marketinglaw.co.uk is a website created and maintained by law firm Osborne Clarke. Your privacy is important and to protect it Osborne Clarke operates within certain principles. Any information you provide about yourself on this website to Osborne Clarke will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By registering on this site and disclosing your personal information to us you agree to the collection, storage and use of your personal information by Osborne Clarke in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

Data Collection

You can access our website and browse certain areas without disclosing personal data. We collect your personal data ("Your Data")only with your knowledge or your consent. When you register as a user or subscriber ("Registered User"), we collect Your Data to enable us to provide the website update service ("the Update Service"), informing you by email automatically of new material posted on marketinglaw.co.uk from time to time. We will also collect information if you complete any other forms on our site or if you contact us with comments or specific requests.

Our ISP collects an audit trail of pages visited, giving the IP address of visitors to the site. We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Data Use

By registering on the site you agree that you would like to receive the Update Service. This consists of sending you from time to time links to new material on marketinglaw.co.uk which will include legal news and analysis focusing on national and international advertising, marketing and sponsorship-related developments and news about Osborne Clarke's events, including seminars and workshops, on developments featured in marketinglaw.co.uk and other topics we believe may be of interest to you.  We may also use Your Data to send you by email, post or telephony information about functionality changes to the website.  Your Data may also be used to provide you by post or telephony with information about our legal services, information about legal developments which we believe may be of interest to you and invitations to events that we hold, either alone or jointly with third parties.  We may also share Your Data with other Osborne Clarke offices, including those in continental Europe (full details of which are available on the website osborneclarke.com) for any of the purposes described in the last sentence.

Except as indicated here or with your express prior written consent, we will not disclose, sell or rent Your Data to third parties. 

Opt-out

If as a Registered User you at any time no longer wish to receive the Update Service from us you may opt-out by replying with "unsubscribe" in the subject line of any email sent to you as part of the Update Service. You should also be aware that you have a legal right to ask us to make no further direct marketing use of Your Data at all. If you wish to exercise this right please email us with your query.

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We do not use cookies on our website, and do not create them on any visitor's machine.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Accessing Personal Data

You can contact us to ask whether we are keeping personal data about you. Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of data which we hold about you. If you ask us to delete, correct or amend that personal data we will do so within a reasonable time.  If you wish to exercise this right please email us with your query.

Security

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal data that we have (including Your Data) under our control, both on- and off-line,  from unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, accidental loss.

Off-line, all of our Registered Users' information is restricted in our offices.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific task within the various uses indicated above (depending on any preferences you have expressed as to particular uses as described above) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any queries about this privacy policy, please contact Stephen Groom.