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Legal Notices
Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited (ABN 48 609 868 902) is an incorporated legal practice constituted under the laws of New South Wales
Each legal practitioner with a current practicing certificate from one Australian jurisdiction is entitled to practice Australian law in every Australian state or territory
Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited maintains professional indemnity insurance as required
Liability is limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards legislation. Each legal practitioner who is a director, principal or employee of Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited is a member of the Scheme
Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited will preserve clients’ confidentiality and legal professional privilege
This site includes material designed to promote professional services of Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited. Nothing on this website or in the documents available through it is intended to provide legal or other professional advice. You should not rely on information obtained on this website or in the documents available through it as if it were legal or other professional advice.
Terms of Use
By using this website you are deemed to accept the following terms and conditions
Disclaimer
This website is operated by Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited (“Project Dispute Advice”). More information on this entity can be found in Legal Notices.
Terms of use
By using this website you are deemed to accept the following terms and conditions (“this website” means the whole or any part of the web pages located at www.projectdisputeadvice.com.au, and include the layout of this website; individual elements of this website’s design; underlying code elements of the website; or text, sounds, graphics, animated elements or any other content of this website).
As you browse through this website you may access other websites that are subject to different terms of use. When using these other sites, you will be bound by the terms and conditions posted on those websites.
Project Dispute Advice may change these terms of use at any time without notice. Any amendment will be effective immediately. Your use of this website after any amendment constitutes an agreement by you to comply with and be bound by the amended terms of use. Accordingly, you should read these terms of use from time to time for changes.
Disclaimer
The content on this website is provided by Project Dispute Advice in good faith on an “as is” basis for general information purposes only and is not intended to constitute or substitute legal or other professional advice. All articles, briefings, updates or other information available on this website are prepared so that they are current as at the date of writing. It should be noted that such information can rapidly become out of date. You must make your own assessment of the information and rely on it wholly at your own risk. You should not take any actions based on information found on this website without seeking legal advice.
Project Dispute Advice makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, comprehensiveness and accuracy of the information, services and other content contained on this website. Project Dispute Advice may, from time to time, change or add to this website without notice. However, we do not undertake to keep this website updated. Project Dispute Advice is not liable to you or anyone else if errors occur in the information on this website or if that information is not up-to-date.
Legal content on this website relates only to the law or laws it is specified to apply to, and that law may be different from your law.
Project Dispute Advice cannot guarantee that the content and the provision of the content of this website will always be correct or fault, error and virus free. Project Dispute Advice does not accept liability for incorrect content or errors and omissions in this website or its content (whether of legal, typographical, technical or other nature) but endeavours to correct them as quickly as practicable. Project Dispute Advice will not be liable for any interference with or damage to your computer systems that may occur in connection with use of this website or a linked website, or for any data lost or any equipment or software replaced by you as a result of you using this website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from this website is free of viruses or anything else (such as worms or trojan horses) that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems.
Save in respect of liability for death or personal injury arising out of negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation, Project Dispute Advice shall not be liable directly or indirectly in contract, tort, equity or otherwise for any damage whatsoever in connection with this website or any use of content provided on this website, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damage (including but not limited to loss of profits, interest, data, business revenue, anticipated savings, business or goodwill).
Project Dispute Advice will in no way be liable to you or anyone else for any loss or damage, however caused which may be directly or indirectly suffered in connection with websites of other entities that are hyperlinked from this website.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, all representations, warranties and other terms are excluded.
This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any specific warnings and disclaimers elsewhere on this website.
User rights and intellectual property rights
This website is our copyright property. All rights are reserved.
You are provided with access to it only for your personal and non-commercial use. Other than for these permitted purposes, and for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under statutes that apply in your location, you may not, in any form or by any means:
adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, transmit, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of this website; or
commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this website, without our written permission.
All rights in this website and the content on this website including copyright, design rights, patents, inventions, knowhow, database rights, trade marks, source codes and any other intellectual property rights in any of the foregoing are reserved to Project Dispute Advice and/or their content and technology providers.
All trade names, trade marks, service marks and other product and service names and logos (the “Marks”) displayed on the website are proprietary to their respective owners and are protected by applicable trade mark and copyright laws. These Marks may be registered or unregistered marks of Project Dispute Advice or others.
Nothing contained on the website should be construed as granting any licence or right of use of any other person’s or entity’s trade mark which is displayed on this website without their express permission.
You may not remove, change or obscure the Project Dispute Advice logo or any notices of proprietary rights on any content of this website.
Links
This website may contain links to other websites solely for your convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained. Project Dispute Advice does not endorse, recommend or approve of any information, products or services referred to on such linked sites and assumes no responsibility for the contents of any other website to which this website offers links.
You may not link the homepage or any other parts of this website without prior written consent from Project Dispute Advice.
Your use of any link to a linked website is entirely at your own risk.
Unless stated otherwise on this website, Project Dispute Advice has:
no relationship with the owners or operators of those linked website; and
no control over or rights in those linked website.
Privacy policy
These terms of use incorporate, and should be read together with, the Project Dispute Advice Privacy Policy. Project Dispute Advice will use only the personal data which you submit to us via the website in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy also describes how this website may collect, store and use cookies.
Commercial Electronic Messages
If you express interest in products or services through your use of this website, you consent to Project Dispute Advice sending commercial electronic messages (including messages about Project Dispute Advice products and services and the products and services of third parties) to electronic addresses which you have provided to Project Dispute Advice or for which you or your employer (or your employer’s related bodies corporate) are the relevant electronic account holder.
