1. Purpose
This privacy policy lets you know when we collect personal information and what we do with it. We do not use, share or transfer personal information except as set out in this policy.
2. No need to disclose personal information
You can view this website without disclosing any personal information to us.
3. Your disclosure of personal information
You may decide to disclose personal information to us by providing identifying information when:
- seeking information from or via the website; or
- providing feedback on the website or Maxwell Mediators.
This information will be viewable by one or more of our mediators and their clerks and/or our website administrator. To the extent that it forms part of comments (on news items, for example) that you have submitted to be published, it may also be viewable by members of the public.
4. Holding of information
Personal information that you provide through the website will be held by us and our IT providers.
5. Use of personal information
We will only use personal information provided to us for the following purposes:
- to communicate with you; and
- to administer and evaluate this website.
6. Commercial communications
If you provide us with your email address, we may send occasional emails to you in relation to our current or future services or events. Any such emails will contain an unsubscribe facility, enabling you to opt-out of such messages at any time.
7. Statistical information
We may collect statistical information about your visit to help us analyse usage of, and improve, the website. This information may include:
- users’ IP addresses;
- users’ search terms;
- pages accessed on the website;
- links that are clicked on;
- date and time of website visits; and
- previous visited site.
8. Cookies
If we decide to post news items and enable people to comment on them, this website will generate cookies for commenters to save them from having to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. The cookies, which can be found on your computer, are named “comment_author”, “comment_author_email” and “comment_author_url”. These commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set. You can delete them manually from your computer if you wish.
9. Your rights
You can ask for and request correction of any of your personal information provided to us in connection with your use of this website. If you would like to see the personal information relating to you that we have stored, or to request correction of such personal information, or if you have any concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us by any of the means set out on our contact page. We may require proof of your identity before being able to provide you with any personal information.