Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2024-06-27

Updated on: 2024-07-10

 

Your privacy is important to us

We’d like you to know how we collect and use information and what we do to safeguard any information you give us.

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If, after reading our Privacy Information, you have any questions, just send an email to Head of Risk and Compliance at Risk&ComplianceBirmingham@thompsons.law and we’ll get back to you. For more details of how we process personal data, please read our Privacy Information document.

We do not collect and keep personal information about people who visit our website without making any further inquiry.

We keep a record of the name, contact details, union membership and brief details about the inquiry of anyone whose only contact with us is making an inquiry or asking for advice by telephone, email or letter.  We do this to provide our telephone service and to manage the service. This information is confidential and cannot be disclosed to any third parties because of legal professional privilege. We may use the information to provide statistics and management information to trade unions but this will not include any personal information.

 

This Privacy Policy explains the policies of Thompsons Solicitors on the collection and use of the information we collect when you access https://www.thompsons.law (the “Service”). This Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights and how you are protected under privacy laws.

By using our Service, you are consenting to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please do not access or use our Service if you do not consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Thompsons Solicitors is authorised to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. This may occur without prior notice.

Thompsons Solicitors will post the revised Privacy Policy on the https://www.thompsons.law website

Collection and Use of Your Personal Information

Information We Collect

When using our Service, you will be prompted to provide us with personal information used to contact or identify you. https://www.thompsons.law collects the following information:

  • Usage Data

Usage Data includes the following:

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address of computers accessing the site
  • Web page requests
  • Referring web pages
  • Browser used to access site
  • Time and date of access

How We Use Your Information

https://www.thompsons.law may use your information for the following purposes:

  • For other purposes. Thompsons Solicitors will use your information for data analysis to identify usage trends or determine the effective of our marketing campaigns when reasonable. We will use your information to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, and marketing efforts.

How We Share Your Information

Thompsons Solicitors will share your information, when applicable, in the following situations:

  • With your consent. Thompsons Solicitors will share your information for any purpose with your explicit consent.

Third-party Sharing

Your information may be disclosed for additional reasons, including:

  • Complying with applicable laws, regulations, or court orders.
  • Responding to claims that your use of our Service violates third-party rights.
  • Enforcing agreements you make with us, including this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Websites use cookies to help users navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. Cookies that are required for the website to operate properly are allowed to be set without your permission. All other cookies need to be approved before they can be set in the browser.

  • Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.
  • Performance cookies. Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
  • Targeting cookies. Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.
  • Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website, eg. language, timezone, enhanced content.
  • Unclassified cookies. Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorisation.

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We use a third party analytics tool called Google Analytics to collect and report on the data from these cookies. Google Analytics allows us to see how our visitors are interacting with our website. We are able to assess the number of visitors coming to our website, how they arrived at our website, what pages they navigated to and how long they spent on the various pages. Please visit the Google Privacy Policy for more information: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

The following list is automatically updated by our Cookie management software

Security

Your information’s security is important to us. https://www.thompsons.law utilises a range of security measures to prevent the misuse, loss, or alteration of the information you have given us. However, because we cannot guarantee the security of the information you provide us, you must access our service at your own risk.

Thompsons Solicitors is not responsible for the performance of websites operated by third parties or your interactions with them. When you leave this website, we recommend you review the privacy practices of other websites you interact with and determine the adequacy of those practices.

Contact Us

For any questions, please contact us through the following methods:

Name: Thompsons Solicitors

Address: Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LW

Email: Risk&ComplianceBirmingham@thompsons.law

Website: https://www.thompsons.law

Phone: 0800 0 224 224

For any queries or concerns you have related to the processing of your information, you may contact our Privacy Officer at Risk & Compliance, Risk&ComplianceBirmingham@thompsons.law.

This document replaces: https://www.thompsons.law/privacycookie-policy

https://www.thompsons.law/privacycookie-settings