Privacy Policy

Bodle Law (“we“, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us, when you visit www.bodlelaw.com, (“Site”) or when we provide legal advice services to you including any data you may provide when you sign up to our newsletter or purchase a product or services, will be processed by us as a data controller. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting the Site or our legal advice services, (“Services“) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Site and Services are not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect information relating to children.

Data Controller

For the purposes of EU and UK data protection laws and any applicable national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation relating to the processing of personal data (together “Data Protection Law”), the data controller is Bodle Law who owns and operates the Site.

Legal Basis for Processing

We will only use you personal data when the law allows us to. The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract with you: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have enter with you.
• Legitimate interests: Where necessary for our legitimate business interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. For example to prevent fraud and enable us to give you the best and most secure customer experience.
• Legal obligation: We may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on this legal basis.
• Consent: We rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your personal data for a specified purpose, for example, if you subscribe to our email newsletter.

Personal Data we may collect about you

We may collect and process personal data about you. Personal data, or personally identifiable information, means any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: includes first name, maiden name, last name, user name or similar identifier and title.
• Contact Data: includes billing address, email address, business name, job title and function and telephone numbers.
• Transaction Data: includes details about payments received from you and other details of Services you have purchased from us.
• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, device ID, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site.
• Usage Data: includes information about how you use the Site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Site (including date and time); services you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with our Services). In this case, we may have to cancel a Service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

How Personal Data is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including via:

• Direct Interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data when you register for our newsletter on the Site, correspond with us by post, telephone, email or otherwise or when you use our Services.
• Provision of Services: Transaction Data, Identity and Contact Data during the course of the contractual relationship with you or your company and us.
• Automated Technologies or Interactions. As you interact with our Site or emails we automatically collect Technical Data about your device, browsing actions and Usage Data. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies about your device and your use of our Site. Please see the Cookie section below for further details.

Personal Data you provide to Us

If you provide information to us about anyone else, for example your employees, advisers, customers or suppliers, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us to use it.

Personal Data we receive from Other Sources

We receive Technical Data about you from our website analytics provider Google Inc. who provide us with analytics services in relation to your use of our Site. For details about how Google collects and uses such data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Automated Decision Making

We do not use your personal data to make any automated decisions.

Cookies

We use cookies or similar technology on our Site to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve the Site and Services. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

You can set up your browser options, to stop your computer accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

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. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Pixel Tags

We may use “pixel tags,” which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of the Site. A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, we may use “format sensing” technology, which allows pixel tags to let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.

Web Beacons

Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which includes a cookie number; time and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.

Do not track

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”).

Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the “Preferences” or “Settings” page of your web browser.

Uses made of your Personal Data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

We will not sell or rent your personal data to anyone.

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosure of your Personal Data

Personal data we share with third parties. We may share your personal data, where necessary with the following third parties, for the purposes set out in the table above. The following suppliers and sub-contractors are used for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you to provide the Site or Services.

• Hosting and backup services for the Site and all emails that we send and receive are provided by UD Media GmbH, in Germany, who process your personal data in accordance with their privacy policy located at: https://udmedia.de/service/datenschutz/.
• Telecommunications services used for the sending of emails and telephone services are provided by Telekom Deutschland GmbH in Germany, who process your personal data in accordance with their privacy policy located at: https://www.telekom.com/de/telekom/datenschutzhinweis-1808.
• Analytics and search engine providers are used to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site and are provided by Google Inc. in the USA, who process your personal data in accordance with its own privacy policy located at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US .
• Professional advisors acting as service providers to us in relation to the Services – including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
• Tax authorities, regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

Personal data we disclose to third parties. We may disclose your personal data to third parties, where necessary, as follows:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If Bodle Law or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by Bodle Law about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our business terms, Terms of Use and/or any other legal agreements; or to protect our rights, property, safety, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, anti-money laundering and credit risk reduction.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with applicable law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers

Our Site and Services are provided globally and your personal data may be stored and processed in any country where we have operations or out staff are located.

We may transfer your personal data to service providers that carry out certain functions on our behalf. This may involve transferring personal data outside your country of residence to countries which have laws that do not provide the same level of data protection as your country of residence. When we share your personal data with our service providers, who are identified in this Privacy Policy, this will involve transferring your personal data to the country in which the service provider is located.

