Privacy Policy

Danaher Legal Consultants Pty Ltd (‘Danaher Moulton, ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) is a full service law firm serving the legal needs of private and commercial clients (‘our services’).

We value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy. The privacy laws (including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles govern how we handle personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains:

how we collect, use, store and disclose personal information;
how you can access and ask us to correct the personal information we hold about you; and
how you can contact us if you need to.

We review this policy regularly and publish updated versions on our website (https://danahermoulton.com.au). You can also obtain a copy of the current policy by contacting our privacy officer. See section 10 for contact details.

This policy was last updated on 24 June 2026.

1. What this policy applies to

This policy applies to personal information received about you, our business contacts, prospective and current clients, prospective employees, suppliers and contractors, including the directors and staff of our corporate clients, suppliers and contractors. This includes:

when you request information from or provide information to us;
when you or the organisation you work for:
- engages our services; or
- is a counterparty of one or more of our clients; or
- provides services to a counterparty of one or more of our clients;
when you or the organisation you work for is our supplier, has a relationship with a client of ours, or is a regulator, government agency, court, tribunal or law enforcement agency;
if you are in any way connected to, or involved in, a legal or other matter in which we have been instructed to act, including if you are an expert witness or counsel for a counterparty;
when you apply for a role or work placement opportunity with us;
when you attend our seminars or other events;
when we conduct searches on you in connection with our AML/CTF, client acceptance or business development processes;
when you visit our website;
when you are entered onto our mailing lists to receive publications and other marketing emails (see section 10).

“Personal Information” is any opinion or information about an identified or reasonably identifiable individual, whether it is true or not. “Sensitive Information” is personal information about health or genetic makeup, criminal record, ethnic origin and religious beliefs.

Danaher Moulton collects, uses and discloses personal information for the primary purposes detailed below. We only collect the personal information we need for these purposes. We hold that personal information as required to manage our business and by law.

Except for general enquiries, we cannot deal with you if you do not provide us with your personal information (or allow us to collect it from others).

We do not typically collect sensitive information. However, we may collect sensitive information – including health information – in certain circumstances, such as when handling a complaint, responding to a request for assistance, managing debt collection processes or during your engagement as an employee or contractor.

2. What information we collect

The types of information we collect and hold may include:

general information about you or your business such as your name, signature, nationality and date of birth, your contact address, email address, and phone number, and your driver’s licence or passport number;
credit and financial information such as your bank or card details, assets, liabilities and income, employment history, personal or trade references, and credit history;
health and lifestyle information relevant to our services;
information collected from you in your interactions with us, including:
- transaction information collected in the course of our client relationship with you, or your work with us, including payments you make or receive;
- information collected in the course of marketing campaigns and market research; and
- complaint and other information collected in the course of managing our relationship with you or your company;
if you are a past or present director of a company that is a client or potential client, we may collect general personal information about you from public sources; and
if you apply for a job or as a contractor with us, we may also collect information such as your tax file number and superannuation account details, your legal right to work, medical history, criminal record, education and qualifications.

Whenever you visit our website or social media channels, we may collect information about your interaction including:

your email address or username, your IP address or other unique identifier for the device used to access our site or platform, your general location and, if you have consented to sharing data tied to your Google account, aggregated age and gender data;
browser and device type, and operating system and/or application version; and
your online behaviour with details concerning the time and nature of your visit, including clicks on our website, search terms you use to locate our website, your use of features or applications, and clicks on advertising on the website and social media content.

Unless the law allows or requires otherwise, we will obtain your prior express consent if we collect your tax file number or sensitive information about you.

If you do not provide us with the information we request, we may not be able to assist you with your query or provide you with our services, employment or engage your services.

Before you provide us with information about another person, you must obtain their consent and tell them that this policy (explaining how their information will be handled) is available from our website.

3. How we collect your personal information

The main way we collect your personal information is when you provide it directly such as when you:

contact us:
- to ask about or engage our services;
- in the course of your relationship or past relationship with us as a supplier or client, including to obtain information or assistance, make a complaint or otherwise report a concern;
- to apply for an employment position or contract engagement;
visit our website.

We may also collect information about you from third parties such as:

our clients, their counterparties or representatives;
contractors providing services on our behalf, including IT consultants, recruitment, labour hire, background checking and other employment or human resources agencies;
your employer, a regulator, credit reporting bodies, public sources and government agencies and other organisations you deal with;
the operators of devices, products or systems you use that collect data;
any other parties you refer us to or who refer us to you.

