Soham Attorneys & Partners

This privacy policy sets out how Soham Attorneys & Partners (“Soham Attorneys & Partners”) collects, uses and protects any information that you may send to Soham Attorneys & Partners through this website, send or give to a Soham Attorneys & Partners representative or if you apply for a job or other work placement with Soham Attorneys & Partners.

Soham Attorneys & Partners is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Soham Attorneys & Partners does not collect any information from you when you visit this website. If you contact us via the website, then you can be assured that any information you send us will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

Soham Attorneys & Partners reserves the right to amend or vary this policy from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 31 May 2018 and was updated in June 2020.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller is Soham Attorneys & Partners, which is a Swedish company with company registration number +1 660-235-6120

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We do however share your information with certain third parties in the circumstances described in this policy.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Soham Attorneys & Partners, P.O. Box 27823, 115 93 Stockholm, Sweden.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

What information we collect

We do not collect any information from visitors to this website. However if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Contact Details. If you give a representative of Soham Attorneys & Partners your contact details then we may keep those details, which may include your name, organisation, job title and contact details, on file for future business use.

Careers and Recruitment. If you apply for a job or work placement at Soham Attorneys & Partners the information we collect about you may include: individual details (name, address (including proof of address), other contact details (e.g. email and telephone numbers), gender, date and place of birth, nationality, employer, job title); identification details (identification numbers issued by government bodies or agencies, such as your national insurance number, passport number, tax identification number and driving licence number); credit, anti-fraud and sanctions information (credit history, financial information, credit score and information received from various anti-fraud and sanctions databases relating to you); special categories of personal information (and, in particular, state of health); and criminal convictions information (information relating to your criminal convictions and offences, if applicable)

Know Your Suppliers and Counterparties. If you are an actual or prospective contractor, supplier, service provider, consultant, joint venture partner or other counterparty that we engage or do business with, or you work for, represent or beneficially own any of the same, we may collect certain personal information about you. This may include individual details (name, address (including proof of address), other contact details (e.g. email and telephone numbers), gender, date and place of birth, nationality, employer, job title; identification details (identification numbers issued by government bodies or agencies, such as your national insurance number, passport number, tax identification number and driving licence number); credit, anti-fraud and sanctions information (credit history, financial information, credit score and information received from various anti-fraud and sanctions databases relating to you); special categories of personal information (and, in particular, your political opinions); and criminal convictions information (information relating to your criminal convictions and offences, if applicable). We may collect this personal information from you, your employer, the person that has engaged you or that you represent, anti-fraud databases, sanctions lists, court judgements, other databases and third party due diligence and know your counterparty service providers such as World-Check (see below for more information).

Use of your information

We may use your personal information if:

it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or necessary in connection with a legal obligation; or

you have provided your consent to such use; or

we consider such use of your information as not detrimental to you, within your reasonable expectations, having a minimal impact on your privacy, and necessary to fulfil our legitimate interests; or

we are otherwise required or authorised by law.

We use your information to:

maintain and develop our relationship with you;

facilitate our internal business operations;

Careers and Recruitment. If you apply for a job or work placement at Soham Attorneys & Partners, we may use your personal information to assess your application and to allow us to carry out both recruitment analytics and any monitoring activities which may be required of us under applicable law as an employer. We may also carry out screening checks (including reference, background, directorship, financial probity, identity, eligibility to work, vocational suitability and criminal record checks) and consider you for other positions.

The lawful basis on which Soham Attorneys & Partners will rely to process this information will be:

for all personal information, the legitimate interest (we have a legitimate interest in knowing the identity and background of the individuals we employ or engage to ensure we have the appropriate staff to comply with our various legal and regulatory obligations and ethical duties); and

for special category data and criminal data – employment protection.

We may disclose your personal information to recruiters, screening check providers, health service providers, professional and trade associations, law enforcement agencies, recruitment analytics and research providers, referees, your current and previous employers and third party due diligence and know your counterparty service providers such as World-Check (see below for more information). We may also collect your personal information from these parties in some circumstances. Without your personal information we may not be able to progress considering you for positions with us.

Know Your Suppliers and Counterparties. If you are an actual or prospective contractor, supplier, service provider, consultant, joint venture partner or other counterparty that we engage or do business with, or you work for, represent or beneficially own any of the same, we may use your personal information when we co-operate with supervisory and lawful authorities in order to comply with the laws and regulations that apply to us – for example, to help us comply with legislation on money laundering, modern slavery and terrorist financing or where we do due diligence on, and monitor and store details (including personal information) about, the people we engage or do business with in accordance with regulatory requirements. We may also collect and disclose your personal information under orders from courts and regulators to those persons who are entitled to receive the required information. In some cases, this personal information may include special categories of personal information (and, in particular, your political opinions) and criminal convictions information (information relating to your criminal convictions and offences, if applicable). Where we use your personal information for the purposes set out in this paragraph: