| Statement of privacy policy |
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At Farrow Wyatt we recognise that your privacy is very important to you. We are bound by and committed to supporting the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) which are set out in the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000. Our aim is to both support and ensure that we comply with the NPPs that form the basis of laws introduced to strengthen privacy protection for the general public. We believe that this Statement will address any potential concerns you may have about how personal information you provide Farrow Wyatt is collected, disclosed and transferred. If you seek any further information please contact us. In the course of our activities we collect and hold personal information such as details of clients, contacts and referrers. We will only collect personal information from you that is pertinent to the carriage of your matter and by lawful and fair means. At or before the time we collect personal information from you we will take reasonable steps to inform you why we are collecting that personal information, who else we might disclose that personal information to and what will happen if you do not provide personal information to us. Where reasonable and practicable, we will only collect personal information about you, from you. Failure to provide full and complete information we request may mean that we are unable to provide services to you fully and properly. Once we hold personal information we will take reasonable steps to keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date. We will only use your personal information for the main purpose as advised except where you consent to us using that information for another purpose. In order to fulfill the purposes set out above we may provide access to your personal information to third parties from whom we require information. You accept that not all recipients of your information may have privacy policies equivalent to Farrow Wyatt and you consent to the disclosure of your personal information for those purposes. If you ask, we will tell you what personal information we hold about you. We will facilitate access to you by allowing an inspection of your personal information in person. If you can show us that the personal information is inaccurate, we will take reasonable steps to correct it. We will protect personal information from misuse and loss. When you visit our website, details may be recorded about your visit, such as time and date, your server address, pages accessed, time spent any type of browser. This information is used in an anonymous form of statistical purposes and as such cannot identify you individually. We may use cookies to identify your browser so that next time you visit our website we remember your log in details. A cookie is a small file which remains on your computer and contains information enabling our website to recognise your browser. If you do not wish to use cookies, you can adjust the settings on your browser to reject cookies or notify you when they are being used. We will not adopt as our own any identifiers that you may provide to us such as Tax File Numbers, Medicare numbers etc. We are committed to providing clients, and other parties whose personal information we hold, a fair and responsible system for the handling of their complaints. If at any time you have any complaints in relation to privacy, please contact our Practice Manager. We will seek to address any concerns that you have through our complaints handling processes, but if you wish to take matters further you may refer your concerns to the Office of Federal Pricing Commissioner. If you seek any further information from Farrow Wyatt about this Statement or our privacy policy generally please contact our Practice Manager. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 20 – 22 Church Street, Maitland. NSW 2320 Telephone: (02) 4931 6000 Fax: (02) 4933 3653 Further information on privacy in Australia may be obtained by visiting the web site of the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner at http://www.privacy.gov.au/ |