MEWBURN ELLIS LLP (Mewburn or we/us/our), is a firm of patent and trade mark attorneys and specialist intellectual property and technology lawyers. Here we summarise the key points you need to know about how we protect your personal data.
Mewburn Ellis LLP is the controller and is responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a Data Protection Manager (DPM) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to our privacy policy. If you have any questions, including any requests to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact the DPM using the details set out below.
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MEWBURN ELLIS LLP |
DPM: | MEWBURN ELLIS LEGAL TEAM – EMMA KENNAUGH-GALLACHER DEPUTY DPM – LILLIAN CUNLIFFE |
Email: | DataProtectionManager@mewburn.com |
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FAO: MEWBURN ELLIS LLP LEGAL TEAM |
Your Rights
You have rights over your personal data which include the right to request; access, correction, erasure, restriction of processing, and transfer your personal data. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data and to withdraw consent to processing if you have given it.
What data we collect
We collect personal data including; Identity Data (name, title, gender); Contact Data (address, email, telephone); Financial Data (bank account, payment card); Technical Data (internet protocol address, browser type and versions); Usage Data (how you use our website and services); and Profile and Marketing and Communications Data (services purchased, interests, preferences).
We do not collect any Special Categories of personal data about you (race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
How we collect you data
We collect personal data through; Direct interactions (corresponding with us in person or by post, phone, email or otherwise) Automated technologies or interactions (when you use our website, personal data is collected by cookies and server logs, see our cookie policy Third parties or publicly available sources (analytics providers, like Google or payment services, like BACS Payment Schemes Limited).
How we use your data
We only use your personal data for lawful purposes such as; performing a contract with you, for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) where your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, or where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- Marketing – We may use your personal data to determine which services, events and updates offers are relevant for you (marketing). However at any time, you can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by using a variety of methods including by contacting us at any time using the Email address above.
- Transfers – We may need to transfer your personal data to third parties for the lawful purposes above. If this involves a transfer out of the with European Economic Area we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place (please refer to sections 5 and 6 of our full privacy policy for further information).
- Security – We take the security of your data seriously and put in place appropriate security measures to protect your personal data. We have clear procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
- Retention – We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes that we collected it for.
See our full Privacy Policy we strongly urge you to read it.