Lion Forensic respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we deal with personal information about clients, visitors to our website and other members of the public.
Lion Forensic is bound by the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Australia) and other privacy laws. At times, Lion Forensic may handle personal information relying on exemptions under privacy laws, for example in relation to:
Any permitted handling of personal information under such exemptions takes priority over this Privacy Policy to the extent of any inconsistency.
We only collect personal information that is necessary for our functions and activities. We collect personal information when we provide our services to you, or a client requires us to collect information on their behalf. If you are a client, or employed by a client, we usually collect personal information such as your business contact details, job title or position and your expertise and interests. Where relevant, we may ask you for other information (for example your membership of professional associations or boards or, in rare cases, financial information). Generally, we try to collect personal information directly from you, however sometimes we may collect personal information from publicly available records, information brokers and third parties.
If we are not provided with personal information that we request, we may not be able to fully provide our services to you.
We generally only collect personal information from this website when it is provided voluntarily by you – for example, when you fill in a form to subscribe to our publications. When you visit this website or download information from it, Google, Inc. (Google) and our Internet Content Host (ICH) makes a record of your visit and records the following information:
Google and our ICH also collect information such as the pages our users access, the documents they download, links from other sites they follow to reach our website, and the type of browser they use. However, this information is anonymous and is only used for statistical and website development purposes.
We may use and disclose your personal information:
We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of our services, developments in electronic evidence law, events, and other matters relevant to your business. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please let us know using the contact details set out below.
We may share your information with other Lion Forensic entities and firms associated with Lion Forensic overseas. This may involve sending your personal information overseas. Lion Forensic may also disclose your information to service providers (including organisations that assist us by providing archival, auditing, client relationship management, professional advisory, mail house, delivery, technology and security services), agents and contractors from time to time to help us to provide our services to you.
Lion Forensic is bound by strict professional obligations of confidentiality. Lion Forensic will continue to treat and protect information we receive (including any personal information) in accordance with these obligations.
A cookie is a small message given to your web browser by our web server. The web browser stores the message in a text file, and the message is then sent back to the server each time the web browser requests a page from the server.
We make limited use of cookies on this website. We use cookies to measure usage sessions accurately, and to gain a clear picture of which areas of the sites attract traffic. We also use cookies to improve the functionality of our website.
When cookies are used on this website, they are used to store information relating to your visit such as a unique identifier, or a value to indicate whether you have seen a web page. We use session (not permanent) cookies. They are used to distinguish your web browser from the thousands of other web browsers. This website will not store personal information such as e-mail addresses or other details in a cookie.
Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of your web browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not.
Irrespective of whether personal information is stored electronically or in hard copy form, we take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
The Internet is not a secure environment. If you use the Internet to send us any information, including your e-mail address, it is sent at your own risk.
If you wish to access or seek to correct any personal information we hold about you, please contact us using the contact information set out below. Please provide us with as much detail as possible about the particular information sought. An access fee may be charged to cover our costs of providing that information. In certain circumstances, we may not be required by law to provide access to or to correct personal information. If we deny your request, we will let you know our reasons for that decision.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or the way in which we handle your personal information, you may contact us in the following way:
The Privacy Officer
Lion Forensic
PO Box 7282
St Kilda Road
Melbourne, Victoria 8004
Australia
E-mail: privacy@lionforensic.com
Lion Forensic Privacy Policy last revised 6 January 2010.