Privacy Policy

1. Background

Cameron Intellectual Property Ltd (hereinafter “Cameron IP”, “we” or “us”) is a firm of UK & European Patent, Trade Mark and Design Attorneys. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”), Cameron IP is the Data Controller of your personal data. We are registered as a Data Controller at the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number: A8350651.

The GDPR and DPA provide the legal basis on which we may collect, store and use personal data. This privacy policy describes the different types of personal data that we may collect from you; explains how we will safely store that data; and explains how that data may be used by us.

Any questions concerning this privacy policy (effective from 25 May 2018) should be directed to mail@cameronintellectualproperty.com.

2. Core Principles

We will ensure that your personal data is collected and processed only for specified necessary and lawful purposes; is updated to reflect any changes which come to our attention; is kept secure; is made available for inspection upon request; and is never sold to third parties.

3. Data We May Collect

We are unable to provide our professional services in the field of intellectual property without collecting and processing certain types of personal data from you. We may collect and store the following types of personal data from clients, prospective clients and suppliers:

4. How We Collect Data

We may use the following methods to collect data from you, or about you:

5. How We Store Your Data

We securely store and process any paper copies of your personal data in our United Kingdom offices. However, as a predominantly paperless organisation, your personal data may also be stored in secure, professional data centres with mirrored hosting facilities for redundancy and disaster recovery purposes. Some of the data centres may be located outside of the United Kingdom and EEA. Any personal data stored on third party systems based in the United States is EU-U.S. Privacy Shield compliant – see: https://www.privacyshield.gov. These include Google, WordPress, Microsoft and MailChimp.

6. How We Use Your Data

We will use the data we collect for one or more of the following lawful purposes:

7. When We Share Your Data with Third Parties

To provide our intellectual property services, we may be required to share your personal data with Courts and/or national/international intellectual property offices (IPOs), including the UK Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office and the EU Intellectual Property Office. Where we act for you directly before those IPOs we are both the data controller and the data processor.

To provide our intellectual property services in other jurisdictions (including outside the EEA) we will need to work with, and pass relevant personal data to, overseas attorney associates. Those overseas attorney associates will share your personal data with the local IPO in the relevant country. Where we act for you indirectly in such circumstances we will be the data controller and the overseas attorney associate will be the data processor.

To provide our intellectual property services, we may also share your personal data with third-party IP services providers such as barristers, advocates, patent renewal providers, patent translation providers, patent validation providers, professional illustrators, patent searching providers, IP insurance brokers, IT service providers, HMRC, accountants, events management companies, and other professional advisors.

We limit access to your personal data such that it is provided only to those of our employees, suppliers or other third parties with a legitimate business-need for accessing that data.

8. Data Retention Period

We will retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected; and for satisfying any legal, tax and regulatory requirements. Factors considered for determining the duration for which personal data is to be held include the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data concerned, and the duration on any registered intellectual property rights obtained on your behalf.

9. Your Legal Rights

You may contact us at mail@cameronintellectualproperty.com to exercise any of your following rights under the GDPR and DPA:

We will endeavour to respond to all legitimate requests to exercise any of the above rights within 28 days. Should this not be possible, e.g. due to the complexity or number of requests made, we will confirm when we expect to be able to do so. For data security purposes, we may ask you to provide certain information to us to help confirm your identity and verify your right to access the personal data. You will not normally need to pay any fees to access your personal data.

Your Right to Complain

We work to high standards when it comes to processing your personal information. If you have queries or concerns, please contact us at and we’ll respond.

If you remain dissatisfied, you can make a complaint about the way we process your personal information to the ICO here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

10. Further Information

Any questions or requests arising from this privacy policy should be directed to:

Stewart Cameron
Cameron Intellectual Property Ltd
Moncrieff House
69 West Nile Street
Glasgow
G1 2QB

T. 0141 375 7575
E. mail@cameronintellectualproperty.com