Contact details
Your name and preferred contact details may be collected through a website form.
Examples: email address and telephone number.
Legal services privacy notice
Your personal data is handled carefully.
This notice explains how Perkins Legal collects, uses and protects information you share through this website, by telephone or by email.
Effective date: [Insert effective date]
01 / What we receive
Personal Data We Collect
We only ask for information that helps us understand your enquiry, respond properly and keep a clear record of our communications.
Enquiry details
You choose what to tell us about a legal matter when you send a message.
Examples: property, business, employment or family information.
Telephone information
We use the details you provide during a call to respond and manage follow-up communication.
Examples: call notes and agreed next steps.
Technical data
Basic device or usage information may be collected if website analytics are enabled.
Cookies: see our separate cookie notice for details.
02 / Why we use it
Lawful Bases and Purposes
We use personal data to answer your enquiry, discuss legal services and take steps you ask us to take. The legal basis depends on the reason for processing.
Responding to an enquiry
We rely on legitimate interests when we need to reply to a message, return a call or provide information you have requested.
Providing legal services
Where you instruct Perkins Legal, processing may be needed to perform a contract or to take steps before a contract is made.
Consent where required
We ask for consent when the law requires it, such as for certain optional cookies or specific communications. You can withdraw consent at any time.
Meeting legal obligations
Some information must be kept or shared to meet professional, regulatory, legal or fraud-prevention duties.
03 / Your control
Retention and Data-Subject Rights
Retention depends on the purpose of the information, legal duties and the need to resolve a matter. We do not keep personal data longer than those needs require.
- AccessAsk for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- RectificationAsk us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- ErasureRequest deletion where the law allows it.
- RestrictionAsk us to limit processing in certain circumstances.
- PortabilityRequest certain information in a usable electronic format.
- ObjectObject to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
Want to raise a concern? Contact us first so we can review it. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.
04 / How it is protected
Third-Party Processors and Security
Our suppliers support the website and communications. They handle information under written terms and only for agreed purposes.
Service providers
Depending on the tools in use, information may be handled by providers of:
- Website hosting and maintenance
- Business email and message delivery
- Website analytics and cookie controls
Practical safeguards
We use access controls, secure accounts and suitable technical measures to reduce the risk of loss, misuse or unauthorised access.
No online transmission can be guaranteed completely secure. Please avoid sending highly sensitive information through an ordinary website form.
05 / Privacy questions
Speak to Perkins Legal about your data.
Send a privacy question by email or call us on the number below. Please include enough detail for us to identify your request, without sending information you do not need to share.
Controller details: [Insert the full legal name, registered address and any applicable data protection contact details for Perkins Legal.]