Consent to Electronic Communications

1. What you are consenting to

You consent to receiving documents from us electronically rather than on paper. That includes your funding agreement and any variation of it, statements, notices about your facility, invoices your lawyer submits for your approval, and requests for further information. It applies to documents the law requires us to give you in writing, as well as to everything else.

2. How we will give you documents

Documents are made available in your secure client portal, and we will email you at the address on your application to tell you that a document is there. Some notices will be sent in the email itself. Emails contain only what is needed to tell you what has happened — for example an invoice number and amount — never a copy of your documents.

A document is taken to have been given to you when the email telling you about it, or containing it, reaches your email service — whether or not you open it. That is why the address you give us must be one you check.

3. Signing electronically

When you tick a box marked "I agree", press a button to accept or send, or type your name where we ask for a signature, you are signing electronically. That signature has the same effect as a signature in ink, and we rely on it.

Each time you do, we record which document you signed and its version number, the time, the account you were signed into, and the internet address and device you used. You can ask us for a copy of that record at any time.

Where the law requires a signature to be witnessed or a document to be signed on paper — some mortgage and security documents, for example — we will tell you, and arrange it separately.

4. What you need to do

• Keep the email address on your application current and check it regularly. You can update it in your portal, or by writing to us.
• Keep your portal sign-in and your authenticator app secure.
• Save or print any document you want your own copy of. Documents remain available in the portal while your matter is open, and we will give you a copy of any document we have given you, at no charge, if you ask within seven years of it being given.

5. Paper copies

You can ask for a paper copy of any document at no charge, without withdrawing this consent. We may also choose to send some documents by post as well as electronically.

6. Withdrawing consent

You can withdraw this consent at any time by writing to privacy@legalfinancegroup.com.au. If you do, we will give you documents on paper at the postal address on your application, and some processes may take longer. Withdrawing it does not affect anything given or signed electronically before then.