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DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY NOTICE

For your safety

1. This notice tells you what to expect when we collect information about individuals. If you need further information or have any questions or complaints about our privacy notice or privacy practices please contact our Data Protection Officer using the details below:

2. This notice describes:

The personal information that we collect

3. Personal information (personal data) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

4. Because of the wide ranging nature of our work, and the different reasons why we need to use personal information, what we collect is very varied and includes:

5. To provide our services, we collect special category data and personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences. Special category data includes personal data that reveals racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning health and data concerning a person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

How we obtain personal information

6. We obtain personal information in different ways, including through:

How we use personal information

7. We use personal information in a variety of ways including:

The basis upon which we use personal information

8. We will only use personal information (including special category data and data relating to criminal convictions and offences) when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use personal data in the following circumstances:

9. When we use special category data and data relating to criminal convictions and offences it will normally be when this is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or where we need to do so as an employer

10. Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing personal information other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications. Consent to receiving direct marketing communications can be withdrawn at any time, including through our website.

How long we keep personal information

11. We will keep personal information in accordance with our data retention practices, which apply appropriate retention periods for each category of personal information. In setting retention periods we take account of the purposes for which the personal information was collected, legal and regulatory obligations on us to retain information, limitation periods for legal action and our business purposes.

Who we share personal information with

12. We may share personal information with third parties including:

13. Third parties to whom we transfer personal information are required to respect the security of the information and treat it in accordance with the law. We do not sell personal data to third parties.

Which countries we transfer personal information to

14. In the course of providing services to our clients we may need to transfer personal information outside the Eastern Caribbean (EC) jurisdiction, for example where we are providing immigration advice to companies based outside the EC and wider Caricom region.

15. Whenever we transfer personal information outside the EC, we implement at least one of these safeguards or ensure that at least one of these conditions applies:

How we protect personal information

16. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we have put in place appropriate measures to inform our staff about how we collect, handle and keep information secure.

17. We have put in place measures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify relevant individuals and the appropriate authority of a breach when we are legally required to do so.

The legal rights of individuals whose personal information we process

18. Individuals have the rights set out below. If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details given above.

Complaints

19. We would appreciate the chance to deal with any concerns you may have.  Please contact our Data Protection Officer, using the contact details given above.

Changes to this privacy notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review.
This Privacy Notice was last updated on September 22 2018.

FOSTERS

Robin Kelton Building,
Choc Bay, Castries,
Saint Lucia
LCO2 501

Contact

Tel. 1 (758) 453 1100
Fax. 1 (758) 452 4940

Email. contact@fosters.law