Privacy Policy
Introduction
Augustine Law is a law firm operating in the United Kingdom (UK) offering professional legal advice and services to individuals looking to apply for temporary and permanent residence in the UK and businesses under immigration rules. The firm also offers social welfare and claim compensation for employment and personal injury or illness and any related losses.
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The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to give you information on how Augustine Law collects and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through the website when you fill out our contact form or if you make a payment.
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In order to provide and deliver professional legal services to our clients, Augustine Law must collect and process personal data from you and share your personal data with other parties where necessary.
Scope of this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice is in respect to the use of Augustine Law website hereafter described as our website at: www.augustinelaw.co.uk.
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This policy does not cover any external sites that may be accessed from links on our site and that are not owned and administered by Augustine Law.
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In respect of your personal data, Augustine Law acts as a Data Controller within the definition of the UK General Data Protection comprising Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Data Protection Act 2018, hereafter UK GDPR.
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This Privacy Notice explains what personal data Augustine Law collects from you or about you, how that information is collected and processed and for what purpose and the lawful basis on which the processing of your personal data is conducted.
This notice also explains your rights in respect of any of your personal data being processed by Augustine Law. Augustine Law in relation to the exercise of your rights under the relevant English Data Protection law. Augustine Law (trading as Augustine Law) registered address is 9 Chapel Place, London, EC2A 3DQ.
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Augustine Law is a Private Limited Company registered in England and Wales, with registration number 15504993.
Augustine Law is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), SRA number 8007592.
You should contact the Data Protection Officer for any queries via email at enquiries@augustinelaw.co.uk or by writing to us at the above address.
The type of personal data we process
Our website use tracking cookies, please see our Cookies Policy for more information. When you use the contact form, Live Chat or comment on any published articles if applicable, we will capture your email and IP address together with the name you provide and any information typed in the Live Chat or comments box and save it to the website database.
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If you complete the contact form on our websites, the information you provide will be transmitted via email for our attention. The information you provide on the contact form is not saved on the website database and we also do not save any tracking information such as computer/mobile device type. However, this may be transmitted via email along with the information you have entered.
Information sent via the enquiry forms will be stored in our email and case management system and any backup copies of such data.
Your personal data is collected and processed for the following reasons:
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a. to improving the experience of using our sites through the use of cookies to ensure that users doing this in order to ensure that users of our site have the best browsing experience.
b. to ensure that we respond appropriately and in a timely manner to any comments regarding the information, posts and or Live Chats on our website. It is also to review and make sure that the comments function is used responsibly and not abused. This will assist with protecting our legitimate interests and promote value in the general interest of the public and relations.
c. to assist in responding to enquiries made on our website, depending on the nature of the enquiry, in view of possible contractual engagement with the enquirer or to facilitate the smooth running of an existing contract. In the absence of an existing relationship we will process your data on the basis that it is in our legitimate interests to respond to all enquiries made via our website.
Sources of your personal data
​We gather the information you provide on our website either through the contact form and comments on our website. We also process information collected along with the enquiry and your IP address, device and browser version. However, this information can only be used by us to identify you. In situations where a user of our sites makes an enquiry providing the personal data of another person, a separate privacy notice may apply to the third party which will be provided accordingly.
Sharing your personal data
If we need to share data you have provided using one of the enquiry forms after it has been reviewed by our team, this will be covered by a separate privacy notice and will be provided accordingly. If we have to publish comments made on our posts with your name, the comments along with the name you provide will be available publicly on our website to our website users.
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Sharing your data outside the European economic area
We will not actively share the data that you provide via our website with anyone outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). However, due to the nature of the internet we cannot guarantee that your connection to our website does not utilise servers based outside the EEA and this will be classed as transportation rather than transfer of data and is not restricted.
If information provided by you via our sites becomes part of the data we hold in relation to a claim then this may change and will be covered under a separate privacy notice.
Duration of the retention of your data
When you comment on a post or use the Live Chat feature if applicable, information you provide and information collected automatically will be stored by the website’s database. If published, it means that comments and the data will be kept for as long as the post remains published. If however, the comments and data are unpublished, then it will be deleted following a routine review. The copy of the data stored by the website database will be deleted following a regular review.
Our standard retention policy for claim related data is 10 years from the date we close your file. However, if the claimant is under 18 years old at the time we close the file, then we will retain all data for 10 years from the claimant’s 18th birthday.
Some enquiries we receive via our website classify as spam. We do not have a set retention policy in relation to spam however it will generally be deleted upon discovery and not stored.
Your personal data rights
In respect of your personal data being processed by Augustine Law:
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You have the right to ask us what personal data we are processing about you and request access to copies of that information.
You further have the right to request that your personal data which is inaccurate, or incomplete is rectified or discarded. In addition, you have the right to request that your personal data is deleted, though we may have the right to continue processing your data in certain circumstances.
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You have the right to object to the processing of your data where the grounds we rely upon in processing your data are our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party. When we receive an objection, we will review the grounds for processing and respond as appropriate.
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In the case of processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes you have the right to object at any time, and we will cease processing for such purposes where an objection is received.
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You have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making processes including profiling. However, Augustine Law does not employ any automated decision- making process.
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You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data:
a. where the accuracy is contested while this is investigated.
b. where the processing is unlawful, but you do not want the data to be deleted.
c. where we no longer need to process the data, but you would like us to store it without further processing for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
d. where you have objected to the processing and we are processing for our legitimate interests while it is established if our interests override your rights.
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Augustine Law will respond to your request in relation to any of the above rights within a period of one month, from the date of receiving your request unless there is likely to be a delay providing the information or response, in which case we will write to notify you of such development.
There will be no fee payable for us to provide you with the information requested unless the request is for duplicate copies of documents previously provided to you or we feel the request is unreasonable or excessive. If a request is vexatious, unfounded or excessive we may refuse to provide the data rather than charging a fee. Where a fee is charged it will reflect the administrative costs involved in providing you the requested information.
We may require identification from you for in order to undertake our due diligence duties prior to providing any information or acting on your request. We will notify you if this is required within one month of receipt of your request.
Where you make an electronic request to us, we will endeavour to respond electronically. If you would prefer not to receive the information electronically you should contact us to request this.
If we are unable to comply with your request, we will inform you within one month of receipt of your request providing the reasons and advising you of your options to escalate the matter if you would like to do so.
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All requests in relation to the above should be addressed to our Data Protection Officer, Irene Abraham, by email to: info@augustinelaw.co.uk or in writing to: Data Protection Officer, PO Box 80982, London SE2 8DZ.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office who regulate Data Protection compliance in the UK if you are not satisfied with any response provided by Augustine Law regarding the exercise of your rights under the relevant English Data Protection law.
Changes to this privacy notice
This Privacy Notice will be reviewed and revised in line with further developments in data protection law.
This document was created in July 2025.
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Augustine Law is the trading name of Augustine Law Ltd. Registered Office 9 Chapel Place, London EC2A 3DQ. Company Reg. No. 15504993. The firm is Authorised and Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority SRA No. 8007592. Copyright © 2025, Augustine Law. All Rights Reserved.
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