Information you provide to us

Your privacy is important to us. By providing personal information such as your name and email address via the form on this website, you agree to us contacting you with regard to the information you request. Under no circumstances will your personal information be sold or used by any other organisation.

Should you contract or intend to contract with us to provide a service or participate in social media functions on our site or when you report a problem with our site, we will collect and process data about you.

If you apply to work for us, we may need to collect other personal data from you, including for example, data about your education, qualifications and training, work experience and employment, salary and financial information.

Information we receive or obtain from other sources

This is information we receive about you which must be shared with third parties, such as analytics providers and credit reference agencies.

Our recruitment process may involve receiving or obtaining your persona data from employment agencies, social media or recruitment related websites.

Information we monitor about visitors

Our website only uses Session Cookies, which are transient. These cookies are erased when the user closes the Web browser. They do not collect information from the user’s computer.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of www.thelawfactory.net to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: Usage Data. Place of processing USA. Find Google’s Privacy policy here:

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

How we use the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us (or propose to enter into), and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
• to notify you about changes to our service; and
• for our legitimate business interests, for example:
  • to provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
  • to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about services we feel may interest you;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information provided as part of a job application will be used to assess a candidate’s suitability for employment with The Law Factory LLP. It will help us ensure we have the relevant skills and experience to enable us to provide quality professional services to our clients.

Information we collect about you

We will use this information for our legitimate business interests, for example:

• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about services that may interest you or them.

Information we receive or obtain from other sources

We will combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure of your information

You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

Any member of our team and selected third parties including:

• Suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;
• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site; and
• credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

Information concerning a job application made by you will be shared with relevant recruiting managers and partners in The Law Factory LLP who will have input into the screening, interviewing, and wider recruitment process.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

• if we or substantially all, of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about clients 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 to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Law Factory LLP, our clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, prevention of money laundering and credit risk reduction.

 Where and for how long we store your personal data

• The data that we collect from you will be retained in the United Kingdom By submitting your personal data, you agree to this storing or processing. We aim to take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
• Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
• Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Our timescales for retaining personal data are driven primarily by the relevant legislation which applies to the sectors we operate in, the services we provide and the recruitment and employment activity we undertake.

For recruitment purposes, we retain personal data of shortlisted candidates. This helps us address our future talent needs. You may be contacted regarding alternative opportunities, but can opt out of this arrangement at any time.

Linked Websites

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.

Changes to this Policy

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be updated on this page and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. But, to be on the safe side, we request that you read this document each time you use our website to ensure that this Policy still meets with your approval.