Privacy notice
We use the information you provide primarily for the provision of legal or mediation services to you and for related purposes including:
addressing correspondence and related documents to other parties and opponents in any litigation, as well as other agencies such as the courts or Government agencies where relevant to the work we are doing for you
maintaining the financial and other personal information we are required to keep records of clients under the professional rules we are subject to and by law including our obligations to HMRC.
Our use of that information is subject to your instructions, the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016, the Data Protection Act 2018 and our professional duty of confidentiality. Please note that our work for you may require us to give information to third parties such as expert witnesses and other professional advisers. It is also possible that we may have to disclose your details to our bank if they request details of whose monies they are banking through our client account with them.
The legal bases which are relevant to the work we undertake for you are mostly in order that we can satisfactorily perform the contract we have with you and also so that we can protect our interests and those of our professional indemnity insurers in the event of a future claim. We are required by law to retain certain data including identity and address details in order that we can comply with the Government's anti-money laundering controls. We would need your consent to send you future marketing information.
We do not envisage sending any of your personal data outside the UK or the EU. Our storage is cloud based and the provider confirms that they have taken appropriate steps to ensure proper handling of data and have information systems in EU dedicated to customers requiring EU Data Residency.
You have a number of rights as a data subject including the rights to:
be informed of the data we hold on you
have any incorrect or out of date data rectified
cease to receive certain forms of communication or to restrict processing,
take your data elsewhere ("portability")
object to our use of data.
Unlike certain other business concerns, we do not as a law firm involve ourselves in automated decision making and profiling.
The person responsible for data protection compliance is Jake May. You have a right of access under data protection legislation to the personal data that we hold about you and if you would like to make a request to know about this please let me know, preferably in writing stating "data subject access request".
If you are unhappy about the way we are managing your data you have a right to object to the Information Commissioner at Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (tel: 0303 123 1113). Please also see our complaints policy and your rights to complain to the Legal Ombudsman (in respect of legal services complaints) or the Family Mediation Standards Board (in respect of mediation services complaints). In the event that a formal complaint is made to either body, information held by Kelly Family Law Limited pertaining to the complaint may be shared with the relevant body.