Privacy Statement

Disclaimer

Information on this site is general, intended only to provide a summary of the subject matter covered, and is not intended as advice on any particular matter. Specific legal advice should always be sought.

No person should act or fail to act on the basis of any thing contained in this site. Betar Lawyers and the author(s) expressly disclaim all and any liability to any persons in respect of anything done or not done by anyone relying, in whole or in part, on any thing contained within this site.

Protecting Privacy

Betar Lawyers understands the importance of privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy and the privacy of any information you provide to us in the usual course of business dealings with you. This is the reason why we have adopted the National Privacy Principles as set out in the amended Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("the Act"). Nevertheless, this Privacy Statement explains the policy adopted regarding any personal information you might supply in the usual course of our business dealings and in particular via this website and how such information may be used.

To assist you, the term "personal information" throughout this Privacy Statement means information that identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Examples of personal information are your home address, your email address and your home telephone number.

Betar Lawyers may review and update this Privacy Statement from time to time and will post any changes on the website.  Please feel encouraged to regularly review this page so that you are aware of any such changes.

Collecting Your Information

Your personal information is collected only when you have provided it voluntarily. We may collect personal information from you when you instruct Betar Lawyers to provide you with legal service, subscribe to our website or to one of our mailing lists, or have business dealings with us (whether as one of our suppliers or in the context of a transaction).

More specifically, the personal information which we may collect through the website includes:

  • - Your name and address details, email address, telephone and fax numbers, job description;
  • - The content of electronic forms you submit via the website, requesting us to provide services or
  • information;
  • - Any messages or comments you submit to us via the website (eg. through an email or "Contact Us" form);
  • - Information collected when you participate in an online survey.


When you visit this website or download information from it, our Internet Service Provider (ISP) makes a record of your visit and records information such as your internet address, your domain name if applicable, the date and time of your visit to the website, the documents you have downloaded, and links from other sites that you have followed to reach our website. However, this information is anonymous and is only used for statistical and website development purposes.

How Do We Use and Disclose Information Collected?

Betar Lawyers does not sell, rent or trade personal information about you to or with third parties. We will use or disclose your personal information:

    - in accordance with this Privacy Statement;
    - for the main purpose(s) for which we collected it, or for related purpose(s) which you would reasonably expect and will consent to;
    - to provide you with the products or services you have requested;
    - to help us manage, develop and enhance our services;
    - to communicate with you;
    - to provide you with information relating to Betar Lawyers or promotional details about our products and services which may be of interest to
    you. We will assume that you consent to this, unless you have previously advised us that you do not wish to be contacted for these direct marketing purposes. You can veto any direct marketing contact by telling our privacy officer at info@betar.com.au. If we do contact you for direct marketing purposes, we will always give you an easy option for indicating that you prefer no such contact for the future.


Disclosure of your personal information may be made to service providers, agents, contractors and strategic partners from time to time to help Betar Lawyers to provide and market our services to you. If such disclosure occurs, we will require these parties to protect your information the same way we do.

Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small message which our web server gives to your web browser. Your browser stores the message in a text file and the message is then sent back to our server each time your browser requests a page from our server. Cookies can therefore be used to monitor visits on a website.

Limited use of cookies is made on our website. We do not use cookies to store your personal information such as email addresses or other details. Cookies have been found useful, because they allow us to "dig deeper" behind a website's first page without having to redial the site with specific page details of the following pages.  However, you may wish to browse and use this website with your cookie option turned off. To do this refer to the help menu on your internet browser to find out how you can change the settings of your browser.

Security
We will take reasonable steps to ensure the security of any information you provide to us. These steps include restricting physical access to our offices, electronic firewalls and secured databases to prevent information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Even so, we cannot guarantee that information exchanged via the internet may not be accessed and used by people other than the intended party. Therefore, if you send any information to us via the internet, or request us to send to you any information, it is sent at your own risk.

Access to Information Collected
If you wish to request access to any personal information which we hold about you, please contact us by sending your request and contact details to info@betar.com.au.

If you wish to access the personal information held about you on our current records, we can provide you with a copy of the relevant information without charge for the cost of providing this type of access to these current records.  We may deny your request in some circumstances. If this occurs, we will give you our reasons.

Accuracy
If you think that any information held about you is inaccurate, please contact us at Info@betar.com.au or on +61 (0)2 9279 1100 and we will take reasonable steps to ensure it is corrected.

Links
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to websites of other organisations.  These may be of interest to you but please remember these sites are not subject to our Privacy Statement and you should check those websites for their own privacy statements.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example, to up-date and comply with the Law.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, you may contact us as set out below:

Betar Lawyers
Level 13, 49-51 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
[T] +61 2 9279 1100
[F] +61 2 9262 2020
[E] info@betar.com.au
[M] GPO Box 4007, Sydney NSW 2001