McKenzia Solicitors
Law Firm

At McKenzia Solicitors we are committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure. It is important for you to know that when you use our website we can collect information about you. We have an obligation to process and collect any personal information lawfully, safely and securely. Therefore we provide you with details of our policy. Our privacy notice is designed to explain how we collect and use your information as well as other details which we think you should know about.

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What Does This Notice Cover?

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Our Privacy Information explains how we use your personal data, how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. Your rights are also explained under the law relating to your personal data.

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What is Personal Data?

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The General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) defines Personal data as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’. Personal data is any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

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1. Who we are

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McKenzia Solicitors, is a Law Firm in England & Wales. Our registered office is McKenzia Solicitors Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9BB. Our Email addresses include but not limited to: Info@MckenziaSolicitors.com or Enquiries@McKenziaSolicitors.com. Our contact number is 020 8187 8464 or 078 7636 4833. We are regulated and authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The SRA Code of Conduct sets out the regulatory framework imposed on service providers such as ours. More information can be found on the SRA Website at www.sra.org.uk. McKenzia Solicitors operates the website www.McKenziaSolicitors.com.

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    2. What type of Information we have

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When you visit our website we can gather information about you. The information we collect may include your personal information, such as your name, contact information, IP addresses or other information that identify you individually.

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    3. Who regulates our use of personal information

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McKenzia Solicitors is a data controller under the data protection rules and is registered by the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can email our Data Protection Officer, Caroline Mugova a Solicitor Advocate at dataprotection@McKenziaSolicitors.com.

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   4. How we get the information and why do we have it

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Please also note that all the personal information we receive from you is also treated with the strictest of confidentiality. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us at dataprotection@McKenziaSolicitors.com or clicking the unsubscribe button on any marketing emails which we send to you at anytime.

(b) We have a legal obligation.

(c) We have a vital interest and may need to respond to your enquiry submitted to us online or would like to send you some of our marketing material which you have subscribed to.

(f) We have a legitimate interest.

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We may process your personal information (where we have received this directly from you or from another source) if:

• You are a client or prospective client

• You use our website or other services we may provide through our website

• You are an individual within any third party we engage with such as our suppliers or other service providers such as marketing agencies

• A client has provided us with your information

• You have been referred to us from a third party or we have collected information about you from another third party​

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   5. What we do with the information

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If you fill in a form on our website, or contact us via other means such as email, telephone or by post, we will collect the information you provide when you contact us, such as your name and contact details. We will use this personal information to:

• Send you the information you have requested, for example about our products and services

• Respond to your enquiry.

When you visit our website we will also collect your personal information via cookies. We use both essential and non-essential cookies on our website which collect information such as your browsing patterns and information about the device you are using. We may use this information to inform our marketing and future business strategies. 

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   6. How we store your information

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We will retain personal information for a period of seven years after the termination of our business relationship with you, other than:

• Where we have a legal obligation to hold the personal information for longer than 7 years

• The recordings of telephone calls which will be held for longer than 7 years.

• In the event of a death, we will only be considered to know of the death where we are expressly told.

Where we have said that your personal information is used in order to comply with statutory requirements, carry out a contract with you or to take steps to enter into that contract, we will need you to provide the personal information requested. If you don’t provide the personal information we need when we ask for it, we may not be able to respond to you, enter into a contract with you, meet our obligations under the contract, or comply with our legal obligations. If you have any concerns about whether you need to provide your personal information please contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@McKenziaSoliciors.com

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   7. Your data protection rights

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Under data protection law, you have rights including:

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1. Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

2. Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

3. Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

4. Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

5. Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

6. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

7. Please contact us at dataprotection@McKenziasolicitors.com or telephone us on 020 8187 8464 if you wish to make a request.

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8. How to Complain

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You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

 

 

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

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