Gooch Cunliffe Whale LLP (GCW) recognise the importance of protecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our website and your professional interactions with GCW employees. This Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, safeguard and disclose your personal information. Please note that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our website signifies your understanding and acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may collect from you, or you may choose to provide the following information:
Contact information (for example your name, postal or e-mail address, and phone number)
We may also collect the information about you from third parties, such as, your social media interactions with us (for example, when you “like” a post on social media platforms)
We may use your information to communicate with you in connection with the following:
In order to keep you informed about our latest news and services, we may send you e-mails and marketing communications to the email address you have provided. GCW complies with applicable laws when using your personal information for this purpose, and where applicable relies on your consent.
We may also use your information and client relationship data (collected via a business card with a GCW employee or when you communicate with a GCW employee via phone or email, for example) to provide you with services you request and manage our relationship with you. GCW has a legitimate business interest to use the personal information we collect from you to provide such requested services and in order to be able to service our clients better. With your consent, we may send you information or services of a promotional nature that we consider may be relevant to you.
We may also use the personal information we obtain about you for the following purposes:
We also may use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
We may share your personal information with companies acting as our authorised agents in providing our services, including the following categories of service provider:
We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement agency’s requirements, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property.
We will only retain the personal information we collect about you for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that information was collected, and to the extent permitted by applicable laws. We take steps to ensure that when we no longer need to use your personal information, we remove it from our systems and records.
We may ask you to select whether you would like to receive email and electronic communications from us such as offers, news, reports and other promotional communications. You may withdraw your consent or opt-out of receiving such communications at any time by contacting us.
Additionally, where we process your personal information for our legitimate interests you will have the right to object to such processing. Please be aware that where you object to this sort of processing it may affect our ability to carry out tasks as listed in this policy.
You have rights to request to review, access, correct, delete, port or object to our processing your personal information and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you have any questions or concerns about our personal data policies or practices, please contact us.
You can contact us if you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, have any questions relating to our website, or wish to exclude your personal information from our marketing purposes.
You may contact us by emailing info@gcw.co.uk or writing to us at GCW, 50 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7JS
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