Privacy Statement for the use of the website of TAN AND TAN LAWYERS

Please read this Privacy Policy so that you can understand how we seek to enforce our firm's commitment to privacy. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the Officer named below by emailing ray@tanandtanlawyers.com.

Information this Site Gathers / Tracks
The information gathered by Tan and Tan falls into two categories:

1. information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our websites when they register and

2. tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through our sites.

We hope to make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors by helping you to navigate between sections and tailor content to your needs. We measure traffic within our sites and our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our sites.

We also invoke a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number, which is a sort of user ID, This cookie resides on your computer. The cookie helps give us an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting and doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site.

Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. Our cookies can't read unrelated data from your computer.

To make use of certain features on our websites (such as our Free Email Legal Advice, newsletters and other interactive forums) visitors need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration process.

The information you supply may help us to offer you more personalised features, to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful to you.

If you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the huge amount of content available on our sites without registration. The vast majority of our site does NOT require visitors to complete a registration form or give us contact information (such as a name and email address) to visit.

The more we know about our visitors the more value we can potentially offer them. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we require, we may be unable to provide you with services we make available to other visitors to our sites.

We also use customer contact information from the various registration forms and service features to send the user information about our site, our company and our affiliates.

Users may opt-out of receiving routine future mailings. Please see the choice/opt-out section below. As this privacy policy reaffirms, we strive to protect confidentiality for our visitors.

We do reserve the right to use customer contact and other information when we deem it necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, rules, or lawful orders of courts and governmental agencies, to enforce compliance with the terms and conditions for use of our sites, or to protect third parties from what we regard as threats of serious harm.

Tan and Tan Lawyers in Relation to All Personal Information Obtained from Clients

Tan and Tan Lawyers and its agents hereby agree to protect your personal information according to the National Privacy Principles. We also agree to abide by the following additional Privacy Statement.

1. We agree to retain the personal information that you or your advisors provide to us. At the conclusion of your matter we will continue to retain this information unless otherwise agreed.  

2. The information we agree to retain includes your contact and financial details as well as other information and documentation relation to your matter.  

3. We are authorised to retain the information and documentation provided to us in hard copy and by electronic means.  

4. We maintain the electronic information on our computer servers which are located on site.  

5. The servers are protected by firewalls and anti virus technologies. The servers are backed up regularly. These backups are held off site at a secure location.  

6. Hard copies of all file records are maintained at our office, which is secured against fire and theft.  

7. Documents kept at our office’s safe custody facility are secured against fire and theft.  

8. Our employees or agents may access your personal information in order to maintain your file.  

9. To comply with Law Society requirements, we appoint accountants and auditors on a regular basis. These Auditors may have access to your personal information.  

10. You may access your personal information we hold about you relating to your file.  

11. We will only release your documents upon receipt of an acceptable signed Release Form.  

12. You may request that we amend your personal information in person or in writing. All documentation is archived 16 months from the date that we receive your last correspondence or instructions. The archived material may be maintained on or off-site at a secure location.  

13. We retain your personal information for a minimum of 7 years. After 7 years the documents are destroyed without the need to obtain your permission.  

14. Material held in safe custody such as on computer hard disks is retained indefinitely.

Security
This site has numerous security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The measures include passwords, linkages to secure servers, encryption, backup tapes, and conventional locks and alarm systems. However we cannot guarantee that the measures in place have been, are now, or will remain adequate.

Email Questions and Answers
Please let us know if you consent to the email questions that are sent through our Free Email Legal Advice being publicised on our website for general reading by the public.

We will of course remove all names prior to printing of the information on our web site.

We hope to make our free email legal advice service as comprehensive as possible for our visitors and readers.

Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. The establishment of a link does not mean that Tan and Tan has approved of a site, is endorsing a site, has reviewed its content, or is in any manner recommending a visit. Tan and Tan is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of linked Web sites.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, which is effective September 2001, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: ray@tanandtanlawyers.com