Privacy notice

Hill & Co Lawyers is committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This privacy notice explains our policy and how we deal with personal information that we collect through our web site.

References to 'personal information' throughout this policy means information, which either identifies you as an individual or allows your identity to be ascertained. By way of example, it can include information such as your home address and telephone number. Our privacy policy is reviewed from time to time and it pays to check any changes directly at this site.

Information Collected

A variety of personal information may be collected through our Website in order to assist us provide a full range of services. This includes:
- information when you register or update an online profile;
- content of electronic forms submitted;
- messages or comments submitted through our email contact form;
- participation in any online survey;
- information we collect in common with many commercial web sites, which tell about visitors to
our site.

No Cookies

Our website does not use cookies, small text files which are placed on your hard drive by some websites to store information.

Use & Disclosure of Information

We may share personal information with other Hill & Co offices, your professional advisers and other service providers that assist us by providing archival, auditing, consulting, mail house, delivery, technology and security services.

In addition to providing our services to you, we may disclose personal information that we collect about you:

- for the purpose for which it was collected;
- where you have consented to its use or disclosure;
- to maintain our relationship with you;
- for purposes related to the firm's research, planning, service, development, security
& risk management;
- where we are required or authorised by law to do so;
- to keep you informed of our services, events, and developments in the law and other matters. If
you do not wish to be contacted for these purposes, then please let us know.

Links

Our website will, from time to time, contain links to other websites. These websites are responsible for their own privacy policy and practices.

Security

We will take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no transmission over the Internet is guaranteed as completely secure and whilst we will strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Access

Should you wish to access any personal information which we hold about you as a result of our collection practices outlined in this policy, then please contact us through our web site. By providing as much detail as possible, it will help us retrieve the information that you require. Should you have any feedback, questions or complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal information, then you can also contact us by sending an email in this way from our site.

Web Notice

The material on this web site under the domain name hillandcolawyers.com.au resides on a server in the State of New South Wales and the laws applicable to any disputes arising out of the material are the laws of this State. These terms and the associated web site privacy notice govern your use of this web site.

This web site is to be used for professional communication only and does not infer consent to unsolicited commercial electronic messages.

The material on this web site is not intended to be, nor should it be relied upon as a substitute for, legal or other professional advice. The transmission or receipt of any material is not intended to create a client-solicitor relationship between Hill & Co Lawyers and the recipient.

Hill & Co Lawyers makes no warranties as to the accuracy, quality, fitness or merchantability of any material, nor does it warrant that the material will not cause damage, or is free of any computer virus.

Links to other web sites from this web site does not necessarily sponsor or approve of the information contained at these sites and no warranty or representation regarding its accuracy or merchantability is made.

All copyright in this material is owned or licensed by Hill & Co Lawyers and subject to the conditions contained in the Copyright Act 1968. Permission should be sought prior to any use. No warranties or representations are made that the material on other linked web sites does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person.