registered users.

We also use functional cookies to record information about the choices you have made and to allow us to tailor the site to our users; for example, to remember your language or region or that you have already completed a survey. This information is usually anonymised and is not used for any other purpose.

We or our service providers also use analytic services to help us understand how effective our content is, what interests our users have, and to improve how this Website works. In addition, we use web beacons or tracking pixels to count visitor numbers and performance cookies to track how many individual users access this Website and how often. This information is used for statistical purposes only and it is not our intention to use such information to personally identify any user. However, if you have registered and signed into this Website we may combine this information with information from our web analytic services and cookies to analyse how you use this Website in more detail.

This site may use targeting cookies which are cookies used to deliver advertising relevant to your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

Cookie controls

By using this Website you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking cookies can impact on your user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully accessible.

Browser controls

Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set.

Managing analytics cookies

You can opt-out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers, and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links:

• Adobe:
  http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
  
• Google Analytics:
  http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
  

Managing local shared objects or flash cookies

A local shared object or flash cookie is like most other browser cookies except that it can store additional types of information. These cookies cannot be controlled using the mechanisms listed above. Some parts of this Website use these types of cookies to store user preferences for media player functionality and without them some video content may not play properly.

Social buttons

We use ‘social buttons’ to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.

External web services

We sometimes use external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content.

Email communications

We may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time by contacting us or you can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.

We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.

Keeping information about you secure

We will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your information confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, access and disclosure of information. Information may be kept on our information technology systems or in paper files.

Transferring information about you abroad

We may transfer information about you between countries if required for a relevant purpose as described above. These may include countries which do not provide the same level of protection as the laws of your home country (for example, the laws within Australia).

However, all Obsequium offices will always ensure a level of data protection at least as protective as that required in Australia. We will also require our agents, consultants and sub-contractors and others who are outside Australia and to whom we transfer information about you to ensure a similar level of data protection.

Updating information about you

If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address or if you wish to cancel any request you have made of us, please let us know by sending an email to hello@obsequium.com.au.

Your rights

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you which we hold, to have any inaccurate personal information corrected and to object to our using your personal information for a marketing purpose. You may also make a complaint if you have a concern about our handling of your personal information.

If you wish to do any of the above, please send an email to hello@obsequium.com.au. You may also call 1300 920 913 and ask to speak to our Privacy Officer.

We will consider any complaints which we receive and provide you with a response in a timely manner (usually 30 days of receipt). If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to the relevant privacy regulator. We will provide you with details of your relevant regulator upon request.

How to contact Obsequium

We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments, please send an email to hello@obsequium.com.au or send a letter to:

The Proper Officer
Obsequium Legal & Risk Solutions Pty LtdLevel 21, 133 Castlereagh StreetSydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000