How we handle your information.

LAS Law Pty Ltd, trading as LAS Lawyers (ABN 17 153 394 855) (“LAS Lawyers,” “we,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, hold, and disclose personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

1. What information we collect

In the course of providing legal services and operating this website, we may collect the following kinds of personal information:

• Identification details: name, date of birth, address, email, phone number
• Identity verification documents required under our anti-money-laundering and verification-of-identity obligations
• Financial information relevant to a matter (banking details, lender information, source of funds)
• Information about a property or transaction including title details, contracts, and search results
• Information you submit through forms on this website (contract review requests, contact enquiries)
• Records of correspondence with us (email, written, phone)
• Technical information about your visit to this website (IP address, browser type, pages visited) collected through standard server logs and cookies

2. How we collect it

We collect personal information directly from you when you instruct us, complete a form on this website, correspond with us, or are referred to us by another party (for example, a real estate agent, broker, or financial adviser). We may also collect information from third parties such as the other side’s solicitor, lenders, government registers (LRS, ASIC, PEXA, council records), and verification-of-identity providers.

3. How we use it

We use personal information for the purposes of providing legal services, communicating with you about your matter, complying with our professional and statutory obligations (including anti-money-laundering verification), processing payments, and improving our services and this website.

4. Disclosure

We may disclose personal information to: the other party’s legal representatives in the course of acting on your matter; lenders, brokers, and accountants where you have authorised us to do so; PEXA and other electronic settlement workspaces; government bodies including the NSW Land Registry Services, councils, ILGA, and revenue authorities; our service providers (IT, document management, anti-money-laundering checking); and where required or authorised by law.

We do not sell personal information. We do not disclose personal information to overseas recipients except where necessary for the conduct of a matter or where service providers operate cloud infrastructure outside Australia (in which case we take reasonable steps to ensure equivalent protection).

5. Storage and security

We hold personal information in secure electronic and paper-based systems with access restricted to staff who require it for the conduct of your matter. We retain client records for the period required by our professional obligations and applicable law (typically seven years from completion of a matter).

6. Cookies and analytics

This website uses cookies for basic functionality and to understand how visitors use the site. You can disable cookies in your browser settings. The website may also use analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) which collect aggregated information about visits.

7. Access, correction, and complaints

You can request access to or correction of personal information we hold about you by contacting us at admin@laslawyers.com.au. We will respond within a reasonable time. If you believe we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles, you can lodge a complaint by contacting us first; if not satisfied, you can refer the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version will always be published at this URL with an effective date.