FORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) and coming partly into force on that date. Parts 5 and 6 serve to amend aspects of data protection and ePrivacy law in the UK, including the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/2426.
Certain provisions of DUAA 2025, concerning matters such as responding to data subject access requests and the conferring of power to make further regulations, came into force immediately on 19 June 2025. Other provisions, concerning notices from the Information Commissioner and some aspects of law enforcement processing, come into effect on 19 August 2025 (being two months from the date of Royal Assent).
The majority of DUAA 2025’s provisions require further regulations (in the form of statutory instruments) to be made to bring them into force.
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies and other similar storage and access technologies (SATs) on our website. This policy should be read together with our Website Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who we are
This website is operated by Amicus Law (South West) LLP Solicitors, a legal services provider operating in the UK. For more information see https://www.amicuslaw.co.uk/about-us.
Our website
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, https://www.amicuslaw.co.uk.
Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or another electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (eg to enable you to log in and access secure areas of our website).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or other similar technologies or manage any other such preferences by clicking on the cookies icon at the bottom of any page on our site. You can then adjust the sliders to enable or disable specific types of cookies. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Name | Typical Content | Expires | Purpose |
| _utma | Randomly generated number | 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions |
| _utmb | Randomly generated number | 30 minutes | Used by Google Analytics to determine new sessions/visits |
| _utmc | Randomly generated number | When user exits browser | Used by Google Analytics for interoperability with older versions |
| _utmz | Randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached | 6 months | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site |
| __utmmobile | Randomly generated number | 2 years | Used to identify unique visitors on mobile devices |
| CMSSESSID* | Randomly generated number | When you close your browser | Used to maintain session state on the website |
Third party access to the cookies
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so.
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to info@amicuslaw.co.uk, write to Amicus Law, Regional Rural Business Centre, Market Way, Bridgwater TA6 6DF or phone 01278 664060.
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Changes to this policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we make significant changes, we will take steps to inform you via the website or by email if appropriate.