1. Who this policy covers
This policy applies to personal information collected through this website by Wall Law. It does not apply to information you provide to us as a client under a written engagement, which is governed by that engagement and by the professional obligations of confidentiality that apply to attorneys.
It also does not apply to third-party websites you reach from links on this site. Those operators publish their own policies, and we have no control over them.
2. Information you give us
Two forms on this site collect personal information, and both are voluntary. If you do not use them, we do not collect anything that identifies you.
- Consultation request form: your name, work email address, and optionally your company, industry, the service you are interested in, and whatever you choose to write in the message field.
- Guide request form: your name, work email address, and optionally your company.
3. Information collected automatically
This site records aggregate visitor statistics such as page views, referring source, approximate country, browser and device type. That measurement is cookieless. It does not set advertising or tracking cookies, does not build a profile of you, and does not follow you to other websites.
Our hosting provider also processes standard server request data, including IP address, as a necessary part of delivering and securing the site.
4. How we use your information
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not use it to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
- To respond to your enquiry and arrange a consultation.
- To carry out the conflicts checks a law practice is required to perform before taking on a matter.
- To send you the guide you requested, and occasional notes on privacy and AI regulation, which you can stop at any time.
- To operate, secure and improve this website.
- To meet our own legal, regulatory and professional obligations.
5. Legal bases for processing
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on the following bases. Consent, where you have asked us to send you the guide or our updates, which you may withdraw at any time. Steps taken at your request prior to entering a contract, where you have asked about engaging us. Legitimate interests, in operating and securing this website and in responding to business enquiries, balanced against your interests and rights. Legal obligation, where a law or professional rule requires us to keep or produce records.
8. International transfers
Our service providers may process information in countries other than your own, including the United States. Where personal information is transferred out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on an appropriate transfer mechanism, such as standard contractual clauses, together with any supplementary measures the transfer requires.
9. How long we keep information
Enquiries that do not become engagements are kept only as long as needed to deal with the enquiry and to run our conflicts checks, and are then deleted. Guide and update subscriptions are kept until you ask us to stop. Records we are required to retain under professional or legal obligations are kept for the period those obligations specify. Aggregate visitor statistics are not linked to an identifiable individual.
10. How we protect information
Form submissions are transmitted over encrypted connections and stored in access-controlled systems. Access is limited to those who need it to respond to you. No system is perfectly secure, so we also limit what we collect in the first place, which is the most reliable protection available.
11. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights over your personal information.
- Access: to know what we hold about you and obtain a copy.
- Correction: to have inaccurate information corrected.
- Deletion: to have your information erased, subject to records we are legally required to keep.
- Restriction and objection: to limit or object to certain processing, including direct marketing.
- Portability: to receive certain information in a portable format.
- Withdrawal of consent: at any time, without affecting processing carried out before you withdrew it.
- For California residents: to know, delete and correct, to opt out of sale or sharing (we do neither), to limit the use of sensitive personal information (we do not collect it through this site), and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
12. Exercising your rights
Send a request through the contact form on this site, stating what you would like us to do. We will verify your request, respond within the period the applicable law requires, and tell you if an exception applies. You may authorise an agent to make a request on your behalf, and we may ask for confirmation of that authority. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
13. Children
This website is directed to businesses and the professionals who work in them. It is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided information through this site, contact us and we will delete it.
14. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date at the top. Material changes will be described plainly rather than absorbed silently into the text.
15. Contact
Questions about this policy, or about how your information has been handled, can be sent through the contact form on this site. Please mark the message as a privacy request so it reaches the right place quickly.
The material on this website is provided for general information only and is not legal advice. Reading it, or sending a message through this site, does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not send confidential information until a written engagement is in place.