How We Handle Your Data


Privacy Policy

This policy informs you how Latitude Law collect and manage data about you and why. As a firm we take privacy and data management seriously and if you have any concerns on how your data is managed please contact mailto: clivesey@latitudelaw.com

Latitude Law collects, uses and is responsible for certain categories of your personal information. When we do this we are the ‘controller’ of this information for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws, including the Data Protection Act 2018.

We will process data given to us by our clients under their instruction in the course of providing services to them. When we do this, we are a data ‘processor’.

Information collected by us:

We may collect personal data about you as follows:

How we use your personal information

Legal Reasons We Collect And Use Your Personal Information

We must identify a legal basis for controlling and processing your data. We rely on a different legal basis depending on the data we are processing and the reason we are processing it. We rely on the following legal bases in these circumstances:

Consent

We use this legal basis in relation to marketing contact, and processing job applications.You always have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent then please contact us by email: clivesey@latitudelaw.com

Legal Obligations

Complying with our responsibilities to regulators and under applicable legislation. Complying with obligations to HMRC regarding records keeping of our financial activity, including information relating to transactions, billing and payments

Performance of a Legal Contract

Delivering services to you under contract and keeping you updated with changes or information relating to those services or your case.Performance of any legal contract as a supplier or customer

Legitimate Interest

We rely on legitimate interest to train our staff so that they can provide an exceptional service to all our clients. There may be scenarios relating to staff engagement with you which we review with them as part of training and development

Who Will We Share Your Personal Information With?

We take client confidentiality very serious and will not share any information entered into any of our software or platforms unless required to do so by law. Other information we process we may share with:

How long will we save your personal data?

Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have several important rights that you can exercise free of charge. In summary, these rights are:

How To Make A Complaint

The General Data Protection Regulation gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The UK supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office who can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

If you are a client and we have made a contract with you by electronic means (website, email, etc.) you may be entitled to use an EU online dispute resolution service to assist with any contractual dispute you may have with us. This service may be found at http://ec.europa.eu/odr. Our email address is :mailto:info@latitudelaw.com

Use of Cookies

We want to make the use of our website easy, useful and reliable. To do this we sometimes place small amounts of information on your device. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally but they do make your experience as a visitor better.

Our site automatically deploys the following cookies on visitors’ computers on arrival at our website, provided cookies are not blocked by the visitors’ browsers.

One of these cookies (CONCRETE5) allows us to maintain the user browsing experience and identify whether the user is logged into restricted areas. This is automatically deleted at the end of the browsing session.

The cookie (cookieNoticeDisplayed) is deployed once a visitor has been flagged about our use of cookies by the pop-out notice. It allows the banner to remain closed as you visit different pages on the site.

In addition the site deploys a number of third party generated cookies because of the integration of various third party applications on the site.

The cookies of which we are aware include:

From Google

PREF, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, NID, docsperf, rememberme, __qca, HSID, APISID, SID

These cookies provide us with information about the numbers of visitors and how they reached us, they also recognise location when used with Google maps and allow the pages to be liked using Google+.
We do not have control over the cookies deployed by Google we are forced to accept them to take advantages of the services this company provides which we believe to be of value to our visitors – their privacy policy which governs their use of cookies can be found here.

General Cookie Advice

You can restrict or block the cookies used by the website through your browser settings but this will impact your user experience. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org which provides directions on how to block cookies on all major browsers. This site also explains how you can delete cookies that have already been stored on your computer as well as general information about cookies.

You should be aware though that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the websites you visit.