Privacy Policy

Hargreave Hale is committed to protecting your private information and we will keep your personal data confidential unless we are required to disclose it by law or regulation. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully before continuing with this website. Your continued use of this website indicates your agreement to the Privacy Policy and any changes to it. From time to time we may change our Privacy Policy, please check this page regularly.

Hargreave Hale will process this information fairly and lawfully and will store this information in accordance with the relevant data protection legislation. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from users of our ‘public’ area of our website. Hargreave Hale will gather information on the number of visitors to certain areas and the manner in which the website is navigated. However, in order to operate the client login area of the website, we may ask for personal information about yourself, and this will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

For clients who decide to register to use our online services, we may collect and process personal data about you that will enable us to look after your account or to provide the specific services to you. This information will be handled in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Please let us know if your personal information needs correcting or updating.

Hargreave Hale will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Hargreave Hale trains its staff in handling this information securely, and restricts access to those who have a need to know. Your personal information is stored securely on our computer system.

The Hargreave Hale website may provide links to third party websites. Hargreave Hale has no control over such third party websites and therefore Hargreave Hale will be unable to guarantee that the respective site will respect your privacy in the same way as Hargreave Hale.

The Hargreave Hale website collects anonymous information during visits to our website by using cookies. The site uses a session cookie that remains in the cookie file of your computer during your website visit, and are deleted when you close your browser. These cookie files do not keep any personal information or personally identifiable information. The anonymous information gathered is used at an aggregate level in order to measure the use of our website and make improvements to it. Information gathered is not used at an individual level, and we do not use cookies to track people’s internet use after leaving our website. You do have the option to disable cookies by setting your internet browser to do so, but this will not able you to log in to the secure areas of the website.