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Privacy Notice
We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Who we are
I am Garth Morton trading as Morton Consulting Law providing legal services to businesses and individuals across England and Wales. I am the data controller who collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. As a result and as part of the business of providing legal services, Morton Consulting Law collects and processes client and non-client data. At Morton Consulting Law we do this governed by the data protection laws here in the UK. When Morton Consulting Law do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom), and the Data Protection Act 2018, and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
The personal information we collect and use
In the course of my legal practice I collect personal information when you provide it to me and Morton Consulting Law.
How Morton Consulting Law uses your personal information
We use your personal information to provide the legal services which you contract for us to provide.
Who we share your personal information with
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
Whether information has to be provided by you, and if so why
The provision of your personal information such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, and any other necessary personal information, is required from you to enable us to provide you with legal services. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.
How long your personal information will be kept
We will hold your name, address, contact details and other relevant personal information for a period of 6 years, currently, in accordance with applicable law UK tax law.
Reasons we can collect and use your personal information
We rely on of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 as the lawful basis on which collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests are in providing under contract our legal services.
Transfer of your information out of the EEA
We DO NOT transfer your personal information to countries which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows unless with your specific consent. Such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;
access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address;
require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;
require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;
receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations;
object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;
object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;
object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
email us,
let us have enough information to identify you,
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and
let us know the information to which your request relates.
Keeping your personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy notice
This privacy notice was last updated on 26 / 01 /2023.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do we will inform you via email.
How to contact us
Please contact us by email at info@mortonconsulting-law.co.uk if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.