You have rights as a Data Subject under the General Data Protection Regulation as incorporated into the law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (and known as the UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

 

Our Privacy Policy will be provided upon request contains important information on how and why we collect, process, and store your personal data. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data.

 

Your rights include the right to be informed what information we hold about you which is known as a data subject access request (although obviously it is likely that you will have provided us with such information as we hold). 

 

You also have the right of access and to request a copy of any information about you that we hold at any time. You also have a right of rectification and, in particular, to request that information is corrected if it is inaccurate. 

 

There are also other rights available to you, but these may be limited to a certain extent should you become a client as we may have overriding regulatory duties with respect to handling of your data for the purposes of providing services to you.

 

In particular, you may have a right of erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten). In certain circumstances, this allows you to request that we erase your personal data. This is not an absolute right however and, once you become a client of our firm, we will be required by our regulators and for legal purposes to retain some of your personal data and other information within casefiles (for retention periods, please see below).

 

If you are concerned about our handling of your personal data, there are also other rights available to you: a right to restrict processing; a right to data portability; a right to object and to request we stop processing your personal data; and a right in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

 

Importantly, you also have rights to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you feel that your data is not being handled properly. 

 

For information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of our information, and/or to exercise any of your data rights as explained above, please contact us. Similarly, if you wish to make a complaint in relation to our handling of your data, such as any potential data breach, then please contact us at the earliest opportunity.

 

Further Information about your data rights and how to exercise them is set out in our Privacy Policy (see above about how to access that). Further details are also available by visiting the Information Commissioner’s Office’s website at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/.

 

Please mark your enquiry, request, or complaint for the attention of Jason Lartey, who is our Data Protection Officer and the person in this firm responsible for data protection. All enquiries and requests can be sent by emailing or in writing.

 

How long will we hold your data?

 

We will only hold your information for as long as necessary to provide you with legal services and then for only so long as we are required either contractually or under our regulatory obligations. This will generally be six  (6) years after the end of your matter. For some cases, for instance where you or a named party are currently under the age of eighteen (18), we may decide that we are required and/or it is proper and appropriate to keep your data for longer than this period, but we will notify you if we believe that your case falls into this category.

Complaints About Our Use of Your Personal Data

We are committed to protecting your personal data and complying with the UK General Data Protection Regulations. If you have any concerns about how we collect, use, store, or share your personal information, you have the legal right to raise a complaint directly with us as the data controller.

You may submit a data‑protection complaint in writing to our Data Protection Officer, Jason Lartey at any time. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receipt and will take all reasonable steps to investigate and provide a full response as soon as possible.