UK Privacy Policy

UK PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice sets out how Bailey Glasser International uses and protects your personal data.

1. Important information and who we are

Privacy notice

This privacy notice gives you information about how Bailey Glasser International collects and uses your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you register, express interest, submit a query, sign up to receive information, or otherwise engage with us.

If you are a current or prospective client, a current or prospective employee, or we process your personal data for another purpose, that processing will be governed by a separate privacy notice made available to you at or before the point at which your personal data is collected. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Controller

Bailey Glasser International is a trading name of Edward McCourt & Company LLP  and is the controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as, "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).

2.  The types of personal data we may collect about you

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows, however please note that this is not an exhaustive list:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, any previous names, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, device ID and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences and matters that you have expressed interest in.
• Usage Data includes information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Your interactions with us. You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • enquire about, or request information concerning, our legal services;
  • submit an enquiry through our website, by email, telephone or otherwise;
  • ask us to contact you or arrange an initial consultation;
  • register for an online account or use a client portal, where available;
  • subscribe to our legal updates, newsletters, publications or events;
  • register for or attend a webinar, seminar or other event;
  • request marketing communications from us;
  • apply for a vacancy, work experience, training contract or other role;
  • respond to a survey or provide feedback;
  • make a complaint; or
  • otherwise communicate or interact with us through the website.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details. 

•  Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties including analytics providers (such as Google based outside the UK and EEA).

4.  How we use your personal data

Legal basis

The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract with you: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Legitimate interests: We may use your personal data where it is necessary to conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests, for example to prevent fraud and enable us to give you the best and most secure customer experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights (both positive and negative) before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do 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).
• Legal obligation: We may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on this legal basis.
• Consent: We rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your personal data for a specified purpose, for example if you subscribe to an email newsletter.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use the various categories of your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Purpose/Use	Type of data	Legal basis and retention period
To respond to enquiries submitted through the website and arrange initial discussions	Identity Data; Contact Data; Profile Data	Performance of a contract or steps taken before entering into a contract; Legitimate interests. Retained for up to six years from conclusion of any matter in which we act.
To manage subscriptions to legal updates, newsletters and event invitations	Identity Data; Contact Data; Profile Data; Marketing and Communications Data	Consent; Legitimate interests. Retained until consent is withdrawn, an objection is made, or after two years of inactivity.
To administer webinars, seminars and other events	Identity Data; Contact Data; Profile Data; Marketing and Communications Data	Performance of a contract; Legitimate interests; Explicit consent where Special Category Data is provided. Retained for up to two years after the event.
To respond to feedback, complaints and other communications	Identity Data; Contact Data; Profile Data	Legitimate interests; Legal obligation; Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Retained for up to six years from conclusion of any matter in which we act.
To operate, maintain and support the website	Technical Data; Usage Data	Legitimate interests. Retained for up to 12 months.
To protect the website and our systems, prevent misuse and investigate security incidents	Identity Data; Contact Data; Technical Data; Usage Data	Legitimate interests; Legal obligation. Retained for up to 12 months, or longer where required for an investigation or claim.
To analyse website use and improve its content, functionality and performance	Technical Data; Usage Data	Consent; Legitimate interests where consent is not required. Retained in accordance with the relevant cookie or analytics period.
To remember preferences and provide requested website functionality	Technical Data; Profile Data; Usage Data	Consent; Legitimate interests where consent is not required. Retained in accordance with the relevant cookie period.
To manage interactions through social media and third-party platforms linked to the website	Identity Data; Contact Data; Profile Data; Usage Data; Marketing and Communications Data	Legitimate interests. Retained for up to two years, unless longer retention is required.
To comply with legal requirements and respond to lawful requests concerning the website or online activities	Identity Data; Contact Data; Technical Data; Profile Data; Usage Data; Marketing and Communications Data, as relevant	Legal obligation; Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Retained for as long as required by law or the relevant proceedings.

Direct marketing

You may sign-up to receive direct marketing communications from us including via email, telephone, SMS, or via Social Media. You may amend your contact preferences at any time. We may also analyse your Identity, contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view which products, services and offers may be of interest to you so that we can then send you relevant marketing communications.

Cookies

For more information about the cookies we use and how to change your cookie preferences, please see refer to our Cookie Policy.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data where necessary with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table “Purposes for which we will use your personal data” above.

• service providers that host, maintain, secure or support our website and IT systems;
• providers of website analytics, cookies and consent-management tools;
• email, newsletter and marketing-platform providers;
• providers of online forms, appointment-booking, webinar or event-management services;
• customer relationship management and communications-platform providers;
• professional advisers, insurers, auditors and consultants where relevant to the operation or protection of our website and business;
• regulators, courts, law-enforcement agencies, tax authorities and other public bodies where disclosure is required or permitted by law; and
• other third parties where you have authorised the disclosure or where it is otherwise lawful and necessary.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6.  International transfers

We may transfer your personal data between the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”), and to other countries in connection with the operation of our website and the services described in this privacy notice.

Where personal data is transferred from the UK or the EEA to a country that has been formally recognised as providing an adequate level of protection, we may rely on the relevant adequacy decision or adequacy regulations.

Where personal data is transferred from the UK or the EEA to a country that is not recognised as providing an adequate level of protection, we will implement appropriate safeguards. These will ordinarily include the use of the applicable standard contractual clauses or other approved contractual safeguards, together with completion of a transfer risk or transfer impact assessment and, where necessary, the implementation of supplementary technical, organisational or contractual measures.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are set out in the table “Purposes for which we will use your personal data” above.

9. Your legal rights

You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

You have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) as the legal basis for that particular use of your data (including carrying out profiling based on our legitimate interests). In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your right to object.
• You also have the absolute right to object any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (see "Opting out of Marketing" in paragraph 4 for details of how to object to receiving direct marketing communications).
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data (see the table in section 4 for details of when we rely on your consent as the legal basis for using your data). However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in one of the following scenarios:
• If you want us to establish the data's accuracy;
• Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
• Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
• You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above please contact us.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

10. Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact [us] in the following ways:

• Email address: info@baileyglasserintl.com
• Postal address: 22 Eastcheap, second floor, London, EC3M 1EU

 

11. Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). Where you are resident outside of the UK you may also have the right to complain to your local regulator. However, before doing so please make sure you have first made your complaint to us or asked us for clarification if there is something you do not understand. The ICO (or your local regulator) will expect you to have done this before reviewing your complaint.

12. Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This version was last updated on August 13 2026.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us, for example a new address or email address.

13. Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.