Privacy Policy

How we collect information

Information You Provide to Us

We may collect information from you when you:

• contact us, via our enquiry form on our website or otherwise communicate with us;
• sign up to receive marketing communications from us;
• participate in a survey, or poll,;
• communicate with us via third-party social media sites;
• submit a review;

The “personal information” we collect may include, for example, your name, postal address, postal code, email address, telephone number, date of birth, payment information, , and other information you choose to provide to us, which may include special category personal data (see below). In some cases, you may provide information to us about someone else, such as an additional person to contact from your business or organisation or a relative of yours. In these type of cases, you agree that you have the authority to provide us with such information.

Special Category Data

Special category data includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data and/or criminal convictions or personal data relating to children.
We would urge you to avoid providing special category data via our enquiry form on our website or via third-party social media sites, to ensure that this special category data can be processed in the most secure way possible.

Automatically Collected Site Usage Data

To facilitate the operation of a website, certain information is collected automatically from or about you in connection with your visit to the website or the device you are using to access the website. Servers may automatically gather site usage information (for example your IP address, information about your web browser, your device, your location (subject to consent), shopping, browsing and other such activities).

Cookies and similar technologies

Like many companies, we (and our service providers) use cookies and other similar technologies to collect, store and track information about your Site usage. This information helps us to provide, operate, improve and personalise our Sites.

What are Cookies

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers. These files are stored on the hard drive of the device you are using, be it a PC, mobile phone, or tablet. These letters and numbers are used to allow a website to remember certain bits of information, so that the user experience can be improved next time you visit.

By using our website you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How we use Cookies

When you visit our website it is likely we will create cookies which are stored on your device. For the duration of your ‘session’ on our website these cookies help us to deliver the correct information and ensure you only have to enter required information once, thereby improving your browsing experience.
We also use web analytics to understand how many people have visited our website, what they have looked at and how they found us etc. This gives us a better understanding of how our website is working. All data accrued cannot be used to identify personal information and merely gives us a general idea of how our website performs.
This overview of the type of cookies we use is based on categories outlined by the International Chamber of Commerce, in the ICC UK Cookie Guide. Some cookies may appear in multiple categories.

Category 1: strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function. By disabling these cookies, some aspects of a website will either not work, or not work properly, such as secure logins, location services, and e-commerce functionality.

Category 2: performance cookies

These cookies gather information to help improve the day to day performance of a website. By analysing data collected we can enhance popular pages, fix bugs and error messages etc. All data is based on totals and averages and is strictly anonymous. For example we use Google Analytics, which creates several first-party cookies. The data that Google collects is kept strictly private and confidential and won’t be shared with anyone else. We don’t feel that Google Analytics is a breach of privacy as we are merely aggregating the data survey. The information that is collected is used to understand website trends and performance.

Category 3: functionality cookies

These are cookies which provide a ‘memory’ for the website, this enables the website to remember any personal choices you make (for example, your username, language or geographic location). A website may provide local weather reports, traffic updates and other similar localised information. These cookies are also used to remember changes you may make to text sizes, fonts and other customisable elements of the website. The information these cookies collect may be made anonymous and can’t track activity on other websites.

Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies

We nurture the use of social media websites and believe sharing is a key part of how people access new information. Social media networks are a popular way of doing this. To enable people to share information via popular social media, our website may have functionality allowing this type of activity.
The owners of social media websites may place cookies on users’ devices and they will have their own cookie policies. We have no control over these companies’ cookies policies.

How to turn off cookies

Most web browsers enable you to decline or block cookies (check the “Help” or “Settings” menus of your browser to learn more). It is your right to decline cookies however doing so may disable certain features within our website(s) and compromise your experience.

How your information is used

The information we collect may be used in a number of ways, including:

• to provide our legal services in accordance with our contract with you []; • improving your browsing and functional experience []; • to fulfill requests submitted by you [] [];
• to contact you (via post, email, and any other method you may have chosen) with relevant information to promote our services or educate our users on applicable changes therein [] []; • to contact you if appropriate in regards to a rating or review submitted[] []
• where appropriate, for market research[] []; • to better understand you in order to provide relevant, more tailored communications on our services [] [];
• protecting the security, legality or integrity of our business []; • And otherwise, with your permission or as permitted by law [] [].

