Our privacy notice provides you with information about how we, Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited, use your personal data, which we are required by law to give you. Each section sets out different information – you can use the following list to choose which sections of our Privacy Notice you want to read:
If you would like to contact Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited directly regarding your data, please write to: Compliance & Quality Manager at Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, PO Box 130, BLYTH, NE24 9FA, or alternatively email: [email protected]
Occasionally we will need to tell you how we will process specific information you have provided to us, we will do this by providing a notice at the time we receive or obtain personal data.
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited is a data controller of your personal data. We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As a data controller we are registered on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website.
Types of personal data we collect
The types of personal data that we collect are outlined below:
Special Categories of personal data:
Some categories of personal data are more sensitive, these are known as special categories of personal data for example:
If you ever disclose this type of personal data to us, we will only need to keep this on record if it is necessary for the services we are providing. Where we do need to keep this data, we will always request your explicit consent. We will only store this data for as long as it is relevant and will check in with you periodically. You have the right to withdraw your consent at which point we will delete the special category data from our records.
If you disclose special category personal data to us without us having the opportunity to obtain explicit consent, for example if you send a letter to us detailing your medical situation, you will have given your consent for us to process that data.
Where we consider it necessary to record the special category personal data you give to us, we will securely record this information and tell you in writing how we will use it and how you can withdraw your consent.
How do we collect your personal data?
We collect your information in the following ways:
We use your personal data:
In order to process your personal data, we need to have a justified legal basis, this means that processing your personal data must be necessary for one or more of the following:
The details below sets out the lawful basis that we rely on to process your personal data.
| Business Process | Our lawful basis for processing | How do we use your data? |
| Debt recovery Litigation |
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As a business our core operation is debt recovery litigation on behalf of our clients. As part of this recovery process, we would need to perform trace and debt recovery activities; validate your identity, contact you in writing, by email, by SMS and telephone, agree payment arrangements, process payments and take litigation action, as instructed by our clients. |
| Data Matching |
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We may collect information from credit reference agencies in order to undertake data matching. |
| Management of your account |
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As a business, we have an obligation to manage your account on behalf of our client. We have a legitimate interest in understanding your ability to repay the outstanding balance as well as how best to communicate with you; in order to do this at times we will use statistical analysis and automated processes to make decisions about how best to engage with you. |
| Training, monitoring and improving our service |
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In order to ensure we provide the best service we can, we use recordings of telephone calls, which will contain personal data of our customers, to train staff. We may choose to ask another company to contact you to request feedback enabling us to review the service you’ve received and to make improvements where necessary. We monitor your website usage, collecting info to improve our service, business efficiencies and, statistical and analytical activities. |
| Complying with Legal and regulatory requirements |
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At times we share data with other third parties where we have a legal or regulatory requirement to do, for example the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority. In the event that you are unhappy and have made a complaint to the Credit Services Association, we will share your personal data with them enabling them to review your complaint. |
Your personal data will be kept for as long as you are a customer of our client. We will keep your personal data for 6 years and 3 months from when your relationship with our client comes to an end, in order to respond to any complaints or queries, comply with legal and regulatory obligations to keep certain records.
At times we will need to share your personal data with other companies:
Whenever we engage with a third party, we ensure that the third party has a similar level of safeguards and controls in place before sharing your personal data with them.
We may transfer your personal data to organisations that operate outside of the European Economic Area enabling us to work with suppliers who help us to manage your account. Where we do transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we will ensure that your data is protected and any suppliers are part of the privacy shield, and/or that the appropriate contractual requirements are in place.
We have systems that protect our customers and ourselves against fraud and other crime, including money laundering. Customer information can be used to prevent crime and trace those responsible.
As part of our ongoing monitoring of your account and to service your account, we have legal obligations that require us to obtain certain personal details to validate your identity, both at the beginning of your relationship with us and throughout it. If false or inaccurate information is provided by you, or if fraud or another financial crime is identified or suspected, we will obtain publicly available information, such as media reports or regulator publications, which may contain personal details about you such as any criminal convictions. If fraud or another financial crime is identified or suspected, we will be required to pass your personal data to fraud prevention agencies or other authorities for the prevention and/or detection of financial crime. We have legal obligations to pass this data to fraud prevention agencies and this is our legal basis for sharing personal data in this way.
