We may, in providing our services and operating our businesses, share your personal information with other Penningtons Manches Cooper entities. We may also share your personal information with third parties where:
- you have consented to us sharing your personal information in this way;
- we are under a legal, professional or regulatory obligation to do so (such as to comply with money laundering requirements);
- it is necessary in order to apply or enforce our Terms of Business or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so that is not overridden by your interests and fundamental rights. For example, to protect our clients or to operate and maintain the security of our computer systems.
We use third party service providers to support us in the performance of the activities set out in the table above including:
- our professional advisors, professional indemnity insurers, bankers and auditors;
- third parties engaged in relation to client matters on which we are instructed such as barristers, foreign agents and lawyers (including those within the Multilaw global network of law firms), process servers, translators, transcribers and providers of data rooms and other technical solutions; suppliers of financial services including our bankers, credit card processors, debt collection, insurers, litigation funders, and credit reference agencies;
- we use a third party service provider to provide services that involve data processing including Williams Lea to whom we outsource our personal assistant, document production, facilities and reception requirements. We also use third party organisations to provide services such as telephony services and archiving;
- suppliers and consultants to whom we outsource IT services and technical solutions and which host our online job application system.
Further information on how client information may be shared and processed can be found in our Terms of Business. If you require further information regarding the identity of other third party service providers we use, please e-mail data@penningtonslaw.com or contact our Data Protection Officer at our Basingstoke office.
We may also share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or otherwise to comply with the law.
We require all our third party service providers to take appropriate and stringent security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third party service providers to use your personal information for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal information for specified purposes in accordance with our instructions.
In the course of providing our services and operating our business, it may be necessary for us to share personal information with our overseas offices, some of which are outside the UK and European Economic Area (EEA).
The level of protection in countries outside the UK and EEA may be less than that offered within the UK or EEA. To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the EU and UK laws on data protection. Where our third party service providers process personal data outside the UK or EEA in the course of providing services to us, our contractual arrangements with these will include appropriate measures to meet UK or EU-approved data protection obligations, usually standard contractual clauses. If you require further information about these protective measures, please e-mail data@penningtonslaw.com or contact our Data Protection Officer at our Basingstoke office.
Keeping your information secure
