Data Protection Policy

If you’re a client of the firm

We collect your data from you. This is either face to face, over the phone, email, letter or fax

If you’re a client of another law firm:

We will receive your personal data from your solicitor

If you are not a client of our firm but sign up to our Newsletter:

We will receive your personal data from you when you complete an online signup form.

Data we receive from third parties

We will also receive and process personal data of third parties for whom we neither act nor have any connection with. This can belong to the Defender or witness in a court case, the beneficiary in a Will or executry case or the other party in an accident case. These are examples of where we might receive and process personal data which does not belong to our clients. This list is not exhaustive and we will receive and process personal data from a wide range of third parties

The types of personal data we collect

We collect name and contact details including your postal address, telephone numbers and email addresses. We collect identification information from you. If you are a client, we collect additional personal data as is necessary to properly represent you and carry out your lawful instructions to us. This can include personal and business financial information, health and medical information, information on your family members and their circumstances.

What we will do with your personal data?

Where you are a client, we will use your personal data to act on your behalf in the matter or matters you have instructed us in. These are set out in your Terms of Business. We will also be in touch with you from time to time to explain other services we can provide that may be relevant to your circumstances and inform you about changes in the law that might impact on you, your family, your business or your employment or which otherwise may affect you. If you do not wish to receive such communications, please let us know and you will be excluded from receiving them. Where you are not a client, we will process your data for the purpose of carrying out our client’s instructions in a transaction or case in which we’re acting. If you are not a client and have signed up to receive our eNewsletter, we will use your personal data to send you our eNewsletter.

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

Access to the personal data we hold about you, free of charge in most cases;

Correction of your personal data when incorrect, out of date or incomplete;

Objecting to the processing of your personal data where we have no legitimate overriding interest, or once the purpose for which we hold the data has come to an end;

Requiring that we stop using your personal data for direct marketing;

Requiring that we stop any consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that consent;

Requesting that we delete or erase your personal data (subject to our Terms of Business in the case of clients);

To protect the confidentiality of your information, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding with any request you make under this Privacy Notice. If you have authorised a third party to submit a request on your behalf, we will ask them to prove they have your permission to act.