This Privacy Statement explains in detail the types of personal data we may collect about you when you use our services. It also explains how we will store and handle that data and keep it safe. There is a lot of information in this statement, but we want you to be fully informed about your rights but if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Statement is dated 6th July 2021. It may be changed from time to time to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. When changes are made an updated Privacy Statement will be posted on our website or by other appropriate means and the changes will take immediate effect.
As your solicitors Lincoln Lewis Solicitors is the Controller and is responsible for the processing of your personal data. Lincoln Lewis Solicitors (“we”, “us” in this Privacy Statement) is a Ltd company authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Our SRA authorisation number is 646657 and we are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, Registration No. ZA810307.
Shoaib Afzal has been appointed Information Security Manager for the partnership. Should you have any enquiries in relation to your personal data please contact Shoaib Afzal on info@lincolnlewis.co.uk
The main reason for asking you to provide us with your personal data is to allow us to carry legal work on your behalf and as instructed by you. The following are examples, although not exhaustive of how we may also use your personal information for our legitimate business interests:
The information we hold about you may be gathered from a variety of sources. The primary one will be the information you provide yourself:
We may also gather information in the following ways:
In addition you may provide information relating to someone else – if you have the authority to do so and information may be passed to us by third parties in order that we can act on your behalf. Typically these organisations can be:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
The following are some examples, although not exhaustive, of what we may use your information for:
The protection of your personal data is of the utmost importance to us. Client confidentiality has always been fundamental to the relationship between a lawyer and their client and the protection of your data while it is in our care is integral to this.
Your personal information will be retained, usually in computer or manual files, only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected, or as required by law or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you may have with us. For example:
In order to fulfil our obligations to you as a client and in order to run our business it is necessary sometimes to share your personal data with trusted third parties. In these circumstances we provide only the information they need to perform their specific services and they may only use that data for the specified reasons. In addition we will ensure that they are contractually obliged to ensure that your privacy is respected and protected at all times and if we stop using their services, any of your data held by them will either be deleted or rendered anonymous.
Examples of these third parties include:
There may be some uses of personal data that may require your specific consent. If this is the case we will contact you separately to ask for your consent which you are free to withhold or give and later withdraw at any time.
You have the right to:
To protect the confidentiality of your information, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding with any request you make under this Privacy Notice. If you have authorised a third party to submit a request on your behalf, we will ask them to prove they have your permission to act. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
We may contact you for the purpose of marketing and this is carried out on a legitimate interest basis. This means that we may use your personal data that we have collected in accordance with this privacy policy to contact you about our products, services, events etc. which we feel may interest you. The marketing communications may be provided to you by social media channels, email or post. We will never send marketing communications via SMS or call you without your specific consent nor do we ever pass on or sell your details to a third party.
The following are examples, although not exhaustive, of how we may collect your personal information for marketing purposes:
Whenever we collect your personal data, you will be provided the opportunity to ‘opt out’ to receiving marketing communications from us. We hope you will find our communications useful but if you choose to opt out we must always comply with your request. Opting out does not prevent you from subsequently opting back in.
We will only ever use non sensitive personal information to target individuals with marketing materials; such as name, address, telephone, email, job description and previous areas of interest. Sensitive information or specific details will never be used for marketing purposes. We may use personalisation to collect analytics to inform marketing and produce relevant content for the marketing strategy as this helps us to improve client service.
If you do not wish us to continue to contact you in this way, you can either follow the unsubscribe instructions on any of our email communications to you or contact us on info@lincolnlewis.co.uk Your details will be removed immediately from any marketing activities. Once unsubscribed, you may still receive transactional emails from us regarding your legal matter.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Information Security Manager Shoaib Afzal. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
You can contact them by calling 0303 123 1113 or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns.
(Please note we can’t be responsible for the content of external websites.)
We hope this Privacy Notice has been helpful in setting out the way we handle your personal data and your rights to control it.
If you have any questions that have not been covered, please contact our Information Security Manager who will be pleased to help you. Shoaib Afzal can be contacted at
Lincoln Lewis Solicitors maintains worldwide professional indemnity cover, full information is available at our registered office or contact the office manager at info@lincolnlewis.co.uk
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