Quintessence Solicitors law firm has ratified this policy as its Terms of Use to govern your use of this website(s) – www.qtsolicitors.co.uk.

Bindingness of Terms

1.1 By choosing to use the Quintessence Solicitors website, you have accepted to abide by all of its terms of use (Terms) as binding conditions of use between you and the Quintessence Solicitors (herein after – Quintessence Solicitors). See: Quintessence Solicitors Privacy Notice.

1.2 Quintessence Solicitors reserves the unfettered rights to change, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time, which shall become enforceable immediately upon posting the amended version. Your duty is to review these Terms before each use of the Website and it is construed that you agree to any changes by continuing to use this Site.

Content on the Site and in Publications

2.1 All the contents published on the website, which includes but not limited to news articles, photographs, images, illustrutions, audio clips video clips are material properties of Quintessence Solicitors. They are exclusively intended for your personal viewing, research purpose, and knowledge acquisition but strictly disallowed for any form of commercial use. Each of the contents is protected by copyright. Based on your continuous use of this website and accessing its contents, you have agreed to abide by all additional copyright notices, information or restrictions that may be contained in any content you access on the Site.

2.2 For personal use of the contents of this site, you are allowed to copy or download content(s) and other downloadable items, so long you do not make alteration to the original content on the website, and provided you comply with the notices on the use of the website and preserve all copyrights.

User’s Use of the Site

3.1 You have agreed not to upload, distribute or otherwise publish unto this website, any form of defamatory content, libellous material, obscene publications, pornographic audio or video clips or any materials that are capable of abusive, insulting, assaulting, threatening or any other material which could be termed as illegal materials, indiscriminate or indecent contents.

3.2    You have agreed to the fact you are absolutely accountable and solely responsible for any material content or contribution that you submit unto this Website.

3.3    You have agreed to the outright loss and unreserved waiver of your right (be it copyright or intellectual property) to any material content or contribution that you export unto this website, whether as user-generated content in the form or structure of articles, comments, messages, reviews, audio or video clips or photographic contents, computer apps and codes. By this standard, you have ceded your rights to such materials to Quintessence Solicitors to edit, modify, remove, and transmit, in any way that it is objectively satisfied to use such material.

3.4 You have also agreed to alienating your rights and grant license to Quintessence Solicitors to publish  the material contents without limitation and to share with a third party, which shall derive its exclusive and inalienable rights to use, designate, mark, cause to be publicized, display, transcribe, transmute and use in any other form deemed appropriate to the best interests of Quintessence Solicitors or to achieve any object that may suit or promote Quintessence Solicitors in whatever form through whatever mechanisms, media, technology now known or hereinafter developed.

3.5    You have agreed that you will not deliberately or otherwise use any unacceptable language, words or colloquial on this website and neither shall you cause to or disrupt discussions in anyway and by any form or means on this website.

3.6 You have agreed to refrain, on this website, from use of verbal or written form language that would demean, cast aspersion on the age, colour, gender, nationality, physical appearance, race, religion, sexuality, sexual orientation or in any form which may cause any form of abuse on the attacker, whether directly or by innuendo, and where you are found culpable of all or any of these prohibitions, you shall be immediately suspended and further actions may be preferred against you by referring the matter to law enforcement agent.

3.7 Following your agreement to use contents on Quintessence Solicitors for personal benefits, you have agreed not to circulate, distribute, publish or leverage on any material of this website to engage in solicitation of funds, advertise or market goods or services, embark on solicitation of clients or customers, without express approval of Quintessence Solicitors, in writing having sought and obtained beforehand.

NOTICE OF DISCLAIMER

Quintessence Solicitors hereby serves you Notice of Disclaimer that it does not warranty absolute accuracy in the contents of the website that you may be viewing or visiting in term of legal opinions, advice, news articles, photographs, images, and illustrations, audio and video clips.

ACCESSIBILITY POLICY

All images and illustrations on this website are supported by brief textual information that identifies the images or its function appropriately. All text links are written so that they make sense when read out of context. Quintessence Solicitors law firm has also provided language tools to help visitors access the information on the website in different language media.

Most Adobe Acrobat Portable PDF files on this site are tagged to allow basic accessibility. For more help with Acrobat files generally and a link to download Acrobat Reader, visitors could search online via Google generally.

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In fulfilment of the statutory obligations of personal data and privacy protection, stipulated by the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, both of which came in force on the 25th May 2018, our law firm privacy policy gives details about the personal information we hold.

Processing Personal Data

By the extant law, we are allowed to collect, process and hold your personal data. We obtain personal data for the record as demanded by the laws, particularly from our individual clients, employees and general members of the public that we have business course to relate with. The details you are entitled to know are set out below.

Clients:

As our clients, the main purpose of collecting, processing and retaining your information is based on your mandate to our law firm or any of our individual solicitors, acting in his/her capacity as a member of our law firm, to provide you with legal services under the agreement we have with you. This enables us to process your data for the purposes of legal service delivery.

Employees:

As colleagues in the employment of our law firm, we abide by the employment laws, regulations and policies to demand, collect, process and store your personal details to ensure that we meet with the statutory mandates of the UK government, HMRC and the other statutory bodies. We also demand, collect, process and retain personal details of our solicitors for the record of the professional bodies and associated institutions.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA:

We collect your personal data directly from you or from your former solicitor(s) or opposing solicitor(s) during the conduct of your case or from Barrister(s), or any other person in legal representative capacity or local council. We receive your personal data through email; fax; an online web form; by post; over the telephone; face to face or through other channel that is easily accessible.

