Privacy policy
How Aman Solicitors Advocates Ltd collects, uses and protects your personal information.
Aman Solicitors Advocates Ltd (company number 05924864) of 37 Alum Rock Road, Birmingham B8 1LR is the data controller for the personal information we hold about you. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). We comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Information we collect
- Contact details such as your name, address, telephone number and email.
- Identity documents we must check to prevent money laundering and fraud.
- Information about your legal matter, which may include financial, family, health or immigration details.
- Information you send us through this website, by phone, by email, on WhatsApp or in person.
- Basic technical information about how you use our website, where you have agreed to cookies.
How we use your information
- To give you legal advice and act for you.
- To reply to your enquiries.
- To carry out identity and anti-money laundering checks required by law.
- To meet our professional and regulatory obligations.
- To send you updates and newsletters, only where you have agreed. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Our legal basis
We use your information because it is necessary to perform our contract with you, to comply with legal obligations, for our legitimate interests in running our firm, or because you have given consent. We only use special category information, such as health details, where the law allows, for example to establish or defend legal claims.
Who we share it with
We share information only where necessary, for example with courts, barristers, experts, the other side’s representatives, government bodies such as the Home Office or HMRC, our regulators, our insurers and trusted IT and identity-check providers. We never sell your data.
How long we keep it
We normally keep client files for 6 years after your matter ends, or longer where the law or the type of matter requires it, such as wills. Enquiries that do not become matters are kept for 12 months.
Your rights
You have the right to access your information, to ask us to correct or delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. To use any of these rights, contact us at info@amansolicitors.co.uk or write to our office.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, please contact us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.