1. Privacy policy

This website is operated by Allan McDougall McQueen LLP, of which Allan McDougall Solicitors is a trading name. Allan McDougall Solicitors takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting your personal data. We ask that you read this policy carefully, as it contains important information on:

• the personal information we collect about you;
• what we do with your personal information; and
• who your personal information might be shared with.

We are the controller of the personal information that we collect from you when you use our website, sign up to our e-bulletins, instruct us to provide a service or advice, or in any other way. This means that we are legally responsible for how we collect, hold and use your personal information. It also means that we are required to comply with data protection laws when collecting, holding and using your personal information. Our Information Commissioner’s Office registration reference is ZA290128.

If you have any questions about this statement or how we hold or use your personal information, please contact us at info@allanmcdougall.co.uk.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

What personal information do we collect about you and why?

Our website is a place for you to find out more about us, the legal services that we offer and available career opportunities as well as to read news updates relating to our areas of practice.

When you visit our website and contact us, we collect personal information about you, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, the nature of your enquiry and any other personal information that you provide.

We use such personal information to:

• communicate with you, including in response to any of your enquiries;
• provide you with the legal services that you request from us;
• inform you about the different services which we provide to clients;
• improve our services and respond to changing needs;
• comply with accounting, taxation and record-keeping requirements;
• comply with the Law Society of Scotland’s rules and requirements that apply to us as a firm of solicitors in Scotland;
• consider your feedback as well as handle and resolve complaints made by you;
• keep the personal information that we hold about you accurate and up-to-date (if you provide any new personal information to us); and
• notify you of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you.

We may not be able to provide the above services to you if you do not provide us with sufficient personal information to allow us to do so.

We will use your e-mail address to send you our regular e-bulletins. You can choose to unsubscribe from our e-bulletins at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in all e-bulletins or by contacting us at info@allanmcdougall.co.uk.

We may also collect information about you via cookie files. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on to your computer or other access device when you visit our website. We use cookie files to:

• obtain information about your preferences and use of the internet;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal information. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other access device, such as your IP address, your browser and / or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally.

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Name of cookie	Owner	Purpose of the cookie
Google Analytics	Google, Inc.	This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., which uses cookies to show us how you found and explored our website, and how we can enhance your experience. It provides us with information about how you used our website e.g. how long you stayed on the website, the average number of pages viewed, and also tells us how many visitors we have had.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

This website is not intended for use by children. We understand the importance of protecting children’s information, especially in an online environment, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain information about children.

What is our legal basis for holding and using your personal information?

Data protection laws require us to have a legal reason for collecting, holding and using your personal information.

If you become a client of ours, the basis for processing your personal information will be legitimate interest. In some circumstances, we may rely on your consent as the legal reason. By providing us with your personal information and sensitive personal information (relating to your health, racial or ethnic origin, religious or other beliefs or sexual orientation) and the personal information and sensitive personal information of other individuals, you:

• consent to it being used by us as described above; and
• confirm that you have informed the other individuals of 12 years old and above of the content of this policy and they have provided their consent to their personal information and sensitive personal information being used by us as described above.

You and the other individuals have the right to withdraw your consent to us holding and using your and their personal information and sensitive personal information by contacting us. Once you / they have withdrawn your / their consent, we will no longer use your / their personal information and sensitive personal information for the purpose(s) set out above, which you originally agreed to, unless we have another legal reason for doing so.

Our other legal reasons for holding and using your personal information are:

• performance and delivery of any legal services that you request from us;
• compliance with the legal and regulatory obligations which apply to us as a firm of solicitors in Scotland; and
• our legitimate interests – while you have a legitimate interest in the protection of your personal information, we may also have an overriding legitimate interest in handling and using your personal information.

Who do we share your personal information with?

We may share your personal information with the following organisations for the purposes described above:

• professional individuals and organisations with whom we may collaborate, such as King’s Counsels, advocates, and medical experts, in order to provide our services to you;
• our service providers to maintain our website and the systems on which your personal information is stored;
• our auditors and accountants; and
• third parties who undertake mailings on our behalf.

We may provide information, in response to properly made requests, for the purposes of the prevention and detection of crime, and the apprehension or prosecution of offenders or to other parties lawfully authorised to carry out investigations or where we are otherwise legally obliged to. Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the data you provide to us without your consent.

How long do we keep your personal information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as we need to for the purposes described above, including to meet any legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements that apply to us as a firm of solicitors in Scotland.

How do we keep your personal information secure?

The security of your personal information is of paramount importance to us. We have in place appropriate physical, electronic, and organisational measures to safeguard your personal information. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers with industry standard anti-virus and firewall protection in place.

However, while we will use reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information, the use of the internet is not entirely secure and, for this reason, we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that is transferred by or to you via the internet. If you have any concerns about the security of your personal information, please contact us at info@allanmcdougall.co.uk.

Do we send your personal information outside the EU?

We may need to transfer your personal information collected on our website to our service providers based in countries outside the EU. These countries may not have the same standard of data protection laws as the EU. In this case, we will safeguard your privacy rights in accordance with data protection legislation and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a data security breach incident involving your personal information.

What rights do you have in relation to your personal information that we collect, hold and use?

It is important that the personal information that we collect, hold and use about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed of any changes by contacting us at info@allanmcdougall.co.uk.

Under certain circumstances, the law gives you the right to request:

• A copy of your personal information and to check that we are holding and using it in accordance with legal requirements;
• Correction of any incomplete or inaccurate personal information that we hold and use about you;
• Deletion of your personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to hold and use it. You also have the right to ask us to do this where you object to us holding and using your personal information (details below);
• Temporarily suspend the use of your personal information, for example, if you want us to check that it is correct or the reason for processing it; and
• The transfer of your personal information to another organisation.

You can also object to us holding and using your personal information where our legal basis is a legitimate interest (either our legitimate interests or those of a third party).

Please contact us at info@allanmcdougall.co.uk if you wish to make any of the above requests. When you make a request, we may ask you for specific information to help us confirm your identity for security reasons. You will not need to pay a fee when you make any of the above requests, but we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive.

Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, about how we hold and use your personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office website is https://ico.org.uk/ and complaints can be made here.

We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns, so please contact us in the first instance.

Updates to this policy

We may update this policy at any time, and you should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access our website.

Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Full name of legal entity: Allan McDougall McQueen LLP

Email address: info@allanmcdougall.co.uk

Postal address: 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 7AL

Last updated: May 2025

2. Legal notices

General

Allan McDougall McQueen LLP is a limited liability partnership incorporated in Scotland with registered number SO305940.

The Law Society of Scotland

Allan McDougall McQueen LLP is regulated by The Law Society of Scotland.

Intellectual property rights

This site is protected by copyright. It is published by Allan McDougall McQueen LLP and may not be reproduced other than when downloaded and viewed on a single PC for private use only. It is not to be otherwise reproduced or transmitted or made available on a network without the prior written permission of Allan McDougall McQueen LLP. The names and logos identifying this site and Allan McDougall Solicitors are owned by Allan McDougall McQueen LLP.

Specific advice

The information and expression of opinions that are contained in the site are not intended to be a comprehensive study, nor to provide legal advice and should not be treated as a substitute for specific advice concerning individual situations.

Liability

Allan McDougall McQueen LLP accepts no responsibility for any loss or liability which may arise from reliance on information or expressions of opinion that are contained in this site.

Links

Links to other sites are provided for information only. Allan McDougall McQueen LLP takes no responsibility for material found on them.

3. Accessibility

Allan McDougall McQueen LLP aims to make our services accessible for all users, including people with disabilities. This site is W3C validated and conforms to the HTML 5 specification.

 

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