Privacy policy

18 February 2023

Lysaght & Co. Limited at Crown House, 18 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 4UF (“Lysaght”) is bound by data protection legislation and committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and the fair, just and transparent processing of your personal data.

This notice sets out the basis on which any personal data Lysaght may collect from you or that you provide to Lysaght will be processed by Lysaght.

Please read the following carefully to understand Lysaght’s views and practices regarding your personal data and how it will be handled.

Collection of Your Personal Data

“Personal Data” means any information that can be used to identify a natural person, such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Lysaght may collect and process your personal data from a variety of sources, including:

  • Your use of our website: information about your computer, including where available, your IP address, date, time, duration of your visit, operating system, browser type, the URLs of websites that referred you to our website and the path that you take through the website

  • Your interactions with Lysaght’s employees on behalf of your business

  • The information you provide to us when communicating (amongst other things) an instruction or inquiry

  • Your colleagues may write to us on your behalf or instruct us to correspond with you

  • Your interactions with us on social media

Purposes of Processing Your Personal Data

Lysaght may use and/or process personal information held about you for any reasonable purpose, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • To enter into a client relationship and provide services governing that relationship

  • The purposes specified in the request you receive

  • To provide you with information, products and services which Lysaght feels may interest you and where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes

  • Completing anti-money laundering checks

  • Completing internal conflict of interest checks

  • Complying with our legal, tax and regulatory obligations

  • To ensure the security of Lysaght’s systems, staff and premises (including CCTV equipment)

Where we process data for our legitimate business interests, you can object to such processing (see “Rights and Choices” below). However, if you object, this may affect our ability to perform tasks for your (or your client’s) best interests.

Categories of Data

Below are some examples of data we may collect and process when using our in-house systems to provide services to you:

  • Name – first, middle, family/surname

  • Job title

  • Job location/division

  • IP address

  • Address (work and personal)

  • Telephone number (work)

  • E-mail address (work)

  • Financial information, such as payment-related information

  • Meetings attended and visits to our offices

Rights and Choices

If you do not wish to be contacted via telephone, e-mail, SMS or any other means, nor for your data to be used in the ways described in this notice, please contact us at the following e-mail address: data_protection@lysaght.co.uk.

As an individual, you have the following rights regarding the protection of your personal data:

  • Right to be Informed

  • Right of Access

  • Right of Rectification

  • Right of Erasure

  • Right to Restrict Processing

  • Right to Data Portability

  • Right to Object

  • Rights concerning Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

You have the right to apply for a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified. In some circumstances, you may also have the right to ask us to erase your personal data or restrict its processing. Where we process your data for our legitimate interests, you can object to such processing.

Please note that if you object to processing or withdrawing your consent, this may affect our ability to deliver services.

The exercise of these rights is usually free of charge for you, and Lysaght has an obligation to respond to you without undue delay upon a raised request. We may request certain confirmation that you are authorised to exercise this request or ask for proof of your identity before responding to your request.

Should we not satisfy your request, you can complain to the relevant data protection authority. Details of the authority in Jersey can be found at www.jerseyoic.org.

Sharing of Your Personal Data

Lysaght may disclose your personal data to third parties in the following cases:

  • If we sell, merge, consolidate, transfer, or change business control, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business

  • If we are required to disclose it under any applicable law or pursuant to an order of a competent court, government department or regulatory authority.

  • If we are required to disclose it for any legal or regulatory requirement

  • If we consider such disclosure necessary or appropriate in any report under anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing legislation, anti-bribery/anti-corruption legislation

  • If we consider that such disclosure is necessary to defend ourselves against any claim threatened or brought against us by any person

  • If we are working with associates and/or registries on your behalf and, in our opinion, it is necessary or appropriate to disclose information to further the services provided to you unless you expressly instruct otherwise

  • In cases where you provide us with your consent to do so. In those cases, we will ask you for explicit consent confirmation

How We Secure Your Personal Data

Lysaght is committed to protecting any personal data divulged to us. We have implemented appropriate security measures, technologies and procedures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. All of our employees are contractually obliged to keep personal data confidential.

Unfortunately, transmitting information via the Internet (via e-mail or other) is not always completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us via unsecure means, such as traditional e-mail, so any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use internal procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

Data Retention Information

Lysaght will not hold personal data for a period longer than is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was entrusted to us.

International Transfers

The personal data we collect from you may be processed in (including being accessed in or stored in) a country or territory outside your home country, including outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Where we transfer data to another jurisdiction, which does not offer the same level of protection of personal data as may be enjoyed within your home country, we will only transfer the data where we believe that:

  • The non-EU country has Data Protection adequacy status;

  • The recipient has agreed to protect the information using the same Data Protection standards as the EU; or

  • There is consent from the relevant data subject(s) to the transfer.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit websites to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information.

We do not use cookies on our website to track or share personal data with third parties.

You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but you may be unable to properly access or use certain parts or features of our website if you do so.

We set out below the details of the cookies we use:

  • has_js  - This cookie checks if Javascript is enabled to set which user interface features are available throughout the site.

  • _gat, _ga  - Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website and your current IP address will be transmitted by your browser to and stored by Google on servers in the United States and other countries. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address collected through Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

  • _ss_cookieAllowed - Duration: 30 days - Remembers if a visitor agreed to place analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies -

  • Test - Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

  • ss_cid - Duration: Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • ss_cpvisit - Duration: Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • ss_cvisit  - Duration: 30 minutes - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • ss_cvr  - Duration: Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • ss_cvt  - Duration: 30 minutes - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • RecentRedirect - Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Cookie - Duration: 30 minutes

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We keep this Privacy Notice under review, and we last updated this Privacy Notice on 18 February 2023.

Data Controller / Representative

If you have any questions about this notice or data protection, please get in touch with us. Lysaght’s nominated representatives for data protection legislation are:

Mr David Booth and Miss Caroline Johnstone, e-mail address: data_protection@lysaght.co.uk