EXCLUSIVE LAW PRIVACY NOTICE

Exclusive Law complies with all appropriate data protection legislation. This notice explains how we use your personal information to provide professional services to you.

ABOUT US

Exclusive Law is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).  Our SRA number is 669522.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU? 

Information we collect could include the following: 

• your name, address, contact details, date of birth.
• details of the circumstances of the claim or incident and any damage, injury or loss suffered by you.  
• Identification and other information we may be required to collect for regulatory purposes 
• Personal and financial information relating to your legal matter 
• Special categories of personal data, where relevant to your legal matter

 WHO IS COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Exclusive Law will collect sufficient information to provide you with services that comprise our professional relationship with you, or additional services that you may consent to. 

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED? 

We collect personal information from you as part of our professional relationship with you.  We may also receive information about you from third parties. This can include the following circumstances: 

• where we have arranged for the provision of other firms’ services to you. 
• when you submit information to us on our website or through any other means
• when you provide us with your details to receive marketing communications from us
• when you are an opposing party in a matter we are involved with and information is provided to us as part of the furtherance of that matter. 

ON WHAT BASIS DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In addition to you providing your consent to our processing your personal information, there are other lawful bases for our processing which include processing that: 

• is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract
• is necessary for compliance with our regulatory, legal, and/or professional obligations
• is necessary for the purposes of pursuing our legitimate interests
• is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims. 

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We are committed to using all reasonable means to protect the privacy of your personal information.  We employ appropriate security measures to protect your information stored on our servers.  However, the internet is not a secure environment and we cannot guarantee the complete security of any data transmitted to our website.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?

We may share your data with third party service providers who perform activities on our behalf

Where you are a client of Exclusive Law or involved in litigation, we can also disclose your personal information to: 

• courts, regulatory bodies, tribunals
• the other side to a transaction or litigation
• third party experts such as counsel or medical experts

for the purposes of carrying out work that is necessary.

and only to the extent necessary, 

We will not disclose your personal information to any other third parties for any reason unless: 

• we are required to do so by law
• disclosure is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings
• it is to exercise or defend legal right
• we have your consent to disclose it to them.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR? 

We will only keep your personal information for as long as we need to. When your personal information is no longer needed, it will be securely deleted.

We keep your personal information in accordance with our retention process, which is based on our legal, regulatory, and professional obligations including applicable data protection legislation. The retention periods may differ depending upon the nature of the data we hold and the reasons why we are holding it. 

HOW WILL WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?

We will use information for the proposes we collected it for. We also have legal and regulatory obligations to comply with which may necessitate the sharing of data with regulators, courts, or tribunals.

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION 

Some information about website users is collected automatically and this may be used by us to monitor and analyse how our site is used by visitors. The process does not, however, identify any individual persons using the site.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please contact us: 

– By email at: Martin@exclusivelaw.co.uk 

– By post:  Martin Abell, Exclusive Law, 2nd Floor, St Georges House, 56 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 3NQ

You have a right to ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. 

Our website may contain links to and from the websites of business partners and suppliers or other third-party firms’. Please note that we do not accept any responsibility for the use of your information once it leaves our website domain nor the content of any third-party website. The use of personal information on any website you choose to access will contain its own privacy policy that governs how they use your personal information.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY 

We keep our privacy policy under regular review, and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last reviewed on 12^th June 2020.

HOW TO CONTACT US  

Our Data Protection Officer is Martin Abell.  Please contact him us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or the information we hold about you:

– By email at: Martin@exclusivelaw.co.uk 

– By post: Martin Abell, Exclusive Law, 2nd Floor, St Georges House, 56 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 3NQ