We use the information you provide primarily for the provision of legal services to you and for related purposes including:
- addressing correspondence and related documents to other parties and opponents in any litigation, as well as other agencies such as the courts or Government agencies where relevant to the work we are doing for you.
maintaining the financial and other personal information we are required to keep records of clients under the professional rules we are subject to and by law including our obligations to HMRC.
Our use of that information is subject to your instructions, the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and our professional duty of confidentiality. Please note that our work for you may require us to give information to third parties such as expert witnesses and other professional advisers.
The legal bases which are relevant to the work we undertake for you are mostly in order that we can satisfactorily perform the contract we have with you and also so that we can protect our interests and those of our professional indemnity insurers in the event of a future claim. We are required by law to retain certain data including identity and address details in order that we can comply with the Government’s anti-money laundering controls. We would need your consent to send you future marketing information.
We do not envisage sending any of your personal data outside the UK or the EU.
Under the General Data Protection Regulations, you have certain rights about the personal information that we hold on you. Subject to some exceptions, you have:
- The right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data;
- The right to access and receive a copy of your personal data, and other supplementary information;
- The right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete;
- The right to have personal data erased;
- The right to request the restriction or suppression of your personal data;
- The right to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services;
- The right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances; and
- Rights related to automated individual decision-making, including profiling.
Unlike certain other business concerns we do not as a law firm involve ourselves in automated decision making and profiling.
At any time during the course of your matter, or afterwards, you can exercise your rights in relation to the General Data Protection Regulations. Your request would need to be made to Emma Crawshaw in writing.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you consider that your information has been handled incorrectly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
www: ico.org.uk
Emma Crawshaw is the nominated Date Protection Officer