Privacy Policy
Shoosmiths acknowledge that your contact details and application data ("your information") may be confidential. shoosmiths will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with shoosmiths' normal procedures and English law.
As part of shoosmiths' quality control and with the objective of providing you with enhanced services we may monitor the use of this website and record your email address and/or IP address. This information is collected for shoosmiths' internal purposes only and shall not be disclosed to any other organisation except as required by law. We may use "cookies" to collect this information and track your use of this website. If you do not agree you can choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your web browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you before you accept a cookie.
Shoosmiths may use your application data and contact details for the purposes of recruitment or marketing, respectively, as more fully described under Careers and Marketing. We may use information obtained about you from monitoring your use of this website solely for internal purposes including website performance, evaluation of website use and the creation of marketing reports at shoosmiths to aid future marketing of information about shoosmiths and shoosmiths' services. Data collected by monitoring will be aggregate, no personal or sensitive personal data will be used other than for the purpose for which it was originally obtained.
Your information may be controlled and processed by any of shoosmiths' offices. You acknowledge and agree that the location of our offices may change from time to time and that shoosmiths may acquire other offices in any number of other countries or territories at any time, any one or more of which may act as a controller of and/or process your information. shoosmiths will not disclose your data to any other third party unless required to do so by law or regulators.
You acknowledge and agree that we may from time to time transfer any of your contact details and/or application data overseas to any office of shoosmiths or of any of our affiliates, agents or appointed representatives. Some of our offices and those of our affiliates, agents or representatives may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area which do not have well developed data protection legislation when compared to English law. While shoosmiths will ensure your information is processed in accordance with these terms and conditions you may not have rights under data protection legislation in those jurisdictions equivalent to those under English law. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be processed by shoosmiths in the ways described in these terms and conditions.
You have the right to access and the right to rectify your personal data whether submitted as an application for a post at shoosmiths or otherwise by sending us a written request or by email, details can be found on our contact us page.
Occasionally third parties may provide storage services to us. In those circumstances those third parties shall be required to enter into a confidentiality agreement on no less stringent terms than found in these terms and conditions and to process your data solely in accordance with our instructions.
From time to time we may use any of the information you submit to us, including personal data, to provide you with marketing information about shoosmiths and shoosmiths' services subject to your consent.
You may submit information, including personal data and sensitive personal data to us via the on-line application forms and email addresses as an application for a post advertised at shoosmiths ("application data"). "Sensitive personal data" is information as to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, commission of criminal offences and/or involvement in criminal proceedings. In acknowledging an application shoosmiths is not verifying the content, accepting the application or making any offer of employment or engagement. shoosmiths is not obliged to accept any applications.
Shoosmiths processes your application data for the sole purposes of considering applications and recruitment, and not for any "direct marketing".
Shoosmiths is an equal opportunity employer (in accordance with applicable legislation) and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, non disqualifying physical or mental disability or any other basis covered by local legislation. All employment related decisions are made entirely on merit.