Data Protection and GDPR Privacy Notice
Data Protection and GDPR Privacy Notice
We use the information you provide primarily for the provision of legal services and related purposes, including:
Updating and enhancing client records.
Analysis to help us manage our practice.
Statutory
returns
Legal and regulatory compliance.
Our use of your information is subject to your instructions, the Data Protection Act 2018, the GDPR, and our duty of confidentiality.
- The Data Protection Act 2018 requires us to advise you that your particulars are held on our database, and from time to time we may use these details to send you information which we think might be of interest. If you do not wish to receive that information, please notify our office in writing. We do not make such information available to any other provider of products or services.
- If you are an individual, you have the right under the Data Protection Act 2018 to obtain information from us, including a description of the data that we hold about you. Should you have any queries concerning this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Mauro Narduzzo.
Handling Your Personal Data
We confirm the following:
- The fee earner handling your matter, their secretary, and any legal assistant within the firm may handle your data.
- Your personal data will remain confidential.
- Your personal data will be used to carry out an identification check, to make contact with you for the duration of the matter, and to ensure that funds are sent or received to facilitate the transaction.
- The processing of your personal data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the firm or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of an individual, particularly where the individual about whom data is held is a child.
- It may be necessary to provide third parties with your data to effect the transaction, such as other law firms, search providers, government departments (including HM Revenue & Customs, the Land Registry), and IT service suppliers.
Fair and Transparent Processing
We confirm the following:
- Your personal data will not be retained for any longer than necessary to fulfill the firm’s statutory obligations.
- Upon signing the client care documentation provided to you at the outset of the matter, you will be confirming that the contract which exists between us gives us the right to process your data in relevant and applicable ways.
- You have the right to request from the firm access to, rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing concerning your personal data.
- You have the right to object to processing.
- You have the right to data portability.
- You have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office in relation to any concerns you may have with regard to the processing of your personal data.
By accepting our Client Care and Terms of Business, you agree to provide personal data and consent to our use of it accordingly.
How Long We Keep Personal Data
Personal data may be stored by the website for a period of up to 90 days, after which time it is removed automatically.
Questions or Complaints
In the first instance, we hope you will contact us directly with any questions or complaints (contact details are displayed prominently on this website). However, legal rights regarding privacy are the remit of the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and you will find more information about how to complain here: ICO Concerns
Transfer of Personal Data
From time to time, we may pass personal data such as your name and email address to other services that we use to send out newsletters and other communications (both electronic and print). Companies based outside the UK are permitted destinations under UK GDPR legislation as long as the country, territory, sector, or international organisation is covered by the ‘adequacy regulations’ or by the ‘appropriate safeguards’ set out within that legislation. Many popular US products like Gmail, Dropbox, and Mailchimp are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
Our Use of Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to monitor how our website is being used so we can make improvements. Our use of Google Analytics requires us to pass your IP address to Google (but no other information). Google uses this information to prepare site usage reports for us, but Google may also share this information with other Google services. In particular, Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
- Google’s privacy policy
- How Google uses this information
