The LegalVision Privacy Policy template includes the points set
out in the Australian Privacy Principles. These include:
- collection of personal information – including name, job title,
contact information including email address, demographic
information such as postcode, preferences and interests and other
information relevant to customer surveys and/ or promotions;
- use of personal information – including to communicate with
customers, for market research, for business development, for
marketing including direct marketing, to run competitions and/or
offer additional benefits;
- disclosure of personal information – including to provide
information, products, services or marketing to customers, for
credit reporting agencies, to courts and regulatory authorities as
required by law, and to third parties who assist you to provide
information, products, services or marketing to customers;
- access to and correction of personal information – this sets
out the customer’s options to restrict the collection or use of
their personal information, to access their information, complain
and unsubscribe; and
- storage and Security – including a commitment to ensure
suitable procedures to safeguard and secure the information have
been taken.
The document is 7 pages long and contains 9 sections.
If your privacy considerations are more complex, our online
business lawyers can assist you draft the following clauses:
- a detailed list of what personal information your business
collects, specific to your business;
- a disclaimer that you will log information about the
individual’s access and use of your website, including through
cookies, browser, operating system and Internet service provider
domain name;
- a detailed list of uses of personal information, specific to
your business;
- a detailed list of disclosure of personal information, specific
to your business, including disclosure to any third party
(including your contractors and other service providers) as
required under the Australian Privacy Principles;
- whether you will disclose personal information to overseas
recipients, and if so which countries, as required by the
Australian Privacy Principles;
- a clause setting out what happens to personal information where
there is a change of control of the business;
- a suite of clauses about dealing with sensitive
information;
- a detailed description of how complaints are handled, specific
to your business;
- detailed information about how the personal information is
held, specific to your business. A disclaimer to limit your
liability for certain breaches of security;
- disclaimer regarding Links to other websites, and how personal
information is dealt with by those websites; and
- a clause enabling the company or business to amend the Privacy
Policy at any time in its discretion.