The agencies we may share your personal data with are:
If we have reason to believe that you are in prison, we will obtain publicly available information, which may contain some of your personal data such as the name of the Prison you are in and the length of your sentence, to update the information we hold about you and to manage your account in the most appropriate way.
If we have reason to believe that you are in immediate danger, we will pass your personal data, including any details we have about your physical or mental health, to the Police and other emergency services in order to protect your vital interests.
Managing your account
You are able to access and manage much of the data we hold that allows us to administer your account and provide our services to you. You can do this via our website that can be access on www.mymortimerclarke.co.uk
Once you have activated your online account and opted in to us contacting you by email, you can edit and update your personal data.
Object to processing
You have the right to object to us processing your data if the processing itself is an unwarranted interference with your interests or rights. You can find out more about how and why we process your personal data in section 3 ‘How we use your personal data?’
If you still believe that you have a valid and justifiable reason to exercise this right, you can contact us on the details below.
Restrict Processing
If you believe we are processing your personal data unlawfully or you believe that we no longer need your personal data, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to be forgotten
Under data protection legislation you have the right to request that we delete your personal data if you believe we no longer have a lawful basis to process it. If you feel that we should not be processing your personal data, you can submit a request on the below details.
Right to rectification
Upon obtaining personal data we conduct checks to validate that it is accurate as we are reliant on you and other third parties to provide us with correct information. If you believe that any of the personal data, we hold for you is incorrect, it is important that you make us aware as soon as possible, for example if you have a new phone number or have moved address.
Automated profiling and decision-making
At times, we use the personal data we hold on you to conduct profiling and automated decisions, for example, to predict how likely you are able to pay back your outstanding balance or how best to engage with you.
The new data protection legislation changes stipulate that where profiling or automated decision making produces a legal effect or similarly significantly affects you, we need to make you aware of your right to object. We do not believe that the profiling and decision-making that we conduct has either a legal effect or similarly significant impact on you, but we will keep such processes and controls under review and update this notice accordingly.
You can find out more about profiling and automated decision-making on the ICO website by clicking here.
If you have any further questions regarding any of the above information, please contact: [email protected]
You also have the right to request that we transfer personal data that you have provided to us either to yourself or another data controller. You can exercise the right to data portability by contacting us on the below details:
Writing: Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, PO Box 130, BLYTH, NE24 9FA
Email: [email protected] (please use “Right to Portability” as the subject of your email)
Accessing your data
You have the right to see the personal data relating to you that we hold. As a data controller we will also ensure that we provide any additional personal data that any of our data processors may hold about you.
We take the protection of your personal data seriously, because of this we reserve the right to request proof of identity before supplying any information.
Once we have validated your identity, we will aim where possible to respond to your request within a calendar month. We typically will send your personal data by Royal Mail Recorded Delivery, if however you wish to receive it in a different format, for example on an encrypted disk or password protected email, then please let us know.
In order to make this request please contact us on the below details:
Writing: Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, PO Box 130, BLYTH, NE24 9FA
Email: [email protected] (please use “Subject Access Request” as the subject of your email)
Call: 0333 121 4454
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If you would like to make a complaint or have a query about how we use your personal data, you can contact us on the below details:
Email: [email protected]
In writing: Compliance & Quality Manager, Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, PO Box 130, BLYTH, NE24 9FA
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited is part of the Cabot Credit Management Group of Companies.
If you are unhappy about how we have handled your complaint you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office:
Website: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Call: 0303 123 1113
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited
16-22 Grafton Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1QP
Registered in England and Wales. Company No. 06211733. Registered office as above.
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors Limited is part of the Cabot Credit Management Group of Companies and is an encore capital group company. We are the only member of the Group which is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No.622915. Our professional rules can be accessed at rules.sra.org.uk. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Our Financial Services Register number is 912356. You can check this on the Financial Services Register by visiting the FCA’s website www.fca.org.uk/register
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