website & Cookies Information for e3 employment law LLP.

This website and cookies policy sets out how e3 employment law LLP (“e3 employment law”) uses and protects any information that you give e3 employment law when you use our website,  interactive services and/or any URL that directs you around, to and from www.e3employmentlaw.co.uk (our Website).

We value our privacy and we expect that you value your privacy too. e3 employment law is committed to ensuring that your privacy is both respected and protected. If we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using our Website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

When you visit or use our Website and/or use it to contact us, we may require certain details including personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”) from you, including without limitation your name and email address. This policy is in relation to any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to e3 employment law (collectively the “Data”).  This policy sets out the reasons for requesting and using the Data.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. Your continued use of this site indicates your understanding of and agreement to this policy.

For the purpose of the Act, the data controller is e3 employment law LLP whose registered office is at Delphian House, Riverside, New Bailey Street, Manchester. M3 5FS. In accordance with the Act we have notified the office of the Information Commissioner of our data processing activities. Our registration number is Z3229140.

e3 employment law may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 3rd September 2012.

What we collect

We may collect and process the following information:

• name and age (where necessary)
• contact information including email address, postal address, and telephone number
• information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of uploading any material or using any service on our Website.

Whenever you contact e3 employment law, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also record both incoming and outgoing telephone calls for verification purposes.

What we do with the information we gather

We require the Data to understand your needs and we use it to provide a better website and better services to our clients and to administer, manage, promote and publicise our Website, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Processing your requests.
• Providing a personalised service.
• Statistical analysis and conducting market research surveys.
• To contact you in relation to our Website and any connected services.
• Internal record keeping.
• Assessing and evaluating the use that is being made of the Website.
• Information and databank compilation and administration.
• We may use the information to improve our Website and any connected services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new events, products and services, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using an email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may use the information to customise our Website according to your views and interests.

The personal details we request allow e3 employment law to contact you by post, telephone, fax or electronic means (e-mail or SMS) as per the contact details that you provide. Other details requested are for the purposes of establishing what services may be suitable to you or your business.

We may also use the Data, or permit selected third parties to use the Data, to analyse and report the Data to us.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that the Data is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Data we collect online.

IP Addresses and Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, tablet, smartphone or similar device including (where available) your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason our website and some of our third-party providers may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive allowing websites to recognise one user from another. Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive if you want to. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but if you wish to do so your web browser can be altered so as to prevent acceptance.

At no point will your data be captured and sold to third parties without your consent.

Cookies help us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

They enable us:

• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our Website.

Our third-party suppliers that use cookies are as follows:

• Google Analytics – this enables us to track our website traffic;

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Website. Please note that any advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Our Website may contain electronic images known as web beacons which allows us to count users who have visited those pages and deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on our Website. They are a technique to compile aggregated statistics about our Website’s usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.

Further information can be found at
http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies.aspx and http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Links to other websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on our Website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
• if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at privacy@e3employmentlaw.co.uk.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the Compliance Officer, e3 employment law LLP at Delphian House, Riverside, New Bailey Street, Manchester. M3 5FS.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.