YOUR PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT:

We collect your (full) record names; contact address; telephone numbers; email address; your age; ethnicity; gender; financial details; a copy of your educational and professional certificates; documents; international passport; (provisional/full) driving licence; utility bills; and proof of address, etc. including information about your legal problem.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA:

Your personal data are used based on your instructions and requests for providing you with legal services in form of advice, counselling, court representation and for other connected reasons, which may involve associated services.

Where it becomes necessary or required, we share your personal data with trusted third parties like barristers; process servers; court bailiffs; accountants; auditors; translators; cloud service provider(s); and other professionals or services providers, in the course of rendering legal services based on your instructions to us.

Our law firm maintains a transfer policy on the personal information of our clients that we share with third party to ensure security and safety of their details. We agree in our transfer policy contract with the third party that:

• Restricted information of our clients shall be provided based on the need(s) arising to perform their specific part of the legal services that we are retained to provide;
• They ensure they restrict the use of our client’s personal data for the exact reasons and purposes we have engaged them or they are hired to perform in the interest of our clients;
• We must be promptly informed in case of misuse of our client’s information in time of incidental or accidental breach within 48 hours and before the clock of the prescribed 72 hours;
• Your personal data shared with and held by third party shall not be further shared unless we are first consulted in writing and demand for the freely given consent of our client, provided the recipient is not a government agency, or are to be used for any purpose that are legally allowed within the scope of the extant laws;
• Your personal data shared with and held in the custody of a third party shall be held in trust and stored under a secured condition from probable leak, discovery or misuse by anybody, including their members of staff;
• Your personal data held in the storage of a third party must be promptly and securely deleted or converted or held anonymously in their storage, in the event we end or quit using their services.

PROTECTING YOUR DATA:

We regard your personal data as an object of professional trust. We treat it with every sense of confidentiality and take appropriate steps to make it safe with us. Our law firm security policies and procedures are constantly evaluated to meet up with acceptable quality standards and compliance processes that are encouraged by the ICO, in accordance with the law.

Our IT systems are regularly maintained under our cybersecurity approach to resist cyber-attack, cyber theft, web cloning, as part of the technical measures to ensure safety of your personal data. Database that hosts your personal information is password-protected and encrypted. We restrict access to your personal details under the organisational policy to staff working on your file in other to minimise organisational risk of breach.

We carry out regular check on our law firm IT systems to assess security formidability against attack and other risks. We also conduct penetration testing to determine how best to further reinforce the security measures.

RETAINING YOUR PERSONAL DATA:

As prescribed under the law, our law firm does not keep your personal details held in our custody in excess of the statutory period of 6 years by which time we must have completed our legal services on your instruction and closed your file.

We refrain from holding clients’ personal details, in the case of ordinary consultation. In the case of client who we could not complete his/her legal service for any reason beyond our control, their personal data are erased from our law firm storage after 24 months).

If for some legitimate reasons, our law firm may hold and retain our clients’ personal details for a period longer than the statutorily prescribed term, subject to your consent, should your case is captured within this class.

WHERE WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA:

We refrain, under any circumstance that we can control, to share your personal data for storage, retention or processing with any third party outside the European Economic Area (EEA), including all EU Member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Our law firm holds and processes your personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA) but if we must pass on your personal data to any third party out of the stated region, it shall be by your specific consent to do so, first had and obtained from you.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:

As dictated under the EU-GDPR 2018 and UK - DPA 2018, as a client or employee; you are entitled to be clearly informed of your statutory rights about the handling of your personal data in our law firm. You are entitled under the law to request to know:

• RIGHT TO KNOW:
  Right to request access to the data we process about you;
• RIGHT TO CORRECTION:
  Right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete data about you;
• RIGHT TO ERASURE:
  Right to request deletion of data about you;
• RIGHT TO RESTRICTION:
  Right to request restrictions, temporarily or permanently, on the processing of some or all personal data about you;
• RIGHT TO PORTABILITY:
  Right to request portability or transfer of data to you or a third party where we process the data based on your consent or a contact with you, and where our processing is automated;
• RIGHT TO DECLINE:
  Right to opt-out or object to our law office use of your personal data, where our use is based on your consent or our legitimate interests;
• RIGHT TO ACCESS THRID PARTY:
  Right to inquire about how a third party we do business with use your personal data.
• RIGHT TO OBJECT:
  Right to raise concern on how we use your personal data; and
• RIGHT TO SET LIMIT:
  Right to limit how your personal data are being used or processed.

BE INFORMED:

You do not have to pay a fee as a service charge before any of these rights are granted or obliged in your favour.

As contained in our policy drive to respond to your request within 30 days, you cannot force us to meet your request within a specified number of days as against what is provided under the GDPR and DPA 2018 that stipulates a maximum of one month;

In the case of request that is complex and meeting it requires that you cannot force us to meet your request within one calendar month if we must handle it meticulously.

You cannot also stop us from giving your personal data to a statutory body when demanded in accordance with the extant law.

Where we are legally constrained or officially restricted under the purview of the law, we may not be able to address the specific request you make in regard to your rights.

There are many ways you can contact us in exercise of your rights, including by phone, email, live chat and post, as provided below:

Abubakar Orisankoko, Esq.
Unit 7 River Road Business Park,
33 River Road, Barking, IG11 0EA
Tel: 020 3603 2733
Mob: 07815 852 284/07508 335 840
Fax: 0203 417 3434
www.qtsolicitors.co.uk
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