Privacy Policy.

1. Information submitted through the website

When you use the Contact form, we may receive your name, email address, telephone number, selected enquiry category, message and limited source or referral information. Career applications may include contact details, academic or professional information, a cover note and the contents of a CV. Recruitment information is addressed separately in the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

2. Why we use the information

Website information is used to review and respond to enquiries, administer recruitment, maintain necessary correspondence and records, protect the website from misuse and comply with applicable legal or professional obligations. Information submitted through these forms is not sold to advertisers or used for unrelated advertising.

3. Website security and abuse prevention

The Contact form uses limited technical information to control spam and repeated automated submissions. Where an IP address is used for rate limiting, the website stores a one way cryptographic hash rather than the raw IP address in the enquiry record.

4. Cookies and browser storage

The website does not require advertising cookies. The disclaimer gate uses session based browser storage so that a user who has accepted the website disclaimer is not repeatedly shown the gate during the same browser session. Additional analytics or third party tools should not be enabled without updating this policy where necessary.

5. Service providers

We may rely on hosting, database, file storage, security and infrastructure providers to operate the website. Information may be processed by those providers only to the extent reasonably necessary to provide the relevant technical service and subject to the safeguards available for that service.

6. Confidential or privileged information

Please do not submit confidential, privileged or highly sensitive material through a public website form unless we have specifically requested it. Sending information through the website does not by itself establish that we are acting as your advocates, and we may be unable to act where a conflict or another professional restriction exists.

7. Retention

Information is retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, legitimate record keeping, website security, dispute management and applicable legal or professional requirements. Information no longer required for those purposes should be deleted or anonymised in accordance with our operational processes.

8. Requests and corrections

If you wish to raise a privacy question, request correction of information submitted through the website or ask whether information remains in our website systems, use the Contact page and identify the request as privacy related. A request may be subject to identity verification and any lawful or professional reason that requires information to be retained.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the website, applicable law or our systems change.