Privacy Policy

Our policy is to protect your privacy when using our website and is outlined below.

The purpose of this privacy notice is to provide you with the information you are entitled to receive about our processing of your personal information or personal data.

This information covers:

• Who we are and our contact details
• What information we may collect
• What we do with your personal information and why
• Whether there are other recipients of your personal information
• Whether we intend to transfer it to another country,
• Your rights and how to exercise them

Avanti Immigration Ltd is the data controller of any of your personal information that you provide to us.  Our address is 4 Cam Road, Stratford, London, E15 2SN.

When you visit our website, we automatically log your IP address and information about your visit, such as the time, the pages viewed, and the browser used. But all this information is collected anonymously and does not identify you as an individual. Statistics are compiled using this information, enabling us to monitor the use of the site.

Cookies are not used on our site (cookies are automated tools which enable websites to identify and track individual visitors, sometimes without their knowledge). The Information Advertising Bureau website provides more information about cookies. The IAB site also tells you how to remove cookies from your browser.

We collect your personal information only when you provide it to us, or when it is provided to us by our clients in connection with legal proceedings or in order to give legal advice.

We may use your personal information in order to give you legal advice, or in connection with legal proceedings or legal advice to third parties, or for our legitimate interests as a Consultancy.   We will use personal information only for the purposes that the information was collected, or to provide information about a similar purpose.  Information about children will only be collected and stored with permission.  Your information will be held securely and safeguarded against unauthorised use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.  All those who work at Avanti Immigration are subject to strict confidentiality rules and our privacy policies.  Your data will usually be kept for 7 years after we stop providing a service to you, or 7 years after the last payment or date of writing off costs, or 7 years after children reach 18.  We do not use automated decision-making in processing your personal information.

We may need to send your personal information to other people in connection with representing you in your matter, or in connection with giving legal advice, or for our legitimate interests, or where there are other lawful reasons to do so.  For instance, we may disclose information to medical experts, translators, barristers, judges, opponents in legal proceedings, IT advisors, or our Case Management Software provider.  If we disclose your information as our client, we will explain to you what steps we are taking and to whom we are sending any of your information and we will respect professional rules of confidentiality and legal professional privilege.

We may on occasion transfer your data to a country outside the EEA for purposes connected with giving legal advice, or in pursuit of our legitimate interests as a Consultancy.  However, we will only transfer information to a country which has adequate safeguards for the protection of personal data as confirmed by the European Commission, or in accordance with EU-US privacy shield arrangements.

Your rights and how to exercise them

• You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of personal data
• You have a right of access to the personal data being processed and to request a copy of the data and supplementary details.  You will be asked for proof of identity but no fee will be charged.  We will aim to respond within 30 days
• You have the right to rectification of inaccurate personal data being processed (subject to some exemptions)
• In some circumstances, you have the right to object to or restrict the processing of certain data, or to ask for its erasure
• You have the right to portability in some circumstances

Some of these rights cannot be exercised at all if the processing is necessary for advising or where legal professional privilege applies.  We will explain the basis for any exemption if it applies.

You can opt out of any of our distribution lists, or correct your details, at any time. This applies whether you are a private individual or a member of an organisation. Contact details are given under Contact Us. All our emails include an unsubscribe link.

This privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other sites, and we are not responsible for the content of such sites.