Privacy Statement
1. General
2. Compliance with Data Protection Act 1998
3. Submitting your contact details
4. How we use your information
5. Cookies
6. Third party cookies
7. Anti-money laundering policies and procedures
8. Telephone calls
9. Contact
1. General
This statement explains how we may collect and process information about: visitors to our website, people who use our services e.g. clients or other subscribers to our online services, current employees and job applicants, alumni.
We use cookies on our website and this is explained in section 5.
2. Compliance with Data Protection Legislation
SLIG Law LLP’s use of your information is subject to your instructions and is based on the Data Protection Act 1998. We comply with the principles outlined in Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 1988, listed below.
1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless –
(a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and
(b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met.
2. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed.
4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
SLIG Law LLP is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under the registration reference: ZA150930
Registration Start date: 10 November 2015
Registration Expiry date: 9 November 2017
3. Submitting your contact details
We may, through forms on our website, invite or request you to submit your contact details and other information about yourself or your organisation. We may also ask you to send us emails, which will also identify you.
4. How we use your information
In each case, the purpose for which you are invited to give us information is clear. We will not use your information for purposes that are not clear when you provide your details, and will not disclose it outside SLIG Law LLP, except to service providers acting on our behalf or in other very limited circumstances, for example, with your agreement or where we are legally obliged to do so. For details about how we store and use your information, please consult our terms of business.
5. Cookies
As is common practice with most professional websites, this website uses cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. The information that we collect will not identify you as an individual. We do not seek to identify individual visitors unless they volunteer their contact details through one of the forms on the site. By using our website you agree that we can place cookies on your device. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies. When you accessed this website our cookies were sent to your web browser and stored on your computer. If you wish to remove them, you can manage this via the settings on your browser, but please note that this may affect your ability to utilise this and other web sites. The process by which one can clear cookies varies depending on the browser you are using. Please consult the ‘help’ menu of your web browser for full instructions.
6. Third party cookies
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (see above), to help us analyse how users use our site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use the information on behalf of SLIG Law LLP for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies via the settings in your browser as explained above. You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics in the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
7. Anti-money laundering policies and procedures
For a brief explanation of our AML policies and personal data collected in relation to them, please see section 22 of our terms of business policy.
8. Telephone calls
We do not record our telephone calls.
9. Contact
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, want to exercise your right to see a copy of the information that we hold about you, or think that information we hold about you may need to be corrected, want to delete all or any part of it or to object to the processing on legitimate grounds, please contact us with enquiry topic “Data privacy”. You may contact us at Email: info@sliglaw.com, or alternatively via telephone on +44 (0) 20 7489 2014.