Privacy Policy

This privacy policy provides guidance regarding how and why we collect, use and retain personal information. This privacy policy also provides information regarding your rights with regard to your own personal information.

This policy includes the following headings:

1. Important information;
2. Collection of your data;
3. Use of your data;
4. Retention of your data;
5. Transfer of your data to third parties;
6. Links to other sites;
7. Know your rights.

Important information

It is important that you read this policy when working with us to ensure that you are fully aware of how we collect, use and retain your data.
For the purposes of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 , Data Protection Act (2021 Revision) Cayman Islands, Data Protection Act (2021) British Virgin Islands & The Data Protection Act 2018, (“GDPR”):

• The data controller is Baker & Partners; and
• Baker & Partners may use third-party processors to deliver specific services that are requested by you from Baker & Partners.

Baker & Partners is a firm comprising a number of entities established to provide legal services under the trading name of Baker & Partners and includes Baker Regulatory Services Limited. For any questions relating to your data, or to submit any requests, please contact Baker & Partners using one of the methods below:

Post: Midland Chambers
2 – 10 Library Place
St Helier
Jersey
JE1 2BP
Email: enquiries@bakerandpartners.com
Phone: +44 (0) 1534 766 254

Collection of your data

Baker & Partners may collect information from you directly, indirectly by email, phone or other means, or via our website.
We may collect and/or process the following data about you:

• Information you provide to us – by filling in forms on our website or by entering into a contract with us, or by correspondence with us by email, letter, phone or other methods, which includes data provided by you by registering to use our website, or by subscribing for newsletters or other information services, or by joining our web forum, or by placing a request for services, and when reporting a problem with our site, or otherwise contacting us.
• Personal Data – the information you give us may include; your name, date of birth, nationality, passport information, address(es), email address(es), IP address, phone number(s), family related or work-related information together with financial and credit card information. All of which is Personal Data and subject to GDPR.
• Other information we collect about you – In accordance with our legal obligation to prevent fraudulent or abusive use of our website, some data may be automatically collected and comprises the following:
  • Technical information – such as your; internet protocol (IP) address, login information, time zone, browser type/version with plug-in types/versions, device information (operating system and platform);
  • Information about your visit – such as your Uniform Resource Locators (URL), including the date and time, services viewed/searched, site statistics, interaction (scrolling, clicks, mouse-overs), exit methods away from pages, phone numbers (if used to call our customer service number), route to/from our site or from search engine links to our site including search engine address and search term used.
    • Our website will not store any identifying information of your visit on your computer apart from a small text file called a cookie, which in itself does not contain any identifying information and does not mean that you entered the site. See the cookies policy link at the end of this document for more detail on cookies.
    • Depending on the configuration of your browser, pages and images you view on our site may be stored on your computer. This feature, (which you can configure), is called caching.
    • All information you exchange with the Baker & Partners website is accessible by its administrators and will only be used to prevent abuse, fraud and threats to members’ confidentiality or safety. This information will only be accessed with respect to specific reports of such activity.
  • Information we receive from other sources – information about you may be received by us if you use another website or service that are connected with in our normal course of business (e.g. publicly available sources such company registries, regulatory bodies or otherwise published materials). Third-parties may also provide information to us about you, specifically from any of the following; companies or legal entities of which you are a legal owner or controller, our business partners, sub-contractors or credit reference agencies for payment and delivery services, or advertising and marketing services, or our technical and analytics providers, or our search engine and search information providers.

All Personal Data we hold is protected by us in accordance with the Principles of the GDPR.

• Data security – We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your data. All the data collected by us is stored on a secure platform in a secure hosting facility and we take all reasonable steps to ensure any access is pre-authorised and recorded.
• Data encryption – all Personal Data is segmented and held in AES256 encrypted files to ensure protection. We retain a copy file within our on-premises devices together with a duplicate backup on our data centre account within Europe

The information we collect about you, if you agree to provide it, will allow us to contact you and send information to you about services where you may have an interest.

• In providing us your information you thereby consent to us processing it for this purpose; and
• We will not pass your information on to any third party without your express permission, except as defined herein for the provision of services that you have requested, other than authorities and the police in the event of any investigation.

By visiting our website and completing any of the consent processes (i.e. subscribing to a service and/or providing your contact information), you accept and consent to the practices defined in this policy.

Use of your data

We only use your data where there is a lawful reason for doing so. The information we hold about you is predominantly used as follows:

• To fulfil a contract we have, or are about to, entered into with you;
• Where it is necessary to use the information for legitimate interests (and where your interests and rights do not override those legitimate interests); and
• To comply with a legal and/or regulatory obligations or legal proceedings.

