Mathys & Squire LLP takes user privacy very seriously because we know that your privacy on the Web is very important to you. That’s why protecting your personal information is of the utmost importance. We seek to comply with the UK Data Protection Act 1998.

By appropriate adjustment of the privacy settings on your computer, you can visit this Website without telling us who you are or providing us with any information. However, we may use any information that you do provide about yourself and/or your business when using the Website to answer your enquiries or to help us to improve our service to you. We do not share this information with third parties except to the extent necessary to answer your enquiries and solely on the understanding that the third party will treat the information in confidence. We may collect the e-mail addresses of those who send us e-mail messages, and we may use these e-mail addresses to respond to those messages. We will not share those addresses with any third party. We may also send you e-mails if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1. Comply with law or comply with legal process served upon us or our agents

2. Protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users or

3. Protect the personal safety of our users or the public

Excepting the above, we will only use your personal information for purposes for which you have consented, although we may store information you have provided in order to contact you with legal and/or practice updates and information about our services which may be of interest to you. Where you provide us with an e-mail address, we may contact you by e-mail. You have the right at any time to ask us not to contact you with any such material by e-mail or otherwise.

We follow appropriate security procedures and take reasonable precautions in the storage and disclosure of your personal information so as to prevent unauthorised access by third parties. However, the Internet is not a totally secure medium and we cannot accept responsibility for any use, distribution, damage or destruction of personal data that arises from the unauthorised use of this website.