Privacy Policy
At Silverdale Solicitors, we collect and manage visitor data according to the following Privacy Policy. This document is part of Silverdale Solicitors’ Terms of Service, and by using silverdalelaw.co.uk (the “Website”), you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms & Conditions. Please read the Terms of Service in their entirety.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Silverdale Solicitors we have a few fundamental principles:
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- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Collection of Data
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Silverdale Solicitors collects information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available:
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- Non-personally-identifying information, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, page views, and the date and time of each visitor request
- Potentially personally-identifying information, such as IP addresses.
We currently use Google Analytics to collect most of this data, feel free to check out their own Privacy Policy to find out more.
Silverdale Solicitors ’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Silverdale Solicitors’ visitors use its website.
Silverdale Solicitors also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) for users leaving comments on the site. Silverdale Solicitors only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
We also use social buttons provided by services like Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook. Your use of these third party services is entirely optional. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third party services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those third party services’ privacy policies.
From time to time, Silverdale Solicitors may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors may choose to interact with Silverdale Solicitors in ways that require Silverdale Solicitors to gather personally-identifying information.
The amount and type of information that Silverdale Solicitors gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our contact form for personally-identifying information, such as name and telephone number.
In each case, Silverdale Solicitors collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Silverdale Solicitors.
Silverdale Solicitors does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Use of Data
Aggregated Statistics
Silverdale Solicitors may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Silverdale Solicitors may monitor the most popular posts on the site. Silverdale Solicitors may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Silverdale Solicitors does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Silverdale Solicitors discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that need to know that information in order to process it on Silverdale Solicitors’ behalf or to provide services available at Silverdale Solicitors’ website. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Silverdale Solicitors’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Silverdale Solicitors will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Silverdale Solicitors discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Silverdale Solicitors believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Silverdale Solicitors, third parties or the public at large.
If you have supplied your email address through our newsletter sign up form, Silverdale Solicitors may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Silverdale Solicitors and our products. Silverdale Solicitors may also use technology to alert us when you open an email from us. You can unsubscribe from this service either by following the unsubscribe link in a newsletter email we have sent you, or by emailing us on [email protected] and requesting we unsubscribe you from marketing emails.
If you have filled in a contact or quote form request, we will use your data solely to contact you for the purpose of fulfilling your enquiry.
If you send us a request (for example via an email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
Email marketing privacy policy
We may use third-party software to serve ads on the Site and implement email marketing campaigns and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting-out of interest-based ads please contact us.
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
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- Pressing unsubscribe on any email
- Moving to spam and blocking email address
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
We also like to hear your views to help us improve our services so we may contact you for market research purposes. You always have the choice about whether to take part in our market research.
Silverdale Solicitors takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Subject Access Requests
You have the right to request what data we have stored about you. If such a request is made and we have valid ID to prove you are the person the data requested is for, we will provide all data we have on you in an open format and free of charge. We will provide this within 30 days of receiving valid ID.
Business Transfers
If Silverdale Solicitors, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Silverdale Solicitors goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Silverdale Solicitors may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Silverdale Solicitors may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Silverdale Solicitors’ sole discretion. Silverdale Solicitors encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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