Privacy
This policy was last updated on 14/10/2010.
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 of our site, to attend our events or receive emails from us, we will collect the information necessary to provide these services to you. As a minimum, we will require your name and e-mail address. You may also be asked to provide your organisation name, but unless you are registering for one of our events, you don't need to provide this information if you don't want to. If you are registered with us, 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 or ticking the relevant box on the seminar booking form. 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
How Out-Law uses cookies on its sites
Cookies are small text files that can be used by web sites to make a user's experience more efficient. This site uses different types 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.
Learn more about our use of cookies.
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Transferring information overseas
Outside the UK, Pinsent Masons has offices in Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. It is possible therefore that your details or information collected may be available to these offices.
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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 September 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, Matthew Magee.
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