PRIVACY POLICY

Policy version and date: version 1.0, dated 27 July 2024

www.mmihl.co.uk (our website) is provided by musmus limited trading as MM In-House Lawyer (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

This version of our privacy policy is primarily written for adults Given the nature of our website, we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 13 years old. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under this age has been shared with our website please let us know so that we can delete that data.

This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:

What this policy applies to
Personal data we collect about you
How your personal data is collected
How and why we use your personal data
Marketing
Who we share your personal data with
How long your personal data will be kept
Transferring your personal data out of the UK
Cookies and other tracking technologies
Your rights
Keeping your personal data secure
How to complain
Changes to this privacy policy
How to contact us
Do you need extra help?

What this policy applies to

This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties to either provide additional information or for goods and services.. Those third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.

Personal data we collect about you

The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:

your name, address, email address and telephone number, IP address, device number and company details
information to check and verify your identity, eg date of birth
details of any information, feedback or other matters you give to us by phone, email, post or via social media
your professional interests
your professional online presence, eg LinkedIn profile
information about the services we provide to you
information about how you use our website and technology systems
your responses to surveys and questionnaires

Some personal data must be provided via email or contact form unless we tell you that you have a choice.

Sometimes you can choose if you want to give us your personal data and let us use it. Where that is the case we will tell you and give you the choice before you give the personal data to us. We will also tell you whether declining to share that personal data will have any effect on your use of our website or any services on it.

We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.

How your personal data is collected

We collect personal data from you:

directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you register with us, contact us (including via email), send us feedback, purchase services and complete customer surveys via our website, and
indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website; we will usually collect information indirectly using the technologies explained in the section on ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below

We may collect personal data about you from other sources as follows:

your own website if it publically available
your own linkedin or other social media profile where it is publically available

How and why we use your personal data

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:

where you have given consent
to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
for our legitimate interests or those of a third party

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.

What we use your personal data for	Our reasons
Providing services to you	To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Enforcing legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings	Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect our business, interests and rights
Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended	Depending on the circumstances: —your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website]—see ‘Cookies [and other tracking technologies]’ below —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by whether expressly or by use of third party technology for example browser settings or Google (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn)
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the services or other important notices	Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, ie to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us
Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base	For our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
Updating and enhancing customer records	Depending on the circumstances: —to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products
Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, eg to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Marketing our services to existing and former customers	For our legitimate interests, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers See ‘Marketing’ below for further information

How and why we use your personal data—in more detail

More details about how we use your personal data and why are set out in the table below

Purpose	Processing operation	Lawful basis relied on under the UK GDPR	Relevant categories of personal data
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or other important notices	Addressing and sending communications to you as required by data protection laws, ie: —the UK GDPR or Data Protection Act 2018	Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(b))	—your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details
	Addressing and sending communications to you as required by professional regulations governing solicitors registered in England	Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(b))	—your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details
	Addressing and sending communications to you about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or other important notices (other than those addressed above)	Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), which is to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you	—your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details

How and why we use your personal data—Special category personal data

We do not intentionally collect any special category personal data. But from time to time this may well be provided by you as part of the services provided to you. This may include data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, biometric data, data concerning health, sex life or sexual orientation.

Processing any special category personal data will be limited to making any relevant notes and only where it is pertinent to the services we provide to you and only where permitted to do so under data protection laws.

How and why we use your personal data—sharing

See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.

Marketing

We operate an opt-in principle. We will seek your express consent for any marketing messages. Such consent could be via a tick-box or signing up to a marketing specific newsletter or email circular. Such consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Where consent is given we will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our products and services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and services.

We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.

For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.

Who we share your personal data with

We routinely share personal data with:

third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, eg payment service providers
other third parties we use to help us run our business, eg marketing agencies or website hosts and website analytics providers
our bank

We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.

We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:

our and their external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
our and their professional advisors (such as accountants and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations

We will not share your personal data with any other third party.

Who we share your personal data with—further information

If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

How long your personal data will be kept

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data. If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

Following the end of the of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.

Transferring your personal data out of the UK

Countries outside the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.

It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where:

in the case of transfers subject to UK data protection law, the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR. A list of countries the UK currently has adequacy regulations is available here : https://ico.org.uk/
there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you, or
a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law

Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation or (where this is not available) other transfer mechanisms eg legally-approved standard data protection clauses recognised or issued further to Article 46(2) of the UK GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.

Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below.

Cookies and other tracking technologies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. Any cookies we use are driven by the underlying technology of our website and/or any analytics software. These are only for tracking your use of the website.

For further information on cookies, our use of cookies, when we will request your consent before placing them and how to disable them, please see our https://mmihl.co.uk/cookie-policy/

Your rights

You generally have the following rights detailed in the table below, which you can usually exercise free of charge.

A more detailed explanation of these rights under UK law is available at the Information Commissioner’s website https://ico.org.uk/

Access to a copy of your personal data	The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data
Correction (also known as rectification)	The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)	The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations
Restriction of use	The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data
Data portability	The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations
To object to use	The right to object: —at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) —in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, eg where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement	The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website
The right to withdraw consents	If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time You may withdraw consents Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to guidance on the website of the UK’s Information Commissioner https://ico.org.uk/ on your rights under the UK GDPR.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:

provide enough information to identify yourself and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates

Keeping your personal data secure

We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your personal data and other information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

How to complain

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner in the UK.

The Information Commissioner may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time—when we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via email, update via this website and/or any relevant social media platform.

How to contact us

If you wish to contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.

You can contact us by email mm@mmihl.co.uk or post 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5^th Floor, London, W1W 5PF.