Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

Under the Data Protection Act and the UK General Data Protection Regulation, we are required to explain to you why we are asking for information about you, how we intend to use the information you provide to us and whether we will share this information with anyone else.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy as well as what you expect us to do with your personal information.

This policy applies to all networks that Achill Legal manages websites and data for, namely; Legal Sustainability Alliance, Legal Charter 1.5, One Million Hours, Greener Litigation Pledge and the Bar Sustainability Network.

This website legalsustainabilityalliance.com and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [http://www.google.com/privacy.html].

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide and improve our services to you:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Occupation
• Usage data (including information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services)

We collect or use the following personal information for information updates or marketing purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Marketing preferences

Lawful basis and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us [email protected]

Our lawful basis for the collection and use of your data

Achill Legal manage the secretariats for several legal sustainability networks. Data on firms and people is collected when they join the various networks, which enables the secretariats to:
Provide and improve our services
Provide users with relevant sustainability information, access to useful events and keep them informed via bulletins and emails
Where do we get and store personal information from
We use Transpond, Capsule and Ninja Forms across all of our networks to capture your personal information via one of the following forms:

• Contact Us | Get in touch form
• Bulletin sign up form
• Membership form
• Project/network specific form

By completing one of our forms, you are providing us with consent to receive information about that specific network. When you first sign up to a bulletin provided by Achill Legal you will be asked to verify your email. Please note we will only send you bulletins to the networks that you have individually signed up to receive.
Achill Legal uses Capsule CRM to store your information and Transpond by Capsule to send out bulletins and/or emails.

Their privacy policies are here. Ninja Forms, Capsule CRM and Transpond.

How long we keep information

In accordance with the Data Protection Legislation, Achill Legal will only retain personal data for as long as is necessary for the legitimate purposes for which the personal data is processed. When those purposes come to an end, Achill Legal will securely delete the personal with immediate effect.

Other websites

Our site may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

If you access other websites using the links provided, the operators of these websites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ from ours.

Therefore, if you use these links to leave our site and visit websites operated by third parties, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting those websites.

Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Our contact details: [email protected]