We collect information from you on our website to enable us to direct you to the most appropriate servive relating to your enquiry and then collect personal data from you to enable us to contact you with regard to that enquiry.
As well as using this information to communicate with you regarding your query we may use it to monitor the effectiveness of our website services and to offer more effective means for you and others to access information relevant to their enquiries.
Your information will be accessible by those of the firm’s staff who require such access to ensure that the relevant department contacts you following your enquiry. This will be on the legal basis that this is in the legitimate interest of meeting a business need through communication with you. In addition to our permanent staff we may from time to time have temporary workers and work-experience students who may have access to your personal data.
We outsource various functions on our website. We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied that they take appropriate measures to protect it. We impose contractual obligations on them to ensure that they can only use your personal data to provide services to Heringtons. We use cookies on our website and further information on their use can be found here.
As solicitors we are professionally and legally obliged to keep your affairs and those of our clients confidential. We would not expect to share your details with any person other than our staff.
However, we are required to share information in certain circumstances without reference to you in order to comply with legal obligations including the prevention of fraud and money laundering.
You have rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. You are able to access a copy of the personal data that we hold and if this is held electronically we will provide this in a portable form. You also have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate information and we would encourage you to exercise this right immediately should you discover that information we hold is inaccurate.
You have the right to object if you feel we are using your data in a way that causes you distress and the qualified right to have the processing of your data restricted. You also have the right to request that we erase your data and if this is the case please contact the Deputy Data Protection Team (details below) in the first instance. We will erase your data on request as a matter of course unless there is a legal justification for retaining this. If this is the case then the justification will be confirmed to you in writing
In relation to all of these rights we would ask that you raise any concerns or requests for information with our Data Protection Team who will deal with your request as quickly and sensitively as possible. The contact details for the Data Protection Team are set out below. If you are dissatisfied in relation to any data protection issue you have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office. You can find more information concerning your rights and how to complain at www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/.
Our Data Protection Team, Richard Fisher and Rosemarie Close can be contacted on 01424 434 192 at our Hastings Office: Langham House, 5-6 Albert Road, Hastings TN34 1QT, by email richard.fisher@heringtons.com or rosemarie.close@heringtons.com or by fax 01424 444 824
Heringtons is the business name of Heringtons LLP (No.OC374843) whose registered office is Langham House, 5-6 Albert Road, Hastings TN34 1QT
Heringtons LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (No. 569513) VAT Reg. No. 190 8831 40