Privacy Policy

We are Watts Law Ltd (hereinafter referred to as WLL), and as such, we are the Data Controller for the personal data we may collect from you. At WLL, we take data protection seriously and, as such, are committed to complying with all data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR).

Our contact details are: info@rachelwatts.co.uk.

Purposes of Processing

Your data will be processed to:

• answer any questions you may have via our website or other sources
• provide you with information about our services
• provide legal services under contract to you
• comply with regulatory and other legal obligations
• correspond with you and market to you additional services which may be of interest
• enter into a contractual relationship with you as a supplier or service provider
• protect WLL against potential claims

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are a client or a service provider, then we will process your personal data in order to perform our obligations to you.

Your data will be processed on the basis that WLL has a legitimate interest in being able to achieve the aims of processing set out above. Where special category data is provided, the provider of the data warrants that they consent to WLL processing that data or that they have obtained written consent from the data subject.

Personal Data Held

As a minimum, WLL is required to positively identify its clients. This also includes positively identifying a director in the case of a corporate client. In addition, WLL holds whatever information is provided to it by its clients and others. This may include special category data relevant to the provision of legal services.

Failure to Provide Data

If you fail to provide WLL with the data required you will not receive services or marketing.

Data Sources

WLL obtains most personal data from its clients and those who have indicated that they have an interest in WLL services. WLL also obtains some personal data from other correspondents. WLL also collects some data from publicly available sources (e.g. Companies House, Land Registry).

Recipients

Any data provided by a client is treated as confidential to that client and will only be shared with others insofar as this is necessary to provide the services contracted for by the client, to comply with regulatory and other legal obligations and to protect WLL against a potential claim. In order to provide its services, WLL relies on the services of certain data processors. These include secure cloud storage for files and emails and external consultants instructed to assist with the provision of legal services to its clients. In each case, WLL ensures that data is processed in compliance with this policy.

Third Countries and Safeguards

Other than where required in order to provide services as required in individual client matters data is rarely sent to third countries. Where it is, the relevant devices are password-protected and equipped with tracking and remote wipe software. The devices are personally accompanied.

Retention Period

Data is held in accordance with WLL's data retention policy which is available on request.

Automated Decision-Making

We do not use automated decision-making

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal 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.

If you have any questions or are unhappy about how we handle your data, please contact us at info@rachelwatts.co.uk, and we will do our best to resolve things. Should you still be unhappy, then you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at :

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

Further Details

The Data Controller will provide further details on any of the above upon request.