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Little
Blonde Lawyer Ltd, trading as Little Blonde Lawyer (the ‘Company’) is a Limited
Company registered in England and Wales with company number 13238892. The Company’s
registered office is at 27 Napier Court, Gander Lane, Barlborough,
Chesterfield, England, S43 4PZ.
The Company
is the ‘Controller’ for data protection purposes. This means that the Company
collects and holds your information and decides what it will be used for. The Company
is subject to the requirements of data protection legislation applicable to the
UK and must use your personal data in accordance with the law. The Company is
registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Jo Dawson,
the Director of the Company, has overall responsibility for data protection.
You can contact her to discuss this privacy notice any data protection related
issues or queries.
Email: [email protected]
Post: 27 Napier Court, Gander
Lane, Barlborough, Chesterfield, S43 4PZ
IF YOU ARE A VISITOR TO OUR WEBSITE
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The information generated relating to our website is used to create
reports about the use of our website.
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A
cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers)
that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The
identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a
page from the server.
Cookies
may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will
be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date,
unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the
other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is
closed.
Cookies
do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but
personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information
stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies
can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate
different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
We
use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
The
cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used,
are set out below:
·
We use cookies to prevent fraud and improve
the security of the website, personalise the website for each user and validate
authenticated users sessions.
Most
browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
·
in Firefox (version 51) you can block all
cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom
settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies
from sites”; and
·
in Chrome (version 55), you can block all
cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”,
“Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block
sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking
all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If
you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You
can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
·
in Firefox (version 51), you can delete
cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use
custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”,
and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
·
in Chrome (version 55), you can delete all
cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”,
“Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies
and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
Deleting
cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
If
you submit your personal details to us by completing and submitting our contact
form, we will use your information to:
·
Contact you to respond to your request for
contact;
·
Send information to you about the Company and
its services, where you have given us express authority to do so.
We
will add your contact details to our database of contacts and keep them for as
long as you provide your consent for us to use your contact details in this
way.
Our
lawful basis for using your information in this way will be two-fold:
1)
For our legitimate interests in marketing our
services; and
2)
Upon your express consent (where required by
law).
Will
not share information received through our contact form with any third party
unless you expressly authorise us to do so or we are required by law.
IF YOU ARE A CUSTOMER
Legal basis for processing personal data
We keep your information confidential and will not disclose it to
third parties unless disclosure is:
(a)
Authorised by you;
(b)
Necessary as part of the services
we are providing to you (to perform our contract with you);
(c)
Required by law;
(d)
Necessary for the purposes of our
legitimate interests or those of a third party (in other words, we have a
compelling justification for the disclosure); or
(e)
Necessary to protect your vital
interests or those of another person i.e. to protect a life.
Our
reasons for processing your personal data will also fall into at least one of
the five categories listed above.
We use your information primarily to provide document template services
to you. We also use your information for: accounting and billing purposes; to
comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, and to manage our business
effectively. With your authority, we may also send you information about our
services or events that we think may be of interest to you. We will seek your
written consent to do this.
Sharing your personal data with third parties
Sometimes we outsource part of our work to other people or
companies to improve efficiency and your client experience. We will always
carry out due diligence and obtain confidentiality agreements from such
outsourced providers, such as IT companies and virtual assistants. If you would
like more information about our outsourcing arrangements, please contact us.
Contacting you
We may correspond with you by email if you provide us with an
email address, unless you advise us in writing that you do not wish us to do
so. You acknowledge that email may not
be secure. Email will be treated as written
correspondence and we are entitled to assume that the purported sender of an
email is the actual sender and that any express or implied approval or
authority referred to in an email has been validly given. Please be aware that
the Company may monitor and read any email correspondence travelling between
you and any mail recipient at the Company as part of its monitoring activities
to ensure compliance with its Information Management & Security Policy.
Where you provide us with fax or email addresses for sending
material to, you are responsible for ensuring that your arrangements are
sufficiently secure and confidential to protect your interests. You must tell
us if this method of communication is not secure so that can use an alternative
method.
The internet is not secure and there are risks if you send
sensitive information in this manner or you ask us to do so. Please be aware
that the data we send by email is not routinely encrypted.
We will take reasonable steps to protect the integrity of our
computer systems by screening for viruses on email sent or received. We expect
you to do the same for your computer systems.
It is very unlikely that we will change our bank account details
during the course of your matter. In any event, we will never contact you by
email to tell you that our details have changed. If you receive any
communications purporting to be from this Company, that you deem suspicious or
have any concerns about (however slight), please contact our office by
telephone straightaway.
We will use all reasonable measures to ensure that your
information remains confidential and will advise you immediately if we believe
that any of your information has been released. We have procedures in place
with our staff members to ensure that your information is only seen by members
of staff who have a legitimate reason for accessing it.
Transferring your personal data outside of the United Kingdom
We transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom where
your personal data is backed up to cloud storage provided by companies based in
the United States such as Microsoft. However, our storage providers agree to
the standard contractual clauses (SCC) for data protection meaning that they
agree to offer the same level of protection for data protection as expected by
the UK and the European Commission. Our storage providers are bound by the same
data protection laws as us meaning that they have the same obligations to keep
your information safe.
(a)
Right to access personal data –
you can request details from us of the personal data that we hold about you;
(b)
Right to object to processing –
you can tell us that you want us to stop processing your personal data;
(c)
Right to object to automated
individual decision making including profiling – you can object to us making
decisions about you solely by using a computer system without any human
consideration. We do not currently do this;
(d)
Right to rectification – you can
ask us to correct personal data that we hold because you believe it is
inaccurate;
(e)
Right to erasure – you can ask us
to delete the personal data that we hold about you;
(f)
Right to restrict processing – you
can tell us that you only want us to use the personal data for a specific
reason.
Please note that these rights are not absolute rights (they are
not rights that will be automatically granted), as we have to consider whether
there are any reasons why we cannot meet your request. For example, we will not
be able to delete data that we are legally obliged to keep. We will let you
know if we not able to meet your request and the reason why (where it is
appropriate to disclose this information to you).
You also have the right to complain to the Information
Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are not happy with the way that we handle
your personal data. You can contact the ICO at Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF or by calling the ICO’s helpline on 0303 123 1113.
Please note that where you provide consent to us using your
personal data, you are entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. You can
do this by informing your file handler or contacting the Director.
This Privacy Notice does not cover any links to other websites
that have been included on our website. Please read the Privacy Notices on the
other websites that you visit.
This privacy notice is reviewed regularly and was last updated in June 2021.
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Little Blonde Lawyer Limited is not a law firm, or a legal practice; neither the company, nor its officers / employees, are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority nor do they carry out ‘reserved legal work’.