Our privacy policy

By working with New Wave Law Solicitors, you will be trusting us with your information. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information at all times. We may receive information about you from you or third parties when we are acting for, or considering acting for, a client and we are required to obtain information about you, for example if you are the beneficiary of an estate. The information we receive may include your contact details, identification information, financial information, employment information, details included in any correspondence and information about you in connection with any matter on which we are engaged to advise our client. When we receive information about you, we will only use that information for the purposes of the legal transaction, case or matter. New Wave Law Solicitors is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZB323835.

You provide information about yourself when you make an enquiry with New Wave Law Solicitors or ask us to provide legal services to you, or when entering information via our website, opt-in/consent forms, apps or by communicating with us by phone, post, email, live chat, social media or otherwise. It includes additional information that you provide to us during the course of any matter.

We may receive information about you from clients acting in a representative capacity. These could include, but are not limited to, personal representatives, attorneys, trustees and deputies who may provide us with information in connection with a matter in which we are acting for you or a client. Friends, family or colleagues may provide information about you as part of the work we undertake, for example where you are or may be a beneficiary of an estate or trust; appointed by them in some representative capacity, such as executor, attorney etc

Like many other websites, our website uses cookies (including Google Analytics and other cookies) to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes to our website. Cookies are small pieces of information sent to your computer and stored on its hard drive to allow our website to recognise you when you visit. It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. The information we gather is fully anonymous and cannot be traced to individual visitors to the website. We reserve the right to use additional cookies for the same or similar purposes but your personal information cannot and will not be shared with us.

Mandatory information

If you are a client, please note that your provision of documents for identity verification purposes is necessary for us to comply with our legal and statutory obligations. Failure to provide these documents will result in our being unable to undertake identity verification as required by the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the payer) Regulations 2017 and, subsequently, we will not be able to act for you.