Terms & conditions
The following terms apply to the Walker Morris Website ("our Website") and your use of our Website constitutes your agreement to these terms:
- The information that is made available on our Website is intended for general information purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice or any other type of advice. We accept no liability for any loss arising as a result of reliance on the information contained on our Website.
- This website is owned by Walker Morris Solicitors and is protected by copyright and database rights. You acknowledge that all trade marks (registered or unregistered) used in providing this service shall remain the property of Walker Morris Solicitors at all times.
- You shall not copy, adapt, exploit or otherwise use the information contained on our Website in any way, save for the downloading and temporary storage of one or more of these pages for the purpose of viewing on a personal computer or terminal.
- For the avoidance of doubt you shall not be entitled to reproduce, permanently store, or retransmit the contents of our Website without our prior written consent.
- Whilst we retain the right to establish any hypertext links* between our Website and any third party website at our discretion, you agree that you will not create any hypertext links or deep links** between this site and any third party site without our express written consent.
- If you choose to use such a link as detailed in Clause 5 then you will leave our Website (whether or not you realise that you are leaving). We are not responsible in any way for the material on any other website that you enter. We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise in connection with or as a result of such external website material causing any damage, costs, injury of financial loss of any kind.
- While we try and ensure that all information on our Website is accurate, no representation or warranty is given that the content on our Website is accurate, complete, up to date or error free. Use of our Website is at your own risk. We take reasonable steps to prevent viruses and malicious code on our Website but no liability is accepted for them.
- Any personal details we collect from you we will only use in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
- We may change these Terms of Use from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our Website.
- These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Walker Morris is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA), details of which can be accessed on the SRA website (www.sra.org.uk). Our SRA number is 68432. Our VAT number is 481 802 250.
If you have any queries regarding our Website or the information contained on it, please contact Terry Spicer by email at terry.spicer@walkermorris.co.uk by telephone on 0113 283 2500 .
© Walker Morris Solicitors 2005 - 2009. All rights reserved
* hypertext links are a means by which visitors can skip from one website to another or from one page to another within the same site.
** deep link is like a hypertext link but takes the visitors into the website by passing the homepage on the third party website.
PRIVACY POLICY
Our Website is operated by Walker Morris Solicitors which is responsible for the processing of your personal information and is the data controller for all such information. We regard your privacy as very important. Any personal information you provide to us through our Website will be dealt with in accordance with this Privacy Policy, the terms of our engagement letter and the Walker Morris Website Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy describes the information we may collect from you and the purpose for our collection of it.
1 - Data Protection
As data controller we take all necessary steps to comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 and its relevant subordinate legislation when handling any personal information.
1.1 When you supply any personal information to us we will meet our legal obligations to you in the way that we deal with that information.
1.2 In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 we are required to collect personal information fairly and to let you know how we will use it (see paragraph 2 below) and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else (see paragraph 3 below).
1.3 We will comply with the Principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 and we will ensure all personal information supplied to us is held securely (see paragraph 7 below).
1.4 You are entitled to see the personal information that we hold about you and may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. Should you wish to see a copy of the personal information we hold about you please write to Terry Spicer at Walker Morris Solicitors, Kings Court, 12 King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HL, enclosing a cheque or postal order for £10 made payable to Walker Morris Solicitors, to cover our administration costs. As soon as we are satisfied as to your identity we will send you, within 40 days, a copy of all the personal information we hold.
2 - What personal information do we collect and why do we collect it?
2.1 We will collect personal information from you when you respond to requests to submit personal information about yourself through our Website.
2.2 We will use the personal information supplied by you to keep a record of the services you have subscribed to, to deliver services you may have requested, to inform you of legal developments that may affect you or to inform you of new products, services or events which we think may be of interest to you.
2.3 If you have provided us with your contact details, we may contact you by telephone, mail, e-mail or fax. We will not contact you for direct marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish us to use your personal information for this purpose when we collected the information.
You can at any time contact us if you should decide you no longer wish to receive marketing information by writing to Terry Spicer at Walker Morris Solicitors, Kings Court, 12 King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HL or sending an e-mail to terry.spicer@walkermorris.co.uk
3 - To whom will we supply your personal data?
We will only supply your personal information to another person or organisation:
3.1 Where we need to share the information to provide a product or service you have requested.
3.2 Where we need to send the information to persons or organisations who work on our behalf to provide a product or service to you but such persons or organisations may only use this information in order to provide such product or service on our behalf and not for any other purpose. Where such a person or organisation does work on our behalf we will ensure that they take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal information.
3.3 Where we are required to supply the information in order to comply with the law or the requirements of a regulatory authority.
4 - Links to other websites
This Privacy Policy only extends to our Website and does not, therefore, extend to your use of, provision of information to and collection of information on any website not connected to Walker Morris Solicitors to which you may link by using the hypertext links within this website.
5 - Cookies
We do not use cookies or webbugs on our Website.
6 - Security
6. 1 Walker Morris Solicitors take great care to ensure the security of our Website and your personal information. We use up to date industry security measures and procedures to keep personal information as safe and secure as possible against access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.
7 - Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may edit or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on the Home page of our Website.
8 - Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or any other aspect of our Website please contact:
Terry Spicer
Kings Court
12 King Street
Leeds
LS1 2HL
Tel: 0113 283 2500
Email: terry.spicer@walkermorris.co.uk
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