Privacy Policy
This policy was adopted by the company on the 18th of July 2021.
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
- Personal identifiers, contacts, and characteristics (for example, name and contact details)
- Client email addresses, identification documents, details of race and ethnicity, health reports, educational reports, school records, social service reports, independent expert reports.
How we get the personal information and why we have it?
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- To enable us to provide legal advice and advocacy in relation to your child or young person’s special educational needs, including education, health, and social care needs.
- We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
Local Authority Education and Social Services departments, schools, health professionals, and independent expert reports commissioned by you to provide expert advice in relation to your child or young person.
- We use the information that you have given us in order to assist you and provide legal advice and advocacy.
- We may share this information with your Local Authority or the relevant special educational needs tribunal in England or Wales.
- Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting Mr Adrian Phillips by email at contact@amphillips.co.uk
(b) We have a contractual obligation.
(c) We have a legal obligation.
(d) We have a legitimate interest.
How we store your personal information.
Your information is securely stored on our company computer records.
We keep all information for three years. We will then dispose your information by deleting the data from our company computer records. Any paper records will be shredded at the same time.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at contact@amphillips.co.uk or write to us at A.M. Phillips – Education Law Limited, Fergusson House, 124 City Road, Shoreditch, London, EC1V 2NX. If you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at A.M. Phillips – Education Law Limited, Fergusson House, 124 City Road, Shoreditch, London, EC1V 2NX.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
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