Privacy Statement

ParrisWhittaker, including its affiliated partnerships, (collectively, the firm)  is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy policy explains how we use the information we collect about you, how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.  We understand and recognise the importance of safeguarding the personal information of our clients and visitors, and to show our commitment, we have formulated this Data Protection Privacy Policy and this security statement to reflect our commitment to maintaining the confidentiality of the information we receive via this website.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

The firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or related services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.

What information is collected?

1. In general, you can visit many of our web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information. For each visitor to our Website, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer’s domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).
2. We may track the internet domain address from which people visit us and analyse this data for trends and statistics, but individual users will remain anonymous, unless you voluntarily tell us who you are.
3. There may be times (such as when you subscribe to a service on the website, purchase or order a product, register to receive marketing information, or to participate in competitions, user reviews, contests, or promotions, etc) at which we ask you to provide certain information about yourself such as your name, shipping/billing address, telephone or mobile number, email address, credit card information, birth date, gender, occupation, personal interests, etc.
4. We also maintain a record of your online services, subscriptions or product and service purchases. Whether or not to provide such information is completely your own choice. But if you choose not to provide this information we request, you may be unable to subscribe to the Services or purchase products, or access certain Services, offers and content on our Website.
5. We may also collect, and our third party providers of advertisements and content may collect certain user information such as information relating to computer location, URL and IP address and domains, your browser type, the country and telephone area code where your computer is located, the pages of our Website that were viewed during your visit, the advertisements you clicked on, and any search terms that you entered on our Website.
6. You should be aware that as this site is monitored, we may collect this information even if you do not register with us and may capture information about your visit that will help us improve the quality of our service.
7. When you access this Website, we will ask you to input and will collect Personal Information from you. We will treat all your Personal Information as confidential and will keep it on a secure server. We reserve the right to disclose the Personal Information in the circumstances set out in this Data Protection Privacy Policy and Security Statement.
8. When you use the Website, register and/or subscribe for our Services (or as required), you may have to complete a subscription process including a registration form and provide Personal Information.
9. We gather this Personal Information to allow us to process your registration, process any requests or payments you may make, administer your contract or relationship with us. We also collect the Personal Information in order to grant you access to the online Services, monitor your usage of our site and Services, and/or participation in online activities including reviews, testimonials, if any. The information is also collected for such other uses as are expressly set out in this Privacy Policy, whether in connection with the Website, our products or services or our business.

Personal information

1. When you access the Services, the Website may record your details to ensure that we comply with legal and contractual requirements, or are able to contact you, resolve any queries.
2. This data and Personal Information will not be used to send marketing offers or shared with any other business other than those identified in our terms and conditions or this Website Data Protection Privacy Policy and Security Statement.
3. The service may include collecting relevant payment and complying with your instructions, providing you with emails which you have elected to receive following access or purchase of services or subscription to the services, keeping you informed by email of any additional services, promotion of products and/or services similar to those subscribed or purchased by you, and complying with our legal requirements. The Personal Information we collect and its use is further detailed below.
4. Where you have consented to receive emails or you have subscribed to the Website or in respect of any Services, if you do not want to be contacted in the future about any promotional or marketing offers, you can unsubscribe and we will stop sending you any promotional emails.

Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information

The internet is not a secure medium. However we have put in place various security procedures as set out in this policy. We also keep your information confidential. The internal procedures of ParrisWhittaker cover the storage, access and disclosure of your information. We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, Bahamas’ data protection laws and regulations. We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this statement and in our applicable policies.

Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information

We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defences or for our compliance matters. As an international firm, we operate systems that may make data related to your matters accessible from our various offices around the world and often transfer client data which may include Personal Information between our offices. By submitting your information you consent to these transfers. Owing to the global nature of the Internet infrastructure, the Personal Information you provide may be transferred in transit to countries outside the Bahamas that do not have similar protections in place regarding your data and its use as set out in this Data Protection Privacy Policy and Security Statement. However, we have taken the steps outlined above to try to improve the security of your information. By submitting your information you consent to these transfers.

You agree that you do not object to us contacting you for any of the purposes of processing your services or orders, statistical or survey purposes to improve this Website and its services to you, provision of website content and advertisements to you, administration of this Website and where you consent, to notify you of services, products or special offers that may be of interest to you. You consent to such contact whether by telephone, e-mail or in writing and you confirm that you do not and will not consider any of the above as being a breach of any of your rights.

 Cookie Policy

Our Website uses ‘cookies’ to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our service. On revisiting our website, we will therefore be able to obtain information about your previous visits and about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:

1. Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
2. Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
3. Speed up your searches and to recognise you when you return to our site.
4.  Generally provide a more convenient browsing experience for you.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

A cookie is a small amount of data or parcels of text that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree. Generally, such a ‘cookie’ being a file in your web browser will enable the Website to recognise your computer when you visit the site. These cookies contain information about you and your preferences. Generally, we use cookies to record session information.

You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. It is not advisable to use cookies if your computer is shared by other people. You should clear ‘cookies’ stored by the web browser when using another person’s computer to avoid your e-mail address or other details being displayed in the login field to a subsequent user of our Website.

You can accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or modify your browser to alert you of any new cookies. To clear the stored cookies, you can normally go to the tools dropdown menu at the top of the browser window. Certain parts of the Website may not function without technical problems if you have ‘disabled’ the cookies file in your browser. The use of cookies enables the Website to complete in our login fields with the user’s details including email addresses following registration and effectively speed up the login to the Website by users. It is used by most websites to help collect information, such as how many people visit and return to the Website, what services are subscribed for or accessed and which products are purchased from the online shop on the Website, and to ensure the proper functioning of certain parts of the Website. You can discover independent information about cookies by researching the Internet or carrying out online searches.

Representation for data subjects in the EU

We value your privacy and your rights as a data subject and have therefore appointed Prighter Group with its local partners as our privacy representative and your point of contact. Prighter gives you an easy way to exercise your privacy-related rights (e.g. requests to access or erase personal data). If you want to contact us via our representative, Prighter or make use of your data subject rights, please visit the following website: https://prighter.com/cc/parriswhittaker

Your Consent

By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. Continued use of the service will signify that you agree to any such changes.

Changes

From time to time, we may use Personal Information or other customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Data Protection Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically.