INTRODUCTION

Howes Percival LLP is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data collected by us or provided by you via this website will be processed by us. All such data will be dealt with in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. For the purposes of that Act, the data controller of such data is Howes Percival LLP.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND USE OF IP ADDRESSES

Howes Percival LLP will only collect personally identifiable information (such as your name, address and contact details) via this site when it is voluntarily submitted by you to us. By submitting personally identifiable information to us, you agree to this privacy policy and that:
- we may process that information for the purposes set out below; and
- we may use and store that information on our internal systems, whether in or outside the European Economic Area.

Howes Percival LLP may process your personally identifiable information:
- to enable us to deal with any enquiry or request you have made;
- to contact you by e-mail and other methods of communication to provide you with details of our services, to send you legal bulletins and updates and to send you details of seminars or other events which we believe may be of interest to you;
- to notify you of changes to our services;
- to seek your views and feedback on our services;
- where you have submitted an online application for an employment opportunity with us, to process that application and evaluate the merits of your application; and
- for other internal purposes.

If you do not wish to receive details of our services, bulletins/updates or details of forthcoming events, please let us know.

Except where we are under a duty to do so, we will not disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties, other than to third parties who process that information confidentially on our behalf.

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your internet service provider or through your organisation's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your online session. Howes Percival LLP may collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration and to audit the use of this site. We do not ordinarily link a user's IP address to personally identifiable information of that user - this means that although each user's session is logged, the user remains anonymous to us. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify users of our website where we reasonably believe that this may be necessary to enforce compliance with this site's terms of use or to protect our services, this site or other users.

NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

Howes Percival LLP also collects non-personally identifiable information in aggregate to track data such as the number of visits to our website, the number of visits to each page of our website and the domain names of visitors' internet service providers. We use this information (which remains in aggregate form) to understand how visitors use our website and to improve our website. No personally identifiable information is disclosed in this process.

COOKIES

Howes Percival LLP may place a "cookie" in your computer's browser. Cookies are small text files which provide us with information about how often someone visits our website and what they do during those visits. Cookies do not of themselves contain any personally identifiable information, but if you provide such information to us, for example by registering to receive updates and bulletins, that information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting in your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting, it is possible you may be unable to access certain parts of this website. Unless you have so adjusted your browser setting, our system will issue cookies when you log on to this site.

SECURITY

Howes Percival LLP operates data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection and has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Nevertheless, the internet is not a secure medium and we do not accept any responsibility for and therefore exclude (to the maximum extent permitted by law) any liability for the loss or misuse of any data inputted by users via this website which is intercepted or otherwise accessed by unauthorised users.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This website provides links to external websites as a service to our visitors. The privacy policy described here does not apply to such external websites. Howes Percival LLP is not responsible for the content of any such website and any visit to an external site using a link provided on this site is entirely at the user's own risk and you are advised to check the privacy policy and terms of use of the external website in question. The provision of a link on this website to an external website should not be taken as an endorsement by Howes Percival LLP of that external site, its owners or their products/services.