We use the information you provide primarily for the provision of legal services to you and for related purposes including:

• updating and enhancing client records
• analysis to help us manage our practice
• statutory returns
• legal and regulatory compliance

Our use of that information is subject to your instructions, data protection law and our duty of confidentiality.

Please note that our work for you may require us to pass on such information to third parties such as expert witnesses and other professional advisers, including sometimes advisers appointed by another party to your matter. We may also give such information to others who perform services for us, such as typing or photocopying. Our practice may be audited or checked by our accountants or our regulator, or by other organisations. We do not normally copy such information to anyone outside the European Economic Area, however we may do so however when the particular circumstances of your matter so require. All such third parties are required to maintain confidentiality in relation to your files.

You have a right of access under data protection law to the personal data that we hold about you. That includes the right to be informed what we hold, the right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restrict processing, right to data portability, right to object and rights related to automated decision-making including profiling. Further information regarding individual rights can be found at A guide to individual rights | ICO.

We have appointed the following person as our representative for the purposes of the Data Protection Act: Mr Matthew Lord.