Introduction and Contact Information
This privacy statement tells you what to expect when we collect your personal information. We will explain what data we hold about you, how we collect and use your data and whether we share it with other organisations.
We are the data controller for the purpose of data protection legislation and we are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you want to ask us for information about your data or this privacy policy, please contact the Information Security Officer Greystone House, Rudheath Way, Northwich, CW9 7LL, by email at informationsecurity@principia-law.co.uk, or call 0344 6000111 and we will respond to you directly.
We have purposely drafted this notice to be clear and concise so it is a summary of how we collect and use your personal information. If you would like more details about how we collect and use your personal information you will find this in our terms of business on our website terms of use and letters or documents we send to you. If you can’t find the information you would like, please contact us.
This privacy notice applies to:
- Visitors to our websites and use of cookies
- Information we obtain about you
- How we use your information
- Sharing your information
- Where we store your personal information
- International data transfers
- Your rights of access to information
- Other rights you might have
- Complaints
- Changes to this policy statement
Visitors to Our Websites and Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Most of the cookies we use are ‘Strictly Necessary or ‘Functional’, ie they are needed to ensure the site works for you. We also use, Google Analytics, to collect details of visitor behaviour patterns on the site. We do this to understand how customers use the site and help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse and to make improvements. We do not collect IP addresses. You can read more about how we use cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings for our site on our Cookies page.
Information About You
You will give us most of the information we will hold about you; this is generally done when you communicate with us and is likely to include your name, address, e-mail address, telephone numbers, financial information and, where relevant, information about any incident or matter in which you may have been involved, including any injuries suffered, other parties involved and further information relevant to the services we offer.
Sometimes information about you will come from other organisations such as those referring your matter to us, an insurer or insurance broker, or someone else who provides you with goods or services. These businesses will be data controllers themselves and we encourage you to read their privacy notices for information about how they deal with information about you. We also work closely with other third parties (including, for example expert witnesses and other professional advisors) and we may receive information about you from them. We routinely make checks against the Government’s financial sanctions targets list. Any witnesses are also likely to provide information about you.
We hold information about you for at least seven years after the conclusion of all services or, if longer, the conclusion of any other dealings with you and in line with our retention policy. Your information will be held securely.
Pre-Employment Data
During the recruitment process we may collect information directly from you, from other organisations and/or from publically available information, including media profiles. If necessary, we will share your information in order only to assess your application, equality monitoring and to meet legal or policy requirements for pre-employment checks. This may include checking your identity, work and education activity, criminal record and credit history. Your information will be securely stored. Unsuccessful applicant details are held for 12 months and then destroyed.
Principia Job Alerts
To activate our job alert service we will ask you to provide your email address. We will use this to send alerts to you, and retain it until you advise us you no longer require the service. You may deactivate this service at any time by using this link https://auxillisweb.com/t/NP8-4GCO3-B4NSQ0TX06/uns.aspx or the link in the alerts you receive.
How We Use Your Information
Our Services and Products
We use your information to deal with enquiries you make about our services, to provide legal services to you and to notify you about changes to our services.
If we have asked for your consent to use your data you may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting the Information Security Officer via the contact details above.
We will seek feedback about your experience to analyse and improve our services and products.
Marketing
We may provide you with information about our services that you have used or asked about and our related services. If you do not wish to receive that information, please notify our office in writing.
Sharing Your Information
We have a legitimate interest to share your information with other organisations and we want to make it clear to you when this will happen. Our work for you might require us to give information and data to third parties such as expert witnesses and other professional advisors. Any information you provide to us may also be shared with and processed by our service providers, insurers and regulators. We may share your personal information with any of our group of companies; this means the company that owns us and any companies they own or control, this may be to provide services to you.
As we offer products and services to you that we may not provide ourselves, we share your information with other approved suppliers; sometimes these organisations will supply their services directly to you (typically medical agencies and underwriters of insurance products we distribute), on other occasions they will be our sub-contractors.
We share your information with organisations, such as our business partners which will include organisations that put you in touch with us and who are themselves data controllers and organisations that process your information on our behalf and under our direction. Where we share your information with other data controllers it is to honour the obligations we have to you or because they or we have some other good reason to do so such as the provision of management information about how we have supplied services to you or to deal with complaints.
We will tell you who has introduced you to us. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in contact with us using the contact details above.
Other Occasions When We May Share Your Personal Information
If anyone buys us or any of our group companies that hold your personal information then personal information about you will be transferred to the buyer. This will also be the case if instead of buying the relevant group company the buyer simply buys all or most of the business assets.
There may be occasions when we must share information (including with regulators) about you so that we comply with a legal obligation, to enforce or apply our website terms of use, other agreements or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ourselves or our customers or someone else. We will also exchange information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, crime prevention or detection and credit (and other) risk reduction.
Where We Store Your Personal Information
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. We may from time to time need to store your data on third party servers or to use technical software during your matter hosted by a third party and where necessary data is held on secure cloud based servers.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
International Data Transfers
We do not generally process personal information outside of the European Economic Area but should this occur from time to time (for example our use of Google analytics involves some personal data being transferred to the USA) it will be done only in a way that complies with current laws and regulations.
Access to Information
You may obtain the information we hold about you by making a written or verbal request to us using the contact details above.
Subject to compliance with any laws and regulations, when you ask us about the information we hold on you we will give you confirmation that your data is being processed, access to it and any other supplementary information we consider relevant to your request.
Your Other Rights
In addition to having access to your information (see above) and your right to the information set out in our privacy statements you have the rights to ask us to rectify any incorrect information about you, to delete information we hold about you, to restrict what we do with information about you, to require us to send information we hold about you either to you (or someone you designate) in a commonly used machine readable form, additionally you may object to how we are using information about you and the right not to have automated decisions made about you.
The above rights are not all absolute and whether you can use one of these rights may depend on the way we obtained your information or the legal basis on which we use your personal information. More information about how and when you can exercise these rights is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
You can ask us to stop using your information for marketing at any time by notifying our office via the contact details above.
Additionally if you have provided your consent to process information about you for any other purpose (excluding providing services) you can withdraw your consent by contacting us via the contact details above.
Complaints
We are committed to protecting and respecting information about you in compliance with relevant laws and regulations and for this reason we take complaints we receive about this very seriously. Please address any concerns to us at the contact address given above for the attention of the Information Security Officer or via informationsecurity@principia-law.co.uk. We encourage you to contact us directly if you are unhappy, but if you are not satisfied with our response or if you prefer not to raise the issue with us you may at any time complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or one of its regional offices.
| Scotland |
Wales |
Northern Ireland |
Information
Commissioner's Office
45 Melville Street
Edinburgh
EH3 7HL
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Information
Commissioner's Office
2nd Floor
Churchill House
Churchill Way
Cardiff
CF10 2HH
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Information
Commissioner's Office
3rd Floor
14 Cromac Place
Belfast
BT7 2JB
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| Tel: 0131 244 9001 |
Tel: 029 2067 8400 |
Tel: 028 9027 8757
or 0303 123 1114 |
Links to other sites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. These websites have their own privacy statements and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
