CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- WHO THIS NOTICE APPLIES TO
- WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
- HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
- WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH
- INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
- THE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH WE PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION
- HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
- HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP IT FOR
- INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOU CONCERNING OTHER PEOPLE
- CHILDREN
- WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
- WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE THE INFORMATION WE NEED FROM YOU?
- AUTOMATIC DECISION MAKING
- MARKETING DATA
- IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
- LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
- CONTACT INFORMATION AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Chung & Co (‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’. ‘the Firm’) are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under SRA ID No. 570340 and are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under Registration No: Z5997752. We are a “data controller” for the purposes of data protection law and we process personal data of a number of different categories of individuals. Personal data is any data from which an individual can be identified.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal data. This privacy notice (together with our website terms of use) is designed to provide information about our practices concerning the collection, use and disclosure of personal data in the course of providing legal, advisory and/or consultancy services to comply with our obligations under Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR.
We have appointed a Compliance Officer for Data Protection (“CODP”) to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this notice or how we handle your personal data, please contact the CODP in writing using the details below:
Email address: dataprotection@chungandco.com
Postal address:
Compliance Officer for Data Protection
Chung & Co Solicitors
58/60 George Street
Manchester
M1 4HF
This privacy notice may change from time to time so we recommend that you review it periodically. This version of the privacy notice was last updated on 21/05/18.
It is important that you read this privacy notice, together with any other privacy notice and our Firm’s Terms and Conditions of Business that we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
- This notice applies to all persons whose personal data we collect and process (except in connection with our marketing activities and our employment practices). This includes individuals in the categories below or who work for any of the following:
- our clients
- other lawyers and law firms, including barristers
- people who are involved in court or other legal proceedings (including legal claims, criminal actions, inquests, tribunals, arbitrations, mediations, investigations and regulatory actions) or the provision of related or other legal, advisory and/or consultancy services
- people who are involved in contracts and transactions we are working on, such as other businesses or individuals our clients are contracting with
- our regulators, insurers, auditors, professional advisers and certification/accreditation bodies (such as for our CQS accreditation).
3. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
In the course of our business, we will need to collect and process various types of personal data for various purposes which will depend on what you have asked us to do or what we are contracted to do for you. Given the nature of our business and the services we provide, it is impractical to list all the categories of personal data that may be collected and processed. We will however only process and collect personal data where necessary for the provision of our services and where we have a legal basis to do so:-
- Data collected and processed may include details of the following types of information:
- Contact information (name, address, (including postal and email addresses), telephone and fax numbers and gender). We may collect additional information to enable the identity of individuals to be verified
- Occupational information, (job title, former job titles, organisational associations, professional experience and qualifications, interests and preferences where you advise us of these details in order to provide you with relevant tailored information about our services)
- Identification documents, including date of birth and photographic identification
- Financial information
- Online services in respect of which you have expressed an interest
- Other information collected and used in the course of our business, including information provided by our clients concerning employees of our clients or those providing services to our Clients
- Details of your visits to our website, the resources accessed, including traffic data, location data and other communication data
- Images captured by CCTV cameras at our office
- Where necessary and legally permitted, we may also collect sensitive data, such as your racial or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, political opinions, health and medical data, trade union membership, philosophical views, biometric and genetic data and details of offences and related proceedings.
4. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We obtain personal data from a variety of sources, including our clients, individuals, agents and professional advisers instructed by us, fraud prevention and credit reference agencies, subscription databases, insurance databases, social networks, applications, government agencies and publicly accessible and online sources such as the Land Registry and Companies House.
We collect, retain and process personal data to enable us to give legal advice, provide legal and related business services and conduct legal proceedings on behalf of our clients.
We may collect personal information from a variety of sources, including:
- Online via our website or social media accounts
- In hard copy by fax or post, in person, or over the telephone
- Via phone recording
- Through provision of legal or training services to you
