Privacy notice

Who we are

LexVerity Legal Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (number 16836431), registered office 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, is the data controller for the personal data described here. LexVerity Academy is a trading name of the same company.

For privacy and data-protection requests, and for anything else, email info@lexverity.co.uk. We aim to acknowledge a request within a reasonable period and to respond substantively without undue delay.

If you are in the United Kingdom, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply. If you are in the European Economic Area, the EU GDPR applies. If you are outside both, please read International transfers.

What this notice covers

Three things, which behave differently and are described separately below:

• These marketing pages. No advertising trackers. Visits are measured without storing anything on your device, unless you choose to allow cookies.
• The LexVerity Academy study app. Holds accounts and study progress.
• The enquiry and intake forms at intake.lexverity.co.uk.

What we collect

From these pages

What you send us, and a measurement of the visit itself. If you use the contact form or the SQE2 waitlist we collect your name where you give it, your email address, and what you write.

Separately, we measure how these pages are used, through Google Analytics. By default it runs in a cookieless mode: it records that a page was visited, approximately when and from where, on what kind of device, and what brought you here, while setting no cookies and reading nothing from your device, so it cannot recognise you on a later visit or build a profile of you. Our lawful basis for that is our legitimate interest in knowing whether the people looking for SQE help are finding these pages.

You may choose to allow cookies, which makes those visitor figures accurate by distinguishing a returning browser from a new one. That is done on consent, never by default, and you can withdraw it at any time from the cookie choice link in the footer. Google acts as our processor either way. The cookie notice names the cookies, says how long they last, and sets out what each mode can and cannot see.

From the study app

• On your device, always. Your progress, scores, error log and preferences, in your browser's local storage. Never sent anywhere unless you sign in.
• In your account, only if you sign in. Your profile (display name, country), your subscription tier, and your progress, so it syncs across devices.
• Collaboration, only if you use it. Friend requests and your friend list, plus any highlight, note or score you choose to publish, visible to your accepted friends and to nobody else.

The enquiry and intake forms

The eligibility check and the full client intake form run at intake.lexverity.co.uk. They behave differently from a normal contact form and it is worth being precise about how.

• A record opens when you start typing, not when you press send, and it is given a reference. This is so that a form you abandon halfway is still something we can follow up, and so that you can leave and come back.
• Your answers are saved on our server as you type, about every twenty seconds. They are stored in the United Kingdom on our own hosting, not with a third-party form service.
• Your resume link is a secret. Anyone holding it can read and edit that one draft, which is the trade-off that lets you return without creating an account. Treat it as confidential.
• We record the IP address and browser that opened each reference, in an append-only register. That is our audit trail and our rate-limiting defence.

Criminal and regulatory disclosures. The full intake form, which is sent by private link only after you have engaged us, asks about criminal, regulatory and financial matters, because the SRA asks about them. That is criminal-offence data, and it gets specific treatment: it is collected only where it is necessary for the advice you have asked us to give, it is visible only to the people working on your matter, and it is deleted on the retention schedule below. You can ask us at any time what is held and to have it erased, and declining to answer is always an option, though it may limit the advice we can give.

Why, and on what basis

• Contract. To create your account, sync your progress, provide the plan you signed up for, and prepare the documents or applications you have instructed.
• Consent. For anything opt-in, such as the SQE2 waitlist or browser notifications for a daily study reminder. You can withdraw consent at any time.
• Legitimate interests. Replying to an enquiry, keeping the service secure and working as intended, preventing abuse of shared features, and identifying which account a leaked copy of paid content came from. We balance these against your rights and will share our assessment on request.
• Legal obligation. Where we must retain or disclose data to comply with the law, for example tax, accounting, or a valid legal request.

AI and your data

Our study content is prepared using artificial intelligence to extract and organise legal material, and is then reviewed by a legally qualified professional before it forms part of the service. That preparation does not involve your personal data.

The application does not currently provide a live or interactive AI feature, and we do not use AI to make any decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects about you. If we introduce a live AI feature we will update this notice to explain what is processed, and we will not use your personal data to train third-party foundation models.

Who processes your data

Each of these processes personal data only on our instructions, under a written data-processing agreement:

• Supabase. Account database, authentication and, where used, file storage for the study app. Hosted in the United States (AWS us-east-1).
• FormSubmit. Forwards contact-form and waitlist submissions from these pages to our inbox.
• Resend. Sends the confirmation email you receive after using a form, and the copies that reach our own inbox.
• Our AI provider, for the "Ask us" assistant. If you type a message into it, that message and the rest of that conversation are sent to the provider so an answer can be generated. Do not put anything into it you would not put in an email.
• Our hosting provider. Serves this site and runs the intake portal and its storage.
• Our payment provider, for subscription payments. Card details are handled by them and never reach us.

The “Ask us” assistant

The chat on this site is answered by an AI assistant that is restricted to information we publish. It is not a person and it is not legal advice. We keep the conversations, because a question nobody reads is a question nobody answers: a transcript is stored on our own server and emailed to our inbox so a person can follow up where that is useful.

A conversation is stored for as long as it is useful to the enquiry it relates to, and in any event no longer than the retention period for enquiries set out below. We do not use it to train anything. If you would rather a conversation were deleted, emailinfo@lexverity.co.uk and say roughly when it was and what it was about.

Please do not type anything into it that you would not put in an email, and in particular nothing about criminal matters or anyone else's affairs. If you need to tell us something sensitive, use the eligibility check or email us instead.

International transfers

The study app's account database is hosted in the United States (AWS us-east-1), so if you are in the UK or the EEA your account data is transferred to the United States as part of normal operation. For those transfers we rely on an appropriate safeguard, namely the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, together with any additional measures required, so that your data continues to receive protection consistent with UK and EU law. You can ask which mechanism applies to a given transfer.

Enquiry and intake data is held in the United Kingdom. We apply the same baseline of protection to everyone, wherever you are.

Cookies and local storage

These marketing pages set nothing. The study app uses only the storage it needs to work: a sign-in session and your study data on your device. There is no advertising, analytics or third-party tracking storage anywhere. The cookie notice sets out each item and how to clear it.

How long we keep it

• Enquiries that do not lead to work: up to 24 months from your last contact.
• Intake forms that do not lead to an engagement: the answers are deleted after 12 months. The reference itself stays in the register, because that is the audit trail, but the personal data does not.
• Engagement records: six years after the engagement ends, in line with limitation periods and our accounting obligations.
• Account data: for as long as your account exists. Ask us to close it and we delete it, subject to anything we must keep by law.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict processing, ask for it in a portable form, and withdraw consent at any time. Email info@lexverity.co.uk.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a request you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. We would rather you told us first so we can put it right.

Children

The service is for adults preparing for a professional legal assessment or instructing us on legal work. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has given us personal data, tell us and we will delete it.

Security, stated honestly

We use access controls, encryption in transit, and storage that is restricted to the people who need it. Intake records are readable only by the account that runs the application, and the admin register is behind authentication.

No system is perfectly secure, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. If something goes wrong that affects your data, we will tell you and the Information Commissioner's Office where the law requires it.

Changes to this notice

We update this notice when what we do changes, and the date at the top moves with it. Where a change materially affects how we handle your data we will bring it to your attention rather than relying on you to re-read the page.