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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how we use the information we collect about you, how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

Information Collected

We may collect data from you in the following ways:-

  1. You may choose to provide us with personal data, for example your name or email address;
  2. By use of our cookies (see below); and
  3. We may request further information from you from time to time following any contact you have made through our website or by email.  Some of this will inevitably comprise personal data.
  4. We gather this information to allow us, our employees, agents, consultants or sub-contractors to:-
  5. Process your request or application (we might use data to process or respond to any application you might make to us);
  6. Develop our website and services (we might use data to monitor website useage and to develop and improve our website);
  7. Compile anonymous statistics (we might use data to compile anonymous statistics for ourselves and other reputable third parties, however, these statistics do not enable any third party to identify you);
  8. Conduct various marketing activities (if you have already registered to receive marketing updates from us, we may use your data in order to send you marketing and other materials related to Hayton Winkley.  We also may use the data provided by you to update our records.  If you are not already registered to receive marketing materials from us but wish to do so, please email us at info@hwlegal.co.uk.  You may withdraw your consent to receipt of marketing materials at any time free of charge, by emailing us at the same address.);
  9. Provide your information to our customer service agencies for research and analysis purposes so that we can monitor and improve the services we provide.  We or our agents and subcontractors may contact you as required to ask you for your feedback and comments on our services. 

We will keep your information confidential in accordance with our internal procedures which cover the storage access and disclosure of the information.

Please note that the internet is not a secure medium and communication through this website, between you and us may not be secure.  For this reason please do not send us emails which contains confidential or sensitive information.

If Hayton Winkley is sold or integrated with another business or it is proposed to do so, your details may be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchasers and their advisors and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

We use a technology called “cookies” as part of our normal business procedure to track patterns of behaviour of visitors to our website.  A cookie is an element of data that the website sends to your browser, which is then stored on your system.  You can set your browser to prevent this happening.  Any information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you change your browser settings.