Our privacy policy

The Work Accident Advice Centre ("we" or "us" or "our") considers your privacy and confidentiality to be of the utmost importance. We promise never to release or disclose your personal details to any outside company for mailing or marketing purposes without your explicit permission.

Together with our terms and conditions and cookie policy, this privacy policy sets out how we handle information about visitors to our website and people who provide us with information in respect of legal services.

Before providing us with any of your details, please read the following information which concerns the protection of your personal data.

Please do not use the website or submit personal data to us through it if you do not want your personal data to be used in the ways set out below.

Data protection

We comply with the Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR and all applicable legislation. We treat the personal information you send to us as fully confidential. By visiting our website and submitting information to us, you consent to our using your information in accordance with this policy.

Information we may collect from you

You may give us information about you when:

In handling your enquiry we may collect the following information:

What your information is used for

Provided you have given the necessary consent to the Work Accident Advice Centre, your information will be used to:

Please refer to our cookie policy for more information.

We may pass on your information to one of our partner firms to provide you with the information, products and services that you request. This will enable the partner firm to handle your enquiry.

Provided you have given the necessary consent, we may share your information with selected third parties including:

We may disclose your personal information in the event that we sell any business or assets. Under these circumstances, the Work Accident Advice Centre may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets.

It may also be necessary to disclose your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in compliance with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Work Accident Advice Centre, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information for the purposes of fraud protection with other companies and organisations.

How your information is stored

All data you provide to us through the website is securely stored in the UK.

The transmission of any information across the internet cannot be completely secure. We are unable to guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted via the internet to the website and therefore although we will comply with all applicable regulations any transmission is at your risk. We will use appropriate procedures and security features to guard against unauthorised access once we have received your personal data and other information.

Your rights under the Data Protection Act 2018 ('the Act')

You have the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time. To opt-out of receiving marketing communications, please contact our Customer Support team by email on contact@workaccidentadvicecentre.com with 'Unsubscribe' in the subject field.

The website may contain links to websites of affiliates and websites we feel may be of interest to you. If you follow links to other websites please note that these websites may or may not have a privacy policy of their own for which we do not accept any responsibility. Please review how these websites use your information and personal data before you submit anything to them.

The Act gives you the right to access details of the personal data held about you which can be exercised in accordance with the Act.

Processing of personal data

The Work Accident Advice Centre will only collect, process or use your personal data upon express consent, which may be granted electronically. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future. Should you transmit to us personal data (such as name, address or email address) for the purposes of your application for employment with the Work Accident Advice Centre or in order to receive information on the products offered by the Work Accident Advice Centre, you consent to the Work Accident Advice Centre's use of such data for the applicable purpose.

Your personal data will in each case be stored until the purpose for which they were entrusted to us has been attained. If you no longer agree with the storage of your data before that time or if such data has become incorrect, the data will be deleted or, as the case may be, corrected, according to your instruction.

The Work Accident Advice Centre may share the data you provide to a partner firm in order to service your request.

If you have questions relating to the processing of your personal data on this website please contact us at contact@workaccidentadvicecentre.co.uk.

Our partners

Calls and enquiries relating to personal injury are handled by our partners at National Accident Helpline and National Accident Law and your data is transmitted for this purpose.

Automatically collected information

In general, you can access the the Work Accident Advice Centre websites without providing personal information. Your visit to the Work Accident Advice Centre website will be logged, which will include the collection of the following data only:

In order to enhance the experience of visitors to our website, we may collect certain technical information including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your browser type/version, your time zone setting, browser plugins and your computer operating system and platform.

Contacting us

You have the right to request a copy of the information held by us about you. You also have the right to access your data, to request changes to any inaccuracies in the details we hold about you, to object to the use of your data and the right to block any specific uses of your data, by means of a request in writing to:

Work Accident Advice Centre
Northdown House
11-21 Northdown Street
London
N1 9BN

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