In addition:

• Information that you provide to us – this information is also used;
  • to meet your requests for information and services, or
  • to notify you of changes to our services, or make suggestions/recommendations that may interest you, or
  • to improve content of our site and ensure it is presented effectively for you and your device, or
  • to investigate any suspected breach of the Terms of Use or made by or otherwise relating to you and to monitor compliance including by way of using keyword triggers to investigate usage that may be inappropriate, or
  • deal with investigations by the police or other regulatory bodies.
• Information that we collect about you – we use this information:
  • to manage our website as well as for our efficient operations, which includes analysis, research, statistical and survey uses, together with testing and troubleshooting;
  • to improve our website and content for users and their devices;
  • to allow you to interact with our website and take advantage of our online services, whenever you may elect to do so;
  • to ensure our site is safe and secure by monitoring activities within the context of continual process improvement, which is a best practice requirement of the JGDPR;
  • to monitor advertising and marketing effectiveness for users, and/or to fine-tune advertising by relevance to users;
  • to enable targeted suggestions/recommendations to users about services that may be of interest.
• Information we receive from other sources – we may use third-party information, which may be combined with information you provided to us and/or information collected by us, which may be used for the purposes we have defined above.

Retention of your data

Baker & Partners comply with the relevant Law Society or equivalent regulatory body policy on document retention that all documents and records in either physical or electronic form shall be retained for a minimum period of 11 years from the date of the last substantive exchange with the client on the matter. Records may be destroyed without client consent after 20 years from the last material event on the file.

Transfer of your data to third parties

We may pass your data to other parties as follows:

8. Where relevant, we may pass your data to our employees, suppliers and agents to administer the services provided to you by us or them, now or in the future.
9. We may disclose your data to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use and (where appropriate) by you or otherwise where required by law.

We use third-parties to process data and deliver services for the purposes shown. All of these processors may have access to some of your Personal Data as appropriate for the delivery of the purpose specified.

All of our third-party processors are subject to our Controller-Processor terms, which limit their legal right to access Personal Data unless under supervision by our personnel or by other specific written consent from us. These include:

• IT Support – General IT, website, hosting and office systems support
• CRM – Client relationship management and marketing
• PMS – Practice management, information and analytical systems
• Security – Cyber and data security systems
• Communications – Telephone and other communication system providers

Links to other sites

Please be aware that the Baker & Partners site and/or published materials may link to other web sites that may be accessed by you through our site or materials.

We are not responsible for their data policies, content or security of these linked web sites. We do not have any control over the use to which third parties may put your data where you choose to purchase products or services or otherwise to contact them via our site or materials.

Know your rights

Under GDPR, all individuals who are the owners of their Personal Data have specific and clear rights, which are:

• Right to Erasure – Every individual has the right to be forgotten upon request. The data controller must remove your Personal Data from its systems and request the same of any third-party systems of that controller;
• Right to Access – Every individual has the right to access their Personal Data held about them upon request;
• Right to Portability – Every individual has the right to request their Personal Data and use it for other parties they wish to engage with;
• Right to be Informed – Every individual has the right to be informed about how their Personal Data is being used, which may be provided upon request of the individual, or before the controller changes any use of that data, giving the individual the right to consent or object;
• Right to Objection – Every individual has the right to object to the use of their Personal Data for any purpose proposed by a controller;
• Right to Rectification – Every individual has the right to have errors in their Personal Data to be corrected;
• Right to Restrict – Every individual has the right to restrict the uses of their Personal Data for any specific type of processing;
• Rights on automated decisions & profiling – Every individual has the right to restrict or object to automated decision-making processes or profiling based on their Personal Data;

To exercise such rights, or ask questions regarding how we collect, use and retain personal information, please contact us using the contact information above. In addition, you may wish to provide:

• Revocation of your consent – in accordance with the GDPR, to revoke consent for processing of your Personal Data send an email with the word “Revoke” in the subject field to enquiries@bakerandpartners.com;
• Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) – in accordance with the GDPR,
  • you may request us to send you details about any Personal Data that we may hold about you; or
  • you may request that we correct any errors; or
  • you may request us to delete any/all Personal Data about you; or
• Complaints – you may wish to make a complaint regarding our use of Personal Data to the appropriate supervisory body. We would appreciate the chance to address your concerns first by contacting us. The website of the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC) , the Ombudsman Cayman Islands, The Information Commissioner, BVI, & the Information Commissioners Office (UK) (Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO))  where you can make your complaint.

Please note that, in accordance with the GDPR, any DSAR is provided free of charge within 30 days, unless a particular DSAR is subject to other regulatory requirements as defined within the GDPR, in which case we will inform you as required by those specific regulations.

This privacy policy has been updated March 2024.