Privacy Policy

Gilbert Walker is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy sets out Gilbert Walker’s practices relating to the collection and use of your information.

Non-personal information we collect

Our website www.gilbertwalker.com collects non-personal information about you, including information about your computer or network, such as the browser you used, the IP address from which you accessed our website, and the pages visited. This may involve the use of cookies.

This assists us with improving the browsing experience and content on our website. This information cannot be used to personally identify you.

Personal information we collect

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual. This includes your name, address, contact details such as email address and phone number, billing information, and written and verbal communications with us.

We collect personal information about you when you interact with us, such as when you provide us with personal information on this website, or instruct us to represent and advise you.

How we use your personal information

If you choose to provide us with personal information, we will use this information only for the purposes for which it is collected. These purposes may include:

• to provide you with our services and information;
• to contact you in relation to any enquiries you make;
• maintain and develop our business relationship with you;
• for employment purposes, such as considering you for a role;
• to comply with our legal obligations such as carrying out conflict checks and client due diligence for the purposes of anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism information; and
• for internal business administration.

Disclosure to third parties

We may need to disclose personal information to third parties – for example, other entities who assist us in providing services such as data storage providers, barristers you have engaged, or your bank during billing – while representing and advising you.

We may disclose personal information to a third party if:

• you have authorised us to do so;
• we are required or permitted by law; or
• we are required or permitted by the Law Society’s Rules of Professional Conduct.

Contacting Gilbert Walker

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at reception@gilbertwalker.com. We are obliged to comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act 2020.

Gilbert Walker reserves the right to update this privacy policy from time to time.