Please read the following carefully before providing your personal information to IP Australia.

Privacy Notice

IP Australia will use your submission in response to this consultation process for the purposes of:

1. gaining stakeholder insights and comments on a possible World Intellectual Property Organization Design Law Treaty,
2. determining and progressing next steps for any legislative reform on designs and related policy activities, and
3. contacting you to discuss your submission, updating you on any relevant outcomes which we think may be of interest to you, and informing you of further relevant or related consultation activities.

You might give us personal information with your submission, such as your name and contact details, you might also include personal and/or sensitive information about yourself in your submission.  Any personal information that you provide in connection with your submission is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and will be collected and used by IP Australia for the above purposes.

While IP Australia will not publish any submission received in any publicly available forum, we may disclose your submission, in whole or part, including any personal information to:

• relevant Australian Ministers with responsibility for intellectual property rights legislation and their offices
• the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other Commonwealth government agencies
• contracted service providers providing services to the above parties.

Any such disclosure will be for the purposes outlined above. This disclosure may occur even where your submission has been marked as confidential.   

There is no guarantee that all or part of your views will be included in any outcome of the government policy for which your consultation is being sought.

Your name may be used to attribute authorship of your submission unless you indicate you wish to remain anonymous, in which case your name will not be disclosed with your submission.

IP Australia will not use or disclose any personal information provided for any other purposes unless authorised or required by law, or where you give us your consent.  For more information about how we handle your personal information, how you may access or correct your personal information or make a privacy-related complaint, read our privacy policy IP Australia’s Privacy Policy.  

By making a submission, you consent to any personal information provided being collected, used and disclosed by IP Australia in accordance with this Privacy Notice and IP Australia’s Privacy Policy.  In providing any third party personal information in a submission, you also warrant you have obtained their consent to their personal information being similarly collected and handled.