Privacy Policy

The Legal MBA, comprising the book and the online resources at thelegal.mba and thelegalmba.com, is brought to you by Limitless Professional Limited (English company number: 13850756), registered with the UK Information Commissioner with reference: ZB390767.

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Our registered office is Suite 5, 5th Floor, City Reach, 5 Greenwich View Place, London, United Kingdom, E14 9NN

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You can contact us hello@thelegalmba.com 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

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• Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, place of birth, date of birth and gender; job title, profession.

• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, previous addresses, email address and telephone numbers, business address, business email addresses and telephone numbers.

• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.

• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

• 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, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.

• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

• Usage Data includes information about how you 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.

 

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.

 

However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

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Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform any contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with products or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

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

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Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, via an account dashboard or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

• apply for our products or services;

• purchase and use our products and services;

• register as a customer or user;

• create an account on our Website or any third party Sites that we use to deliver the products and services;

• join any subscription or membership;

• join any of our groups on social media or in person;

• subscribe to our service or publications, including newsletters;

• request marketing to be sent to you;

• enter a competition, promotion or survey;

• engage with us and content on the Sites;

• feature in our publications or attend our events or request us to feature in or attend yours, such as podcasts or other audio-visual or written publications and related marketing materials

• partake in our market research;

• give us feedback or contact us;

• interact with us.

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Automated technologies or interactions

As you interact with our Website, or certain other Sites such as landing pages that are not on 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 below for further details.

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Third parties or publicly available sources 

We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

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(i) Technical Data from the following parties:

• analytics providers such as Google Analytics based outside the UK;

• advertising networks such as Google, Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn based outside the UK; and

• search information providers such as Google based outside the UK.

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(ii) Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe based outside the UK.

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(iii) Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the UK.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

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We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use 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.

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We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out below.

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Purpose/Activity: To register you as a new customer.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you.

 

Purpose/Activity: To process and deliver your order, manage payments, fees, and charges, and collect and recover money owed to us.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Financial, (d) Transaction, (e) Marketing and Communications.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: (a) Performance of a contract with you, (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us).

 

Purpose/Activity: To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms and conditions, policies, or privacy policy, and requesting reviews or surveys.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile, (d) Marketing and Communications.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: (a) Performance of a contract with you, (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and study customer usage patterns).

 

Purpose/Activity: To enable your participation in prize draws, competitions, or surveys.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile, (d) Usage, (e) Marketing and Communications.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: (a) Performance of a contract with you, (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study customer usage patterns, develop products/services, and grow our business).

 

Purpose/Activity: To administer and protect our business and website, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and data hosting.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (running our business, providing administration and IT services, network security, preventing fraud, and business reorganization or restructuring), (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

 

Purpose/Activity: To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and measure the effectiveness of the advertising served.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile, (d) Usage, (e) Marketing and Communications, (f) Technical.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (studying customer usage patterns, developing products/services, growing our business, and informing marketing strategy).

 

Purpose/Activity: To use data analytics to improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

Type of data: (a) Technical, (b) Usage.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (defining customer types, keeping the website updated, developing our business, and informing marketing strategy).

 

Purpose/Activity: To make suggestions and recommendations about goods or services that may be of interest to you.

Type of data: (a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical, (d) Usage, (e) Profile, (f) Marketing and Communications.

Lawful basis for processing, including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (developing products/services and growing our business).

 

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You can change your preferences by logging into the Website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes, by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you, or by contacting us at any time.

 

You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

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Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

Where your personal data is held

Personal data may be held at our offices, third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above.

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Some of these third parties may be based outside the UK/EEA. 

Transferring your personal data out of the UK and EEA

To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data outside the UK/EEA, e.g.:

• with your and our service providers located outside the UK/EEA;

• if you are based outside the UK/EEA; Under data protection law, we can only transfer your personal data to a country or international organisation outside the UK/EEA where:

• the UK government or, where the EU GDPR applies, the European Commission has decided the particular country or international organisation ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy decision’);

• there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for data subjects; or

• a specific exception applies under data protection law These are explained below.

 

Adequacy decision

We may transfer your personal data to certain countries, on the basis of an adequacy decision. These include:

• all European Union countries, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (collectively known as the ‘EEA’);

• Gibraltar; and

• Andorra, Argentina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Japan, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay.

 

The list of countries that benefit from adequacy decisions will change from time to time. We will always seek to rely on an adequacy decision, where one exists. Other countries we are likely to transfer personal data to do not have the benefit of an adequacy decision. This does not necessarily mean they provide poor protection for personal data, but we must look at alternative grounds for transferring the personal data, such as ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place or relying on an exception, as explained below.

 

Transfers with appropriate safeguards

Where there is no adequacy decision, we may transfer your personal data to another country if we are satisfied the transfer complies with data protection law, appropriate safeguards are in place, and enforceable rights and effective legal remedies are available for data subjects. The safeguards will usually include using legally-approved standard data protection contract clauses. To obtain a copy of the standard data protection contract clauses and further information about relevant safeguards please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

 

Transfers under an exception

In the absence of an adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards, we may transfer personal data to a third country or international organisation where an exception applies under relevant data protection law, e.g.:

• you have explicitly consented to the proposed transfer after having been informed of the possible risks;

• the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between us or to take pre-contract measures at your request;

• the transfer is necessary for a contract in your interests, between us and another person; or

• the transfer is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims

 

We may also transfer information for the purpose of our compelling legitimate interests, so long as those interests are not overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms. Specific conditions apply to such transfers and we will provide relevant information if and when we seek to transfer your personal data on this ground.

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How long your personal data will be kept

We will keep your personal data while you have an account with us or we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary:

• to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;

• to show that we treated you fairly;

• to keep records required by law.

 

We will not keep your personal data for longer than necessary. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data. When it is no longer necessary to keep your personal data, we will delete or anonymise it.

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Our cookies

We may use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

 

Third party cookies

Please note that the third parties listed in the Legal Information or notified to you may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies or targeting cookies.

 

Cookie controls

To change your cookie settings, deactivate or block our cookies or the use of third party advertising cookies, please see below. You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies you accept by adjusting your settings via our cookie settings widget on your screen. You can do this by adjusting the sliders to opt in or out of the cookie categories. To save your changes, scroll to the bottom and click on the save button. If you cannot see the save button, you may be using a blocker to prevent the setting of cookies.

 

Browser cookie controls

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.

Your legal rights may depend on where you reside, but typically include:

• accessing personal information we hold about you

• objecting to our use of your personal information based on the legal ground of ‘legitimate interest’

• withdrawing your consent to any processing of your personal data at any time

• rectifying personal information about you that is inaccurate

• complaining to regulators with lawful authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office

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If you’d like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@thelegalmba.com