Stevens & Bolton LLP is committed to safeguarding the privacy of your data whilst providing a personalised and valuable service.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect information we collect from you. You can visit our site without telling us who you are or giving us any personally identifiable information.
This policy may vary from time to time so please check it regularly. Any significant changes to this policy will be clearly indicated on our home page.
Data Collected through this website or through other contacts
You are not required to provide any personal information on the public areas of this website. However you may choose to do so by completing the application forms on various sections of our website or by contacting us using the contact information contained on our website (eg if you email any of our staff).
You should not complete any request form or contact us directly if you do not wish such information to be collected.
All email messages sent to and from Stevens & Bolton LLP may be monitored.
Use of your data
Your information will be held by us and may be used by us for the following purposes:
- to send requested documents or information to you, or to deal with any other specific request you have
- for use in or to assist with marketing and business development activities - your information may be added to our marketing database so we can contact you by email, mail, phone or fax to tell you about products or services available from us, or to send you invites, information or publications (such as briefings and email alerts and updates) that may be of interest to you. Information and statistics generated about marketing activities may be used by us for planning and management purposes, to analyse our business and/or to conduct market research about our business
- to deal with a job application you have made
We will only disclose or allow access to your details to third parties who are acting on our behalf or providing services to us in confidence (eg to consultants or agents assisting with mailings or other marketing projects, or application service providers, eg, as referred to below in relation to recruitment).
Personal data of clients is also subject to this policy as regards marketing uses, together with further provisions in our terms of business.
Recruitment
Where information is submitted by you in relation to any job application, it will be retained after a decision has been reached on your application, unless you ask us not to retain the information. Some of our application processes require applications to be submitted through a third party online application website, in which case the information will held by us and the third party (acting on our behalf) for the purpose of processing your application.
Email alerts and updates
If you receive an email alert or update from us, we are able to track the receipt of, and access made to, such emails by your individual email address. This information will only be used by us for the purpose of conducting research about the use of such marketing tools within our business.
Cookies
The Stevens & Bolton LLP website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitor’s use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for us.
We will not use the analytical tool to track or collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Stevens & Bolton LLP nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your internet browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. For more information about cookies including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.
Unsubscribing - marketing
If at any time you would like your details to be removed from Stevens & Bolton LLP's marketing database, this can be done by submitting a request by email to laura.reynolds@stevens-bolton.com
Additionally our email communications contain an “unsubscribe” function which if used will tell us that you no longer wish to receive that particular communication.
Intellectual Property Rights
All intellectual property rights in or arising from our website, including all copyright belong to Stevens & Bolton LLP, unless otherwise stated. All rights are reserved.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the above or any complaints, please address these to our managing partner, Richard Baxter at Stevens & Bolton LLP, Wey House, Farnham Road, Guildford, GU1 4XS.
This privacy policy only covers the Stevens & Bolton LLP website. Links within this site to external websites are not covered by this policy.