PRIVACY POLICY

Purposes of Processing

Your data will be processed in order to:

  • market Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors services to you;
  • provide services under contract to you and others;
  • comply with regulatory and other legal obligations, and
  • protect Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors against potential claims.

Legal Basis

Your data will be processed on the basis that Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors have Legitimate interest in being able to achieve the aims of processing the data as set out above. Where special category data is provided, the provider of data warrants that they consent to Stephens Happyman & Co Solicitors processing the data or that they have obtained written consent from the data subject.

Personal Data Held

As a minimum, Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors are required to positively identify its clients. This also includes positively identifying a

director in the case of a corporate client. In addition, Stephens Happyman & Co. holds whatever information is provided to it by its clients

and others .This will rarely include special category data.

Failure to Provide Data – If you fail to provide Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors  with the data required you will not receive services or marketing.

Data Sources

Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors Obtains most Personal data from its clients and those who have indicated that they have an interest in Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors Services. we also obtains some personal data from other correspondents received or used in the course of carrying out clinet’s instructions. Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors also collects some data from publicly available sources (e.g Companies House and other publicly available records).

Recipients

Any data provided by a client is treated as confidential to that    client and will only be shared with others in so far as this is necessary in order to provide the services contracted for by the client, to comply with regulatory and other legal obligations and to protect Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors against a potential claim. In order to provide its services, Stephens Happyman & Co relies on the services of certain data processors. These include secure cloud storage for files and emails. In each case, Stephens Happyman & Co. Solicitors ensures that data is processed in compliance with this policy.

Third Countries and Safeguards

Other than where required in order to provide services as required in individual clients matters, data are rarely sent to third countries. Where it is, the relevant devices are passworded and equipped with tracking and remote wipe softeware. The device are personally accompanied.

Retention Period

Data is held for six years from the end of the relevant matter or for six years where not associated with a particular matter.

Data Subject’s Rights 

Where relevant, you have the right (subject to client

confidentiality) to:

  • withdraw consent to the processing of your data;
  • complainto a supervisory authority regarding the processing of

your data (https://ico.org.uk/); and

  • obtaina copy of the data held on you and correction of any errors in that

Automated Decision Making 

Not Applicable.

Cookies

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Use of this website

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Responsibility for Policy

Responsibility for this policy, including an annual documented review, is that of Data Controller.