Any information you provide about another person will be used to fulfil your requests and treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please refrain from providing other persons information if you do not have consent to provide and use their data for this purpose. We analyse and use information collected by our website automatically, and through cookies, beacons and other technologies, potentially in combination with personal information, to assess the activities of our users and measure the effectiveness of our website and digital marketing materials. We do this on both an individual basis and as aggregated results.

With your consent to this Policy, we may combine the information we collect online from or about you with the information we collect offline from or about you. We will not store your personal data for any purpose for longer than is necessary to fulfil our service to you or as required by law.

The legal basis for the above processing are as indicated by [][] [] []:
Performance of a contract with you;
** Necessary to comply with legal obligations;
*** Necessary for our legitimate interests.
**** Your consent

Who we share your information with

We may disclose information as follows, to the extent permitted by law:

• to our suppliers, service partners and to other legal professionals, such as barristers, who are involved with your legal case (such information only disclosed with your prior consent), and other third parties who process information on our behalf. Other third parties may also include external IT support companies, external assessors, regulatory bodies ,website hosting companies, website review organisations ,analytics companies and  such as Google, as well as integrated external providers for our marketing and PR activities, distribution and fulfilment services and other similar partners who facilitate our ongoing services to our clients.
• We review all third parties prior to passing on any of your personal information and will only pass on information required to allow such third parties to provide services to us. We will not pass your details to any third party to enable them to use those details to market services for anyone other than ourselves. Whenever possible we will use providers based in the United Kingdom. We will review all providers of such services prior to passing details to them to ensure we are satisfied that they have appropriate protections in place in relation to the data. Where we are unable to identify an appropriate third party to provide such services in the United Kingdom we will conduct a review of the relevant provider and your personal details will only be transferred, processed or stored outside of the United Kingdom if we are satisfied that there are appropriate protections in place in respect of the data that they will hold.
• We will ensure that all appropriate measures are in place to protect your personal data in line with local data protection requirements. For further information on the third-party companies currently acting as data processors please  contact [email protected];
• as required by law, or to provide information as required by local law enforcement agencies, other local government authorities, or otherwise as required by law;
• when you post to a social media website, forum, review website or any other such facility in the public domain any information you choose to post will be available to access on the internet, depending on your own personal account settings. We recommend that you do not make public and sensitive personal information such as your postal address, with your permission or as permitted by law;
• content and information that you submit on or through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other third-party platforms may appear on our website(s) via automated feeds, APIs and plug-ins. Please review the privacy policy of any such third party platform, for whom we have no responsibility.

Third-party websites

The Sites may contain links (which may take the form of hyperlinks, widgets, clickable logos, plug-ins, images or banners) to websites and services operated by entities other than us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites or services, so we recommend that you review and understand the individual privacy policy of any such third-party website.

Your privacy options

Unsubscribing from promotional content

If you would like to stop receiving marketing emails or other direct mail from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions located in each such email or contact us as below. Should you choose to opt out we reserve the right contact you in relation to your legal transactions or other essential communications as required by email or post.

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact [[email protected]]

Security

Technical and organisational security measures have been put in place to ensure any personal data in our control is suitably safeguarded. We have limited access to your personal data to our direct employees and authorised service providers who require such information to deliver our services and for the purposes outlined in this policy.
While we have endeavoured to protect our systems, it is impossible to guarantee that any information, during transmission or while stored on our systems, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers or fraudsters.

Children’s privacy

The Site is not directed to children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under thirteen, do not provide your personal information on or to the Site. Users who are below the age of eighteen (18) should not use the Site..

Phishing / spoofing schemes

If you receive a request to provide sensitive information (including your Account password, or any payment information) via email or to a website or individual claiming to be us, that does not appear legitimate, please do not respond or disclose your information. Please immediately report any such communication or request to us at: [email protected]

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to and may change this Privacy Policy on occasion where required. In some circumstances we may instruct users of updates to our policy via a notification. Our latest Privacy Policy will be available on our website(s) and should be reviewed for the avoidance of doubt.

Contact us

If your require additional information about our Data Protection Officer, the specific roles of any data processors and/or you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected].