Personal Details

Goldsmith Williams may require certain details and Personal Data from you, including without limitation your name and email address. This policy is in relation to these details and any other Personal Data which Goldsmith Williams subsequently collects from you or about you (collectively "the Information").

Use and Disclosure of the Information and Client Information

Goldsmith Williams will use the Information in a variety of ways, some of which will assist and enable Goldsmith Williams to provide its services to its clients and prospective clients.

Goldsmith Williams may also in its sole discretion retain the Information and use it for direct marketing services, e.g. Goldsmith Williams may send marketing information to you. Such marketing information may relate to the legal profession, to financial matters and to goods and/or services provided by Goldsmith Williams and/or third parties as well as goods and/or services provided by third parties which are entirely unrelated to your original requests.

Goldsmith Williams may in its sole discretion sell some Information to unrelated third parties who may use such Information for direct marketing purposes in relation to a wide range of goods and/or services which, for the avoidance of doubt, are entirely unrelated to your original request.

Goldsmith Williams reserves the right to report any activity which Goldsmith Williams suspects violates any relevant laws or regulations to the appropriate authority. If Goldsmith Williams is requested by such authority for the Information Goldsmith Williams reserves the right to disclose it to them.

You shall indemnify and keep Goldsmith Williams and Goldsmith Williams's directors, officers, employees and agents fully indemnified against all actions, claims, proceedings, costs and damages (including any damages or compensation paid by Goldsmith Williams on the advice of its legal advisors to compromise or settle any claim) and all legal costs or other expenses arising out of any breach of any representations, warranties and/or undertakings or out of any claims by a third party based on any facts which if substantiated would constitute such a breach.

Security

All Information will be kept as confidential and as secure as possible through the use of Goldsmith Williams's secure server software. This means that the Information can only be exchanged between you, Goldsmith Williams and any third party to whom Goldsmith Williams decides to transfer the Information to for the purposes detailed above. Furthermore as required by the Act Goldsmith Williams follows strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of the Information which you have given to Goldsmith Williams, to prevent unauthorised access.

Goldsmith Williams uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of the Information including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. Goldsmith Williams treats the Information as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. Goldsmith Williams employees use many different security techniques to protect the Information from unauthorised access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Individual's Rights

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 all individuals are entitled on the payment of a fee, to be given from Goldsmith Williams a description of all Personal Data Goldsmith Williams holds about the individual, the purposes for which this is being processed and the recipients to whom this may be disclosed. All such individuals also have the right to have communicated to them in an intelligible form the information constituting the Personal Data and any information available to Goldsmith Williams as to the source of that Personal Data. If you require any further information on this point, please contact Goldsmith Williams as detailed above.