1. Who We Are

LexVerity Legal Ltd (Company No. 16836431) is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. We provide consulting on non-reserved legal activities — advisory on the SQE1 and SQE2 pathway and on SRA exemptions for lawyers qualified outside England and Wales — and we operate LexVerity Academy, our SQE1 preparation course, at academy.lexverity.co.uk. LexVerity Legal Ltd is not authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and carries out no reserved legal activities. LexVerity Academy is a separate website with its own privacy notice, which governs your use of it.

Our registered office and correspondence address is 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX. You can reach us by email at info@lexverity.co.uk or by phone at +44 78 5776 6647.

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your personal data, see the Contact section below.

2. What Data We Collect

We collect personal data in a small number of clearly defined contexts. We do not sell personal data, and we do not collect more than is necessary for the purpose described.

Contact form enquiries

Our website contact form is processed by FormSubmit.co, a third-party form-handling service. When you submit an enquiry we collect your full name, email address, phone number (optional), the legal service you selected, your message, and your consent confirmation. This data is transmitted directly to FormSubmit.co, which forwards it by email to our inbox (contact@lexverity.co.uk, copied to admin@lexverity.co.uk). FormSubmit.co acts as a data processor on our behalf for this purpose.

Consulting engagement data

Where you proceed to a consulting engagement, we hold engagement-related data such as your contact and billing details, correspondence, and any documents or qualification evidence you choose to share with us in connection with that engagement.

This site no longer operates a client account or portal. Accounts for the SQE1 course are held on LexVerity Academy (academy.lexverity.co.uk) under that site's own privacy notice.

Automatically collected data

Where you have given consent through our cookie banner, we collect limited technical data (such as approximate location, device and browser type, and the pages you visit) via Google Analytics 4. Nothing is collected before you consent. See Cookies below for full detail.

3. Analytics

If, and only if, you accept analytics through our cookie banner, we use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, to understand how this site is used in aggregate. Google acts as our data processor for this purpose.

We configure Google Analytics with IP anonymisation enabled and with Google Signals and advertising personalisation switched off, so the data is used for audience measurement only and not for advertising profiling. We do not sell or share this data.

If you decline, no Google Analytics script is loaded and no analytics cookies are set. You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing this site's cookies and local storage in your browser and choosing again.

Please do not send confidential material through this website. Our enquiry form is for initial contact only. Do not include client-identifying information, case details, or other confidential third-party information in a form message. If you need to share qualification evidence for a consulting engagement, we will agree a secure route with you first.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use a first-party cookie consent banner to obtain your permission before enabling any non-essential cookies or storage. On your first visit you can accept or decline optional analytics; your choice is remembered in your browser's local storage. You can change it at any time by clearing this site's cookies and local storage and revisiting.

CategoryPurposeConsent required
Strictly necessarySession management, security, and remembering your cookie preferenceNo — required for the site to function
Analytics (Google Analytics 4)Aggregate measurement of how the site is usedYes

The Google Analytics script is requested only after you accept. If you decline, it is never loaded and no request is made to Google.

5. Lawful Bases for Processing

Processing activityLawful basis (UK GDPR Art. 6)
Responding to contact form enquiriesConsent (checkbox confirmation) and legitimate interests in responding to enquiries
Delivery of consulting engagementsPerformance of a contract, or steps taken at your request prior to entering into a contract
Analytics cookies and storageConsent
Fraud prevention, security logging, and abuse monitoringLegitimate interests
Financial and engagement recordsLegal obligation (e.g. accounting and tax record-keeping requirements)

6. Data Retention

Where data is processed by a third-party AI provider solely to generate your report (see How AI Processing Works), that provider retains data only as long as necessary for abuse monitoring and service operation, in accordance with its own data processing terms with us.

7. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

Subject to certain exemptions, you have the right to:

We do not use your personal data to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you. Advice we give is produced by a person.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in the Contact section. We will respond within one month, as required by UK GDPR.

8. International Transfers

Some of our processors are based outside the UK, or may process data on servers located outside it. Where we transfer personal data outside the UK, we ensure an appropriate safeguard is in place, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA), the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), or another mechanism recognised as adequate under UK GDPR Chapter V, before the transfer occurs.

FormSubmit.co and Google Analytics may involve processing outside the UK/EEA; the same safeguard requirements apply to those providers.

9. Complaints to the ICO

We hope we can resolve any concern you have about how we handle your personal data. If you remain unsatisfied, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority:

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, United Kingdom
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: ico.org.uk

10. Contact Us About Privacy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data protection rights, or want to raise a concern about how your data has been handled, please contact us using the details below.

LexVerity Legal Ltd
16836431
info@lexverity.co.uk
+44 78 5776 6647
128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX