Privacy Policy

Morrison Specter as Morrison Specter Pty Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to complying with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). This privacy policy sets out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information.

We may modify this policy from time to time by publishing it on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current privacy policy

Information that we collect and how we collet

Personal information includes information or an opinion – whether true or not about an identified or a reasonably identifiable individual.
We may collect personal information from you when:

  • you have inquired about, or instruct us to provide you (or your employer or other representative, with legal advice;
  • you subscribe to one of our online services, eg our website, Facebook, mailings list, or newsletters.
  • you have register in or attend to one of our seminars or events;
  • we have other business dealings with you (eg as a supplier, a regulator, or in relation to a transaction); or
  • you have applied for, or registered your interest in, a role with us.

The types of personal information we may collect from you includes:

  • general personal or business information such as your name, job title, contact number, address and email address;
  • if you are a client or potential client (or employed or engaged by one), your expertise and business interests and, where relevant, other information such as your membership of professional associations or boards;
  • your financial or billing information (eg billing address, bank account and payment information); and
  • only where relevant and with your consent, sensitive information (eg where you register for an event or seminar, we may ask you for information about your health, any disabilities and special dietary needs) or we may collect this information where we need it to provide you with legal advice.

In addition, if you apply for a job with us, we may also collect some certain information about you including your working history, any relevant records or checks from your previous employers or any recruitment consultant, or universities and others who may be able to assist us to proceed our decision as to whether to make you an offer of employment.

The Privacy Act contains certain exemptions in relate to certain acts that undertaken in relation to employee records and related parts corporate. Whether appropriate we make use of relevant exemptions in the Act.

We generally endeavour to collect information directly from you. However, in some unexpected circumstances we may collect your information from third parties, such as contracting organisation or your employer, your business contacts or the organisations that you deal with, credit/regulatory reporting agencies, a service provider or publicly available record.

How we use and disclose collected information?

We may use collected information in:

  • provide to you and improve our and services and products;
  • communicate with you, build and maintain relationships with you and our clients;<
  • analyse, conduct, and monitor our business and operations;
  • identify and develop new services or products you may be interested in;
  • provide you legal updates, marketing, publications, event details/invitation and new product or service offering (however, if you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can unsubscribe at any time by use unsubscribe)
  • perform analytics on financial performance, matter management, and event attendance,
  • comply with applicable laws and our other regulatory, reporting, accounting, or professional obligations; protect, exercise or defend our legal rights; and
  • process and respond to your enquiries, requests or complaints.

We are bound to our clients by professional obligations of confidentiality and legal professional privilege. We continue to treat and protect all client information we have received including any personal information in accordance with these obligations.
We may disclose your information to:

  • our service providers, contractors and agents every now and then that provide services helps us and/or help us to provide and market our services to you;
  • specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us; and
  • other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies; or as otherwise required or authorised by law.

Some of these providers or other parties may receive or store your information in overseas locations. eg. we may disclose your email address or other contact information to providers to complete an electronic execution services, which may store the information in an overseas jurisdiction.

Morrison Specter does not host or store your personal information outside of Australia.

When Using our website

We do not use your browsing information to identify you personally, however we may record certain information about your use of our website, it could be the time and date of your visit, which pages you visit, and the internet protocol address assigned to your device.
If you have registered to receive electronic legal updates from us, then we may identify and record when you click on a link to our site that is contained in that publication or update.

Store and keep your information secure

We may hold your personal information in either hard copy or electronic form. We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures to keep your personal information secure from interference, misuse, loss, unauthorised use or disclosure. We restrict physical access to our offices, employ firewalls and secure databases, protect of our IT systems, regularly update our anti-virus software and regular audit and data integrity checks. All of our employees are also trained and bound to keep any personal information secure and treat it as confidential.

However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. The internet is not a secure environment. Please be aware that it will be sent at your own risk if you do use the Internet to send us any information, including your email address.

Our websites and electronic newsletters may also contain links to other websites operated by third parties. Unless expressly stated otherwise, Morrison Specter is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ from our privacy policy. Please read them before using those websites.

Accessing and correcting your personal information

You have rights under the Privacy Act to:

  • request access to your personal information that we hold about you;
  • ask us to correct or update any information that is incorrect, outdated or incomplete; and
  • opt-out (unsubscribe) of receiving marketing communications from us.

You can do any of these things by contacting us in business hours. We may then need to verify your identity. In some particular circumstances, we may have a valid reason to deny your request to access or correct your information. If we do this, we will explain the reason why.

Making a complaint

If you think we have breached the Privacy Act, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information, you can contact us using the details we have provided. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your complaint.