Kingsley Solicitors are committed to protecting your personal information when you are using Kingsley Solicitors services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience.
This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through any website owned by Kingsley Solicitors.
In order to provide you with the full range of services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
- what information Kingsley Solicitors may collect about you
- how Kingsley Solicitors will use information we collect about you
- when Kingsley Solicitors may use your details to contact you
- whether Kingsley Solicitors will disclose your details to anyone else
- your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us
- the use of cookies on Kingsley Solicitors website and how you can reject these cookies
As set out above, Kingsley Solicitors is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the “data protection laws”).
The website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any third parties.
What Information will Kingsley Solicitors collect?
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any Kingsley Solicitors website, such as newsletters, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address or telephone number. Different website pages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Kingsley Solicitors to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular website pages we will require you to provide additional personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these website pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
Kingsley Solicitors also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
How will Kingsley Solicitors use the information?
For “service administration purposes”, which means that Kingsley Solicitors may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance); to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide.
To personalise the way Kingsley Solicitors content is presented to you
IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and
to analyse and improve the services offered on our websites e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.
Where Kingsley Solicitors proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
Contact by Kingsley Solicitors
Kingsley Solicitors may contact you:
- in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that Kingsley Solicitors can deliver the services to you
- where you have opted to receive further correspondence
- in relation to any contribution you have made to our websites e.g. on Kingsley Solicitors, blogs or other social media elements
- to invite you to participate in surveys about Kingsley Solicitors services (participation is always voluntary)
- for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this
Kingsley Solicitors won’t contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
Confidentiality
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). We will only use your information within Kingsley Solicitors. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any third parties.
Offensive or inappropriate content
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to any Kingsley Solicitors website, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our websites, Kingsley Solicitors may use your personal information to stop such behaviour. Where Kingsley Solicitors reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), Kingsley Solicitors may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school, e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
Users under 16
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Kingsley Solicitors’ websites. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
How long personal information is held
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Kingsley Solicitors.
Where you contribute to Kingsley Solicitors’ websites, Kingsley Solicitors will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
Finding out what is held
Under the Data Protection Act, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Kingsley Solicitors holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to info@kingsleysolicitors.uk and we will let you know how to send us everything to ensure you receive the information in a timely fashion.
Accessing our websites outside the UK
All Kingsley Solicitors websites are published in the UK by Kingsley Solicitors.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any of Kingsley Solicitors’ websites. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
Cookie Policy
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all the features on Kingsley Solicitors’ websites. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to Kingsley Solicitors’ websites, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
HOW DOES KINGSLEY SOLICITORS USE COOKIES?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience.
Kingsley Solicitors also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to Kingsley Solicitors site on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. Kingsley Solicitors uses this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Clear Kingsley Solicitors strictly requires that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes.