This Privacy Notice provides information about the way we hold, collect and use your personal
information (data) in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and General Data
Protection Regulations (GDPR). We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of
visitors to our website and the protection of your personal information is very important to us.
Rucklidge Law Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 12098511.
The Registered Office is Roscarrs Barn, 3 Roscarrs, East Common Lane, Barlow, Selby, YO8 8EG.
Rucklidge Law Limited is a data controller and registered with the Information Commissioner’s
Office. Our Data Protection contact is Jill Rucklidge, Rucklidge Law Limited, Roscarrs Barn, 3
Roscarrs, East Common Lane, Barlow, Selby, YO8 8EG. Telephone 0113 880 0864. Email
[email protected].
Most pages on our website can be accessed without giving us your personal information.
However, you may choose to provide us with your personal information such as your name,
address, email details to confirm you wish us to contact you to receive further information about
us and our services. This may be through an enquiry form, requesting marketing literature,
telephoning us or calling into our office with an enquiry, expressing an interest at a seminar or
event. We may also monitor telephone calls or emails to provide services and manage our
clients’ matters, for internal training purposes and to improve client service. By submitting your
personal information you consent to our use of the information as set out in this Privacy Notice.
We may also contact you to follow up about enquiries you have made with us. If you engage us
to carry out work on your behalf, you will be provided with a copy of our Privacy Notice for
clients. If you do not agree to our use of your personal information in this way, please refrain
from using our website, or contacting us with an enquiry.
A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store
it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen the pages to determine how
frequently particular pages are visited, and to determine the most popular areas of our website.
We use cookies so that we can give you a better experience when you return to our website.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You do not have to accept cookies and you
should read the information that came with your browser software to see how you can set up
your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This will give you the opportunity to
decide whether to accept it. Refusing cookies may mean that you cannot access certain feature
of our website.
Please note any cookies connected via our social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook etc
are not within our control. Please refer to their respective privacy policies about how their
cookies work.
Google Analytics may be used to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor
behaviour patterns. This is to establish details such as the number of visitors to various pages
of our website. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify any individual.
We do not make, or allow Google to make any attempt to identify those individuals visiting our
website.
When you visit our website, we may collect information about your device and IP address for
reasons of fraud and statistical data about user browsing actions and patterns, but this does not
identify any individual.
We will only use your personal information were the law allows us to. Generally this will be for
one or more of the following circumstances:
Personal information provided by you when contacting us about our services, will be disclose
to our personnel to facilitate any enquiries you have, or for the provision of services to you. It
may also be disclosed to companies we work with who support us in providing those services
(where applicable), such as IT hosting companies. Where we use external companies to process
your personal information, we require third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and
data protection laws and we will make sure that appropriate controls are in place where third
parties have access to personal data. We enter into contracts with all of our data processors and
regularly monitor their activities to ensure they are complying with our policies and procedures.
In the course of carrying out the activities referred to above, we may transfer your persona
information to other countries, which may not have the same legal protections as your personal
information in the UK.
Where personal information is being transferred outside of the European Economic Area we will
take steps to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected in accordance with
UK legal requirements.
It is important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep
us informed if there are changes to the personal information we hold about you.
By law you have the right to:
If you wish to inform us of any changes, object, withdraw consent for us processing your personal
data or access the information we hold about you, please contact Jill Rucklidge. Please note in
some cases we may not be able to delete, correct, restrict or grant an objection to processing
your personal data if we have a legal obligation, legitimate interest or contractual reason to
process it. If we refuse such a request, we will advise you, together with your right of appeal.
If you are requesting access to personal information, please also let us have sufficient
information to identity you (including proof of your identity and address – e.g. a copy of your
passport, driving licence and a recent utility bill or bank or credit card statement). You should
also let us know the information to which your request relates, including any matter or reference
numbers if you have them. This request is free of charge unless the request is manifestly
unfounded or excessive.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern your raise about our use of your personal
information. If you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise you have the right
to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner, who is the supervisory authority for
data protection in the UK. They may be contacted at www.ico.org.uk or telephone 0303 123 1113.
Further information about your rights can also be found on their website.
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or
under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with
personal information.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. If you use our website regularly, please
visit this page from time to time to check this notice.
