Thank you for choosing to be part of our
community at Swift Legal Ltd, doing business as Swift Legal Ltd (“ Swift Legal
Ltd”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal
information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns
about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information,
please contact us at info@swift-legal.co.uk
When you visit our website www.swift-legal.co.uk, and use our services, you trust us
with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this
privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in
the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what
rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through
it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy
that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our
services.
This privacy policy applies to all information
collected through our website (such as www.swift-legal.co.uk), and/or any related services, sales,
marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as
the “Sites“).
Please
read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions
about sharing your personal information with us. Information
automatically collected In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and
device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Sites.
We automatically collect certain information when
you visit, use or navigate the Sites. This information does not reveal your
specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include
device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device
characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device
name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Sites and
other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the
security and operation of our Sites, and for our internal analytics and
reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information
through cookies and similar technologies.
Information
collected from other sources In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases,
marketing partners, and other outside sources.
We may obtain information about you from other
sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, as well as from
other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources
include: social media profile information; marketing leads and search results
and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).
2.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? In Short: We process your information for purposes based on
legitimate business interests, the fulfilment of our contract with you,
compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our Sites
for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal
information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests
(“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you
(“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our
legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”). We indicate the specific processing
grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below. We use the information we collect or receive:
To
send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third party marketing
partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing
purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can
opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS”
below).
Deliver
targeted advertising to you. We
may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and
work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location
and to measure its effectiveness. Request
Feedback. We may use your information to request
feedback and to contact you about your use of our Sites
To
enable user-to-user communications. We
may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with
each user’s consent. For
other Business Purposes. We
may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis,
identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional
campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing
and your experience
3.
WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply
with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share data based on
the following legal basis: ·
Consent: We may process your data if you have
given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific
purpose. ·
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is
reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests. ·
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract
with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our
contract. ·
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where
we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law,
governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process,
such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to
public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement
requirements).
· Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where
we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as
evidence in litigation in which we are involved. More specifically, we may need to process your data
or share your personal information in the following situations: Vendors, Consultants and Other
Third-Party Service Providers.
We
may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or
agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such
information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data
analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing
efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the
Sites, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the
Sites over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyse
and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better
understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share,
sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their
promotional purposes. Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your
information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of
company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business
to another company.
Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use
information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are
contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. ·
Affiliates. We may share your information with our
affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this
privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries,
joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under
common control with us.
Business Partners. We may share your information with our
business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
4.
WHO WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH?
In Short: We only share
information with the following third parties.
We only share and disclose your information with the
following third parties. We have categorized each party so that you may be
easily understand the purpose of our data collection and processing practices.
If we have processed your data based on your consent and you wish to revoke your
consent, please contact us. ·
Advertising, Direct Marketing,
and Lead Generation
Google AdSense ·
Content Optimisation
Google Site Search ·
Social Media Sharing and
Advertising
Instagram advertising and Twitter
advertising
·
Website Hosting
Amazon ·
Website Performance Monitoring
Google Analytics
5.
DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to
collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies
(like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific
information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain
cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
6.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to
fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required
by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as
long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless
a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require
us keeping your personal information for longer than
1 year. When we have no ongoing legitimate
business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or
anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store
your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until
deletion is possible.
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? In Short: We aim to protect
your personal information through a system of organisational and technical
security measures.
We have implemented appropriate
technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security
of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we
cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do
our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal
information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. You should only access
the services within a secure environment.
8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?In Short: We do not knowingly
collect data from or market to children under 13 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or
market to children under 13 years of age. By using the Sites, you represent
that you are at least 13 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor
and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Sites. If we learn that
personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected,
we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete
such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected
from children under age 13, please contact us at info@swift-legal.co.uk
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? In Short: In some regions, such
as the European Economic Area, you have rights that allow you greater access to
and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or
terminate your account at any time.
In some regions (like the European
Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws.
These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your
personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to
restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable,
to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to
object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request,
please use the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon
any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If we are relying on your consent to
process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent
at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of
the processing before its withdrawal.
If you are resident in the European
Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal
information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection
supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept
cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser
to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or
reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites. To
opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Sites visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No
uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has
been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or
any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be
tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must
follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised
version of this Privacy Policy.
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY? In Short: Yes, we will update
this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this privacy policy from
time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised”
date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If
we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a
notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be
informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email
us at
info@swift-legal.co.uk
or by post to:Swift Legal Ltd 382 Kingsway, ManchesterM19 1PL