We ask that you read this website privacy policy 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.
This website privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
This website is operated by John Copland & Son of 77 High Street, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1TY. We are a firm of solicitors and are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authotiy (SRA). Our SRA registration number Is 45488.
We collect, use and are 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.
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website, [insert details][ only] .
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
We collect personal information about you when you access our website, contact us, send us feedback, and post material to our website.
We collect this personal information from you either directly, such as when you register with us or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see ‘Cookies’ below).
The personal information we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. Such information could include:
We use this personal information to:
This website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect or use personal information relating to children.
When we use your personal information we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases upon which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why.
The legal bases we may rely on include:
For further details on when we collect personal information, what we collect as well as how we use it, please request a copy of our full Privacy and Data Protection Policy by contacting us using the details below:
info@coplands.co.uk (emails are viewed between the hours of 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays). 01795 664431 (our lines are open between the hours of 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays). We may record calls for quality and training purposes. John Copland & Son Solicitors, 77 High Street, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1TY
For further details on who and when we may share your data with, please request a copy of our full Privacy and Data Protection Policy by contacting us using the details below:
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
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.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
We hope that our Data Protection Officer can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
This website privacy policy was published on [insert date] and last updated on [insert date].
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