This is the privacy notice for Marram Law Limited. This privacy notice tells you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website or otherwise if you work or communicate with us and it tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Marram collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website or otherwise when you communicate or interact with us in the course of business.
We are the data controller of your personal data. We are responsible for its security and for ensuring that we use it only for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights referred to at section 9 below, please contact us using the details set out below.
We are Marram Law Limited, with registered office at 15 Stratton Street, London, W1J 8LQ. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, registration number ZB675153.
If you need to contact us for any reason in connection with your personal data, please email: data@marram.law
Although you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk), we would, of course, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns about data protection directly, so please contact us in the first instance.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data:
We do not generally share your information with third parties although sometimes we are required to do so in the course of providing our legal services.
In the course of the provision of our services, and as you would expect of any operating business, we will need to share your personal data with the following:
We do not allow these companies to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
Unless you work for a company outside the UK or European Economic Area, we do not as a matter of course, transfer your personal information outside the UK or the European Economic Area. Should we need to do so, we would ensure any transfer was compliant with the UK’s data protection laws.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We are only permitted to keep information for as long as it is necessary to do so.
Generally speaking, client files are destroyed seven years after we have stopped working on that file. Certain original documents or files may need to be kept longer if there is a risk of destroying something which is needed. We will also always keep a small amount of information after file closure to do conflict or interest searches in the future and to otherwise comply with our professional duties.
You have the right in certain circumstances to:
For more information on these rights and when they apply see:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights).
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.