Privacy Policy

Your privacy

We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times.

Consent

You are not obliged to disclose personal or sensitive information about yourself or your contact details when you visit our website. By voluntarily providing us with any personal information, you consent to us using this information to assist you with your enquiry and to offer any of our services that may be relevant to you.

Personal information we collect

The personal information that we collect and hold about you, depends on your interaction with us. Generally, we will collect, use and hold personal information for the purposes of:

• Providing services to you or someone else you know;

• Providing you with information about other services that we offer that may be of interest to you;

• Facilitating our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements; and

• Analysing our services and customer needs with a view to developing new or improved services

Client

When you become a client of vbr Lawyers Pty Ltd, we collect all information necessary to assess, protect and advance your legal matter. We are required by law to keep this information for seven years once your case is closed.

Website

We collect website activity statistics such as number of visitors, pages visited, time and date of visit and where you accessed our website from, so that we can make informed decisions relating to improving our website and the service we deliver. This information is anonymous and doesn’t identify a person.

When you visit our website, a cookie is placed on your computer which is later used to display advertising on other websites you may visit. The cookie does not contain personal information that can identify you, but may contain information about the page you visited on our website. If you do not wish for this to occur, you can remove cookies from your computer, by following the standard procedures for your internet browser to do so.

Third-party disclosure

We may disclose information to third parties when outsourcing services, such as data storage, debt collection, bulk distribution and mailing, direct marketing, technology support services and obtaining expert help from consultants to improve our services. We have contractual agreements with our service providers to protect your information up to the same standards as if we stored the information ourselves and to prevent them using the information we provide for any purposes than our own.

Legal obligation to disclose

There are times when we will be required by law to disclose any personal information we have about you, such as in the instance of an investigation into bankruptcy, counter-terrorism, fraud, taxation etc.

Your information

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and securely stored.

We strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access; however, we cannot guarantee security.

You can access your personal information held by vbr Lawyers by making a written request to the address: vbr Lawyers Pty Ltd – Privacy Policy Enquiry: – 6/661 Oxley Road Corinda QLD 4000

For clients, you should contact either John Vandeleur, Greg Black or Sean Ryan who are the Legal Practitioner Directors of the firm: john@vbrlaw.com.au; greg@vbrlaw.com.au; sean@vbrlaw.com.au

In some circumstances, we are permitted to deny your request for access, or limit the access we provide. Please contact us at the above address if you also:

1. believe the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or out-dated

2. Would like us to de-identify your personal information submitted through this website

Failure to provide information

If the personal information you provide to us is incomplete or inaccurate, we may be unable to provide you, or someone else you know, with the services you, or they, are seeking.