The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. Byrne Frodsham & Co. is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We will only use personal information on the basis set out in the Privacy Notice which sets out the different ways in which we collect, manage, process, store and share information about you, and how you can control the use of your data.

The Type of Personal Information we Collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

Personal identifiers contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details)

Date of birth

Financial information (where relevant and applicable to your case)

How We Get The Personal Information And Why We Have It

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

To undertake legal services that we provide

To process payments for our services or the services of third parties used in connection with your case

Undertaking checks with third parties

To update our data base and maintain records of documents we hold

Compliance with the law and regulations governing our practice

Carrying out anti-money laundering and identity checks

Providing information to third parties where required in order to assist with your case

We may also receive personal information indirectly from the following sources:

experts, banks, lenders, agents.

We use the information that you have given us in order to process your matter.

We may share this information with other organisations or individuals such as: specialists and other experts, barristers, lenders, the court.

Under the UK GDPR, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

1.     Your consent.  You are able to remove your consent at any time.  You do this by contacting the
Data Controller, Mr Charles Asbury.
2.     We have a contractual obligation
3.     We have a legal obligation
4.     We have a vital interest
5.     We need it to perform as public task
6.     We have a legitimate interest

How We Store your Personal Information

Your information is securely stored.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Right of access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information

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.

Right to erasure – you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Right to Restriction of Processing – you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Right to Object to Processing – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

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 wish to make a request please contact us at:

mail@byrnefrodsham.co.uk

Tel: 0151 424 5601

Byrne Frodsham & Co. 1-3 Deacon Road, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 6EB

How to Complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information you can make a complaint to us using the above contact details.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Helpline number:  0303 123 1133

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk