Privacy Policy

This privacy policy provides guidance regarding how and why we collect, use and retain personal information. This privacy policy also provides information regarding your rights with regard to your own personal information.

This policy includes the following headings

1. Important information;
2. Collection of your data;
3. Use of your data;
4. Retention of your data;
5. Transfer of your data to third parties;
6. Links to other sites;
7. Know your rights.

It is important that you read this policy when working with us to ensure that you are fully aware of how we collect, use and retain your data.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act (2021) British Virgin Islands & The Data Protection Act 2018 (“GDPR”):

• The data controller is MK Solicitors LP (trading as “MKS Law”); and
• MK Solicitors LP may use third-party processors to deliver specific services that are requested by you from MK Solicitors LP.

MK Solicitors LP is a limited liability partnership established to provide legal services under the trading name of MKS Law. For any questions relating to your data, or to submit any requests, please contact MK Solicitors LP using one of the methods below:

MK Solicitors LP
P.O. Box 4740
Third Floor, Flemming House
2 Fishlock Road
Road Town, Tortola, VG1110
British Virgin Islands

Phone: +1 (284) 494 2444
Email: info@mks.law

MK Solicitors LP may collect information from you directly, indirectly by email, phone or other means, or via our website.

We may collect and/or process the following data about you:

• Information you provide to us – by filling in forms on our website or by entering into a contract with us, or by correspondence with us by email, letter, phone or other methods, which includes data provided by you by registering to use our website, or by subscribing for newsletters or other information services, or by joining our web forum, or by placing a request for services, and when reporting a problem with our site, or otherwise contacting us.
• Personal Data – the information you give us may include; your name, date of birth, nationality, passport information, address(es), email address(es), IP address, phone number(s), family related or work-related information together with financial and credit card information. All of which is Personal Data and subject to GDPR.
• Other information we collect about you – In accordance with our legal obligation to prevent fraudulent or abusive use of our website, some data may be automatically collected and comprises the following:
  • Technical information – such as your; internet protocol (IP) address, login information, time zone, browser type/version with plug-in types/versions, device information (operating system and platform);
  • Information about your visit – such as your Uniform Resource Locators (URL), including the date and time, services viewed/searched, site statistics, interaction (scrolling, clicks, mouse-overs), exit methods away from pages, phone numbers (if used to call our customer service number), route to/from our site or from search engine links to our site including search engine address and search term used.
    • Our website will not store any identifying information of your visit on your computer apart from a small text file called a cookie, which in itself does not contain any identifying information and does not mean that you entered the site. See the cookies policy link at the end of this document for more detail on cookies.
    • Depending on the configuration of your browser, pages and images you view on our site may be stored on your computer. This feature, (which you can configure), is called caching.
    • All information you exchange with the MK Solicitors LP website is accessible by its administrators and will only be used to prevent abuse, fraud and threats to members’ confidentiality or safety. This information will only be accessed with respect to specific reports of such activity.
  • Information we receive from other sources – information about you may be received by us if you use another website or service that are connected with in our normal course of business (e.g. publicly available sources such company registries, regulatory bodies or otherwise published materials). Third-parties may also provide information to us about you, specifically from any of the following; companies or legal entities of which you are a legal owner or controller, our business partners, sub-contractors or credit reference agencies for payment and delivery services, or advertising and marketing services, or our technical and analytics providers, or our search engine and search information providers.

All Personal Data we hold is protected by us in accordance with the Principles of the GDPR.

• Data security – We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your data. All the data collected by us is stored on a secure platform in a secure hosting facility and we take all reasonable steps to ensure any access is pre-authorised and recorded.
• Data encryption – all Personal Data is segmented and held in AES256 encrypted files to ensure protection. We retain a copy file within our on-premises devices.

The information we collect about you, if you agree to provide it, will allow us to contact you and send information to you about services where you may have an interest.

• In providing us your information you thereby consent to us processing it for this purpose; and
• We will not pass your information on to any third party without your express permission, except as defined herein for the provision of services that you have requested, other than authorities and the police in the event of any investigation.

By visiting our website and completing any of the consent processes (i.e. subscribing to a service and/or providing your contact information), you accept and consent to the practices defined in this policy.

We only use your data where there is a lawful reason for doing so. The information we hold about you is predominantly used as follows:

• To fulfil a contract we have, or are about to, entered into with you;
• Where it is necessary to use the information for legitimate interests (and where your interests and rights do not override those legitimate interests); and
• To comply with a legal and/or regulatory obligations or legal proceedings.

In addition:

Information that you provide to us – this information is also used;

• to meet your requests for information and services, or
• to notify you of changes to our services, or make suggestions/recommendations that may interest you, or
• to improve content of our site and ensure it is presented effectively for • you and your device, or
• to investigate any suspected breach of the Terms of Use or made by or otherwise relating to you and to monitor compliance including by way of using keyword triggers to investigate usage that may be inappropriate, or
• deal with investigations by the police or other regulatory bodies.

Information that we collect about you – we use this information:

• to manage our website as well as for our efficient operations, which includes analysis, research, statistical and survey uses, together with testing and troubleshooting;
• to improve our website and content for users and their devices;
• to allow you to interact with our website and take advantage of our online services, whenever you may elect to do so;
• to ensure our site is safe and secure by monitoring activities within the context of continual process improvement, which is a best practice requirement of the JGDPR;
• to monitor advertising and marketing effectiveness for users, and/or to fine-tune advertising by relevance to users;
• to enable targeted suggestions/recommendations to users about services that may be of interest.

Information we receive from other sources – we may use third-party information, which may be combined with information you provided to us and/or information collected by us, which may be used for the purposes we have defined above.

MK Solicitors LP complies with the relevant regulatory body policy on document retention that all documents and records in either physical or electronic form shall be retained for a minimum period of 11 years from the date of the last substantive exchange with the client on the matter. Records may be destroyed without client consent after 20 years from the last material event on the file.