Personal Data You Provide

Your privacy is important to us. By providing personal information such as your name and e-mail address via the forms on this website, you agree to us contacting you with regard to the information provided.
Some forms on our website also include a check box asking you for permission to add you to our mailing list. This is an opt-in mailing list and your personal information will be used solely by us (and all such emails include a link for opt-out).

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use the data you provide via this website to:

• communicate with you, for example: we use contact details such as email address or phone number when responding to enquiries made via online forms
• monitor website usage
• operate our business more effectively, for example: we seek feedback and use this to help improve our service

Our Lawful Reasons For Processing Your Personal Data

The UK General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (UK GDPR) is the primary piece of legislation defining your rights over our processing of your personal information. The UK GDPR requires us to declare which of six “lawful reasons” we are relying on when we are processing your personal data: we operate on the basis of “consent” when sending newsletters (you won’t get sent a newsletter unless you have explicitly opted in to receive one)…. and we operate on the basis of “legitimate interest” when communicating with you in other ways (e.g. when responding to your enquiry).

How Long We Keep Personal Data

Personal data may be stored by the website for a period of up to 90 days after which time it is removed automatically.

Transfer of Personal Data

From time to time we may pass personal data such as your name and email address to other services that we use to send out newsletters and other communications (both electronic and print). Companies based outside the UK are permitted destinations under UK GDPR legislation, as long as the country, territory, sector or international organisation is covered by the ‘adequacy regulations’ or by the ‘appropriate safeguards’ set out within that legislation. Many popular US products like Gmail, Dropbox and Mailchimp are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We use Microsoft 365 Copilot, a secure AI-powered tool integrated within our Microsoft Office environment, to assist with internal data processing and productivity tasks. This tool operates within our existing IT infrastructure and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the EU Data Boundary requirements. Microsoft 365 Copilot does not use your personal data to train its underlying AI models, and all data processed remains within our secure Microsoft 365 environment.

We do not use any other AI platforms or services for processing client data. Clients are expressly prohibited from inputting, uploading, or otherwise sharing any data or documents originating from our firm into external AI tools or platforms (including but not limited to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or other generative AI services), whether for personal or professional use.

This policy is in place to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your personal data and our professional obligations under data protection legislation.

Questions or Complaints

In the first instance we hope you will contact us directly with any questions or complaints (contact details are displayed prominently on this website). However, legal rights regarding privacy are the remit of the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and you will find more information about how to complain here