General
APHS Pty Ltd is committed to protecting your personal information.
APHS is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), including the National Privacy Principles (NPPs). Although, acts done or practices engaged in by APHS, which are directly related to:
- a current or former employment relationship between APHS and you;
- and an employee record held by APHS as your employer and relating to you, are exempt from the Privacy Act, including the NPPs.
This policy sets out how APHS manages your personal information. APHS encourages you to check APHS’s website regularly for any updates to APHS’s privacy policy.
Collection
APHS may collect and hold personal information about you, including your name, gender, address, phone number, facsimile number, email address, bank account details, place and type of business and/or other information relevant to providing you with the services you are, or someone else you know is, seeking.
The personal information that APHS collects and holds about you depends on your interaction with APHS. Generally, APHS will collect and hold your personal information for the purpose of:
- providing legal services to you or someone else you know
- providing you with information about other services that APHS offers that may be of interest to you
- providing you with information relevant to your type of business or other area of expertise or interest
- providing you with the opportunity to meet other people and attend seminars and conferences in your type of business, other areas of expertise or interest
- facilitating APHS’s internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements
- analysing APHS’s services and customer needs with a view to developing new and/or improved services
- contacting you to provide a testimonial for APHS.
Personal information will generally be collected by APHS directly from you, generally by verbal interaction or through correspondence with you. There may, however, be some instances where personal information about you will be collected indirectly because it is unreasonable or impractical to collect personal information directly from you. We will usually notify you about these instances in advance or, where that is not possible, as soon as reasonably practicable after the information has been collected.
If you access APHS’s website, APHS may collect additional personal information about you in the form of your IP address (that is, the single numerical address for your computer on the internet which consists of four consecutive numbers ranging between 0 and 255) and/or domain name (that is, the textual address for your location on the internet which corresponds to your IP address, which the internet computers can read).
If the personal information you provide to APHS is incomplete and/or inaccurate, APHS may be unable to provide you, or someone else you know, with the services you, or they, are seeking.
Use and disclosure
Generally, APHS only uses and/or discloses personal information about you for the purposes for which it was collected (as set out above). Although, APHS may disclose personal information about you to:
- service providers, who assist APHS in operating its business
- a purchaser of the assets and operations of APHS’s business, providing those assets and operations are purchased as a going concern
- its related entities.
Security
APHS stores your personal information in different ways, including in paper and in electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to APHS. APHS takes all reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is stored safely to protect it from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, including electronic and physical security measures.
Access
You may access personal information APHS holds about you, upon making a written request. APHS will endeavour to acknowledge your request within 14 days of its receipt and to provide you with access to the information requested within 30 days. APHS may charge you a reasonable fee for processing your request.
APHS may decline a request for access to personal information in circumstances prescribed by the Privacy Act.
If, upon receiving access to your personal information, or at any other time, you believe the personal information APHS holds about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, please notify APHS immediately. APHS will take reasonable steps to correct the information so that it is accurate, complete and up to date. If APHS disagrees with you about whether your personal information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, and you ask APHS to associate with your personal information a statement claiming that your personal information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, APHS will take reasonable steps to do so.
Links to other websites
APHS’s website may contain links to other websites. APHS is not responsible for the privacy practices of linked websites and any linked websites are not subject to APHS’s privacy policies and procedures.
Updates
This privacy policy may be updated by APHS from time to time.
Feedback
If you have any queries or concerns about APHS’s privacy policy or the way in which APHS handles your personal information, please contact APHS’s Privacy Officer at:
Street address 6 Dividend Street, Qld 4122
Postal address PO Box 2159, Mansfield QLD 4122
Telephone 07 3347 9500
Fax 07 3347 9577
Email aphs@aphs.com.au
More information
For more information about privacy in general, you can visit the Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website at http://www.privacy.gov.au/