This website is operated by SW Solicitor Ltd trading as Stuart Ward Solicitors, a limited Company registered in England and Wales under registration number 6022578. You can contact us by telephoning 01482 688558 by emailing us at [email protected] or by writing to us at Suite 6, Waters’ Edge Business & Visitor Centre, Maltkiln Road, Barton Upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, DN18 5JR.
Stuart Ward is the Principal and Director, you are welcome to discuss any aspect of this Privacy Notice with Stuart Ward.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate Privacy Polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their Privacy Policies as appropriate.
This Privacy and Cookies Policy relates to your use of our website, www.swsolicitors.co.uk, only. We operate a separate Privacy Notice for information collected from you away from our website and this can be accessed by clicking here.
Our collection and use of your personal information
We may automatically collect personal information from you when you use our website including; your internet protocol address (IP address), browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and other technology on the devices used to access our website. This information is collected using cookies and other similar technologies. Please click here to see our Cookie Policy for further information.
We may also collect personal information through providers such as Google in respect of your use of our website.
Our website is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect or use information relating to children.
Any personal information collected is used for the following purposes:
- to administer and keep our website updated; and,
- to use data analytics in order to improve our website and client experiences.
When we use your personal information we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. The legal basis we rely upon is “legitimate interests”; using your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests of running and keeping our website up to date and secure. We also have a legitimate interest in developing client relationships and our business generally.
Who we share your personal information with
Your personal information may be shared with third party service providers for the purpose of administering our website and using data analytics. Where this is necessary we will take steps to ensure the third parties respect the security of your personal information and comply with the law.
We will not share information with third parties outside the European Economic Area.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy and Cookies Policy is already designed to address,
- require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold,
- require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations,
- receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations,
- object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information; and,
- otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the “Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation”.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- email, call or write to us; and,
- let us know the information to which your request relates.
Keeping your personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How long your personal information is kept
We only retain your personal information for as long as we need it for the purpose for which it was collected. We will on an ongoing basis review the length of time we retain your personal information by reference to, amongst other things, the purposes for which it was obtained. Personal information that is no longer needed will be destroyed/deleted.
How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to ensure you receive the best possible experience when visiting our website. For information on the cookies we use, please click here to see our Cookies Policy.
Changes to this Privacy and Cookies Policy
This Privacy and Cookies Policy was published on 22 October 2019.
We may change this Privacy and Cookies Policy from time to time. You can view the current version at any time by clicking on the link on our website.