This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data that we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website will be processed. You should only submit information to us through our website if you agree that we may use that information it in accordance with this policy.

1. Personal Information collected

In addition to the information automatically collected from your computer (see section 3 below), we ask you to provide certain basic contact information in the Legal Updates section of our website. Although it is not compulsory to provide us with this contact information if you do not then we are not able to provide you with the full range of services available through our website, including our Legal Updates by email.

2. Details about us

This website is provided by Sloan Plumb Wood LLP, a limited liability partnership regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and registered in England with registered number OC331797.

We are entered in the Information Commissioner’s Register of Data Controllers with registration number Z1106148.

3. Information automatically collected from your computer

When you visit our website our web server automatically records your IP address. This IP address is not linked to any of your personal information. We use IP addresses to help us administer our website and to keep a record of traffic to our site.

We may also gather other non-personal information (such as the type of internet browser you use)to help us improve the effectiveness of our website.

4. Cookies

When you visit our website we may store some information (commonly known as a “cookie”) on your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the internet. A cookie helps you to get the best out of our website and helps us provide you with a more customised service. We use cookies to track how our website is used and to improve and update our content.

You can block or erase cookies from your computer if you want to (your browser’s help screen or manual should tell you how to do this), but certain parts of our website are reliant on the use of cookies to operate and may not work correctly if you set your browser not to accept them.

5. What we do with your information

We use the information provided by you in the Legal Updates section of our website to provide you with any legal updates or other content and services that you subscribe for.

In addition we may send you information from time to time about the services which Sloan Plumb Wood LLP provide. You can tell us to stop sending you information about our services using the information that you have submitted on our website by sending an email to unsubscribe@spw-law.co.uk with the word ‘stop’ as the subject line of your message.

We will not share your information with other third parties other than as specified in section 6 below.

6. Disclosure of your information

We may disclose or share your information with the following third parties:

- Suppliers who process information on our behalf, such as our IT service providers. They will have incidental access to your information but will be obliged to act only on our instructions and to keep your information secure;

- Law enforcement or regulatory bodies or any other body pursuant to any legal obligation incumbent on us, if required by them to do so;

- Another organisation in the context of any merger or sale of the business of the firm or a part of the business of the firm including any preceding discussions or negotiations that may or may not lead to a merger or sale;

7. How we keep your information secure

Only authorised personnel and contractors have access to your information.

We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage.

8. Changes to your Details

We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to update the details that you have supplied us with, please contact us at updates@spw-law.co.uk.

9. Transferring your information outside of Europe

Data protection legislation is harmonised throughout the European Economic Area (‘EEA’). Due to the way the internet works it is possible that information which you provide to us could be routed via countries outside the EEA (this does not constitute a ‘transfer’ under the legislation), but unless you are located outside the EEA we will not deliberately transfer any information we collect from you outside the EEA without your permission or as permitted by law.

10. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may amend our policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, data protection law or other legislation. Any changes we make to the policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

11. Further information

If at any time you would like to contact us with your views about our privacy policy, or with an enquiry about your personal information, you can do so by sending an email to us at enquiries@spw-law.co.uk or write to us at Sloan Plumb Wood LLP, Apollo House, Isis Way, Minerva Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6QR.