All of us at Broadhurst LLC recognize the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of your personal information. As attorneys, we have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we receive within an attorney client relationship. We are committed to protecting any personal information we hold. This privacy policy outlines how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.
From September 30th, 2019, all businesses engaged in commercial activities must comply with the Cayman Islands Data Protection Law, 2017. These obligations extend to attorneys and law firms, including Broadhurst LLC. The law gives you rights concerning the privacy of your personal information.
Broadhurst LLC is responsible for the personal information we collect and hold. To ensure this accountability, we have developed this policy, and trained our attorneys and support staff about our policies and practices.
We use your personal information to provide legal advice and services to you, to administer our client (time and billing databases) and to include you in any direct marketing activities. If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about our services or about new developments in the law, we will not send any further material.
Broadhurst LLC does not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services. For example, we do not provide our client mailing lists to other law firms.
Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. If we did not collect and use your personal information, we could not provide you with legal services.
We collect information only by lawful and fair means and not in an unreasonable or intrusive way. Wherever possible, we collect your personal information directly from you, at the start of a retainer and in the course of our representation.
Sometimes we may obtain information about you from other sources, for example:
Under certain circumstances Broadhurst LLC will disclose your personal information:
Since we use your personal information to provide legal services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date.
If during the course of the retainer, any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Broadhurst LLC takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your information are:
You may ask for access to any personal information we hold about you.
Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees.
Broadhurst LLC holds information about you and you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date we will take reasonable steps to correct it.
Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute.
We may deny access when:
If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information, we shall explain why.
Whenever it is legal and practicable, we may offer the opportunity to deal with general inquiries without providing your name.
The Anti-Money Laundering Regulations 2018 (AML) Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS), and the Proliferation Financing (PF) laws require us to confirm the identity of all new clients.
To help us make credit decisions about clients, prevent fraud, check the identity of new clients and prevent money laundering, we may on occasion, request information about you from the files of consumer reporting agencies.
You should be aware that e-mail is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.
Since Broadhurst LLC regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.
If you have any questions, or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Data Protection Officer at:
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Ombudsman at:
If you apply to Broadhurst LLC for a job, we need to consider your personal information, as part of our review process. We normally retain information from candidates after a decision has been made, unless you ask us not to retain the information. If we offer you a job, which you accept, the information will be retained in accordance with our privacy procedures for employee records.
Email communication is used internally in our office. Our system is extremely safe and confidential. However, when emailing outside of our network (externally) Broadhurst LLC is unable to guarantee third party interception.
Our website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy.
On our website, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimize our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.
By signing our retainer agreement, you consent to Broadhurst LLC to collect, use, and disclose your personal information within the confines of the law and in the scope of our retainer.
