Privacy Statement

 

  • O’Dowd Legal Pty Ltd (referred to as “O’Dowd Legal”, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and collecting and handling your personal information consistent with the privacy principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). O’Dowd Legal is not bound to comply with the Privacy Act and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) set out in Schedule 1 to the Act. Nevertheless, we respect the privacy of individuals and the protection of personal information. This Privacy Statement sets out our commitment to respecting your privacy.

    This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time.

    Last date reviewed: August 2026

  • In order to provide our legal advice and services and to interact with you, we need to collect personal information about you, including your:

    • name

    • contact details, including telephone number, mobile number and email address

    • mailing or street address

    • age or date of birth

    • gender

    • financial information

    • payment details

    • geographical location

    • Australian Business Number (ABN).

    We will only collect sensitive information about you if you consent to the collection or if we are authorised, permitted or required by law.

    We generally collect personal information directly from you when:

    • you use our services, including instructing us to provide legal services to you, your employer, organisation or representative

    • you request information about us or our services

    • you provide feedback to us

    • you visit or fill in a form on our website.

    We will only collect your personal information from a third party if it is unreasonable or impracticable to collect the information directly from you or if we are permitted to do so.

    We collect personal information about individuals such as:

    • our clients, potential clients and their representatives

    • our suppliers, potential suppliers and their representatives

    • contractors, potential contractors and their representatives

    • any other person who comes into contact with O’Dowd Legal.

  • We collect, use and disclose your personal information to:

    • identify and communicate with you

    • provide legal services to you

    • perform our business functions and activities

    • operate and market our legal practice

    • collect and process payments

    • provide information you request from us

    • send marketing and promotional messages that you request or may be of interest

    • respond to any questions or complaints you have made

    • comply with our legal obligations

    • assist government and law enforcement agencies or regulators.

    O’Dowd Legal may collect, use and disclose your personal information for other purposes. If we do so, we will notify you at the time we collect or use your personal information.

    We may disclose your personal information to the following third parties for the purposes listed above:

    • third party service providers

    • your nominated representatives

    • professional service providers and advisors who perform functions on our behalf, such as accountants

    • government, regulatory authorities and other organisations as required or authorised by law.

  • We may use your personal information to offer or market services that may be of interest to you.

    You may opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications from us by contacting us at keely@odowdlegal.com.au.

  • Personal information may be collected by us and by our third party service providers who assist us in operating our website, including subdomains and any other website we operate from time to time.

    We may use various technological methods to track the visiting patterns of individuals accessing our website, including the methods set out below.

    Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are transferred to a user’s computer hard drive by a website for the purpose of storing information about a user’s identity, browser type and website visiting patterns. Our website uses essential cookies, analytics & performance cookies and advertising cookies. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you disable the use of cookies on your web browser or remove or reject specific cookies from our website then you may not be able to gain access to all of the content and facilities on our website.

  • We generally do not disclose your personal information to recipients located outside of Australia. In some instances, we may disclose your personal information to recipients outside of Australia such as other law firms or third party service providers involved in your legal matter or our third party service providers.

    Where we disclose personal information outside of Australia, we take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach the APPs in relation to the information. In these circumstances, you consent to the collection, use, storage and processing of your personal information in those countries, without us being responsible under the Privacy Act for such use (or for any breach). Where such parties are located overseas, you may have rights to enforce such parties’ compliance with applicable data protection laws, but you may not have recourse against those parties under the Privacy Act in relation to how those parties treat your personal information.

  • We hold and store personal information in computer systems and databases we own or are operated by our external service providers.

    We implement and maintain processes and security measures to protect personal information we hold from misuse, interference or loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

    If the personal information we store is no longer required by us for any purpose for which it was collected and is no longer required by law to be retained by us, we will destroy or de-identify the information.

  • You may request access to, or correction of, your personal information by contacting us. We may need to verify your identity if you request access to, or correction of, your personal information.

    We do not charge you to request access to, or correction of, your personal information.

    We will respond to your request to access or correct your personal information in a reasonable time.

    Where we refuse to provide you with access to your personal information, or to update your personal information in the way requested, we will provide you with reasons for our decision. You may also request that we make a note on your record of your request to correct your personal information and that you believe your information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

  • If you have a compliant about our handling of your personal information, please contact us using the details below.

    We will consider your complaint and determine whether it requires further investigation. We will notify you of the outcome of our investigation and any subsequent internal investigation.

  • Please contact us if you:

    • have any questions about our privacy practices

    • have any complaints

    • wish to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us.

    Email: keely@odowdlegal.com.au

    Mobile: +61 410 766 562