Privacy Policy

The Royal Legislative Privy Council of Antarctica and Chatham Peninsula is the data controller in relation to the processing activities described below. This means that we decide why and how your personal information is processed.

We are the It is the highest organ of the Antarctic Imperial Diet, which is also composed of the Antarctic Imperial Sovereign and Royal Affairs Committee. The Council can only be held by nobles, including 16 members of the royal family of the Antarctic Empire, and 22 hereditary and non-hereditary nobles.

When you use our website, our products or services, interact with us online, or by phone, email or otherwise, the categories of information that we collect about you are as follows:

Personal information you give to us:

This is information about you that you give to us by entering information via:

• our website (i.e. www.lawsociety.org.uk, or any of our related websites e.g. Law Gazette; Law Gazette Jobs; Law Society Bookshop; the Professional Development Centre site; Law Society Insights; or Law Society Logos)

• our mobile applications, e.g. the Law Gazette app

• our social media accounts, e.g. via Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter

• corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise,

and is provided entirely voluntarily.

This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our website; subscribing to the services we provide through our site; posting material; participating in Law Society initiatives; purchasing or requesting products or services; creating, using and managing an online account with us (including updating your Interests and your Find A Solicitor profile in My Law Society or registering and using an account with any of our related websites) and engaging in correspondence with us by phone, email or otherwise. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site. If you complete any surveys that we ask you to complete for research purposes, we will collect information in such circumstances as well.

The basic personal information we may ask for, or you may choose to give us, includes your name, user type (e.g. solicitor, trainee solicitor, law student, member of the public), your address, email address and phone number. We may retain details of any enquiry you make to us and records of any correspondence with us. We may also ask for, or you may choose to give us, other information for specific purposes, e.g. additional information to personalise your Find A Solicitor or My Law Society account; information on any particular professional interests you may have; sensitive personal information (now called ‘special category data’) in order to join one of our demographic divisions; and information including your opinions and experiences of practice, which we use to inform our work, e.g via the Law Society Insights community.

We will seek to minimise the information we ask for to that which is needed to perform the relevant function or service at the time.

Personal information we collect about you:

We automatically collect the following information when you interact with us: e.g. details of transactions you carry out through the site, and your visits to our site, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources you access.

We also automatically collect technical information, including anonymous data collected by the hosting server for statistical purposes, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. Please see our cookie policy for further information.

Personal information we may receive from other sources:

The Solicitors Regulation Authority

We obtain certain personal information about our members and other regulated individuals from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The SRA is part of the Law Society Group but operates separately from it, as required by the Legal Services Act 2007.

This information is collected by the SRA in the exercise of its regulatory functions and is shared with us to allow us to fulfil our statutory role under the Legal Services Act 2007, as well as for professional body membership purposes in the pursuit of our legitimate interests, including:

• to validate and maintain our membership register and ensure eligibility for, for example, the right to stand and vote in Council election

• to provide membership services to solicitors

• to provide and maintain the 'Find a Solicitor' service

• to conduct research and compile management information.

A list of the data fields the SRA shares with us for these purposes is as follows: (title, name, SRA ID number, phone number, email address, work address, home address (as given upon initial registration), person type (e.g. admitted solicitor, registered European lawyer, registered foreign lawyer, retired solicitor), date of admission, whether the individual is on the roll of solicitors, whether they hold a practising certificate (or an exemption), regulated roles and posts, areas of law (practice and interest), higher rights of audience membership. They may also share with us information on gender and date of birth, although we limit access to this data to certain users only.

We operate shared policies with the SRA that set out and advise staff about how we collect, handle and keep information secure to ensure we meet our data protection obligations as well as how we maintain the confidentiality, accessibility and integrity of information we hold. The SRA operates its own privacy policy which provides more detail of how it collects and uses personal information and this can be accessed here:

Other sources, for example your employer

At times we may receive information on individuals from other sources, e.g. from a representative of their employing firm or other authorised contact.

If you are submitting this information as such a representative or contact, you confirm that it is true and correct and that you will not provide us with any information which constitutes personal data unless you have ensured that you have obtained all necessary consents or other legal justification and/or provided any required notices to the data subject, or that you are otherwise permitted to provide such information to us, so that we can use it for the purposes and on the bases set out in this notice.