Who we are

The Leasing Lawyer is a trading name of DOCET LEGAL, a law practice in Sydney, New South Wales. When you get in touch with The Leasing Lawyer, it's DOCET LEGAL that receives your information and looks after it, and this policy explains how.

It covers everything we collect, however it reaches us: through this website, by email or phone, when you engage us, and while we're working on your matter. We follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) when we handle personal information.

What we collect

If you're just getting in touch, that's usually your name, email address, phone number, whether you're a landlord or a tenant, and whatever you tell us about your situation.

If you become a client, we'll also hold identity details and identification documents, your business and contact details, your lease and the other documents in the deal, our correspondence with you, and billing and payment records. A lease matter nearly always involves other people too: the landlord or tenant on the other side, their agent or lawyer, and guarantors. We hold their details as far as the work needs them.

Now and then a matter needs sensitive information, such as health details behind a request to exit a lease early. We only collect that with the person's consent, or where the law allows it.

You're welcome to ask a general question without giving your name. We can't act for someone we can't identify, though, so once we're working together we'll need your full details.

How we collect it

Mostly from you: through the contact form or the online booking page, by email, by phone, in meetings, and in the documents you send us.

Some comes from other people. You might tell us about your landlord or your guarantor. The agent or the other side's lawyer will send us documents. And where a lease calls for it, we search public registers, such as company, business name and land title records.

When you visit this website, our hosting provider and the analytics tools described below record technical information, such as your IP address, your browser and the pages you visit. Your browser also fetches the site's fonts and icons from Google and from jsDelivr, a public content network, which means those services see your IP address too.

What we use it for

We collect, hold, use and disclose personal information to:

  • reply to your enquiry and set up a chat;
  • check for conflicts of interest before we take on a matter;
  • verify identity where the work requires it;
  • act for you and run your matter;
  • bill for our work and keep our accounts;
  • meet our legal and professional obligations, including keeping records; and
  • see, in aggregate, how people use this website, so we can make it better.

We won't use your details for marketing unless you've said yes.

Confidentiality and privilege

As lawyers we owe our clients a duty of confidentiality, and what you tell us to get legal advice is usually also protected by legal professional privilege. Those duties sit alongside this policy, and in places they go further. We don't disclose a client's confidential information unless the client agrees or the law permits or requires it.

Who we share it with

We never sell your information, and we don't hand it to anyone for their own marketing. We only disclose it where the work needs it or the law requires it. That can mean:

  • people involved in your matter, on your instructions, such as the other party and their agent or lawyer, barristers, experts, tribunals, courts and government registries;
  • the service providers that run our email, document storage, website, enquiry forms and software, who handle it only to provide those services to us; and
  • regulators, courts or other bodies, where the law or a court order requires it.

Information that goes overseas

It's likely that some of your information will be disclosed overseas. We use service providers that store or process information outside Australia, including in the United States. They are:

  • Google, for email, document storage and the online booking calendar, and for website analytics (Google Analytics, through Google Tag Manager) and web fonts;
  • Cloudflare, for hosting and delivering this website, the security check on the contact form, and cookie-free visitor statistics;
  • Web3Forms, which delivers contact form messages to us by email;
  • jsDelivr, which delivers the site's icons; and
  • Anthropic, the developer of the Claude generative AI tool, which we use directly with Anthropic and never through an intermediary service.

These providers run their services from servers in more than one country, so we can't list every location, but they include the United States. Before we use a provider, we take reasonable steps, of the kind Australian Privacy Principle 8 describes, to make sure it won't breach the Australian Privacy Principles in handling the information. We choose established providers whose terms limit what they can do with our information, require them to keep it secure, and don't let them use it for their own purposes. Client material only goes to the AI tool under commercial terms that keep it confidential and don't allow it to be used to train the tool. It never goes to a free or consumer AI service.

How we keep it safe

We hold personal information electronically, in our email and cloud document systems, and in paper files where a matter has them. Anything you send through this website travels over an encrypted connection. Access to our accounts is restricted to us, and we take reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, change or disclosure.

We keep client files for as long as the matter and our professional and legal obligations need them. That's usually at least seven years after a matter ends, and longer where a deed or a dispute is involved. After that, we destroy or de-identify them securely.

Seeing and correcting your information

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct it, by emailing [email protected] or calling +61 2 7262 6662. It costs nothing to ask, and we'll respond within 30 days. If we can't give you access, for example because it would breach a duty of confidentiality, waive privilege or intrude on someone else's privacy, we'll tell you why in writing.

Software and AI

We use software, including generative AI, to help prepare and organise our work and to sort incoming email. The personal information involved is whatever you give or send us, such as your contact details, our correspondence and the facts of your matter. Software may help prepare work a lawyer relies on, but a lawyer reviews every output, and no decision that could significantly affect your rights or interests is ever made by a computer program alone.

Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to count visits, see which pages are read and record when an enquiry is sent. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser to do that. We look at the results in aggregate. We don't use them to identify you, and we don't use them for advertising. Cloudflare's visitor statistics work without cookies, though Cloudflare may set technical cookies it needs for security and performance.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and the site still works without them. Google also offers a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics.

If you're not happy

If you're worried about how we've handled your information, including if you think we haven't met the Australian Privacy Principles, email us at [email protected]. We'll look into it and reply in writing within 30 days.

If our reply doesn't settle it, you may also be able to complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au. A concern about a lawyer's conduct can also go to the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner in New South Wales.

Questions and changes

Questions about this policy can go to [email protected] or +61 2 7262 6662. Ask and we'll send you a copy in another form. We update the policy when the way we work changes, and the date below shows the current version.

Last updated 15 October 2026.