PRIVACY POLICY
O’ROURKE & ASSOCIATES is committed to the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) which became effective from 12 March 2014.
O’ROURKE & ASSOCIATES is an Australian Privacy Principle entity with a clearly expressed and up to date policy about the management of personal information by the entity. O’ROURKE & ASSOCIATES ensures that it complies with the APP code.
This privacy notice sets out how we may use information about you which we collect through your use of this website in particular and more generally.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you contact us to undertake work on your behalf. The information we collect includes your name, address, phone number, email and information of any other parties involved, and any other information we require to undertake work for you. The information may be stored with a third party data storage provider.
Personal information
We will collect personal information about you where it is reasonably necessary for our business and use and disclose your personal information, as you would expect, for the primary purpose (or to a related body corporate) for which it was collected or, if an exception applies under the law, for secondary purposes. With the exception of service providers who we pay to manage our computer systems and support or for marketing of our services, we do not provide or seek to commercialise your personal information to third parties. If we disclose personal information to a recipient outside of Australia, which is not usual in our practice, we will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach the APPs. Please note that this does not apply to personal information which is routed through servers that may be outside Australia as the APPs refer to this as a “use” not a “disclosure” of information.
Cookies
O’ROURKE & ASSOCIATES uses “cookies”. A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognise the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. However, access to some of our secured web site(s) may require the use of cookies, which you must enable only cookies that get sent back to the originating server. Otherwise, you can still access most of the features on our web site even without accepting a cookie.
You have a right to access your personal information
You have the right to access your personal information, subject to the exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so please let us know and we will, subject to our right to refuse such a request in certain situations, provide it within a reasonable period of time. We reserve the right to impose a charge for giving access to requested personal information We ask that you please contact us if you have any complaints in relation to the handling or use of your personal information.
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