Privacy Policy

This policy describes the way that Bluebells Lawyers collects, holds and discloses information about individuals. We may vary this policy from time to time.

Collection of personal information

During the course of carrying on our business, we may collect personal information. We usually collect the following kinds of personal information:

• name, address, occupation, professional membership and contact information
• interests in areas of legal practice or events
• information about people’s dealings with us or our clients.

If you do not give us any of the personal information which we ask you for, it may affect our ability to meet our obligations to you or our clients.

Use and disclosure of personal information

We use your personal information for the purposes for which it was collected and related purposes (which are normally obvious when we collect it), including to:

• provide our services to you or our clients, to manage and account for the services, and to improve the services
• manage our relationships with you or our clients
• provide you or our clients with information about legal developments, events or other products or services that may interest you or them
• facilitate our internal business operations, including to fulfil our legal requirements.

We may share personal information where permitted by law within Bluebells Lawyers and with third parties including our clients, your employer or place of business, or other service providers, including organisations that assist us by providing professional advisory services (for instance, financial, accounting or business consulting services).

Information security

We take reasonable steps to protect all information which we hold (including your personal information) from misuse, loss, modification or disclosure.

We take reasonable steps to hold information securely in electronic or physical form. We store information in access controlled premises or in electronic databases requiring logins and passwords.

Access and correction

You may request access at any time to personal information we hold about you. We may charge you a fee where access is provided. We may refuse to provide access if the National Privacy Principles allow us to do so.