Balint Legal Privacy Policy 2024

Balint Legal is a partnership providing specialist facilitated in-person peer support and supervision groups for legal practitioners in the UK, and working to raise awareness and improve provision for positive and sustainable wellbeing in law.

This Privacy Policy is drafted to explain the types of personal data that the partnership may collect about you in working with us, as an attendee of a Balint Legal session or a member of our mailing list. If you have any queries about this policy please contact info@balintlegal.co.uk

The type of personal information we collect

We may collect and process the following information:

  • Personal identifiers, contact details and characteristics, such as your title, the name of your organisation, your role, email and business addresses

  • Website user statistics.

How we obtain personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us through direct contact or via our website. We may also receive personal information indirectly, through referrals or recommendations.

We use the information that you have given us in order to manage our business and develop our work providing facilitated peer support and supervision groups within and across the legal profession.

We only provide to others data needed to perform services for the purposes we specify. We will use the data we collect in a way that does not materially impact upon your rights, freedom or interests.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

  1. Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us at info@balintlegal.co.uk

  2. We have a contractual or legal obligation

  3. We have a legitimate interest.

Why we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored and retained only for the principal purposes of the business and its functioning.

Your data protection rights

Your 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 info@balintlegal.co.uk 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 info@balintlegal.co.uk.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO’s address is:

  • Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House

  • Water Lane, Wilmslow

  • Cheshire, SK9 5AF

  • Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

  • ICO website: www.ico.org.uk