Privacy notice
This privacy notice includes specific information concerning data collected via this website: https://bookshop.lawsociety.org.uk. This notice should be read in conjunction with the Law Society’s main privacy policy which can be accessed here: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/about-the-website/privacy-policy/
Registration and registration information
It is necessary for you to register with us in order to make payments through this website for the associated books and gifts displayed. By registering, it will also allow us to personalise our services to you.
When you log in, you are responsible for protecting your password and user name and must not share them with or disclose them to anyone else.
When you register or purchase products from us, the basic personal information about you which we collect is your name, email address and postal address.
The Law Society may use the information you provide us on this site for the purposes of processing your order and for advertising, marketing and public relations connected with our products. We only hold this information for long as necessary for those purposes. We may use the email contact details you provide to us to notify you from time to time about similar products and services that we think you may find of interest, if you have agreed we can do so upon registration.
If you no longer wish us to contact you in this way you may tell us by unsubscribing from any such email messages you receive or by calling our Support Centre on 020 7242 1222.
Changing the information we hold about you
If you would like to change the registration information we hold about you or if you want to change the e-mail address at which you receive e-mail notification of orders placed, you may do so by returning to the personalisation area and changing or removing your details as you wish. If you wish to delete your account please contact us at 020 7242 1222.
Third Parties
When you place an order with us it will be performed on our behalf by Mitie Business Services Limited (“Mitie”). Your order will be processed by Mitie’s sub-contractors Cubiquity Limited (order processing and payment) and Dawley Services Limited (warehousing and dispatch). These companies collect information about you in order to perform these functions on our behalf but are not permitted to use this information for any purpose other than processing and fulfilling your order. They are under legal and contractual obligations to keep your information secure.
We do not at present forward the information collected about you via this website to any other third parties except where required by law to do so. At all times, the Law Society will control and be responsible for the use of your information.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer while you are visiting a website. Cookies help make websites work. They also provide us with aggregated information about how users interact with our site.
We use this information to try to improve your experience on our website.
We may use cookies to remember personal settings you have chosen at our website. In no other context do we use cookies to collect information that identifies you personally. Most of the cookies we set are automatically deleted from your computer when you leave our website or shortly afterwards.
The law about cookies changed in May 2011. Websites must get your agreement before they set certain types of cookie on your computer or handheld device.
Complete information about the cookies we may set on your browser appears below. A hyperlink to this information about cookies appears prominently on every page of our website.
Cookies set by this site
This is a list of cookies set by this website, along with a brief description of what each is used for.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Information about your shopping cart contents stored on the server. This cookie is the key used to fetch them the next time user interacts with the server, for example. when user adds something to your basket or goes to the checkout. It does not collect any personal information about you. | The cookie is deleted when you close the browser |
| yourAuthCookie |
Information about your log in status, it does not collect any personal information about you. |
The cookie is deleted when you close the browser |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This cookie is used for security protection (to prevent cross site request forgery). It does not collect any personal information about you. | The cookie is deleted when you close the browser |
Third-party cookies
We use a third-party service-Google Analytics-to collect aggregate data about usage of our website. We use this information to try to improve our web-based services. Google Analytics sets several cookies on your browser.
We do not control the use of the these
third-party cookies, and you should check Google's privacy policy if you have
concerns.
| Service | Cookie name | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | 2 years |
| Google Analytics | _gid | 24 hours |
| Google Analytics | _gat_UA-1664104-17 | 1 minute |
| Google Analytics | AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year |
| Google Analytics | _gac_UA-1664104-17 | 90 day |
Payment details
Your credit card details may be captured if you chose to pay for items on our website via credit card. These details will be encrypted and processed by Worldpay, our online payment provider. They will use security software called SSL to make sure your details are collected and held securely and cannot be read by a third party. If you chose to pay via invoice or cheque this may be administered by Cubiquity.