Privacy Policy

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

The information and opinions contained on this website are for general information purposes, not intended to constitute legal or other professional advice and should not be relied on or treated as a substitute for specific advice relevant to particular circumstances. Channing Law shall have no responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on materials contained on this website.

Channing Law is a limited liability partnership organised and registered under the laws of England and Wales and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, number 8003873. Company number 10786693. Registered address: Audley House, 13 Palace St, London SW1E 5HX.

Chana Abrams is the founder and director of Channing Law, assisted by Anjalee Mead as senior counsel, Stéphanie Leigh as senior paralegal and Soniya Ambadkar as associate.

Channing Law provides client services in England and in Africa.

The editor of this website is Chana Abrams. The website is hosted by GoDaddy.

PRIVACY NOTICE

This website is operated by Channing Law of Audley House, 13 Palace St, London SW1E 5HX. Channing Law International Ltd is referred to in this Privacy Notice as “Channing Law“, “we” or “us“. Channing Law is an international law firm. Channing Law is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice describes how we will collect and use your information and the rights you have in relation to your information.

We may collect information from you about your preferences through your use of this website, when you request information from us or engage with our legal or other services, or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our clients.

By using any of our services, including this website, and by providing us with any personal information, you are consenting to the use of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Notice. Please do not send us any personal information if you do not want that information to be used in this way.

References in this notice to “your information” are also to personal information that you provide to us. Channing Law is the data controller of any information provided via this website and our contact details are set out below.

Information We Collect

Channing Law may ask for and collect from you personally identifiable and other information at certain points via this website. Depending on the information and/or services you request, you may be asked to provide your name, email address and other information. In addition to the information you knowingly provide, Channing Law collects the domain names and IP addresses of its visitors, along with usage statistics (e.g., types of web browsers and operating systems used) and browsing history. This data is used to promote our services. Channing Law may combine this information with the personally identifiable and other information it collects.

Channing Law does not collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Our third party suppliers do not collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services through your use of this website.

How We Use Your Information

At Channing Law we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and will only use your personal information:

• to provide and improve our services to you;
• to compile anonymous statistics, for example, website usage statistics;
• to market our services;
• to manage our relationship with you and our clients;
• to fulfil our legal obligations;
• to provide you with personalised content;
• to process and respond to inquiries;
• to alert you to new features, special events, and service offerings; and
• for other legitimate business purposes.

EMAIL MARKETING LIST AND MARKETING MESSAGES

We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform you about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. You can change your preferences for receiving group marketing emails, legal updates and other information from us at any time. You can unsubscribe at any time by the method referred to in the footer of sent marketing messages. Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.

Please note that we may use your marketing and content preferences and other information you provide to us (including details of your attendance at, or interest in events) in order to build a profile for you. We may supplement this profile with information about how you use our websites, review our content and interact with us. We use this profile to try and ensure that you only receive information that you are likely to find of interest.

How and Why we Share Your Information

Please note that we may on occasion be required to share your information with third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf. This may entail a transfer of your information from a location within the United Kingdom (the “UK“) or the European Economic Area (the “EEA“) to outside the UK or the EEA, or from outside the UK or the EEA to a location within the UK or the EEA. The level of information protection in countries outside the UK and the EEA may be less than that offered within the UK and the EEA, however we have procedures in place to ensure the protection of your information. In relation to any other third parties, we will only disclose your information where you have given your consent or where we are required to do so by law, or where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights.

Channing Law may disclose your personally identifiable information to another entity (i) for purposes of outsourcing one or more of the functions described above; (ii) to confirm or update information provided by you; (iii) to inform you of events, information about our services, and other important information, or (iv) for other purposes disclosed at or before the time the information is collected. If you tell us you wish to attend an event, your name and organisation may appear on a list which we provide to other delegates at the event. We may also share your information when legally required to do so.

COOKIES

We use cookies (small files which remember a user’s electronic device) to help improve this website and improve our services to you, in a variety of different ways. For further details, see our cookie policy.

CONFIDENTIALITY

We acknowledge that the information you provide may be confidential. We do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party, except that we may share information with our service providers for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with our Privacy Notice and all applicable laws.

How we Protect Information

Channing Law attempts to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information. Channing Law has implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures to protect your personal information.

