GDPR, EMAIL & WEBSITE DISCLAIMER, PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY
WEBSITE & EMAIL DISCLAIMER
Any electronic transmission, email and any email and their attached files, including replies and forwarded copies from Legal Global GTT are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee (s) and maybe legally privileged or prohibited from disclosure and unauthorised use.
If you are not the named addressee you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on the contents of any electronic transmission, and email and their attached files and should destroy all immediately. If you received any email message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of the email and associated files.
If you have received any electronic transmission and emails in error, it would be helpful if you could notify us as soon as possible. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is prohibited and may be unlawful.
Please note that neither Legal Global GTT nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses, and it is your responsibility to protect your computer systems against any possible viruses contained in this transmission and/or attachments.
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the originator and do not necessarily represent those of Legal Global GTT.
PRIVACY POLICY
Please read the following information carefully. This privacy notice contains information about the information collected, stored, and otherwise processed about you and the reasons for the processing. It also tells you who we share this information with, the security mechanisms we have put in place to protect your data and how to contact us in the event you need further information.
When carrying out the provision of legal services or providing a reference we collect some or all of the following personal information that you provide:
‣ Personal and business details
‣ Family details
‣ Lifestyle and social circumstances
‣ Goods and services
‣ Financial details
‣ Education, training and employment details
‣ Physical or mental health details
‣ Racial or ethnic origin
‣ Political opinions
‣ Religious, philosophical or other beliefs
‣ Trade union membership
‣ Sex life or sexual orientation
‣ Genetic data
‣ Biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person
‣ Criminal proceedings, outcomes and sentences, and related security measures
‣ Other personal data relevant to instructions to provide legal services, including data specific to the instructions in question.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: PURPOSES
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
‣ To provide legal services to our clients, including the provision of legal advice and representation in courts, tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations care of our panel of solicitors and barristers.
‣ To keep accounting records and carry out office administration
‣ To take or defend legal or regulatory proceedings or to exercise a lien
‣ To respond to potential complaints or make complaints
‣ To check for potential conflicts of interest in relation to future potential cases
‣ To promote and market our barristers services
‣ To carry out anti-money laundering and terrorist financing checks
‣ To train other barristers and when providing work-shadowing opportunities
‣ To respond to requests for references
‣ When procuring goods and services
‣ To publish legal judgments and decisions of courts and tribunals
‣ As required or permitted by law.
GDPR
By submitting an enquiry to or by contacting Legal Global GTT, you do so on the understanding that you give your permission for your personal, professional, business details and financial information to be considered and stored by Legal Global GTT for the purposes of due diligence being conducted on you by Legal Global GTT or any of our connected parties during consideration of your enquiry, to assist you as our Client, and or referrals are made for ours or connected legal services and also for the purposes of anti-money laundering or when cases of misrepresentation, fraud, deception are suspected or discovered and in such cases you accept that we reserve the right to submit that evidence to the appropriate authorities and to the Courts in matters of civil litigation and criminal proceedings.
WHETHER INFORMATION HAS TO BE PROVIDED BY YOU, AND WHY
If any of our panel of solicitors or barristers have been instructed by you or on your behalf on a case or if you have asked for a reference, your personal information has to be provided, to enable them to provide you with advice or representation or the reference, and to enable them to comply with their professional obligations, and to keep accounting records.
COOKIES POLICY
Please read the following information carefully. This Cookies notice contains information about the information collected, stored, and otherwise processed about you and the reasons for the processing. It also tells you who we share this information with, the security mechanisms we have put in place to protect your data and how to contact us in the event you need further information.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are files containing a small amount of data, usually a unique string of letters and numbers. They are commonly used throughout the Internet and are placed on your computer or tablet when you visit a website (including the site). This allows the website that issued the cookie to recognise your visit from those of other users of the website. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
WHAT DO WE USE COOKIES FOR?
The information collected in cookies is used and analysed to improve the performance of the Website and make it more compatible with the technology used by our visitors, to customise your experience on the Website, to develop other features of the Website and to provide access to the services you request.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
Legal Global may use “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on its Website. Session cookies are temporary cookies that exist for the duration of your website visit and are deleted when you exit. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.
We may also use cookies placed by a third-party service provider to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and other information and to help us understand what product information is of most interest to you and what kinds of advertising offers you like to see. Although the service provider logs the information coming from our Website, or applications on our behalf, Legal Global GTT controls how that data may and may not be used.
The information below provides a more detailed description of the types of cookies used on our site, for what purpose and how long they remain on your device:
Google Analytics:
Legal Global GTT uses the web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses first party cookies through our Website to collect standard internet log information and visitor activity.
This information is sent to Google and is used by us to evaluate how our Website is being used and to compile statistical reports. This is very important as it allows us to constantly review and improve our Website so that you have a better experience when using it. Google providers a browser based tool that you can install and use to opt out of all Google Analytics data collection.
COMBINING THE COOKIES INFORMATION WITH OTHER DATA
When you enter the Legal Global Website, we may automatically collect information, where available, about your computer, such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information may be combined with the data we collected using cookies as described above. You do not have to register on our Website before we can collect this type of information. Such information does not by itself identify you personally.
However, Legal Global GTT may use IP addresses to identify you when Legal Global feels, in its sole discretion, that it is necessary to enforce compliance with its terms of use of its Website, to protect its services, website, systems, information, employees, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law.
YOUR CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES
By using the Legal Global GTT site, you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Statement. If you do not agree to our use of cookies in this way, please refer to the paragraph below regarding managing or deleting cookies.
MANAGING OR DELETING COOKIES
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. You can change the settings to block cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent to your device. The help function on most browsers contains instructions on how to set your browsers in order to manage cookies.
Please be aware that if you disable the cookies that we use, this may prevent you from using certain functions and features of our websites.
We continually review our cookies practices and may change this policy from time to time.
LEGAL REPRESENTATION & COSTS.
When assisting a Client, please be aware that we are not solicitors or lawyers, and will appoint an appropriate solicitor or lawyer to act on your behalf for the purposes of litigation, including court hearings. We charge for the remaining services listed on our home page including transcription services, professional fee, cost and loss schedule administration, consultancy, alternative dispute resolution and negotiation, mediation services, paralegal services, civil matter investigation and research covering contract law at whatever our hourly rate is at the time of appointment.