Privacy Policy

At Disability Legal Connect (DLC), we are committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website. We use the information we collect about you to maximise the provide services. We respect the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you. This Privacy statement conforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, which govern the collection, use and storage of personal information of all people, who are involved with or otherwise interact with DLC. Please read our privacy policy below carefully.

You can advise us of the change of your details at any time by email. All customer data collected is secured against unauthorised use or access.​

STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We receive and store information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You may provide basic contact information such as your name, phone number, address, and email address to enable us to send information. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey or communicate with our employees.

We may use personal information collected from you for the purpose of providing you with information, updates regarding our website and information in the form of a newsletter. This will only apply if you have registered or subscribed to such publications by registering your details with us. However, if you wish to cease receiving any such information, you may let us know either by email or unsubscribing at any time and your request will be actioned immediately.

Individual profile and company details are not used for any other purpose. Details are only supplied to a third party supplier when it is required by law for goods or services, which you have purchased or to protect our copyright, trademarks and other legal rights.

We respect the privacy of our online visitors. We may collect information on or through this website that can personally identify you. For example, we collect personally identifiable information (personal data), which you provide to us to respond to visitor questions and comments about us and our products and services, and to mail e-newsletters.

We will use all reasonable means to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Data while in our possession or control. We will not knowingly share any of your Personal Data with any third party other than our service providers, who assist us in providing the information and/or services we are providing to you. We will only share your personal information with a service provider if they have agreed to comply with our privacy standards as described in this privacy policy. 

Any non-personal information, communications and material you send to this website or to us by email or which we obtain from third-parties without promises of confidentiality, may be kept, used and disclosed by us on a non-confidential basis. We are free to use and reproduce any such information freely and for any purpose whatsoever. Specifically, we will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose, including developing, manufacturing or marketing products.

DATA SOVEREIGNTY 

When interacting with us, we may need to record information, which you have supplied to us. In order to provide the best service possible, we use a range of technologies to assist us. These technologies include software applications with servers located both in Australia and overseas. We are dedicated to ensuring your privacy and general security is never compromised. We do this by working toward best practice in information security management. When using our services either face to face or digitally, you agree to us storing your information where appropriate on our servers both in Australia and oversees. This enables us to provide the best possible service to you.

Where reasonable and required by law, we are committed to:

• De-identify personal information
• Restrict access to authorised personnel
• Apply engineering controls to protect your personal information
• Only use your data for the intended reasons it was given to us for
• Make our privacy statement and policies and any updates to these available for people to review
• Only rely on indirect consent where direct consent would not have been reasonable or would have had a negative effect on our service to you

For more information on our terms and conditions see our Terms & Conditions statement.  

COOKIES

A cookie is a small file placed in your web browser that collects information about your web browsing behaviour. Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any personal information (e.g. name, address, email address or telephone number). Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Our website uses cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third-party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.​

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may need to disclose certain information, which may include your personal data, to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant during a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. We may further use your personal data to protect the rights, property or safety of communitylegalwa.org.au, our customers or third parties.

THIRD PARTIES

We do not and will not sell or deal in personal or customer information. We will never disclose your personal details to a third-party, except the necessary information required by providers of products or services you have purchased or to protect the rights, property or safety of DLC employees, our customers or third-parties or if required by law.

We may however, without any reference to your name, or your information to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and assist it in meeting customer needs generally. In addition, we may use the information that you provide to improve our website and services but not for any other use.

SECURITY

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our website and we periodically update our security measures in light of current technologies.

LINKS

This website may contain links to other websites. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third-party websites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY

As we plan to ensure our privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.

If you have any questions or concerns at any time about our privacy policy or the use of your personal information, please contact us and we will respond as soon as practicable.