This website is provided by Hamilton Pratt. These Terms of Use are the terms and conditions on which we provide the text, software, database, format, documents, graphic and written work and all other materials published on this website (the “content”) and the basis on which we allow access to it. Please read them carefully.

This website is for your own private use. By accessing this website, you agree:

• not to use this website or its content in contravention of any regulation or legislation;
• not to interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our website, any equipment, systems or network used to operate our website;
• not to misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful;
• You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site;
• not to copy, amend, reproduce or distribute the content, or disclose the content to third parties, other than in compliance with our Copyright Notice;
• not to advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this website or to benefit commercially from its content; and
• that you are responsible for any material you send to or upload to this website and that such material is legal, is not offensive and does not infringe our rights, those of third parties or the provisions of the Legal Notices.

We or third parties who have granted us permission to reproduce their material on this website, own all trade marks, copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the content on this website.

Our Copyright Notice forms part of the Legal Notices and therefore the terms on which we provide and allow access to this website.

Online Privacy

Our online Privacy Policy forms part of the Legal Notices and therefore the terms on which we provide and allow access to this website.

Limitations and Exclusions of our Liability

Our website and its contents are provided for general information purposes only and nothing on this website or in its contents is intended to provide legal or other professional advice. We do not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information or materials published on this website.

We are not responsible or liable for any matter relating to you or any third parties accessing or using this website and its contents.

We do not endorse nor are we responsible for the contents of websites operated by others that link to this website or that are accessible from it.

Nothing in these Terms of Use or the Legal Notices excludes or limits our liability for fraud or for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or for any other matter in respect of which it would be unlawful to limit or exclude liability.

General

Our rights under the Legal Notices may be waived only in writing and specifically.

Governing Law

The Legal Notices shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and we and you each submit irrevocably to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your personal information and privacy.

This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about you. We may change this Policy from time to time.

Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to barbara.lock@hplaw.co.uk or by writing to Franchise House, 3a Tournament Court, Tournament Fields, Warwick, CV34 6LG. Alternatively, you can telephone 01926 838900.

Who are we?

We are Hamilton Pratt.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, when you provide it to us or, occasionally, from third parties.

What type of information do we collect?

The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address and other personal information.

How is your information used?

We may use your information:
• to carry out your, and our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you or us or which it is contemplated will be entered into;
• to seek your comments on the services we have provided;
• to notify you of changes to our services;
• to send you communications which you have requested or that may be of interest to you such as recent developments in the law;
• for administrative and business purposes;
• for advertising and analytical purposes;
• in connection with our legal rights and obligations;
• for certain additional purposes but only with your consent.

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will hold your personal information on our systems only for so long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract with you.

Who has access to your information?

We will not sell or provide your information to third parties other than to information processors with whom we have entered into written contracts which require the information processors to comply in all respects with the requirements of this Privacy Policy and all legal requirements relating to information privacy.

You can choose

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you want to receive communications from us, then you should either tick the relevant boxes on the form on which we collect your personal information or if you instruct us to provide services to you we will provide information to you unless you indicate you do not wish to receive this information.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• access your personal information and to be informed about its use by us;
• correct your personal information;
• have your personal information deleted;
• restrict the use of your personal information;
• object to the use of your personal information;
• complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office;
• withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information;
• ask for the personal information to be transferred.

Accessing your information

The accuracy of your information is important. If the personal information you have provided to us changes, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold, please email us at Barbara.lock@hplaw.co.uk or by writing to Franchise House, 3a Tournament Court, Tournament Fields, Warwick, CV34 6LG.

Security Measures

We will ensure that your personal information is held securely.

Some of your “non-sensitive” details (such as your email address) may be transmitted over the internet and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

‘Cookies’

Our website does not use “cookies”.

Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites which we do not own but this privacy policy only applies to our website. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites whether or not you access them using links from our website.

Review of this policy

We keep this policy under regular review. This policy was last updated in May 2018.

Copyright in some documents and material available on this website belongs to third parties and has been produced on this website with the permission of the third party copyright owners. Please check the copyright notices of those third parties.

With the exception of copyright belonging to third parties and unless otherwise stated, copyright in the pages of this website and all other material available through it belongs to Hamilton Pratt.

You may print or save copies of the content of this website for your own personal use and you may provide copies to others for information purposes, on the basis that:

• you do so on an occasional basis and free of charge;
• the copies are not tampered with in any way; and
• the recipient is made aware of the terms of this Copyright Notice.

Any other reproduction, transmission and storing of all or part of this website and the materials available through it, in any medium, without the written permission of Hamilton Pratt, is prohibited.

We only permit electronic links to pages of this website from which the Legal Notices can be accessed. All links must be provided in a way which is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it and you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You may not provide an electronic link to any other page of this website or to any other documents hosted on this website without our consent. We reserve the right to request that you remove an electronic link to this website at any time and you agree to remove such a link immediately.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Hamilton Pratt is committed to delivering an outstanding service to their clients. If you are a client and are dissatisfied with any element of our service (including your bill), you should contact the person working on the matter for you who will be happy to discuss the matter with you and, if applicable, initiate our Complaints Procedure (a copy of which will be sent to you on request). If for any reason we are unable to resolve this, you may contact the Legal Ombudsman, P O Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ, UK; tel: 0300 555 0333; email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk), which deals with complaints against lawyers registered in England and Wales. The time limit for referral of complaints to the Legal Ombudsman is ordinarily 6 months from our final response to your complaint, and one year from when you realised there was a concern. See www.legalombudsman.org.uk for further information. If your complaint is about your bill, you may also apply to the court for an assessment of the bill under part III of the Solicitors’ Act 1974. If all or part of a bill remains unpaid, we may be entitled to charge interest.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (www.sra.org.uk) may be able to help you if you are concerned about our behaviour. This could be for things such as dishonesty, taking or losing your money or treating you unfairly because of your age, a disability or other characteristic.

Our SRA registration number is 401522.