Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice
The MaxLaw Solicitors Ltd at 1st floor, 210 Ilford Ln, Ilford IG1 2LW is a Recognised Body Law Practice of solicitors, lawyers and paralegals providing legal services. The MaxLaw Solicitors is comprised of employed and self-employed solicitors, lawyers and paralegals who work under the umbrella of the Practice.
This policy explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it securely. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Responsibilities
The MaxLaw Solicitors acknowledges its obligations as a data controller and data processor.
Information provided by you
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
How do we collect information?
You provide us with personal data when you contact us online, by email or by telephone. Personal data we collect and process may include first name, last name and contact details, IP address, cookies and information regarding the pages of our website that you have accessed and when. This data is essential for us to provide legal services to you.
MaxLaw Solicitors complies with its obligations under the GDPR:
- By collecting and retaining only data necessary to pursue MaxLaw Solicitors ’s legitimate business interests;
- By ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal Data
- By keeping personal data up to date;
- By storing and destroying data securely.
What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
The legal basis of our holding your personal data is for legitimate business interests.
Disclosure
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. Except for legitimate business interests or to meet health and safety obligations, MaxLaw Solicitors will not share your personal data with third parties without obtaining your prior consent.
Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfill the service they provide on our behalf.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We will retain your data for as short a period as possible. The retention period may vary depending on the nature of the data. It will also take into account our need to meet any legal, statutory and regulatory obligations. In all cases our need to use your personal information will be reassessed on a regular basis and information, which is no longer required, will be disposed of.
Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights that you can exercise in certain circumstances. Where those circumstances are established, you may have the right to:
- Ask for access to your personal information and other supplementary information;
- Ask for correction of mistakes in your data or to supplement information Solicitors’ Inn Limited holds on you;
- Ask for your personal information to be erased;
- Receive a copy of the personal information you have provided or have this information sent to a third party;
- Object at any time to processing of your personal information for direct marketing;
- Object to the continued processing of your personal information;
- Restrict MaxLaw Solicitors processing of your personal information.
If you want to exercise any of these rights, or for any further enquiries relating to data protection Limited please contact at sa@maxlawsolicitors.co.uk or write to Data Protection, MaxLaw 1st floor, 210, Ilford Lane, Ilford, United Kingdom
You may also raise a complaint directly with the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.