Appleman Legal ("we", "us") of Studio 7, The Trampery, 639 High Road, London, N17 8AA is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This notice explains how we collect, use and store personal information provided through applemanlegal.com and in the course of providing our legal services, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
1. Information we collect
We may collect your name, contact details including email address and phone number, demographic information such as your postcode, and other information relevant to enquiries made through our site or your instructions to us. Depending on your matter this may include details of your immigration history, family circumstances, health or mental capacity, which we treat with particular care.
2. How we use your information
- to respond to your enquiry, provide legal advice and act on your instructions;
- to assess your eligibility for legal aid and to manage fixed fees and billing;
- for internal record keeping and to improve our services;
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Aid Agency;
- to send you information about our services where you have given your express permission (you can unsubscribe at any time).
3. Sharing your information
We will not transfer your personal details to any third party for direct marketing without your permission. We only share information where necessary to act for you or where required by law — for example with the Home Office, the courts and tribunals, the Legal Aid Agency, barristers, interpreters or experts instructed in your case, or our regulators. Third-party service providers who process data on our behalf, including our website provider, do so under a data protection compliant contract.
4. Security and retention
We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect your information against unauthorised access, unlawful processing, accidental loss, damage and destruction. We do not hold your personal data for longer than is reasonable for the purposes above and to meet our legal, regulatory and insurance requirements.
5. Cookies and analytics
This website uses cookies to understand how visitors use the site, including Google Analytics, which records the pages you visit, how long you spend on them and how you reached the site. This information cannot be used to identify you. You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings.
6. Your rights
You have the right to access, correct or erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing and to data portability. To exercise these rights, please email info@applemanlegal.com or call 0207 183 0335. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
7. Changes to this policy
Appleman Legal may update this privacy policy from time to time. The current version will always be available on this page, so please check it periodically.