Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains how Legalbuild Ltd collects, uses, stores and protects personal data through this website and in connection with enquiries, business relationships and the professional services we provide.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, the data controller is:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how we handle personal data, please contact us using the details above.

This notice applies to personal data we process when you:

• visit or interact with this website;
• contact us by email, telephone or through the website;
• enquire about Legalbuild or our services;
• correspond or engage with us in a professional or business capacity;
• instruct us or are involved in a matter on which we are instructed; or
• interact with cookies, analytics or similar technologies used on this website.

Depending on how you interact with Legalbuild, we may process:

We may obtain personal data:

• directly from you;
• from your employer or organisation;
• from clients or prospective clients;
• from project documentation, correspondence and records supplied to us;
• from counterparties, consultants, professional advisers or other persons involved in a matter;
• from publicly available professional or business sources where appropriate; and
• through this website and its underlying technologies.

Where we receive personal data from someone other than the individual concerned, the source will ordinarily be connected with a business relationship, project, instruction or professional matter.

We may use personal data to:

• respond to enquiries and assess potential instructions;
• establish and manage business relationships;
• provide consultancy, contract, commercial and dispute-related services;
• review and analyse project, contractual and evidential information;
• communicate with clients and relevant project participants;
• administer instructions, correspondence and records;
• manage our business and internal operations;
• operate, maintain and secure this website and our systems;
• understand website usage where analytics consent has been provided;
• establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and
• comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other obligations.

We do not sell personal data.

Because of the nature of construction projects, claims and disputes, documents provided to Legalbuild may occasionally contain sensitive or special category personal data.

We do not seek such information unless it is relevant to an enquiry or instruction. Where we process special category personal data, we will do so only where an appropriate lawful basis and additional condition are available under applicable data protection law.

Please avoid sending unnecessary sensitive personal information through the general website contact form.

Where appropriate and necessary, we may share personal data with:

• website hosting, IT, email and cloud-service providers;
• analytics and website technology providers where applicable;
• consultants, experts and professional service providers supporting Legalbuild;
• solicitors, barristers and other professional advisers;
• adjudicators, mediators, arbitrators, courts and tribunals where relevant;
• insurers;
• clients and other relevant participants in a project or dispute; and
• regulators, government authorities, law-enforcement bodies or other persons where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

We require service providers handling personal data on our behalf to protect it appropriately and process it only for authorised purposes.

Some technology and service providers may process personal data outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, we take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer complies with applicable data protection law. This may include reliance on recognised adequacy arrangements or appropriate contractual safeguards.

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

The appropriate retention period depends on matters including:

• the nature of the information;
• the purpose for which it is held;
• the duration of the relevant business relationship or instruction;
• applicable legal, tax, accounting and insurance requirements; and
• whether the information may be relevant to an actual or potential claim or dispute.

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights to:

• access personal data we hold about you;
• correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
• request deletion in certain circumstances;
• restrict processing in certain circumstances;
• object to certain processing;
• receive certain personal data in a portable format;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
• complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Legalbuild uses essential cookies and similar technologies required for the operation and security of this website.

With your consent, we may also use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the website and to measure website performance. Non-essential technologies are not used on the basis of consent unless that consent has been provided.

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

No internet transmission or information system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted electronically.

This website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Legalbuild is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites. You should review the relevant third party's privacy information before providing personal data to them.

If you have concerns about how Legalbuild processes your personal data, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to address them.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection.

Visit the ICO website →

We may update this Privacy Notice where our website, services, technology, business operations or legal obligations change. The current version will be published on this page with its latest revision date.