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The Law Group PRIVACY POLICY

The Law Group Ltd, is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12390000. The Law Group Ltd is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal data through application of this policy.

PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is any directly or indirectly identifying information relating to living human beings. Provisions for the protection of personal data are contained within Regulation (EU) 2016/679, The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and in the Data Protection Act 2018. The Law Group Ltd will comply with these and other relevant laws as may come into force regarding the protection of personal data.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

This policy will outline how The Law Group Ltd collects and uses personal data. This is done so that we can:

  • Give information about our services to those who are interested using Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
  • Provide prospective customers with quotes upon request, with their consent, in particular for the use of sensitive personal data as may be necessary to understand the scope and nature of the work to be done.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
    Deliver services to customers, usually involving the drafting of important documents for which the collection of sensitive personal data is often necessary.
  • Maintain contact with existing customers so that their documents and data can be kept up to date.
  • Keep accurate records of our employees and consultants; and
  • Comply with legal obligations that require the processing of personal data.

In the case of third parties, we require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

The Law Group Ltd is required to retain personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, which will usually be six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.. Due to the nature of the business, customer details may be retained indefinitely in order to provide the service the customer has asked us to provide. Although individuals have a right to be forgotten (erasure of personal data), it should be understood that in the case of customers, this may mean we are unable to continue to provide a service.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. The following rights are explained in the Glossary below.

Request access to your personal data
Request correction of your personal data
Request erasure of your personal data
Object to processing of your personal data
Request restriction of processing your personal data
Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@thelawgrouplimited.co.uk

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data, however we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.

If you want to know whether we hold your personal data and if so, receive a copy of it, you may contact us to request this. This is known as a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) and you must request this in writing (by email), providing the necessary identification before any information is released. If, The Law Group Ltd does store any of your personal data, you may request information on the following:

  • Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation that has determined how and why to process your data.
  • The purpose and lawful basis of processing.
  • If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of The Law Group Ltd or a third party, information about those interests.
  • The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
  • Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
  • If we intend to transfer the personal data to another country outside the EEA, or to an international organisation, information about how we ensure this is done securely. The EU has approved sending personal data to some countries because they meet a minimum standard of data protection. In other cases, we will ensure there are specific measures in place to secure your information.
  • How long the data will be stored.
  • Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
  • Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
  • Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
  • The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
  • Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

In addition to Data Subject Access Requests, other requests may be made by data subjects within the rights guaranteed in Chapter 3 of the GDPR.

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Complaints about the use of personal data

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us on info@thelawgrouplimited.co.uk . If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

POLICY CHANGES

The Law Group Ltd reserves the right to change this policy. New versions will be published as they are approved and adopted.