Your Privacy

At www.andrewmclachlan.com.au, we are committed to protecting your privacy as a visitor to our website. We respect the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles. Please read our privacy policy below carefully.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

In the course of your visits to our website, no personally identifying information will be collected about you if you stopping by to read, print or download information or documents such as brochures, forms or press releases. However, we may obtain the following information if you are contacting us via one of our interactive forms: your name, email address, telephone number, geographic location, IP address, survey responses, support queries and social media handles (together ‘Personal Data’).

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Marketing communications like the community e-newsletter are only sent to you if you have requested or subscribed to them. You can opt out of our marketing communications at any time by unsubscribing or emailing us and your request will be actioned immediately.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information: We also use the information we collect in aggregated and anonymized forms to improve our services, including: administering our website, producing reports and analytics, identifying user demands and assisting in meeting customer needs generally.

Any information you choose to make publicly available, such as comments on various social media posts, may be available for others to see. If you subsequently remove this information, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages on other websites or if others have copied or saved the information.

STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will use all reasonable means to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Data while in our possession or control. All information we receive from you is stored and protected on our secure servers from unauthorized use or access.

We retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide services to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

In the event there is a breach of our security and your Personal Data is compromised, we will promptly notify you in compliance with the applicable law.

COOKIES AND PIXELS

A cookie is a small file placed in your web browser that collects information about your web browsing behaviour. Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any Personal Data (e.g. name, address, email address or telephone number). Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Our website uses cookies to analyse website traffic, provide social media sharing and liking functionality and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies and pixels may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords and Facebook Adverts. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may from time to time need to disclose certain information, which may include your Personal Data, to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. Also, we may use your Personal Data to protect the rights, property or safety of www.andrewmclachlan.com.au, our customers or third parties.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This website may contain links to other websites. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY

As we plan to ensure our privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.

DISCLAIMER

This website is a publication of www.andrewmclachlan.com.au. This site makes every attempt to ensure accuracy and reliability of the data contained in these documents. Every attempt is made to keep the information up-to-date and accurate, however, www.andrewmclachlan.com.au makes no warranty, guarantee, or promise, express or implied, concerning the content of the documents. Users requesting final confirmation of content must refer to the originating bodies or departments authoring the documents.

Disclaimer of Other Sites

www.andrewmclachlan.com.au is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any pages linked to or referenced from this site nor does this site necessarily endorse the pages linked to or referenced from this site.

Accuracy of Information

If you encounter inaccuracies or out-of-date material, please contact us at senator.mclachlan@aph.gov.au and we will respond within 48 hours.

Last updated: 9 December 2020