Privacy statement
This policy, together with our terms and conditions of use sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices and how we will treat it.
Shoosmiths acknowledge that your contact details and other data provided to us ("your information") may be confidential. Shoosmiths will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with Shoosmiths' normal procedures and English law.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Shoosmiths of the Lakes, Northampton, NN4 7SH. Shoosmiths is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Information we may collect from you
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.access-legal.co.uk ("our site"). This includes information at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting materials or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence.
IP addresses and cookies
As part of Shoosmiths' quality control and with the objective of providing you with enhanced services we may monitor the use of this website and record your email address and/or IP address. We may use "cookies" to collect this information and track your use of this website. For more information about "cookies", please see the Interactive Advertising Bureau's website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org. This information is collected for Shoosmiths' commercial purposes only. Shoosmiths reserves the right to make information available to its analytics partner within the UK and may disclose it to third parties in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy. If you want to find out more about how your data is used or do not wish to contribute your data please click here.
Where we store your personal data
Your information may be controlled and processed by any of Shoosmiths' offices. You acknowledge and agree that the location of our offices may change from time to time and that Shoosmiths may acquire other offices in any number of other countries or territories at any time, any one or more of which may act as a controller of and/or process your information. Shoosmiths will not disclose your data to any other third party unless required to do so by law or regulators.
You acknowledge and agree that we may from time to time transfer any of your information overseas to any office of Shoosmiths or of any of our affiliates, agents or appointed representatives. Some of our offices and those of our affiliates, agents or representatives may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area which do not have well developed data protection legislation when compared to English law. While Shoosmiths will ensure your information is processed in accordance with these terms and conditions you may not have rights under data protection legislation in those jurisdictions equivalent to those under English law. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be processed by Shoosmiths in the ways described in these terms and conditions as by providing your information to us you agree and consent to us processing it in this way.
Occasionally third parties may provide storage services to us. In those circumstances those third parties shall be required to enter into a confidentiality agreement on no less stringent terms than found in these terms and conditions and to process your data solely in accordance with our instructions.
Uses made of the information
We use information about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
- To provide you with legal advice where you have submitted a call back form or an online enquiry form and where you have requested contact by post/email/telephone.
- Shoosmiths may use your application data (as defined under the Careers and Marketing section) and contact details for the purposes of recruitment or marketing, respectively, as more fully described under Careers and Marketing. We may use information obtained about you from monitoring your use of this website solely for internal purposes including website performance, evaluation of website use and the creation of marketing reports at Shoosmiths to aid future marketing of information about Shoosmiths and Shoosmiths' services. Data collected by monitoring will be aggregate, no personal or sensitive personal data will be used other than for the purpose for which it was originally obtained.
Marketing
From time to time we may use any of the information you submit to us, including personal data, to provide you with marketing information about Shoosmiths.
We may contact you from time to time for this purpose by fax email post or telephone. By sending your information to us you agree and consent to us contacting you in this way. You may withdraw this consent at anytime by contacting Sarah Parker on sarah.parker@shoosmiths.co.uk
Careers
- You may submit information, including personal data and sensitive personal data to us via the on-line application forms and email addresses as an application for a post advertised at Shoosmiths ("application data"). "Sensitive personal data" is information as to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, commission of criminal offences and/or involvement in criminal proceedings.
- In acknowledging an application Shoosmiths is not verifying the content, accepting the application or making any offer of employment or engagement. Shoosmiths is not obliged to accept any applications.
- Shoosmiths will process your application data for the sole purposes of considering applications and recruitment, and not for any "direct marketing" purposes. We will retain your application data for up to 12 months following receipt of your application. If you would prefer us not retain your application data for this period for consideration in relation to any appropriate vacancies that may arise, please contact us by email at sarah.parker@shoosmiths.co.uk
- Shoosmiths is an equal opportunity employer (in accordance with applicable legislation) and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, non disqualifying physical or mental disability or any other basis covered by local legislation. All employment related decisions are made entirely on merit.
If you are happy for us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the forms.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements to protect the rights, property or safety of Shoosmiths, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud and credit risk reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to access and the right to rectify your personal data by sending us a written request to the address given below (see Contact) or by sending an email to sarah.parker@shoosmiths.co.uk
Links
Our site may from time to time contain links to and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept responsibility of liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to enquiries@shoosmiths.co.uk.