Your Rights

You have the right to apply for a copy of the information we hold about you. This is called a data subject access request and you can make a request by writing to us using the contact details below. We may require further information from you in order to verify your identity before disclosing any personal information to you. You also have the right to have any inaccurate information about you corrected. We want to make sure that your information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is no longer up to date. Please contact us using the contact details below if you would like any corrections made to your information.

Transferring Information when there is a Change to Our Business

If in the future we reorganise or transfer all or part of our business we may need to transfer your information to new Channing Law entities or to third parties through which the business of Channing Law will be carried out.

If You do not want to Receive Information from Us

If you receive marketing materials from us, you may withdraw your consent for us to send these to you at any time and free of charge by sending an e-mail to chana.abrams@channing-law.co.uk.

Changes to this Notice

From time to time, we may change this Privacy Notice. Changes to this Notice are effective as of the effective date listed above, which indicates the last time this Notice was revised or materially changed. Your continued use of this website indicates your consent to the changes to this Notice.

Contact Information

If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Notice, or if you would like to contact us to exercise your rights as stated in this Privacy Notice, you may contact us at chana.abrams@channing-law.co.uk.

COOKIE POLICY

This website (the “Website“) uses cookies to remember your preferences and help you obtain the right information. Cookies also allow us to see how our Website is being used.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer’s hard drive by a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server.

Cookies Acceptance

By using this Website after accepting the cookie notice that appears when you first visit the Website, or by browsing our Website after having been presented with this notice, you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Policy.

How are Cookies Used?

Cookies used by us are stored on your computer / device for a maximum period of two (2) years from the date when they are initially installed or if they are subsequently updated, from the date of the update.

We may use Google Analytics cookies to collect aggregate statistical information on the number of users accessing the Website and how they use it, including how they access the Website, the length and frequency of visits and pages viewed. We use this information to create reports and improve the Website. For more information about Google Analytics cookies please click here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/. To learn more about how we use Google Analytics please refer to our Privacy Notice above.

You can prevent transmission of the data created by Google Analytics cookies to Google and processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.googlecom/dlpage/gaoptout?hl+en.

How to Manage Cookies in your Browser

The “Help” section on the menu bar of most internet browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to make the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that certain features of the Website may no longer be available to you if you disable cookies.

At any time, you can object to the use of cookies already set up on this Website, by contacting us at the following address: chana.abrams@channing-law.co.uk.

How do we Make Changes to this Cookie Policy?

We may change our Cookie Policy from time to time. When we change our Cookie Policy, we will publish the updated policy on our Website. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the new Cookie Policy, but where we have already collected information about you and/or where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our Cookie Policy and may request that you agree to these changes.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions in relation to this Cookie Policy you may contact us at chana.abrams@channing-law.co.uk.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The contents of these pages are ©Channing Law International Limited – 2023.  All rights reserved.

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000 (“FSMA“)

The firm is not authorised under FSMA, but we are able in certain circumstances to offer a limited range of investment services to clients because we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We can provide these investment services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide. We can also provide services in relation to investments which may reasonably be regarded as a necessary part of our professional services or which we are otherwise permitted to provide in conformity with FSMA. As we are not authorised under FSMA, we are only permitted to communicate invitations or inducements to engage in investment activities where these have been approved by an authorised person or are exempt from the requirement for such approval. We are retained only to provide legal advice to our clients and nothing that we say or do is, or should be construed as investment advice to anybody on the investment merits of acquiring or disposing of particular investments or as an invitation or inducement to anybody to engage in investment activities.

OUR COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

General Complaints procedure

• Channing Law is committed to the highest standards in its service to clients and in all its business dealings. If you become dissatisfied with our services, or have any issues, comments or concerns in relation to our services and should like to make a complaint, you may contact the partner responsible for your matter or your relationship partner. If you are still dissatisfied, you may contact the Senior Partner of Channing Law (chana.abrams@channing-law.co.uk). Channing Law will address any problem promptly and in a professional manner. You will not be charged for the handling of your complaint.

United Kingdom

• Channing Law is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA). Complaints (such as reporting someone’s behaviour) may also be made directly to the SRA. See www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor page for more details.

• If the matter is still not resolved, you may be entitled to ask the Legal Ombudsman of England and Wales to consider the complaint. A complaint to the Legal Ombudsman must normally be made within six (6) months of the date of the conclusion of Channing Law’s complaints procedure and no more than six (6) years from the date of the act / omission, or no more than three (3) years from when you should reasonably have known there was cause for complaint. Details on how to contact the Legal Ombudsman and further information on the procedures involved can be found at https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/.