Privacy Policy

We provide a Legal services. In the course of providing it we will receive and use personal data about the parties. We are required to provide you with information about how we will use the data and your rights in respect of the data.

The Data Controller

I am “the Data Controller” in respect of personal data that is supplied to us for the legal services we provide. We can be contacted by post at Jennings Solicitors 17 Goring Road Llanelli Carmarthenshire SA15 3HF (“my postal address”) or by email at jamesh@jennings-solicitors.co.uk (“my email address”).

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact

The Information We Collect About You

Information you may have provided us with:

– Your Name
– Email Address
– Your telephone number
– Your home address

Information we use might be your e-mail address, name, home address and telephone number – this information is mainly necessary for delivering you information which you may have requested about our services, or to provide a quotation to you on your request, or to deliver a product/service, or to enhance your customer experience with us.

Information automatically collected about you

This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address. This information is used to improve your customer experience when you use our website. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

The Legal Basis for the Processing

The information that I collect will be used for the following purposes:

Purpose of the Processing

The Legal Basis for the Processing

In order to provide legal services which will be outlined in the Client Care Letter The information will be collected and used because it is necessary to perform a contract for the provision of legal services

I will keep a copy of the records and the information that has been supplied in connection with the provision of legal services for a period of 6 years after the processing The retention of the information is in our legitimate interests because we may need to refer to it if any question should arise about the conduct of the legal services or any queries arising therefrom

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our services and correct operation of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto devices such PC’s and Smartphones you access a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions. Cookies store information that is used to help make websites work. You can control your cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain website functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as online contact form submission and remembering your preferences when using the site.

Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible, such as language preference.

Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to monitor the use and performance of our website and services. We use these statistics to improve the services we offer to you.

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. For more information about cookies, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here: policies.google.com/privacy. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics opt-out page: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Recipients of Your Personal Data

When you submit your personal information through our online forms or email address specified on our website it is transmitted to and stored on 3rd party mail servers located in the United Kingdom before being received by Jennings Solicitors.
We may provide your personal data to the other party to the legal services and their legal advisers but we will only do so with your consent.

If You Fail to Provide Personal Data

If you fail to provide the information that we have requested, we will be unable to proceed with the provision of legal services
Consent

If we ask for your consent to use your personal data you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at our postal address or my email address.

The withdrawal of consent does not affect the processing of any data that has already taken place.

How Long Will Your Data be Kept?

We will keep the records of the mediation including your personal data for a period of 6 years, at which point they will be destroyed.

Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Data

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are processing it lawfully
Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask me to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us at my postal address or my email address.

If you are dis-satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with your personal data, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

Jennings Solicitors
16th May 2018