​Disclaimer.
General information and not legal advice.
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The content on our website is for information purposes. It is not comprehensive and is not legal advice. You should always obtain legal or other professional advice, appropriate to your own circumstances, before acting or relying on any of our content.
Use of this website, or the receipt of any information from us or this website, is not intended to create, nor does it create, a solicitor-client relationship between us.
Terms of Use.
By using our website, you agree to comply with these Terms of Use, Copyright Policy and Disclaimer. We may change any of these at our discretion and without notice. By continuing to use this website you accept the Terms of Use as they apply from time to time.
Liability
We do not warrant the content of this website is accurate or up to date. We may change the content on this website at any time without notice. Also, as the internet is inherently insecure, we can’t guarantee the security of data contained on the website.
The website and its content are provided entirely “as is”. We exclude all implied conditions and warranties with respect to the website and its content, excluding any implied condition or warranty the exclusion of which would breach any statute or cause any part of this paragraph to be void.
Your use of this website, and your reliance on its content, is entirely at your own risk. In particular, we exclude our liability to you (including because of our negligence) for any lost profit, lost opportunity, lost revenue, lost data, losses resulting from security failure or computer viruses, or any indirect or consequential loss, resulting from your use of our website or its content. For all other types of loss, our total liability to you (including because of our negligence) resulting from your use of this website or its content is limited in aggregate to $1.
If, despite the previous two paragraphs, a court says that we are liable to you, that liability will be limited (at our election) to either re-supplying the affected service or content to you or refunding what you have paid us for it.
Third party links
Our website (or social media websites on which we maintain a presence) may contain links to other sites over which we have no control. Those links are provided for your convenience only, and we are not responsible for their use, effect or content.
We make no representations or warranties as to, and accept no responsibility for, the accuracy of information on those sites, nor do we endorse any information, opinions, goods or services referred to on them.
Applicable law
These Terms of Us and your use of our website, are governed by the laws of the New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Privacy Policy.
We are committed to protect your privacy. We provide this privacy policy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to provide you details about our practices in relation to the collection, use, disclosure and handling of personal information
1. Privacy Policy
1.1
This Privacy Policy is governed by the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
1.2
Our Privacy Policy does not create any rights or obligations for either you or us in addition to those imposed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
2. Collection of Personal Information
2.1
We collect personal information when you:
(a) interact with us through the phone, in person or via email and you provide us your details;
(b) purchase or subscribe to our products or services;
(c) subscribe to our mailing list; or
2.2
We collect personal information to:
(a) improve our products and services;
(b) provide our product or service to you;
(c) communicate with you;
(d) offer you promotional product or market our product that you are interested in;
(e) keep our customer database;
(f) to investigate any complaints that you make;
(g) to investigate whether you are in breach of our terms and conditions;
(h) verify your identity;
(i) to notify you of vacant positions if you applied for jobs at our Business;
(j) comply with the law or to use your information as permitted under the law; and
(k) use your information for purposes that are related to the above.
2.3
We collect and hold following types of personal information:
(a) your contact details that may include your name, business name, postal address, email address, fax number and phone number;
(b) specific details about any legal matter for which you engage us;
(c) optional personal information that you consent to provide, including your interests in a particular area, gender or age;
(d) optional surveys that provide personal information including whether you like our Business or Website and what you like or do not like; and
2.4
We will only collect your personal information using fair and lawful means.
2.5
If we receive unsolicited personal information, we may destroy it or ensure that it is de-identified if it is lawful and reasonable to do so.
3. Cookies
3.1
We may, from time to time, use ‘cookies’ which are small data file placed on your machine or device to store information.
3.2
We use cookies in many ways including:
(a) authentication cookies that monitor whether you are logged in or not;
(b) session cookies that allow you to remain logged in and keep track of your activities until the browser shuts down;
(c) persistent cookies that help us monitor our services by recording your browser activities and they do not expire upon browser shut down; and
(d) flash cookies to personalise your experience using Adobe Flash ©.
3.3
We use cookies for many reasons including but not limited to:
(a) improve the performance by reporting any errors that occur;
(b) provide statistics about how the Website is used;
(c) remember settings that you used on our Website;
(d) identify that you are logged into the Website;
(e) link to social networks like Facebook and Twitter; and
(f) provide ads that are tailored to you.
3.4
Please note that although cookies do not generally store personal information, they may contain your IP address. However you are effectively anonymous to us because the data are collected in aggregate.
3.5
You may disable and delete cookies in your browser if you do not want us to use cookies but doing so may detract from your enjoyment of our Website.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
4.1
We only disclose your personal information for purposes that are reasonably related to our Business.
4.2
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for payment, profit or advantage.
4.3
We may disclose your personal information to third parties, from time to time, to assist us in conducting our Business, including:
(a) technology service providers including internet service providers or cloud service providers;
(b) couriers such as Australia Post;
(c) data processors that analyse our website traffic or usage for us;
(d) agents that perform functions on our behalf, such as mailouts, debt collection, marketing or advertising;
(e) our related bodies corporate; and
(f) to persons, entities or courts as required under the law.
4.4
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
(a) to provide the service you wish to use;
(b) to improve our Business, services, products and Website;
(c) to customise and promote our services which may be of interest to you;
(d) to comply with or as permitted under the law; or
(e) with your consent.
4.5
We do not host any of our services or software overseas. We are not aware of any data or information we store in any country other than Australia.
5. Direct Marketing to You
5.1
We will not send you unsolicited commercial electronic messages in contravention of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth).
5.2
We may use the non-sensitive information you gave us for the purpose of promoting and marketing our Business to you if we:
(a) use the information that you reasonably expected us to use for promoting and marketing our Business to you; and
(b) provide you a simple method to opt-out.
5.3
We will not contact you to promote or market our Business if you requested us not to.
6. Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information
Accessing Your Personal Information
6.1
You may request access to your personal information that we hold and we will:
(a) verify your identity;
(b) charge you to cover the cost of meeting your request, if any, but not for the request itself; and
(c) within a reasonable period of time, comply with your request.
6.2
We may refuse to allow you to access your personal information if we are not required to do so under the Australian Privacy Principles.
Correcting Your Information
6.3
You may request to correct your personal information that we hold and we will update your personal information so that it is up-to-date, accurate, complete, relevant and not misleading.
6.4
Members of our Website may change their details online.
7. Definitions and Interpretation
7.1
Unless contrary intention appears:
(a) Australian Privacy Principles means the principles under the Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
(b) Business means Thrive Lawyers.
(c) sensitive information means sensitive information as defined under Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
(d) personal information means personal information as defined under Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
(e) You (whether in capitals or not) means the user of our Website and Your and Yours have corresponding meanings.
(f) We (whether in capitals or not) means Thrive Lawyers.
(g) Website means our website site thrivelawyers.com.au and it’s sub-domains.
7.2
The word ‘include’ is used without any limitation