Summary of Privacy Policy

We are a law practice. The Privacy Act applies to us only for personal information we handle in connection with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) laws. All other information you give us remains protected by our usual duties of confidentiality and legal professional privilege.

Before providing certain services, the law requires us to collect and verify information about clients and some other people, such as proof of identity and information about who owns or controls a company or trust. We collect this information directly from you where we can, and sometimes from other people or public records.

We use this information to verify identities, assess risk and meet our legal obligations. We may be required to report some of it to AUSTRAC, the financial crime regulator, and in some cases we are not allowed to tell you that a report has been made.

We protect this information, keep it for at least seven years as the law requires, and then destroy or de-identify it. You can ask to see or correct the information we hold about you, and you can complain to us or to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The full policy below explains all of this in more detail. 

Please contact us for a full version of the Privacy Policy.