PRIVACY POLICY

Appleyard & Trew LLP (The Practice) are required by the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to advise individuals as to any personal information held by the Practice and the use of such information.

The purpose of the Practice holding any personal information is solely for facilitating business functionality including general customer service/enquiries.  This information is not shared with any third parties.

Appleyard & Trew LLP may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.  This policy is effective from 1 December 2018.

What we collect

We may collect the following information via the use of cookies;

• Web pages viewed

• IP address

• Demographic information

   

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to give you with a better experience of our website and ensure that areas of interest are kept up to date.

Security and storage

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.  In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

The information collected via the use of online cookies is stored online using a secure and password protected cloud portal service.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive.  Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.  Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual.  The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used.  This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.  A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.