Amanah Solicitors (a trading name of Amanah Legal Limited), Tower Bridge Business Centre, 46-48 East Smithfield, London E1W 1AW, is responsible for personal information collected through www.amanahsolicitors.co.uk and in the course of providing our legal services. You can contact us on 020 3468 0200 or by email at info@amanahsolicitors.co.uk.
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
- Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details).
- Financial and tax related information (for example, payslips and tax returns).
- Identity related information (for example, passports and driving licences).
How we get the personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you in order to enable us to advise and represent you in your legal matters, and to prepare and submit applications and returns to the courts, government agencies and other third party organisations on your behalf.
We also receive personal information indirectly from the Home Office in connection with immigration applications, from HMRC and the courts and tribunals, and from other third party organisations such as credit reference agencies where we need specific information about you as part of our regulatory or legal obligations or to provide legal services to you.
We use this information to perform our role as solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We may share it with third party organisations as part of our regulatory and/or legal obligations and/or to provide legal services.
Our lawful bases for processing
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- Your consent. You can remove your consent at any time by contacting us using the details above.
- We have a contractual obligation.
- We have a legal obligation.
- We have a legitimate interest.
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored. We are legally required to keep our files for six years after a matter is completed, after which we dispose of your information by deleting your personal data.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Your right of access: to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Your right to rectification: to ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate or complete information you think is incomplete.
- Your right to erasure: to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to restriction of processing: to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to object to processing: to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to data portability: to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at the address above if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details above.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office if you are unhappy with how we have used your data: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; helpline 0303 123 1113; www.ico.org.uk.