We respect your privacy

Purpose Lawyers Pty Ltd (ACN 666 510 783) (herein referred to as Purpose Lawyers) respects your right to privacy and is committed to   safeguarding the privacy of our customers and app visitors. This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.

We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and to the extent applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Personal information is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you. This includes information such as your name, email address, identification number, or any other type of information that can reasonably identify an individual, either directly or indirectly.

What personal information is collected

Purpose Lawyers will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you submit to our app, provided to us directly or given to us in other forms.

You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send you information, provide updates and process your product or service order.

We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide financial or credit card information, or communicate with our customer support.

Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.

How we collect your personal information

Purpose Lawyers collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person, when you access our website and when we engage in business activities with you. We may receive personal information from third parties. If we do, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.

By providing us with personal information, you consent to the supply of that information subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Engagement and Account information

When you engage Purpose Lawyers’ services or open an account, we collect your contact and log in details, your postcode, gender, country and any information you choose to provide us with (including but not limited to profile picture).

Creating a Purpose Lawyers Account

When you create an account with us or engage our services, we collect the information you choose to provide us with in relation to your account and matter.

Our third party payment platform collects and retains information related to your transactions from your account, matters and any invoices generated. The third party payment platforms may collect your credit card details and other information needed in order to process the payments. It is your responsibility to read, review and ensure you agree with the terms of any third party payment provider used by Purpose Lawyers.

Communications

Purpose Lawyers may communicate with clients through social media, forums and other interactive platforms. Please remember that any content you post in these channels are in the public domain. Any personal information you disclose on these sites may be read, collected and used by other users over whom we have no control. Please be considerate and respectful of others while using the community to share your opinions. We reserve the right to review and monitor any content posted and to remove any content that may be viewed as inappropriate, offensive to others or in breach of our policies. Purpose Lawyers is not responsible for any use, misuse or misappropriation by other users of any personal information that you contribute in this manner.

                     
Sensitive Personal Information

You may provide us with personal information or Third Party Data that is considered sensitive, such as political opinions, health-related information or religious beliefs.

When you provide such information to us directly, we may seek your consent, where appropriate, to process this information where it is necessary to provide our services to you.

How we use your personal information

Purpose Lawyers may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information about our products or services. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services and opportunities available to you.

Purpose Lawyers will use personal information only for the purposes that you consent to. This may include to:

(a)  provide you with products and services during the usual course of our business activities;
(b)  administer our business activities;
(c)  manage, research and develop our products and services;
(d)  provide you with information about our products and services;
(e)  communicate with you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to, by telephone, email, SMS or mail; and
(f)   investigate any complaints.

If you withhold your personal information, it may not be possible for us to provide you with our products and services or for you to fully access our app.

We may disclose your personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, legal proceedings or in response to a law enforcement agency request.

If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases.

Disclosure of your personal information

Purpose Lawyers may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

If we do disclose your personal information to a third party, we will protect it in accordance with this privacy policy.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union (EU)

Purpose Lawyers will comply with the principles of data protection set out in the GDPR for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use.

We process your personal information as a Processor and/or to the extent that we are a Controller as defined in the GDPR.

We must establish a lawful basis for processing your personal information. The legal basis for which we collect your personal information depends on the data that we collect and how we use it.

We will only collect your personal information with your express consent for a specific purpose and any data collected will be to the extent necessary and not excessive for its purpose. We will keep your data safe and secure.

We will also process your personal information if it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or to fulfil a contractual or legal obligation.

We process your personal information if it is necessary to protect your life or in a medical situation, it is necessary to carry out a public function, a task of public interest or if the function has a clear basis in law.

We do not collect or process any personal information from you that is considered "Sensitive Personal Information" under the GDPR, such as personal information relating to your sexual orientation or ethnic origin unless we have obtained your explicit consent, or if it is being collected subject to and in accordance with the GDPR.

You must not provide us with your personal information if you are under the age of 16 without the consent of your parent or someone who has parental authority for you. We do not knowingly collect or process the personal information of children.

Your rights under the GDPR

If you are an individual residing in the EU, you have certain rights as to how your personal information is obtained and used. Purpose Lawyers complies with your rights under the GDPR as to how your personal information is used and controlled if you are an individual residing in the EU

Except as otherwise provided in the GDPR, you have the following rights:

(a)  to be informed of how your personal information is being used;
(b)  access your personal information (we will provide you with a free copy of it);
(c)  to correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
(d)  to delete your personal information (also known as "the right to be forgotten");
(e)  to restrict processing of your personal information;
(f)   to retain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes;
(g)  to object to your personal information being used; and(h)  to object against automated decision making and profiling.

Please contact us at any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR at the contact details in this Privacy Policy.

We may ask you to verify your identity before acting on any of your requests.

Hosting and International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties or sites located in countries outside of Australia. These may include but are not limited to the Phillipines, the USA and the EU.

We and our other group/affiliated companies have offices and/or facilities in Australia. Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, these include one or more of the following: the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission which you can obtain from the European Commission app; the use of binding corporate rules, a copy of which you can obtain by contacting Purpose Lawyers support.

The hosting facilities for our app are situated in Australia. Transfers to each of these Countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, these include one or more of the following:

(a)  the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission which you can obtain from the European Commission app; and

(b)  the use of binding corporate rules, a copy of which you can obtain by contacting Purpose Lawyers support.

Our Suppliers and Contractors may not be situated in Australia. Transfers to each of these Countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, these include one or more of the following:

(a)  the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission which you can obtain from the European Commission app; and

(b)  the use of binding corporate rules, a copy of which you can obtain by contacting Purpose Lawyers support.

You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our app or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

Security of your personal information

Purpose Lawyers is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

Where we employ data processors to process personal information on our behalf, we only do so on the basis that such data processors comply with the requirements under the GDPR and that have adequate technical measures in place to protect personal information against unauthorised use, loss and theft.

The transmission and exchange of information are carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us or receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Changes to your Personal Information

It is important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. If you find that the information has changed or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, at our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our app or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.

When you visit our Website or Mobile Page

When you come to our website or mobile page (www.purposelawyers.com.au), we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.

Cookies

We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our app may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to app visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.

Third-party sites

Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Purpose Lawyers Pty Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.

Access to your personal information

You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and to the extent applicable to the EU GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at info@purposelawyers.com.

We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act or any other applicable law.

Contact us

You may contact us in writing at info@purposelawyers.com.au for further information about this Privacy Policy.

Complaints about privacy

If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to info@purposelawyers.com.au. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.


Last Updated at 17 October 2023.