It is the policy of KO Electrical to comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), including the Australian Privacy Principles.
This policy (Privacy Policy) explains the way in which KO Electrical collects, uses, stores and discloses personal information and the procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy in line with the Privacy Act.
What is personal information?
Personal information is defined under the Privacy Act. It includes any information or opinion, regardless of its source, which identifies an individual, or from which an individual’s identity can be ascertained, whether the information is true or not, and recorded in material form or not.
This website does not collect personal information about the persons who use it. We may collect data about computers used to access this website. This information may be used for statistical purposes. If you disclose personal information to us when using this website or at any other time, we will handle that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We only collect personal information necessary to perform our business functions and activities. We will collect personal information from you when you instruct us to act for you and in most cases where we have other business dealings with you. The nature of personal information we collect will depend on your dealings with us.
For example, the type of personal information we may collect in connection with the services we provide will often include name and contact details, job title and communications between you and us. We may also collect and hold personal information about contractors, service providers and job candidates, such as name and contact details, references and information required to make payments.
In general, we collect personal information directly from the individual to whom the information relates, or from the organisation with which that person is associated.
We do not provide your personal information to third parties. We will use and disclose personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing legal services, contracting out our functions to external service providers and complying with our legal and regulatory obligations. Otherwise, we will not disclose personal information unless required by law or permitted under the Privacy Act.
We may disclose personal information to external service providers located outside of Australia who supply services to us or on our behalf in connection with our provision of services to clients. Additionally, in the course of acting for clients, it may be necessary to disclose personal information to recipients outside of Australia. As the countries in which these overseas recipients are located will depend on the specific circumstances of each matter, it is not practicable to specify each possible country in this Privacy Policy.
We may use your personal details, including your email address, to provide you with information about legal developments and marketing our services (including legal updates and other publications). If at any time you do not wish to receive further marketing information, please contact us.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access to, and disclosure of, personal information, and take all reasonable care to protect personal information from misuse and loss.
Access to personal Information
Under the Privacy Act, you are entitled to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions. You also have the right to ask us to update or correct your personal information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
Please contact the Privacy Officer at the contact details below, if you wish to (a) access your personal information that we hold; (b) request the information be corrected or amended; or (c) raise any questions, concerns or complaint regarding this Privacy Policy or your rights under it.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
KO Electrical welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us during business hours Monday to Friday.