If we receive unsolicited personal information about you, including Tax File Number information, we will destroy anonymise or de-identify the information as soon as practicable, as far as we reasonably can.

4. Website information collection

When you visit our website, our Internet Service Provider (ISP) collects information including your server address, domain name, the date and time of the visit and the pages viewed. This information may be collected by using cookies which is data sent to your web browser. This allows our site to interact more efficiently with your computer. Information collected about your visit to our site is retained for statistical and website development reasons and is not in a form which would enable us to identify you.

If you disable the use of cookies, your use of our website may be affected.

5. What we use your information for

We collect, use and disclose your personal information for the primary purposes of providing and improving our services to you and your organisation (including to obtain and implement feedback about those services), and carrying on our business.

This includes to:

maintain and develop our client and supplier relationships;
monitor and analyse our business, and facilitate internal business operations;
fulfil our legal, regulatory (including anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance requirements), accounting, reporting, risk management and professional obligations;
manage our business and our relationship with you including to:
- identify services you may be interested in and provide you with legal updates, publications and support;
- protect, establish, exercise or defend legal rights;
- investigate, report and remediate compliance breaches, misconduct and errors;
- investigate queries or complaints you raise with or about us, and potential misconduct on our part; and
- undertake recruitment and ongoing management of employment and/or contract engagements or agency placements;
do anything else we tell you about at the time we collect the information.

You consent to us using your personal information to keep you informed about services we offer, legal developments or events that may be of interest. You can withdraw this consent at any time. See section 7 below.

We disclose your information to third parties only for the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. We require third parties to which we disclose this information to use your information only for that reason. We may disclose information to:

our clients, your professional advisers and your employers or place of business;
third parties involved in the provision of our services to clients including barristers and other professional advisers;
our employees, and professional advisers;
contractors and service providers (e.g. IT, data management or marketing consultants and contractors, document custodians, and mailing houses), to enable them to perform the services they are contracted to provide and for which purpose(s) you supplied the information;
insurers, debt collection agencies, legal accounting and audit service providers;
referees, with your authority; and
government and regulatory authorities, courts, tribunals, and law enforcement agencies.

6. Artificial Intelligence

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance our services, and improve your experience with us. This may include to, analyse information, automate processes, and assist with document review. We ensure that all AI applications we use comply with data protection laws.

7. Cross Border Disclosure

Your personal information we hold is stored in Australia and is not likely to be disclosed to any offshore entity. Should this ever be necessary, we require the entity to which personal information is to be disclosed to comply with our information management policies and procedures, and take reasonable steps to ensure your information has the same protections as if managed in Australia.

8. Direct marketing

You agree to us using your contact details or other personal information to give you legal updates, news or other information that we believe you may find of interest. We will not sell your information to any third party for any purpose.

If you no longer want to receive this information, you can opt-out of any, or all, communications. Please email your request to our Privacy Officer. See section 10 for contact details.

To stop receiving email and SMS messages, you can also use the ‘unsubscribe’ function found at the end of any of these email or SMS messages.

9. Protection of your personal information

We take steps to protect your information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access. For example, we ensure that:

each of our offices has security protocols in place to prevent unauthorised entry;
access to your information is restricted to the personnel who need it to perform their duties;
the internally and externally hosted secure servers which store your information have industry standard password and encryption protocols; and
our employees and business partners follow information security policies which protect the security of your information including physical security over paper records, and industry standard measures to secure electronic data.

The content of unencrypted emails that you send us may be intercepted or accessed without authorisation for reasons beyond our control.

We may retain your personal information for up to 7 years after our business dealings have finished for risk management or company policy reasons or because we are required to do so by law. We take reasonable steps to ensure it is destroyed or de-identified, when this period is over.

10. Complaints and Concerns

If you have a complaint or concern about how we have handled your personal information please contact us. See section 11 for contact details.

You can decline to identify yourself or use a pseudonym, unless it is impracticable for us to deal with you anonymously, such as if you wish us to investigate a complaint.

You may also contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) using the details below.

Online: oaic.gov.au
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Phone: 1300 363 992

11. Contacting Us

You can contact us as follows:

Email: info@danahermoulton.com.au
Mail: Clarence Kunnel, Privacy Officer, Danaher Moulton, 256 High Street Kew VIC 3101
Phone: 1300 363 314