Introduction

Thank you for using juxtalegal. All references to ‘us’, ‘we’ and/or ‘juxtalegal’ are specifically referring to Juxtalegal Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 13027678 and a registered office address of Juxtalegal Limited, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All references to ‘website’ are specifically referring to juxtalegal.co.uk. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) should be read together with our Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions. 

Your privacy is of paramount importance to us. We are committed to ensuring that all data processed and/or kept by us is kept secure and confidential. This Policy sets out the kind of personal information we collect, how that information will be used, the interaction of that data with third parties, the security of your personal information, how you can modify or remove your personal information and how you can opt out of future communications. Your use of this website constitutes acceptance by you of this Policy. You must cease to use this website if you do not accept this Policy. We may amend this Policy from time to time. The effective date of this Policy is listed below. We encourage you to regularly check this Policy. 

Juxtalegal is the Data Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”). If you have any queries in relation to our use of your personal information, please contact us at data@juxtalegal.co.uk.

Types of Data Collected and Method of Collection 

This website provides an independent and online service which enables you to compare fixed cost legal services delivered by solicitors. You are not obliged to instruct solicitors when using this website. Users who instruct solicitors listed on this website do so at their own discretion. We collect the personal data given by you to us with your consent when you choose to instruct a solicitor listed on this website. When doing so, we will collect from you the following information: your full name, your email address and your telephone number. This website may also operate an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. It is not necessary to subscribe to an email newsletter program to use this website. Users who do opt to subscribe can subscribe through an online automated process but do so at their own discretion. We collect the personal data given by you to us with your consent when subscribing to a newsletter listed on this website. When doing so, we may collect any of the following: your first and last name, your email address and, where relevant, your company name. The security of your personal information is of paramount importance to us and we have therefore taken appropriate measures to ensure your information is kept confidential and secure. That includes the use of HTTPS and SSL certification . Unfortunately however, the transmission of data over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore encourage you to take all precautions possible when sharing data online.

Use of Data and How it is Shared 

The personal data you provide to us when you instruct a solicitor through this website will be provided to your chosen solicitor. You expressly consent to us sharing this information with your chosen solicitor by completing the relevant instruct form on this website. In addition to the other methods detailed in this Policy, your personal information will also be used to administer and maintain our records and improve this website. How your personal information is stored, held and used once it has been provided to your chosen solicitor will be in accordance with your chosen solicitor’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. You should ensure that you read and fully understand your chosen solicitor’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. We are not liable for any misuse of your personal information by any third party, including the solicitors detailed on this website. Personal information provided to and collected by this website may be used for marketing, public relations and analytical purposes. We may use this information to periodically contact you at the email address you provided with promotional emails about new services or other information which we believe you may find interesting. We may also occasionally contact you for market research purposes. Should we do so, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from those marketing and/or promotional emails. We do not sell, lease or distribute your personal information to third parties except where required to do so by law or by the means stipulated in this Policy. 

Our ‘instruct a solicitor’ form program and the subsequent use of the personal information provided by you to us is powered by Typeform SL (“Typeform”). By completing an instruct a solicitor form on this website you acknowledge and consent that the personal information provided by you to us will therefore also be shared with and transferred to the instruct form program management and service provided to us by Typeform. Typeform is an entity registered in Spain with a registered office address of C/Bac de Roda, 163 (Local), 08018, Barcelona, Spain. You may contact Typeform for any data related queries by contacting their Data Protection Officer at gdpr@typeform.com. By using this website and by completing an instruct solicitor form, you acknowledge and consent to Typeform’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy which can be found here.

Your rights

You may exercise certain rights relating to the data processed by us. In particular, you have the right to do the following:

• Withdraw your consent at any time. You have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing of personal data.
• Access your data. You have the right to learn how your data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
• Verify and seek rectification. You have the right to verify the accuracy of the data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
• Restrict the processing of your data. You have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your data. In this case, we will not process your data for any purpose other than storing it.
• Have your data deleted or otherwise removed. You have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of your data from us.
• Receive your data and have it transferred to another controller. You have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that your data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract which you are part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• Lodge a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your competent data protection authority. In England, this is the Information Commissioner's Office.

Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to us by contacting us at data@juxtalegal.co.uk. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as early as possible and always within one month.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. Upon using a link to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Privacy Policy updated August 2019.