Ethos Migration Lawyers Takes Your Privacy Seriously
Our Policy
Ethos Migration Lawyers is serious about privacy and the security of your information. As a regulated Australian service provider, we are bound by the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) and the National Privacy Principles (“NPPs”). We are committed to protecting the personal information that we hold about you.
Client Legal Privilege
Ethos Migration Lawyers strictly adheres to client legal privilege (CLP), often referred to as “legal professional privilege”. In simple terms this means that we will under no circumstances disclose any information you provide to us to any third parties. All clients can be assured that they can communicate freely and frankly with our lawyers.
More information on client legal privilege can be found here.
Collection of information
Ethos Migration Lawyers only collects personal information that is reasonably necessary for us to provide you with our services. The kind of personal information we collect, and hold will depend upon the type of services that you request from us and may include: your name, date of birth, address, contact details and relevant identification documents including immigration information.
How information may be collected
Ethos Migration Lawyers collects your personal information in a number of ways including:
- directly from you (including via your advisers), such as when you provide the information by phone, email or in a form;
- from other migration agencies where permitted by law; and
- from third parties as required in order to fulful our duties to you as your service provider.
How your personal information may be used
Ethos Migration Lawyers may use your personal information for the purpose of providing the services you have requested, as well as for related purposes such as:
- to verify your identity or transactions which you may enter into with us;
- to administer and manage the provision of our products and services;
- to respond to queries, complaints or to provide you with our general customer services;
- to provide relevant immigration related agencies of your relevant information as required;
- to provide you with offers of other Ethos Migration Lawyer’s products or services;
- to provide you with offers from organisations with whom we have an alliance;
- to comply with Ethos Migration Lawyers’ risk management policies and procedures; or
- to train our staff.
We will not, however, use your personal information other than for:
- a purpose you would reasonably expect;
- a purpose required or permitted by law; or
- a purpose otherwise authorised by you.
Other service providers associated with Ethos Migration Lawyers
We may contract out some of our administrative and support functions such as information gathering, identification verification and other back office related functions to external contractors from time to time. Only information necessary for the contractor to carry out their function will be provided and will be subject to confidentiality clauses in the relevant services agreement.
Ethos Migration Lawyers use a range of services provided by Google such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google.
Ethos Migration Lawyers may use analytics data and the double click cookie to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. You have the ability to opt out of the double click cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or by opting out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
If you would like to know more about remarketing you can view Google’s Remarketing Privacy Guidelines, Policies and Restrictions pages.
Storage and security of information
Ethos Migration Lawyers stores personal information in a combination of computer storage facilities, paper-based files and other records. We will take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Your personal information will not be sold to anyone.
Once personal information is no longer required to be retained, it is either destroyed or permanently de – identified.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Ethos Migration Lawyers may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time for any reason and will make concerted efforts to update the website in a timely manner.
Contacting us
If you would like more information about how we manage your personal information, please contact us on +61 1300 083 843 or write to us at the following address:
ATT: Managing Director
Ethos Migration Lawyers
Level 6
224 Queen Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Email: info@ethosmigration.com.au