Privacy Policy for Website:
eExpertWitness LLP (“We”, “Us” and “Our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use policy and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis for which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection laws (the data controller is eExpertWitness LLP of 4 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 2SG.
What information do we collect about you? Information you give us. We may process information you have given us by filling in forms on our site https://eexpertwitness.com/ (“our site”) or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to receive expert updates, search our site and when you report a problem with our site. This information may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and organisation details. Information we collect about you.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
We do not collect personal information from visitors of our site.
What technical information does the applicable search engine(s) collect from the people that visit our website?
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types. This information is anonymous and only available to the applicable search engines; and
information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call us. Information we may receive from other sources. We may process information about you received from your usage of any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We may also receive information about you from the third parties we work closely with (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical and delivery services, advertising networks, analytical providers, search information providers).
Purpose – how will we use your personal information? We will only use your information when it is fair and lawful to do so. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:
1. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) namely providing you with information that you request and with updates and commercial or technology materials and enabling the management of all matters relating to our business, but only where your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
2. Where you have given your consent and that consent has not subsequently been withdrawn by you.
We may also use your personal information in the following circumstances, which are likely to be rare:
1. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone’s interests).
2. Where it is needed in the public interest. The information we collect about you may be used in the following ways, Information you give us.
• to carry out our obligations to you and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us;
• to provide you with updates about the technology, IT and other topics that may be of interest to you;
• for advertising purposes; and
• to ensure that content for our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. Information we collect about you.
We will use this information:
• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and statistical purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
• as part of our efforts to help ensure the security of our website and services. Information we receive from other sources. We may use this information combined with information you give to us and information we collect about you for the purposed set out above (depending on the types of information we receive). Disclosure of your information We may share your information to third parties where this is reasonably necessary, for the purposes set out in the policy including:
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
• If eExpertWitness LLP or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its clients and contacts will be one the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of business and other agreements from time to time; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of eExpertWitness LLP, our customers, or others.
Transfer and storage of data:
The personal information you provide to us may be transferred and stored outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for the purposes of things such as carrying out administration, the fulfilment of your request, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. Any personal information transferred will receive an adequate level of protection as required by the Data Protection laws. Third parties will only process your personal information on our instructions and in the agreement that the information is kept secure and confidential Any personal information transferred will receive an adequate level of protection as required by the Data Protection laws. Where any transfer is made to a country outside of the EEA and the European Commission has not made an adequacy decision in relation to the laws of that country we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place prior to any transfer of your data. Those safeguards are likely to consist of either the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission or transfer to a US based recipient which is a member of the EU-US Privacy Shield self-certification arrangement or an equivalent regime.
Data Subject Rights Under certain circumstances, the law permits that you have the right to:
• Access your information. You are entitled to request access to the information we hold about you (known as a ‘data subject access request’). You are entitled to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that it is being lawfully processed.
• Transfer your personal information. You are able to request the transfer of your personal information to another party. It is important that the personal information we hold for you is accurate and up to date. If you would like to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact; mail@eexpertwitness.com
Personal information may be retained for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligation, or in order to protect yours or another person’s vital interest.
Security We understand the importance of protecting your privacy and we will ensure your data is safeguarded and held securely in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection laws. Appropriate technical and organisational measures have been implemented to ensure personal information is protected and to prevent your personal data from being lost, used, accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. Details of these measures are available upon request. We also limit access to your personal information to those employees and other third parties who have a business need to know. This access will be granted on a confidential basis and processing of the information will only take place subject to our instruction. The firm have in place procedures and a policy to deal with any potential data security breaches, data subjects and any applicable regulators will be notified where we are legally required to do so.
Third party websites
Our website includes external links to other websites, which may be operated by search engine providers or third parties. Clicking on these links may allow the collection or sharing of personal data about you in ways which may differ from the terms set out here. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, contents or practices of third party websites, and encourage you to read the privacy policies of every external website you visit from our website.
Complaints If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes the Data Protection laws, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
How to contact us By email at mail@eexpertwitness.com or write to us at: David, eExpertWitness LLP, 4 Wimpole Street,, London W1G 9SG. Revisions to our Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to revise this policy or any part of it from time to time and will provide you with a new policy notice where any substantial updates are made. We may also notify you through other means, about the processing of your information.