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In our privacy notices, the following terms are used: 

• “members of chambers” or “members” – self-employed barristers who are called to the Bar of England and Wales, have tenancy at Quality Legal Services and practice as barristers or door tenants via Chambers.

• “other legal practitioners” – legal practitioners (including arbitrators, mediators and adjudicates) who conduct work via Quality Legal Services on an occasional basis and have practices separate to Quality Legal Services which may be based in the UK or other jurisdictions.

• “relevant practitioners” – collectively, members of chambers, pupils and other legal practitioners.

• “UK GDPR” – the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (accessible here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679).

• “personal data” – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

• “special category data” – data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purposes of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a person’s sexual orientation

• “data subject” – a natural person who is identified or identifiable from any personal data.

• “controller” – the person which, alone or jointly, with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data /

• “processor” – a person which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

• “consent” – any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

What types of personal data do we collect and/or retain? 

In order to advise and represent clients or other consider and respond to instructions (in their capacity as counsel, mediators, arbitrators, experts or judges), relevant practitioners may process the personal data of actual or potential professional and lay clients, as well as individuals connected to the matters arising from those instructions, and/or employees, agents, legal advisers and representatives of any such person. 

Legal Bases 

The legal bases for our processing of your personal data may include any or all of: 

(a) Your consent. 

(b) The performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. 

(c) Compliance with our legal obligations. 

(d) The legitimate interests of ourselves and/or third parties, such as our clients. The legitimate interests pursued by us, or third parties, are the professional, commercial and/or legal interests which we, or they, may have in the purposes identified above. 

Special category data is processed on the basis of: 

(a) Your explicit consent to the processing of those personal data for one or more specified reasons 

(b) It being in the public domain (i.e. manifestly made public by the data subject) 

(c) Necessity for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity.

For more information you can contact us at gdpr@legalqualityservices.com