Privacy Policy

Scope

All data subjects whose personal data is collected by FMT Solicitors, in line with the requirements of the GDPR.


Responsibilities

2.1 The Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring that this notice is made available to data subjects prior to FMT Solicitors collecting or processing their personal data.

2.2 All employees of FMT Solicitors who interact with data subjects are responsible for ensuring that this notice is made available to data subjects and that their consent to the processing of personal data is secured where required.

Privacy Notice

3.1 Who are we?

FMT Solicitors is the organisation that collects and processes your personal data.

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted as follows:

Data Protection Officer:
Roger Terrell
Church House, 11 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 1AE
www.fmtsolicitors.co.uk

01525 376 611 

Personal data we collect and why:

Personal DataPurpose
Contact NameTo identify you and service your enquiry.
Contact NumberTo contact you regarding your enquiry.
Contact EmailTo provide information relating to your enquiry.
Product / Service Interested InTo ensure the correct department addresses your enquiry.
Timestamp & Date of EnquiryTo document enquiry records for compliance.
IP AddressTo verify enquiry origination and ensure record accuracy.
Marketing Contact Preferences

To enable or restrict future communications per your consent.

Our use of your data

We will use your data:

• to service your enquiry
• to manage any service you take out with us
• to contact you for marketing purposes only if you explicitly opted in

Legal Basis for Processing

Where you enter into a business relationship with FMT Solicitors, we are required to process your personal data in fulfilment of our contractual obligations.

Special Categories of Data

We do not process any special category data (such as racial, political, religious, biometric, health or sexual orientation data).

3.2 Consent

By providing personal data you consent to FMT Solicitors processing your data for the purposes outlined.
You may withdraw consent at any time.

3.3 Disclosure

FMT Solicitors will not pass on your personal data to any third parties without your explicit consent.

3.4 Retention Period

  • Personal data relating to service provision will be retained for the duration of the agreement.

  • If you do not enter into a service agreement and have not opted into marketing, your data will be securely deleted.

  • If you have opted into marketing communications, we will retain your data until you opt out.

  • Re-confirmation of marketing consent will be requested every 12 months.

3.5 Your Rights

You have the following GDPR rights:

• Right of access
• Right of rectification
• Right to be forgotten
• Right to restrict processing
• Right of portability
• Right to object
• Right to object to automated decision-making and profiling
• Right to judicial review

All valid requests will be actioned in accordance with GDPR requirements.

3.6 Complaints

If you wish to make a complaint regarding the processing of your data, you may contact:

Data Protection Officer
Roger Terrell
Church House, 11 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 1AE
www.fmtsolicitors.co.uk

enquiries@fmtsolicitors.co.uk

01525 376 611

or the supervisory authority:

Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Wycliffe House, Water Ln, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF
https://ico.org.uk

casework@ico.org.uk

0303 123 1113

Online Privacy Statement

Personal Data Definition (GDPR)

Personal data is defined by the GDPR as:

“Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person…”

Visitors to our website

When visitors arrive on www.fmtsolicitors.co.uk we use Google Analytics to collect standard internet log information and user browsing behaviour patterns. This information is anonymised and does not identify individuals.

If at any point personally identifiable information is to be collected, we will be transparent and state:

  1. what information is being collected

  2. why it is being collected

  3. how it will be used