Alterations
Project Dispute Advice reserves the right to terminate, suspend or alter the content of this website and to amend these terms and conditions at any time. Continued use of this website after alteration of these terms and conditions shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such alterations.
General
If any provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction:
the validity, legality and enforceability under the law of that jurisdiction of any other provision; and
the validity, legality and enforceability under the law of any other jurisdiction of that or any other provision, shall not be affected or impaired in any way thereby.
These terms and conditions and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with New South Wales law and the courts of New South Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes between us relating to these terms and conditions.
Privacy Policy
Introduction
Project Dispute Advice is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. References in this policy (“Privacy Policy“) to “we”, “us” and “our” are references to Project Dispute Advice. References to “you” and “your” are to the individual who is using this website or otherwise providing personal information or data to us.
This Privacy Policy explains what information about you we may collect and how we may use and disclose it, how you can instruct us if you would prefer to limit the use and disclosure of that information; and the procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy. Our client confidentiality obligations are not addressed by this Privacy Policy but are described in our terms of engagement.
Your Consent
By providing us with information about yourself through this website or otherwise, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy. By using this website you also consent to our use of cookies as set out in this Privacy Policy.
If we change this Privacy Policy we will post the changes on this website, and may place notices on other pages of this website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.
The information about you which we collect and how we use and disclose it
We may collect information about you in a number of circumstances, including when you seek legal advice from us; when you use any on-line client services; when you make an enquiry on any area of the website; when you attend a seminar or other event provided by us; when you sign up to receive information from us, including training; when you apply for or accept employment with us; or when you offer to provide or provide services to us.
The information we collect may include your name, job title, postal address, email address, password, telephone number, information regarding your job and/or other information regarding your preferences or where it is relevant to legal services that we provide. From time to time, it may include information about your membership of a professional or trade association or union, health information and details of any criminal record you may have.
If you do not provide information requested by us from time to time, we may not be able to provide services to you or otherwise fulfil the purpose for which we have requested the information.
In some circumstances, we collect personal information about you from a third party source. For example, we may collect personal information from a company for whom you work, other organisations with whom you have dealings, government agencies, a credit reporting agency, a recruitment agency, an information or service provider or from a publicly available record.
We, our principals, directors, employees, agents, consultants and sub-contractors, may use any of the information about you which we have collected to provide you with legal advice or information; on-line or legal technology services or solutions; to send you information on news, publications, seminars and events; to improve our services and communications to you; for the purposes of employment, partnership or the supply or retention of services; for insurance purposes, to send you invoices or reminder notices; to process your requests of, and applications to, us; and for any other purpose for which this information was provided to us or for any purpose related or ancillary to any of the above. We may also use personal information or data where we are permitted by law to do so. This includes circumstances where you have expressly or impliedly consented to such use.
We may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
If you are a client of Project Dispute Advice, or you are employed by, contracted to or are an agent of, a client of Project Dispute Advice, we may disclose your personal information to barristers, other legal specialists (including mediators), consultants or experts engaged in your matter or to foreign law firms for the purpose of obtaining foreign legal advice.
If we have collected your personal information in the course of providing legal services to any of our clients, we may disclose it to that client, and where permitted by law to others for the purpose of providing those services;
We may disclose your personal information to our principals, directors, employees, agents, consultants and sub-contractors who assist us in running our business, including this website, or provide related services, and who are subject to security and confidentiality obligations; and
We will make whatever disclosures of your personal information that the law requires or authorises us to make.
We may also collect, use and disclose personal data or information where it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal or equitable claim, or for the purposes of a confidential alternative dispute resolution process.
We may also use aggregate information and statistics for the purpose of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop this website and our services.
Information about other people which you provide to us
If you provide personal information to us about someone else (such as one of your directors or employees, or someone with whom you have business dealings) you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that information to us and that, without our taking any further steps, we may collect, use and disclose that information as described in this Privacy Policy. In particular, you must ensure the individual concerned is aware of the various matters detailed in this Privacy Policy, as those matters relate to that individual, including our identity, how to contact us, our purposes of collection, our information disclosure practices (including disclosure to overseas recipients), the individual’s right to obtain access to the information and make complaints about the handling of the information, and the consequences if the information is not provided (such as our inability to provide services).
Keeping information about you secure
We will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your information confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, access and disclosure of information. Information may be kept on our information technology systems or in paper files.
Transferring information about you abroad
We may transfer information about you between countries if required for a relevant purpose as described above. These may include countries which do not provide the same level of protection as the laws of your home country.
However, Project Dispute Advice will at all times ensure a level of data protection at least as protective as that required in Australia. We will also require our agents, consultants and sub-contractors and others who are outside Australia and to whom we transfer information about you to ensure a similar level of data protection.
Updating information about you
If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address or if you wish to cancel any request you have made of us, please let us know by sending us an email.
Your rights
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you which we hold, to have any inaccurate personal information corrected and to object to our using your personal information for a marketing purpose. You may also make a complaint if you have a concern about our handling of your personal information.
We will consider any complaints which we receive and provide you with a response in a timely manner (usually 30 days of receipt). If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to the relevant privacy regulator. We will provide you with details of your relevant regulator upon request.
How to contact Project Dispute Advice
We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments, please send an email to chris.davidson@projectdisputeadvice.com.au
or send a letter to Chris Davidson, Project Dispute Advice Pty Limited, PO Box N452 Grosvenor Place, New South Wales, Australia, 1220