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What areas of law do you cover?
Our experienced team of solicitors cover most areas of law, including criminal law, family law, wills & probate, conveyancing, litigation and personal injury.
Where are you based?
Our offices are based in Barrow in Furness, we mainly cover the South Lakes/Cumbria region and welcome clients from Millom, Ulverston, Dalton-in-Furness, Grange-over-sands and Barrow-in-Furness. We also have clients from further afield, so please get in touch.
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Forresters Solicitors is the trading name of Forresters Solicitors Limited, registered in England under company number 6503747, VAT Number 156141385.
Registered office 117 Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1XA.
We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
We are committed to providing a high-quality legal service and client care to all our Clients. When something goes wrong, we need you to tell us about it. This will help us to improve our standards.
If you have a complaint, please provide us with written details. We have eight weeks to consider your complaint, however, it is the Firm’s Policy to consider a complaint in the timescales detailed below.
If we have not resolved your complaint within eight weeks you may complain to the legal Ombudsman.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority can help if you are concerned about our behaviour. This could be things like dishonesty, taking or losing your money or treating you unfairly because of your age, disability or other characteristics. You can raise your concerns with the Solicitors Regulation Authority: http://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor.page
If we have to revise the timescales above, we will inform you of this and provide an explanation as to why.
To describe how we collect and use personal data about you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Forresters Solicitors Ltd is a Limited company registered in England. The Firm’s registered address is 117 Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1XA, registration number 6503747 and authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 484808.
Forresters Solicitors Ltd is known as the “Controller” of the personal data you provide to us. Personal data includes name, address, date of birth, national insurance number, e-mail, telephone number, financial information (payment information such as a debit/credit card).
The primary reason we collect personal data is to provide you with a legal service in accordance with your instructions and for related purposes including verifying your identity, administration of files and updating our records.
You are responsible for ensuring that all personal data provided is accurate.
We only use your personal data with your consent, or where it is necessary:
Your information is only used for the purpose or purposes it was collected for (or for closely related purposes).
We may process personal information for certain legitimate business purposes, which include some or all of the following:
Whenever we process data for these purposes we will ensure that we always keep your personal data rights in high regard and take account of these rights at all times.
Where we hold documents such as Wills, Deeds, LPA’s etc, we may rely upon legitimate interests as the reason for contacting you in the future. We will make sure that we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative), and your rights under data protection laws. Our legitimate business interests do not automatically override your interests – we will not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law.
All data we obtain is stored securely in the UK. We will not transfer any of your data to another country unless you instruct us to do so.
We will only use and store information for so long as it is required for the purposes it was obtained for and depending on the nature of the case. This will be confirmed to you at the end of your case. After this period of time your file of papers together with the electronic file will be destroyed confidentially without further reference to you.
In order to meet our regulatory requirements, we may be required to retain basic information about you for a longer period of time.
We continually review the information we hold and delete what is no longer required. We will not retain your data for any longer than necessary.
We have appropriate security measures in place to ensure personal information is not lost, stolen or used in an authorised manner.
We have procedures in place to deal with data breaches. We will notify you and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of any personal data breach within 72 hours of becoming aware of it where we are legally required to do so.
We want to ensure that you remain in control of your personal data. Part of this is making sure you understand your legal rights, which are as follows:
Please keep in mind that there are exceptions to the rights above and, though we will always try to respond to your satisfaction, there may be situations where we are unable to do so.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer, who will investigate the matter.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues, who may be contacted at www.ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone 0303 123 1113
Should you wish to contact our Data Protection Officer or have any queries on this Privacy Notice or the information we hold about you, either email [email protected] in writing addressing any correspondence to the Data Protection Officer, 117 Duke Street, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1XA or call 01229 820297.
