Privacy notice
How Solicitor Mentor uses your information
Who we are
Solicitor Mentor is run by [your full name] ("we", "us"). We are the controller of the personal information described in this notice. You can contact us at solicitormentor@gmail.com.
What we collect
- If you sign up for emails: your email address, your first name if you give it, the date you signed up, the choices you ticked, and whether you confirmed your sign-up.
- When we email you: our email provider records whether emails are delivered, opened and clicked. We use this only to see which content is useful and to stop emailing addresses that no longer work.
- When you sign up: your first name, email address and the email choices you tick, with the date you made them.
- About you: the SQE1 sitting you are aiming for and what you are doing now, and, if you choose to tell us, your surname, the firm you are at, who you are preparing with, whether you are looking for a legal job or QWE, and where you would like to work.
- Your practice: the answer you chose for each question and when, so that we can show your results and the questions to review.
- Your first attempts: the first answer you gave to each question, kept even if you try it again. We use it to open each new set once you have finished the one before, and only we can see it.
We do not use advertising or analytics cookies on this site.
Why we use it and our legal basis
- Your account and results. We use your email to sign you in and your answers to show your results and the questions to review. Our legal basis is that this is necessary to provide the service you have asked for. Creating an account does not sign you up for emails.
- About you. We use these details to understand who uses Solicitor Mentor and to make our revision tips and future features relevant to your sitting and stage. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving the service; the optional details are yours to leave out or delete. If you opt in to hear about jobs, we also use them to choose which roles to tell you about.
- Identifying strong candidates. We use first-attempt scores to see which members are performing well. If you have opted in to hear about jobs, we may contact you about opportunities that suit you. Scores are never shown to other members, and we never share your score or details with an employer without first asking you about that specific opportunity. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in running our careers service; you can object at any time by emailing us.
- Free question sets, revision tips and updates. We email you only because you asked us to, by ticking the first box. Our legal basis is your consent.
- Jobs, qualifying work experience and other opportunities. We email you about these only if you also ticked the second, optional box. Our legal basis is your consent. We will never send your details to an employer or anyone else without first asking you about that specific opportunity.
You can withdraw either consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email, or by emailing us. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we did before you withdrew it.
Who we share it with
We use Kit (Kit.com) to collect email sign-ups and send emails, Supabase to run member accounts and store results (in its London data centre), [email delivery provider] to send sign-in links, and [hosting provider] to host this website. They act on our instructions and may not use your information for their own purposes. Kit and Supabase are based in the United States, so some of your information may be transferred outside the UK. [Check and state the safeguard each provider relies on, for example the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, as set out in their data processing terms.]
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with employers, recruiters or advertisers.
How long we keep it
You can change your details and email choices at any time on the Account page. We keep your account, details and results until you delete your account (you can do this on the Account page) or until you have not signed in for [two years], when we delete them. We keep your email subscription details while you are subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we keep only your email address on a suppression list so that we do not email you again. If you do not open any of our emails for [two years], we will delete your details.
Your rights
You have the right to ask for a copy of your information, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to our use of it, and to receive it in a portable format. To use any of these rights, email solicitormentor@gmail.com. We will reply within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have used your information, please contact us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113).
Changes to this notice
If we change how we use your information, we will update this notice and, where the change matters to you, tell you by email.