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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.
Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
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’.