# Privacy notice > What personal information this site collects, why, how long it is kept, and your rights under UK data protection law. Source: https://www.imranshafikc.com/privacy --- # Privacy notice What happens to information you send through this site, how long it is kept, and what you can ask for. Written to be read rather than to be defensible. ## Who is responsible A self-employed barrister is the data controller for the information held about their own clients and enquirers. That is the case here: the controller is Imran Shafi KC, not his chambers, although chambers staff process some of it on his behalf. ## What this site collects - Whatever you choose to put in the enquiry form: your name, your email address, a telephone number if you give one, and what you write about your matter - If you send an enquiry, the page you sent it from, the page you arrived on, the website that sent you here, and any campaign tag that was on the link - If you send an enquiry, your IP address, the country it resolves to and your browser’s description of itself. These are recorded with the enquiry and used to recognise automated submissions - There is no account, no login, and no profile built about you. Nothing above is collected unless you actually send an enquiry - Measurement data, only if you accept it. See the cookie notice ## Information about criminal matters Almost everything an enquirer writes here concerns an alleged offence, and that is a special category under Article 10 of the UK GDPR. It is held on the basis that it is necessary for legal proceedings and for obtaining legal advice, not on the basis of consent, because consent given by somebody in trouble is not freely given in any meaningful sense. It follows that you should keep an enquiry brief. Send enough for Imran Shafi KC to see whether he can act and to check for a conflict. If he can act, you will be given a secure route for the papers. ## Who sees it Him, and his PA, who handles instructions. HDC Consultancy, who build and maintain this website, also receive each enquiry so that they can keep the form working and fix it when it does not. It is not sold and not shared for marketing. Enquiries are stored in Airtable, a service provided from the United States, so the information you send is transferred outside the United Kingdom. Airtable is used under the transfer safeguards its terms provide. Nothing else leaves the UK. The site is hosted on infrastructure that keeps server logs for a short period for security purposes. ## How long it is kept An enquiry that does not become an instruction is deleted once it is clear it will not. Where he is instructed, the papers are kept for the period the Bar Standards Board and his insurers require. ## What you can ask for - A copy of what is held about you - Correction of anything inaccurate - Deletion, where there is no longer a reason to hold it - Restriction of how it is used while a question about it is resolved - To complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which you can do without going through him first The named contact for data protection requests and the exact retention periods are being confirmed before this page is published. ## If you need to speak to somebody His PA can be reached on [0161 706 0282](tel:+441617060282), or you can [write using the enquiry form](https://www.imranshafikc.com/contact).