Source: https://www.stephensonlaw.co.uk/privacy-policy/
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Privacy Policy | Stephenson Law
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As a general principle, we will not transfer your personal data to third parties without your permission.There are three exceptions to this:
As solicitors, we have professional duties, including to co-operate with the ICO, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, as well as to report suspicious transactions or money laundering. We will always try to minimise any sharing of your personal data.
We use practice management software called ActionStep which stores all of our data in Europe (using AWS) and uses best practice security systems to keep our (and your) data safe.
We use the information we hold about you and your business to give you the best legal advice we can.
(Basis: Art. 6(b): this is necessary to deliver the service to you).
We will have done an ID check on you before you become a client. If you do not instruct us for a while, we may need to do another ID check. We will do what we can to make this as painless as possible. If you would prefer not to provide these information, we will not be able to act for you.We retain identity verification information for as long as you are our client, and then five years.
(Basis: Art. 6(c): we have to do this processing to comply with legal and regulatory obligations).
We may transfer and process personal data in any country where we engage service providers, including outside the EEA.
Whilst these counties will have data protection rules that differ from the EEA, we will take measures to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your personal data remains protected to the standards described in this privacy policy.
We will keep your data for as long as you are our client plus seven years.
If you get in touch looking for legal advice, we will do some research to understand more about you and what you do. Usually, this means reading up on your products or services, how you position yourself in the market, what you display on your public facing websites and social media presence, and so on. This helps us work out how best we can help you, and if we’re really the right people for the job.(Basis: Art. 6(b): this is necessary to deliver the service to you.)
The law requires that, in some situations, we must know who you are before we can give you legal advice. Stephenson Law’s approach to this is to check the identity of all clients. We will do what we can to make this as painless as possible. If you would prefer not to provide these information, we will not be able to act for you.Any personal data received from you for this purpose will be processed only for the purposes of preventing money laundering, unless we have your consent to process it for another purpose.
If you give us a ring or make contact by email, we will follow up on your enquiry and see if there is a way in which we can help you. We keep a record of enquiries received, to help us plan our business strategy and check that we are offering what potential clients want.(Basis: Art. 6(b): we need to use your details to follow up with you. Art. 6(f): business planning is a legitimate thing for us to do, and keeps us relevant and hopefully more in tune with your needs.)
We will keep your data for as long as we are communicating with you plus 6 months.
We use Google Analytics which processes users’ IP addresses in an anonymised format, so that we can never identify users’ identities from it. Google Analytics has servers based outside the EEA. To learn more, please see the sections on Cookies below.
We use the logs from our servers to assist in our firm’s security, as well as to determine visitor behaviour and help us plan our strategy (e.g. such as working out which pages on the site are most popular, or whether particular events have caused an increase in traffic).
We use Google Analytics to track and report web traffic to enable us to improve and optimise our website.
(Basis: Art. 6(c): we have legal and regulatory obligations to protect our clients and their information. Art. 6(f): strategy planning is a legitimate thing for a business to do.)
Through Google Analytics, our website uses cookies. Cookies are pieces of code that allow small amounts of information to be passed from your internet browser to our web server. We use third party cookies, serving several purposes. All data passed by cookies is anonymous and will never contain your name, address, telephone number or payment details.
(Basis: Art. 6(a): we will obtain consent from you.)