Collins Benson Goldhill LLP (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use Terms of Use) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018. (the Act), the data controller is Collins Benson Goldhill LLP (Company registration number OC320452) of 26/28 Great Portland Street, London W1W 8QT.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and any personal data you provide us with.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise.
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.
Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the list below:
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
In general, any information you provide to us will only be used within Collins Benson Goldhill LLP. We will ensure that all personal information supplied by you to us is held securely in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To notify you about changes to our service.
To provide you with information, legal updates, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To send marketing communications to you relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you by post, or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email, text message or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by emailing us at cbg@cbglaw.co.uk).
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties.
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Collins Benson Goldhill LLP or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Collins Benson Goldhill LLP, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
You have the right to request that we delete your personal information from our records at any time.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.
We may update this policy from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of the website. If we do so, the updated version will appear on this page of the website and will be effective as soon as it is uploaded. We recommend that you visit this page each time you visit our site to check whether our policy has changed and whether or not you are happy with such changes.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to cbg@cbglaw.co.uk.
Collins Benson Goldhill is a limited liability partnership registered in England under number OC320452, registered office 26/28 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QT and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Any reference to a partner means a member of the LLP or an employee with equivalent standing and qualifications. Collins Benson Goldhill is Lexcel accredited.
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