Jarrott Law is a trading name of CFJJ Law Ltd, company number SC269662. CFJJ Law Ltd is the data controller for this website and is responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", "us", or "our" in this privacy notice).
1. Introduction
This privacy notice explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you use our website https://www.jjarrottlaw.uk.
By providing us with your data, you confirm that you are over 13 years of age.
J Jarrott Law is the data controller for this website. We are responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", "us", or "our" in this privacy notice).
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. If your personal information changes, please let us know by emailing office@jjlaw.uk.
2. What Data We Collect, Why We Collect It, and the Lawful Basis for Processing
Personal data refers to any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication Data
Includes any communication you send to us via the contact form on our website, email, phone, or other methods.
Purpose: To communicate with you, maintain records, and establish, pursue, or defend legal claims.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests — to respond to enquiries, maintain records, and protect our legal interests.
User Data
Includes information about how you use our website and any data you provide through the site (e.g. contact form submissions).
Purpose: To operate, maintain, and improve our website, ensure its security, and deliver relevant content.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests — to operate and administer our website and grow our business.
Technical Data
Includes data such as your IP address, browser details, time zone settings, pages visited, and usage patterns. This data is collected via Google Analytics.
Purpose: To analyse website usage, administer and protect our site, and understand how visitors interact with it.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests — to improve our website, monitor performance, and refine our online presence.
We do not process personal data for marketing purposes. We do not send marketing communications or run promotions, competitions, or giveaways.
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract and you do not provide it, we may be unable to fulfil the contract or provide the service requested.
We will only use your personal data for the purpose it was collected or a reasonably compatible purpose. If we need to use your data for an unrelated new purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis.
We do not conduct automated decision-making or profiling.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect data about you in the following ways:
When you provide it directly via the contact form or email.
Automatically, via cookies and Google Analytics as you use our website. See our Cookie Policy for more information.
We may also receive publicly available data from sources such as Companies House or the Electoral Register.
4. Marketing Communications
We do not use your personal data to send marketing communications.
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with trusted third parties where necessary:
IT service providers for website hosting and maintenance.
Professional advisers including lawyers, auditors, and insurers.
Government bodies or regulators where legally required.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to process it in accordance with the law.
6. International Transfers
We do not routinely transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA.
Where any transfer may occur (e.g. via Google Analytics), we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent protections.
7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed, altered, or disclosed without authorisation.
Access to your personal data is limited to employees and trusted third parties who need it for legitimate business purposes and who are subject to confidentiality obligations.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data breaches and will notify you and the relevant regulator where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including legal, accounting, or regulatory requirements.
For tax purposes, we are required to keep basic customer information (such as Contact and Identity Data) for six years after a client relationship ends.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under UK data protection law, you have rights regarding your personal data, including:
The right to request access to your data.
The right to request correction or erasure of your data.
The right to restrict processing.
The right to object to processing.
The right to data portability.
The right to withdraw consent (where consent is used as the lawful basis).
You can learn more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/
To exercise any of these rights, please email office@jjlaw.uk.
You will not be charged for accessing your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, to ensure your data is protected and not disclosed unlawfully.
We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection. We encourage you to contact us first so we can try to resolve your concerns.
10. Third-Party Links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking those links may allow third parties to collect data about you.
We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any personal data.
11. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. You can set your browser to refuse some or all browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly.
For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.
12. Data Controller
Data Controller: CFJJ Law Ltd (Trading as J Jarrott Law)
20-23 Woodside Place, Glasgow, G3 7QL
Company Number: SC269662
13. Data Protection Contact
Director
Telephone: 0141 345 5735
Email: office@jjlaw.uk
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law or our business practices. The updated version will always be posted on this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.