This Privacy Notice provides information on how Occasio Legal Limited collects and processes your personal information and data when you engage our services or use our website.

This Notice should be read in conjunction with our terms of business which contain information about our data processing.

Our contact details

Name: Occasio Legal Limited

Address: Grampian House, 144 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EE

Data Processing Manager: Philip Burgoyne

Phone Number: 0161 8319961

E-mail:Philip.burgoyne@occasio-legal.com

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Identification Data to include but not limited to title, first name, middle names, surname, maiden name, date of birth, gender
  • Contact Data to include but not limited to home address, business address, telephone number(s), mobile telephone number(s) and email address(es)
  • Financial Data to include but not limited to bank account details, card payment details, bank account information, utility bill information.
  • Transaction Data to include but not limited to payments made to and by your bank accounts.
  • Technical Data to include but not limited to IP address, login data, browser plug-ins and other technology used to access our website from your device(s).

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • To identify you and enable us to register you as a client
  • To enable us to send you monies received as part of a transaction or litigation that we are conducting on your behalf.

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

  • Identify you and register you as a client
  • Provide the legal service you have instructed us to do
  • Undertake administrative tasks
  • Undertake Statistical Analysis
  • Detect and prevent fraud
  • Notify you of any changes to our terms of business
  • Invoice you for legal services we have provided

We may share this information with:

  • Our agents or service providers (for example providers of web hosting or maintenance services
  • Law enforcement agencies if we are obliged to do so

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting Philip Burgoyne at philip.burgoyne@occasio-legal.com

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legal obligation.

(d) We have a vital interest.

(e) We need it to perform a public task.

(f) We have a legitimate interest.


How we store your personal information

We have various measures in place to ensure that your Personal Data is kept secure and only for as long as we require it for administration purposes or by law. However, whilst we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your Personal Data, you acknowledge that the internet is not completely secure and as such we cannot guarantee the security of any Personal Data transferred to us or by us via the internet.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us in writing at either Philip.burgoyne@occasio-legal.com or by post at Occasio Legal Limited (marked for the attention of Philip Burgoyne), Grampian House, 144 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EE if you wish to make a request.


How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at either Philip.burgoyne@occasio-legal.com or by post at Occasio Legal Limited (marked for the attention of Philip Burgoyne), Grampian House, 144 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EE

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

If you would like more information about the legal Ombudsman, please contact them at

www.legalombudsman.org.uk

Call: 0300 555 0333

Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk

Legal Ombudsman PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ

Occasio Legal Limited is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We are governed by a Code of Conduct and other professional rules which can be accessed at www.sra.org.uk or by calling the Solicitors Regulation Authority on 0370 606 2555. Our registation number is 486486. If you believe that we have behaved dishonestly, illegally or in breach of the Solicitors Regulation Authority's principles, you can complain to the Solicitor's Regulation Authority by either using the telephone number above or writing to them at The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street, Birmingham, B1 1RN.