CL Law is a New Zealand law firm with office in North Shore, Auckland. Our principal address is Level 4, 205 Wairau Road, Wairau Valley, Auckland, New Zealand.
This policy explains how we collect, hold, use, disclose, and protect your personal information. We may amend this policy at any time and for any reason.
Information we collect
When you engage with us or when you visit our website or when you otherwise interact with us, we may collect your personal information such as:
- general information, such as your name and contact details;
- email communications with us and your written and verbal interactions with us, including instructions or meeting notes;
- any details you provide to us as part of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 due diligence process;
- If you are applying for a job with us, we may collect information about you relating to recruitment, for example, your work history, academic record, criminal records, visa information, and practising certificates, information from third party with your agreement.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information to enable us to effectively provide legal services and to enable us to carry out our business and administrative processes. This includes:
- Verifying your identity or perform customer due diligence;
- Engage or provide information to third parties on your behalf including when we are required by law to provide such information;
- Checking for and manage commercial or legal conflicts of interest;
- Complying with our obligations under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006, the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009, and under any court orders;
- Marketing the services we provide;
- Recruiting staff;
- Sending invoices and marketing materials to you (or your employer).
We take all reasonable precautions to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Please note that we will not use or disclose your personal information without your consent or unless we are required to do so by law. We may disclose your personal information to our service providers for the above purposes.
We collect non-identifying statistical information about all visits to our website and publications. Those statistics allow us to assess a number of matters such as the number of visitors to different sections of the website and publications, identify what information is of interest.
When you access our website, information are collected through the use of “cookies” and such information will be used for marketing and market research purposes.
Your Rights
We respect your privacy and will ensure that we meet comply with the Privacy Act 2020 when handing personal information. However if you do not provide us with certain personal information that are requested, we may not be able to provide our services to you.
If you would like to access your personal information we hold about you, or believe that any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, or if you become aware of any concerns or problems concerning your personal information, please contact us – see Contact Us.