Privacy Policy

The privacy of your personal information has always been important to us at Crisis Shield (Briggs Communications Pty Ltd ABN 73 143 754 401). In addition to complying with existing laws that govern confidential information that you provide to us we will always seek to comply with global privacy principles as well as other applicable laws affecting your personal information.

This privacy policy outlines our policy on how we manage your personal information. It also sets out generally what sort of personal information we hold, for what purposes and how we collect, hold, use and disclose that information.

Collecting Your Personal Information

Your personal information will be collected and held by Briggs Communications Pty Ltd (our legal company name) which will enable us to provide you with the advisory services that you have requested;

creating advisory crisis communications services for you;
managing our relationship with you; or
contacting you about products and services in which you may be interested.

To enable your communications advisor to provide you with communications advice you request that is suitable for your desired business objectives, current situation and particular needs we need to obtain and hold personal information about you. This includes:

your name, contact details and location;
employment details and history;
any other information that we consider necessary.

The personal information collected may include sensitive information such as health information and memberships of professional or trade associations.

If it is reasonable and practicable we will only collect your personal information from you. Generally your personal information will be collected when you meet with your advisor in person, provide your advisor with information over the telephone or with written material. We may need to collect personal information from third parties, such as your employer.

Using our Website

There are different types of information that Briggs Communications Pty Ltd may collect from you when you are using our website. We may collect the following information; name and job title, contact information including email address, demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests, other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers. We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. We may use the information to improve our products and services. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

You do not need to register to use the website. We will not sell, lend, swap or rent out your e-mail address to third parties, nor will your details be put on the mailing lists of any third parties. Your email address and/ or your name will not be divulged to anyone not associated with Briggs Communications Pty Ltd. We respect your privacy. If you wish to be removed from our database or opt out of receiving any emails please contact us to let us know.

Any other information you provide such as comments or survey responses, are used to enhance Briggs Communications Pty Ltd and to better plan future developments for the site. General site traffic data is also collected to assist Briggs Communications Pty Ltd with marketing to understand how often certain pages are viewed and to assist in market research. This general data does not identify individual users.

How Your Personal Information is Held

Your personal information is generally held in client files or a computer database. Your personal information may also be held in a secure archiving facility.

We will seek to ensure that we take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that we hold is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. Some of the measures that we have adopted are having facilities for the secure storage of personal information, having secure offices and access controls for our computer systems.

We will also take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information that we no longer need for any purpose.

We may store your information in the cloud or other types of networked or electronic storage. As electronic or networked storage can be accessed from various countries via an internet connection, it’s not always practicable to know in which country your information may be held. If your information is stored in this way, disclosures may occur in countries other than those listed. Overseas organisations may be required to disclose information we share with them under a foreign law. In those instances, we will not be responsible for that disclosure.

Using and Disclosing Your Personal Information

Your personal information may be disclosed for purposes related to the provision to you of the communications advice you have requested. The types of service providers that may be provided with your personal information are:

our employees, other advisors and organisations involved in providing the communications advice you have requested, fulfilling requests by you, and to otherwise provide services to you (which may include ongoing service) such as contractors and service providers who assist us in providing communications advice;
organisations that assist in operating a communications business including but not limited to those that provide administrative, web hosting providers, IT system administrators, electronic network administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors or other business services and professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors, financial, insurance, research, legal business advisors and consultants;
suppliers and other third parties with whom we have commercial relationships, for business, marketing, and related purposes;
your representatives or service providers such as your technology providers, human resources, logistical providers, solicitor, or bank;
organisations involved in a business restructure or a transfer of all or part of the assets of our business or the due diligence procedures prior to any such sale or transfer;
government authorities and other organisations when required by law; and
organisations that you have consented to your personal information being disclosed to.

Your personal information may also be used in connection with such purposes.

We will seek to ensure that your personal information is not used or disclosed for any purpose other than:

the primary purpose for which it was collected or a purpose that is related to the primary purpose for which it was collected or a related secondary purpose;
where you have consented to the use or disclosure; or
in other circumstances where the use or disclosure is required by or authorised under law.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties who provide services to us, in which case we will seek to ensure that the personal information is held, used or disclosed consistently with global privacy principles. We do not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. If you are concerned that the personal information we hold about you is incorrect, please contact us immediately.

Links to third parties

Our website might contain links to other websites of interest. Please note that we have no control over these third party websites, their products or services and therefore accept no responsibility for content or offerings made by the linked site. You should therefore carefully review the Privacy Policy of the linked site to ensure your information is protected.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. We also receive information from browsers when you visit our website, such as your server address, domain name, date and time of your visit, the pages visited, and selected information for statistical purposes. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Accessing your Personal Information

You can gain access to your personal information that we hold. This is subject to exceptions allowed by law such as where providing you with access would have an unreasonable impact upon the privacy of others. If we deny a request for access we will provide you with the reasons for this decision. To request access please contact us (see “Contacting Us and Privacy Issues” below).

Correcting Your Personal Information

We endeavour to take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you believe that any of the personal information that we hold is not accurate, complete or up-to-date please contact us (see “Contacting Us and Privacy Issues” below) and provide us with evidence that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date.

If we agree that the personal information requires correcting we will take reasonable steps to do so. If we do not correct your personal information we will provide you with the reasons for not correcting your personal information. If you request that we associate with the information a statement claiming that the information is not accurate, complete and up-to-date we will take reasonable steps to comply with this request.

Contacting Us and Privacy Issues

You can obtain further information on request about the way in which we manage the personal information that we hold or you can raise any privacy issues with us, including a complaint about privacy, by contacting us.

We are committed to resolving your complaint.

If you don't want us to process your data anymore, please contact us.

Changes to this Policy

From time to time it may be necessary for us to review this policy. We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time.

Last updated: January 2019