Use of this website by you constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to accept this Privacy Policy, please leave this website immediately.
The purpose of this policy is:
- to assure you that we recognise and fully respect the privacy and personal data of the visitors to this website and
- to explain what personal information we collect from this website and how we ensure its best protection.
This privacy policy covers only information which is collected by the Law Society from this website. It does not cover information which the Law Society holds about solicitors and other regulated persons in pursuance of its statutory functions and duties under the Solicitors Act 1974.
Data protection
The Law Society complies with the Data Protection Act 1998. It is the data controller and sole owner of the personal data collected on this website.
The Law Society does not sell, share or transfer this information except as set out in this privacy policy.
We use up-to-date industry procedures to keep personal data as safe and secure as possible and to protect against loss, unauthorised disclosure or access.
The Law Society uses your information for the purposes of advertising, marketing and public relations and only for long as necessary for those purposes.
You can request a copy of the details that we hold about you. A small fee may be payable.
For more information please refer to our Data Protection Policy
Registration and registration information
It is not necessary for you to register with us in order to access this website. But if you do register it will allow us to personalise our services and offer you some additional benefits.
If you do register, you are responsible for protecting your password and user name and must not share them with or disclose them to anyone else.
When you register, the basic personal information about you which we collect is: your name; your user type (e.g. solicitor, trainee solicitor, law student, member of the public); your email address; your user ID and password. Depending on what you are registering for, additional information may be collected.
We use this information to improve our services to you, for example, by providing you by e-mail with an update of information about our services and products.
Email job alerts
You can also request email job alerts to be received either in plain text or html versions, with the frequency available on either a daily or weekly basis.
Changing the information we hold about you
If you would like to change the registration information we hold about you or want to it to be removed from our registration database, or if you want to change the email address at which you receive email job alerts or the format or frequency of the email job alerts, you may do so by returning to the personalisation area and changing or removing your details as you wish.
Third Parties
We do not at present forward the information collected about you to any third parties except (a) to those whom you have asked us to send information as part of your application for jobs on the website and (b) where required by law to do so. However, we reserve the right to change this position at any time. If the Law Society choose to employ the services of a third party it will inform you, but the change will only apply in relation to information which we collect from you after we have informed you of the change. We will not disclose any information we have already collected about you without your consent other than where required to do so by law. At all times, the Law Society will control and be responsible for the use of your information.
Cookies
This site does not use cookies
Changes to Privacy Policy
The internet and data privacy best practice are both developing. We therefore reserve the right to revise this policy at any time. If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
Consent
By using this website you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the manner set out above. |