European Data

When we transfer UK, EU or Swiss personal data to countries whose laws do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK, the EU or Switzerland, we always ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to your data by ensuring that one of the following applicable safeguards is in place:

• We will only transfer UK personal data outside of the UK to: (i) countries deemed by the ICO to provide an adequate level of protection for UK personal data; or (ii) entities located outside of the UK with whom standard contractual terms approved for use in the UK which give the transferred personal data the same protection as it has in the UK have been entered into, for example the International Data Transfer Addendum, (IDTA) to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for international data transfers or binding corporate rules (BCRs); or (iii) entities located in the USA certified under the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF; or (iv) any entity located outside of the UK that is subject to any other transfer mechanism, bespoke contract, approved code of conduct or certification scheme approved by the ICO.
• We will only transfer EU personal data outside of the EEA to: (i) countries deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection for EU personal data; or (ii) entities located outside of the EEA with whom standard contractual terms approved for use in the EU which give the transferred personal data the same protection as it has in the EU have been entered into, for example the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for international data transfers, (EU SCCs) or binding corporate rules (BCRs); or (iii) entities located in the USA certified under the EU-U.S. DPF; or (iv) any entity located outside of the EEA that is subject to any other transfer mechanism, bespoke contract, approved code of conduct or certification scheme approved by the European Commission.
• We will only transfer Swiss personal data outside of Switzerland to: (i) countries deemed by the Swiss Data Protection Authority to provide an adequate level of protection for Swiss personal data; or (ii) entities located outside of Switzerland with whom standard contractual terms approved for use in Switzerland which give the transferred personal data the same protection as it has in Switzerland have been entered into, for example the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for international data transfers, (EU SCCs) or binding corporate rules (BCRs); or (iii) entities located in the USA certified under the Swiss-U.S. DPF; or (iv) any entity located outside of Switzerland that is subject to any other transfer mechanism, bespoke contract, approved code of conduct or certification scheme approved by the Swiss Data Protection Authority.
• To obtain a copy of any of the above contractual safeguards, please contact us as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Please note that our Site is accessible via the internet and may potentially be accessed by anyone around the world. Other users may access the Site from outside the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. This means that where you chose to post your personal data on our Site , it could be accessed from anywhere around the world and therefore a transfer of your personal data outside of the EEA, Switzerland or the UK may be deemed to have occurred.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. For example, all information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will endeavour to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to us. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Third Party Links

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the other websites. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Please note the these third party websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these third party websites.

Your Legal Rights

You have a number of rights under Data Protection Law, in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request rectification of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Request a restriction of the processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in one of the following scenarios: (i) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (ii) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (iii) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Object to the processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) as the legal basis for that particular use of your data (including carrying out profiling based on our legitimate interests). In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your right to object.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Object any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data as the legal basis for using your data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within 30 days and deal with requests we receive from you, in accordance with the provisions of Data Protection Law. Occasionally it could take us longer, if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Marketing Communications

Newsletter: We may use your Identity Data and Contact Data for the purposes of sending you our newsletter by email. We will only send you our newsletter, if:

• You register on our Site to receive our newsletter by email; or
• You purchase any Services from us.

If you register on our Site to receive our newsletter, we will inform you and obtain your express “opt in” consent before we collect or use your personal data for such purposes.

Opt out: You can at any time “opt out” from receiving electronic marketing communications i.e. our email newsletter, by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any electronic marketing communication, or by contacting us by email as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy. Once you “opt out”, you will no longer receive any electronic marketing communications from us. However, we will continue to communicate with you regarding provision of our Services, where you are still a customer.

Data Retention

We only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying and legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period:

• In the event of a complaint, if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect of our relationship with you;
• To comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests);
• To meet regulatory requirements;
• To maintain security:
• To prevent fraud and abuse;
• To resolve disputes;
• To enforce our legal agreements with you; or
• To fulfil your request to “unsubscribe” from receiving further electronic communications from us.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

This will be for as long as we provide the Services to you or any period set out in any relevant contract you have with us. After you have ceased using the Services for a period of 6 years, based upon the date of the last invoice sent to you, we will delete your personal data.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact Data, Identity Data, Financial Data and Transaction Data) for 10 years after they cease being customers, for tax purposes.

Complaints

Our intention is to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal data. For this reason, we take complaints we receive very seriously. We encourage users to notify us if they think that our collection or use of personal data is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. If you have any complaints about our use of your personal data, please contact us as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

You have the right to make a complaint to your local data protection supervisory authority.

Our supervisory authority is:
The Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Friedrichstr. 219, 10969 Berlin, Germany.

Age of Users

This Site is not intended for and shall not be used by persons under the age of 18.

Please also note that we do not provide any Services to persons under the age of 18.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on the 26th of January 2026 and this version replaces any other Privacy Policy previously applicable, from this date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding our privacy practices or about this Privacy Policy or you wish to exercise any of your privacy rights, please contact us:

By email: admin@bodlelaw.com.

By post: Irene Bodle, Bodle Law, Metzer Strasse 17, 10405 Berlin, Germany