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5. PRIVACY POLICY (extract from terms of use)

5.1 Operation of the Site

The Oz NetLaw Site is operated by the Communications Law Centre Ltd (ACN 003 623 630) (CLC). See ‘Contact Us’ for further details. The principal solicitor of the CLC is responsible for the administration of this privacy policy.

5.2 Collection of personal information

You may provide personal information to Oz NetLaw when you complete and send an online form to Oz NetLaw. The personal information required by each online form located on this Site is as follows:

(a) Legal Query Form : you are required to provide your name, year and country of birth, gender, phone number, only suburb and state details and email address. This information is collected for the purpose of contacting you with information or advice and to understand who uses our service in order to improve the service.

(b) Link Request Form : you are required to provide a name and e-mail address. This information is collected for the purpose of advising you whether your application to link to the Oz NetLaw site has been granted or refused. We can improve our service by knowing the nature of sites that are linked to Oz NetLaw.

(c) Feedback form : this information is collected for the purpose of receiving feedback from users of the Oz NetLaw site to improve our service. This information will be deleted once the feedback is obtained.

5.3 Use of personal information

Personal information collected from you under clause 5.2 will only be used by us for the purposes stated in clause 5.2 and when required by law (eg court order or warrant).

5.4 Access to personal information

(a) You may access personal information that CLC holds about you by telephone or e-mail request.

(b) You must provide your year and country of birth when making a request so that we can verify your identity. Access will be provided free of charge. CLC will endeavour to provide access in a way that is convenient to you.

(c) Any proposed correction to the personal information held by the CLC will be kept attached to the relevant CLC record.

5.5 Security

(a) Oz NetLaw takes all reasonable steps to ensure personal information we have collected from you is held securely in an electronic database and in hard copy files.

(b) Client information must be kept for six (6) years from the closure of a file under the professional indemnity insurance policy of the CLC. Oz NetLaw will delete or destroy this information as soon as practicable after this period elapses.

(c) Information is transmitted to Oz NetLaw under clause 5.2 using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

5.6 Cookies

(a) A cookie is a small data field that some websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user id. A website may use cookies to track the pages you have visited. A cookie file can only contain the personal information you supply yourself.

(b) Oz Netlaw does not use cookies.

5.7 Links on the Oz NetLaw Site

The Oz NetLaw site contains links to other websites. You are responsible for information that you provide to these sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that requests personal information. This policy does not cover the privacy practices of these linked sites.

5.8 Clickstream data

(a) Clickstreams are the paths you take when navigating a website and the internet in general. When you visit our Site, our servers record the following information for statistical purposes:

(i) your server (IP) address and machine name;
(ii) the date and time of visit to this Site and time spent on particular pages;
(iii) pages accessed and documents downloaded;
(iv) the number of bytes transmitted and received for each request;
(v) the previous site or page visited;
(vi) the search engine and keywords used;
(vii) any linked referral; and
(viii) the type of browser used and its operating system.

(b) Oz NetLaw examines this information to determine the traffic through the server as well as access levels to specific pages. In order to deliver better services, we also perform statistical analysis to establish priorities and allocate resources.

(c) No attempt will be made to identify you or your browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect server logs.

(d) The statistics and log files may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the information supplied by Oz NetLaw.

(e) Access to and use of this information is restricted to the management and staff of Oz NetLaw, who are subject to an agreement to adhere to this privacy policy.

(f) Oz NetLaw will not disclose or publish information which identifies individual machines, or potentially identify sub-groupings of addresses without your consent.

(g) Oz NetLaw reserves the right to gather more extensive information than indicated above regarding any attempted access to this Site which raises security issues, or in circumstances where Oz NetLaw has reason to believe a breach of the law is being or has been committed, and where necessary to make disclosures to the relevant authorities.

5.9 Privacy acknowledgment by you

You acknowledge that Oz NetLaw may use information provided by you or through your use of this Site in accordance with this clause 5 (Privacy Policy).

Last Updated: 22 November 2001