Bishop Akers LLP ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use) and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.bishopakers.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.  

 

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018, and the UK GDPR  (the 'Data Protection Act'), the data controller is Bishop Akers LLP (trading as Bishop Akers & Co.) of Haven House, 193 Swanley Lane, Swanley, BR8 7LA.   

 

 

We may collect and process the following data about you: 

 

 

You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.bishopakers.co.uk (“our site”) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you send an enquiry via our site and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and the content of any correspondence. 

 

 

With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information: technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;  

information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.  

 

 

We may receive information about you if you use any of the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site.  

 

 

We use information held about you in the following ways: 

 

 

We may use this information to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us; to notify you about changes to our service; to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.  

 

Information we collect about you.  

 

We may use this information to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure. 

 

Information we receive from other sources.  

 

We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive). 

 

Disclosure of your information 

 

We may share your information with third parties including suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.

 

in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if Bishop Akers & Co. or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets; if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Bishop Akers & Co., our clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. 

 

 

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). Such transfers shall be in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and shall be subject to appropriate safeguards. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Bishop Akers & Co. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable data protection laws. 

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Our permission to use your information 

When you instruct us to act for you, we will enter into a contract with you to provide you with legal services. Our letter of engagement will contact terms and conditions which set out your rights and obligations more clearly, however, we may require further personal information from you as part of our engagement. We will use this personal data to carry out our contractual obligations to you. 

In order to ensure we provide a high standard of service we keep a record of our interaction with you as governed by our retention policy. In addition, some of the information you provide may be subject to regulatory and legal retention requirements. 

 

We do not collect data for marketing purposes.   

 

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

The Data Protection Act affords you several rights regarding our use of your personal data. You have the right to:

- be informed of how we process your data, via this privacy policy, our engagement letter, and other communication from us as issued from time to time; 

- Access any of your personal data held by us;

- Rectify any errors in the personal data we hold;

- Request erasure of any personal data we hold, subject to our legal and regulatory obligations concerning the retention of data;

- Restrict processing of your personal data by us; 

- Request we port your data to another party; 

- Object to how we use your personal data in certain circumstances; and

- Not be subjected to automated decision making. 

Should you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us either by telephone or by email at info@bishopakers.co.uk.

 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. 

 

 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@bishopakers.co.uk 

Bishop Akers LLP is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number ZA447823