Privacy noticeIKD is committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Website Privacy Notice explains our policy for dealing with personal information that we collect through our website under the domain name ikd.com.au (‘Website’).
Throughout this Policy, we refer to your 'personal information' which means information which identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your name, home address and home telephone number are examples of personal information.
We will post any changes to this Website Privacy Notice on the website, and we encourage you to check this Website Privacy Notice from time to time.
In addition to the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice, there may be specific and additional privacy provisions that apply to certain sections of the Website. Because those provisions also relate to your privacy protection, we recommend you review these wherever they appear. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail. Information Collected
The information we may collect about you through the Website includes any messages or comments you submit via an email or 'Contact Us' form.
You may browse some information-only areas of our site without providing any personal information, however, we may not be able to provide a full range of services through the Website if we do not receive such personal information.
In common with many commercial websites we may also collect aggregated information which tells us about visitors to the Website, but not the identity of those visitors. For example, we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits and which pages of the Website are most commonly accessed. This information is generally not linked to the identity of visitors, except where the Website is accessed via links in an email we have sent which specifically refers to the possibility that click-throughs to links may be tracked.
Cookies
This Website may make use of 'cookies' (small text files that are placed onto your hard drive to store information). The Website may use cookies to remember who you are each time you visit certain parts of the Website, or to manage security.
Most web browsers allow you to set your own preferences as to whether or not to accept cookies, or which cookies to accept. However, to enjoy full use of the Website you may need to allow cookies.
Use and disclosure of information
We may share personal information with other Freehills partnership and its associated Australian entities and correspondent offices overseas, your professional advisers. and organisations with whom we have co-promotional arrangements (and any third parties used in administering those arrangements). We may also share personal information with other service providers including organisations that assist us by providing archival, auditing, professional advisory, mailhouse, delivery, technology and security services.
In addition to providing our services to you, we may use or disclose personal information that we collect about you:
- for the purposes for which it was collected;
- where you have consented to such use or disclosure;
- to maintain our relationship with you;
- for purposes related to IKD's research (including market research), planning, service development, security, testing and risk management;
- for purposes connected with the operation, administration, development or enhancement of our site;
- where a third party acquires, or wishes to acquire, or makes inquiries in relation to acquiring, an interest in IKD; or
- to the extent that we are required or authorised by law to do so.
We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of our services, events, developments in the law and other matters. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please let us know using the contact details set out below. We aim to provide you with information and invitations that we consider may be of interest or relevance to your business. Links
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organisations which may be of interest you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices, and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.
Security
We use several mechanisms to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the web can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Access to information
If you wish to request access to any personal information that we hold about you as a result of the information collection practices outlined in this Website Privacy Notice, please contact us using the 'Contact details’ set out below.
Please provide as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek, in order to help us retrieve it. An access fee may be charged to cover our costs of providing the information to you.
Contact details
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make a complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal information, please contact us as set out below:
Email:
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Phone: +61 1 300 668 353
Address: IKD Pty Ltd, PO Box 18086, Collins St, Melbourne Vic AUSTRALIA 8003
Date of publication – [31/01/2008] Version No. [5]
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