This privacy policy sets out how Adam Solicitors ("us" / "we") use and protect any information that you give us when you use this website.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will be used only in accordance with this privacy policy.
This policy explains areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details, and how your rights under the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) are adhered to.
We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
1. Who we are
Adam Solicitors is a trading name of Adam Solicitors Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 8095600). We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No. 569961). Our office is First Floor, 1-7 Bent Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8NF.
We are the data controller of personal data we hold about you. You can contact us at fiaz@adamsolicitors.co.uk or by telephone on 0161 795 6119.
2. What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- Your name
- Contact information including email address and phone number
- Demographic information such as postcode
- Other information relevant to enquiries made through our site, including details of your legal matter
3. What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping
- To improve our services
- The provision of legal services to you and related purposes, including analysis to help us manage our practice, statutory returns, and legal and regulatory compliance
- Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission (except where we have legitimate interests in doing so), we may use your details to send you information related to our services through a mailing list, in accordance with UK GDPR and PECR
Our use of the information you provide is subject to your instructions, UK data protection law and our duty of confidentiality. Our work for you may require us to give information to third parties such as experts, witnesses and other professional advisers.
4. Security and retention of data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. For this purpose, we will not hold your personal data for any longer than is reasonable. We have taken reasonable steps to protect your information against unauthorised access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, damage and destruction. Nevertheless, any personal data submitted by you is at your own risk.
Whilst Adam Solicitors takes reasonable steps to protect personal information obtained by us, we make no guarantee regarding the security of any information sent to us online, as the internet is not a secure medium and should not be used to send confidential or sensitive information.
5. Use of cookies
This website uses cookies to better understand the user’s experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide users with a tailored experience.
If you wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto your computer’s hard drive, you should take the necessary steps within your web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
6. Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. Google Analytics stores information about the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page, how you got to the site, and what you click on while you are visiting.
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) through Analytics, so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
7. External website links, downloads and social media
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy.
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. Users are advised to verify their authenticity using third-party antivirus software or similar applications.
While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with, such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms.
8. Your rights
Under UK data protection law you may have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict the use of your personal data, to object to processing, and to data portability. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. To exercise your rights, or if you have questions about this policy, contact Adam Solicitors, First Floor, 1-7 Bent Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8NF. Email: fiaz@adamsolicitors.co.uk. Telephone: 0161 795 6119.