Last updated: September 2026
Steinepreis Paganin Lawyers & Advisors (“Steinepreis Paganin”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect personal information about individuals who interact with us, including through our website at www.steinpag.com.au (the “Website”).
1. What personal information we collect
We may collect the following types of personal information:
- Contact information — name, email address, phone number, postal address
- Professional information — employer, position, area of legal interest
- Payment information — billing details provided when making payments via our secure payment gateway (we do not store card numbers)
- Communications — enquiries, correspondence and feedback you send to us
- Website usage data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, time and date of visits, referring URL
2. How we collect personal information
We collect personal information directly from you when you:
- Contact us via our website contact form, telephone or email
- Submit an enquiry about our legal services
- Apply for a position with our firm (including graduate clerkship and paralegal programs)
- Make a payment through our online payment facility
- Subscribe to our news and insights communications
- Attend events hosted or co-hosted by Steinepreis Paganin
We may also collect information automatically through our Website using cookies and similar technologies (see Section 6 below).
3. How we use your personal information
We use personal information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide legal services and respond to your enquiries
- To process payments for legal services
- To assess applications for employment or clerkship positions
- To send you legal updates, news and insights (where you have consented or where we are otherwise permitted to do so)
- To improve our Website and the services we provide
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- To manage our relationship with you as a client or contact
4. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to:
- Service providers — third-party providers who assist us in operating our Website and delivering our services, including IT providers, payment processors and marketing platforms, who are bound by confidentiality obligations
- Professional advisers — legal, financial and other advisers in connection with our business operations
- Regulators and law enforcement — where required or authorised by law
- Courts and tribunals — where required in connection with legal proceedings
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to third parties.
5. Third-party services
Our Website integrates with third-party services that may collect information about you:
- NAB Direct Post (payment processing) — payments made through our online payment facility are processed securely by National Australia Bank. Card details are transmitted directly to NAB and are not stored on our systems. NAB’s privacy policy is available at nab.com.au.
- LinkedIn / Tagembed — our Website displays a feed of our LinkedIn posts via Tagembed. Viewing this content may result in data being collected by LinkedIn and Tagembed under their respective privacy policies.
- Google Analytics — we may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use our Website. These tools may use cookies to collect information about your browsing behaviour in an anonymised form.
6. Cookies
Our Website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to improve your experience and to help us understand how the Website is used. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable cookies, some parts of our Website may not function as intended.
7. Storage and security
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Personal information we hold is stored on secure servers. Where we transfer personal information to third-party service providers, we take steps to ensure those providers maintain appropriate security measures.
While we implement appropriate safeguards, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted via our Website.
8. Overseas disclosure
Some of our third-party service providers may store or process personal information outside Australia. Where this occurs, we take reasonable steps to ensure those providers are subject to obligations that are at least equivalent to the Australian Privacy Principles, or we obtain your consent to the overseas disclosure.
9. Access and correction
You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to request that we correct any information that is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading. To make such a request, please contact us using the details below.
We will respond to your request within a reasonable time. In some circumstances we may be unable to provide access to certain information (for example, where it would reveal information about another person, or is subject to legal professional privilege). If we decline to provide access or correct information, we will explain our reasons.
10. Marketing communications
Where we send you marketing or news communications, you may opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any such communication or by contacting us directly. We will process your request promptly.
11. Complaints
If you have a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us in the first instance using the details below. We will investigate your complaint and respond within a reasonable timeframe.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will always be available on our Website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
13. Contact us
For any privacy-related questions, requests or complaints, please contact us at:
Steinepreis Paganin Lawyers & Advisors
Level 4, The Read Buildings
16 Milligan Street
Perth WA 6000
Email: info@steinpag.com.au
Telephone: (08) 9321 4000