Jump to:
Woods Bagot recognises the importance of privacy protection. This policy governs how we gather, use, and manage personal information.*
Contact information collected by Woods Bagot is used to facilitate a business relationship between you and Woods Bagot. Woods Bagot respects the privacy of information that we collect and are committed to managing that information in a responsible manner. Woods Bagot will use and disclose the information only for the purpose for which it was originally collected and advised by you. Woods Bagot will not sell, license or otherwise disclose the information to any third party for marketing or other ancillary purposes not intended by you when providing the information. Contact information is stored on secure databases accessed by authorized individuals. All employees sign confidentiality undertakings as part of their employment.
Woods Bagot may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We may also track browser types to help us understand our visitors’ needs related to our website design. There is an optional section of our website where input forms require your name, phone number, company, and e-mail address. This form provides the ability to opt-in to receiving future emails of any sort from Woods Bagot. If you opt-in to receiving email communications from us, then we may send information to you on our professional services. This information will not be used for any other purpose. We do, however, reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website, but will use all reasonable endeavors to advise you prior to disclosure. You may review and change your contact information at any time by clicking on the “manage my profile” link found at the bottoms of emails sent via our system. To opt-out from having any provided information used for email communications from us, you can click on the opt-out (unsubscribe) link in any message you receive from us. This will allow you to unsubscribe.
For further information, please contact us via one of our studio locations.
Woods Bagot’s full Terms of Use Policy is available here.
These Terms of Use govern access to and use of our website (“Website”) and the images, photos, information, video, graphics, software, text, creative suggestions and other materials contained on our website that are protected by intellectual property or proprietary rights (the “Content”)
By using the Website you agree to be legally bound and to abide by these Terms of Use, just as if you had signed an agreement containing these Terms of Use. If you do not comply with these Terms of Use at any time, we may cancel or terminate your access to the Website.
Woods Bagot owns or is the licensor of all of the intellectual property rights in and to the Website and the Content.
Subject to these Terms of Use, Woods Bagot grants to you a non-exclusive and non-transferable personal license to access and use the Website.
In connection with your use of the Website and/or the Content, you acknowledge and agree that you will not:
To access and use certain services and areas of our Website, (like downloading Blue Papers) you must first complete a website registration form. The registration form requires you to provide your:
Why are we collecting this information and who will we give it to? Woods Bagot collects personal information from Website users in order to keep a database of registered users and to provide you with access to Content. We would also like to send you information about Woods Bagot’s products and services – although you can opt out of receiving this material from us by checking the appropriate box on the Website registration form.
If you provide us with your personal information and later decide that you do not want to receive any further information about our services and products please let us know. You can do this by writing to us at Woods Bagot, PO Box 470, Flinders Lane, VIC 8003, or telephoning us on +61 3 8646 6600 and advising us that you do not wish to receive any future communications of this type from Woods Bagot.
We may disclose personal information about you to Woods Bagot’s related bodies corporate and service providers that help us operate Woods Bagot and our business. These other companies and service providers may only use the information as set out in these Terms of Use.
If you do not provide us with your personal information, you will not be able to access certain services and information provided on the Website. In particular, you will not be able to download Blue Papers.
Woods Bagot respects your privacy and the security and integrity of your personal information. We do this by regulating the way in which we collect, use, disclose, hold and destroy your personal information. We ensure that your personal information remains confidential and is only used for appropriate purposes.
Our Website uses cookies to save your username and password so that you don’t have to re-enter them each time you visit a page on the site. Cookies can also allow us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to access all areas of the site.
Third parties that we allow to post material on the Website may use cookies in connection with clicking on or accessing their material. We have no access to or control over these third party cookies.
We use log files to analyse trends, administer the Website, track users’ movement in the aggregate and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Information in log files is not linked to any personal identifiers, except where reasonably necessary to prevent fraud or abuse of the web site and associated systems.
We may also use third party analytical software and services that do not store personal information.
Our Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personal information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected in connection with the Woods Bagot Website.
You can change and modify information previously provided – this can be done by contacting us at: [wbmel@woodsbagot.com.au]
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, our privacy practices, or your dealings with Woods Bagot, you can contact us at: [wbmel@woodsbagot.com.au]
Please address your email to the attention of the Privacy Officer.
Any complaints are investigated as appropriate. The fact that a complaint was made may be recorded and details about the complaint may be stored in case of future complaints about the same member or our service.
Woods Bagot may host discussion forums and blogs on the Website. If you do not comply with the Terms of Use you may be expelled from and refused continued access to discussion forums and blogs in the future.
Discussion forums and blogs are intended to serve as discussion centres for users. Information posted may come from a number of sources. We take no responsibility and do not endorse the information posted on discussion forums and blogs. We have no editorial control over this content and make no guarantees about its accuracy, completeness, or usefulness.
Woods Bagot has no obligation to monitor any of the content or postings on any discussion forums or blogs on the Website. However, removal of postings is completely at our discretion.
You agree to give us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to reproduce, communicate, edit, adapt or otherwise use your postings to our discussion forums and blogs as we see fit, including the right to sublicense to others at our discretion. You also give us a licence to deal with the postings as necessary to perform technical and administrative functions to operate the website.
You consent to your postings being altered, edited or adapted for use under our licence as we see fit. If you don’t want your posting to be used by us in this way, please don’t post it. Once you have made a posting, you can’t withdraw or retract your licence and consents.
Sometimes we may place links on the Website which let you leave our Website in order to access a linked website. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the availability of any linked sites or resources, and do not endorse any content, advertising, products, or other materials, goods or services on or available from any linked sites or resources.
Except as provided by law, the Website is provided ‘as is’ and without any warranty or condition, express or implied.
Woods Bagot does not warrant and expressly disclaims that:
Your use of the Website and any content or other information or materials provided on or through the Website is entirely at your own risk. You should check the accuracy and completeness of any information you obtain from the Website before using it or relying on it.
We are not liable to you or anyone else for any loss, damage, liability, cost or expense suffered in connection with your use of the Website or its Content or any reliance you or anybody else places on any information or Content on the Website.
To the extent that Woods Bagot is unable to disclaim liability as to the truth or otherwise of any information or Content on the Website on which you or anybody else rely to your detriment, it limits the remedy available under these Terms of Use to the correction and resupply of the offending information or Content.
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the state of Victoria, Australia. You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to your use of the Website or these Terms of Use shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Victoria and that you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action.