We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information, and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

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Who we are

B. Williams Legal collects uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union including in the United Kingdom and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

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The personal information we collect and use

The type of information that we may directly collect from you, depending on how you use our Website includes:

1. your name;

2. your email address;

3. your address (business and personal);

4. your landline and mobile telephone numbers (business and personal);

5. any other information that you choose to provide to us when filling out a contact form on our website;

6. your geographic location (country/territory where you reside and/or work);

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Information collected from other sources

In most circumstances, the personal data we obtain from or about you will be restricted to general information, including the information needed for the identification checks that we are required by law to complete. We may also need to obtain sensitive personal information from other sources as follows:

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• Information given by others to us about you to allow us to do our work, these typically include but are not limited to:

  •  Professional managers and agents

  •  Clients

  • Individuals or companies who have referred work to us

  • Banks and building societies

  • Medical professionals

  • Lawyers and accountants, in connection with contracts, transactions and consultations

 

How we use your personal information

• When you fill in our Contact Form, we collect your Personal Information, which you choose to provide when you fill in the form on our Website, including the information set out in a.-f above. We may use this Personal Information to respond to your queries, and/or provide the services and/or information that you have requested.

• Following/liking/subscribing to our social media pages

• We will primarily use your information internally for our business purposes which including but not limited to:

  • record keeping, statistical analysis, internal reporting and research purposes;

  • ensuring network and information security;

  • Considering our ability to do legal work for you

  • Communicating with you, including delivering details about our services

  • notify you about changes to our services;

  • to investigate any complaint you make;

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Who we share your personal information with

We may routinely share your Personal Information with the following third parties: our accountants, auditors, lawyers or similar advisers when we ask them to provide us with professional advice; any other third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, any other third party for the purposes of acting in accordance with the requirements of a court, regulator or government agency; or third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

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How long your personal information will be kept

We will hold your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which the information was collected or as required by law.

 

Transfer of your information out of the EEA

None of the personal information that we collect, process or store is transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) unless necessary for the purposes of fulfilling our contractual or professional obligations to our clients and in circumstances where our clients have a legitimate expectation of our sharing such information in the manner it is shared.

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Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights. In summary, those include rights to:

• fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information

• access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address

• require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

• require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

• receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

• object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

• object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

• object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information

• otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

• claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please email us at contact@bwilliamslegal.com  

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Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

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Changes to this privacy notice

We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do we will inform you by publishing the updated Notice on our Website.

How to contact us

 

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at contact@bwilliamslegal.com if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.