Privacy Policy
Safeguarding your rights
OUT-LAW.COM is part of international law firm Pinsent Masons. The privacy of
our users is important to us and we take care to safeguard it. This
policy explains how we use your personal information and elaborates
on our Data Protection notice (which is displayed at the point of
user registration).
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What information do we collect?
When you register as a user, we will collect the information
necessary to provide the service which includes, as a minimum, your
name and an e-mail address. You will also be asked to provide your
organisation name and address, but you can register without
providing these details. Once you are registered, you can revisit
your profile at any time to amend these
details or to provide additional details.
We will also collect information from you if you complete any
other forms on our site or if you contact us with comments or
specific requests.
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What do we use personal information
for?
We want to provide a service which is personalised to each of
our visitors. We also want to give you control of what you receive
as a result of registering with OUT-LAW.COM.
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OUT-LAW Weekly Round-up
If you decide you would like to receive our OUT-LAW News weekly
round-up, you will receive this e-mail once per week only.
Sometimes this will be sponsored by a third party, so its details
may also appear on the email. However, your details will never be
given to any such party without your consent.
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Contacting you for other purposes
We will contact you about other Pinsent Masons' events and
services from time to time by email, telephone, fax or other
electronic messaging service – but only if you choose to provide
these contact details and request that we contact
you about events and services by ticking the relevant box in your
profile. We may contact you occasionally about our surveys, special
offers or competitions; but we will never bombard you with
rubbish.
Another box lets Pinsent Masons' business partners also contact
you. You don't have to tick this box. If you do, please be aware
that any such third parties will be carefully selected: we will
always be cautious about letting anyone else contact you – so
ticking this box does not mean that we would sell your email
address to spammers.
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Information collected automatically
We automatically collect information about your visit to our
site. This information is used to make your visit to our site more
efficient, and to help us follow browsing preferences on our site
so that we can make regular improvements. Our external web host may
also automatically log your IP address, a unique identifier for
your computer or other access device.
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Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by web sites to
make a user's experience more efficient. This site uses two kinds
of cookie.
We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service
provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses
cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use
of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted
to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google
will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of
our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing
other services relating to website activity and internet
usage. Google may also transfer this information to third
parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties
process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not
to associate your IP address with any other data held by
Google.
Also, when you register with OUT-LAW.COM, we offer you a
cookie to save your login details. This means you
will not need to use your username and password to access our
content when using the computer on which the cookie is stored.
However, you will still need to use your username and password to
access your profile. The cookie file itself does not store your
personal information.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your
computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management
software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. You
can access them through some types of browser. Search in your
cookie folders for 'out-law' to find our cookie and the Google
Analytics cookie if you wish to delete them.
More information about cookies, including how to block
them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.
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Transferring information overseas
Outside the UK, Pinsent Masons has offices in Dubai, Hong Kong,
Beijing and Shanghai. It is possible that your details or
information collected may be passed to these offices – but only
where we think this may be of benefit to you.
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Information requests
You can ask for a copy of the information we hold about you at
any time (for which we may charge a small fee). We will also
correct any inaccuracies in your information at your request.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we make changes to our Privacy Policy that affect how we
handle your data, we will let you know by email. Minor changes will
not be notified. You can check our Privacy Policy at this page
at any time. It was last updated in May 2009.
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Contact
If you have any queries concerning your personal information or
any questions on our use of the information, please contact our
editor, Struan
Robertson.
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