EU/UK Privacy and Cookie Policy

We at Fisher Phillips are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

 

1. INTRODUCTION AND WHEN THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This privacy policy applies as set out below and where we are subject to UK or EU data protection laws (whichever are applicable), including in respect of any processing of personal information:

• in the context of an establishment of ours in the UK or EU (such as our UK office); or
• of individuals in the UK or EU where the processing relates to our offering of our services to those individuals, or monitoring their behaviour as far as it takes place, in the UK or EU.

This privacy policy sets out who we are, how and why we process your personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us. This privacy policy applies when you visit our website www.fisherphillips.com or any other website operated by us (together or separately the "Site"). It also applies where we are in contact with you in other ways whether in your capacity as an individual or as director, shareholder, partner, employee or other representative of a company or other organisation.

This privacy policy does not apply to information you might provide to us or that we might collect in the context of our providing legal services. Where we are engaged to provide legal services, our  will apply.

For details about the cookies and similar tracking data collected by or on our Site please see our Cookie Policy at Annex 1 below.

2. ABOUT US

Fisher Phillips is made up different affiliated legal entities, including US-based Fisher & Phillips LLP and FP Law UK LLP, a limited liability partnership formed under laws of Delaware and with an establishment in the UK. The Fisher Phillips entities are joint controller of the personal data we process in connection with this privacy policy. If you would like further information regarding the joint controller arrangement in place between the Fisher Phillips parties, including the allocation of responsibilities between the parties for adherence to applicable data protection laws, please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact details” section below.

This privacy policy is issued on behalf of the Fisher Phillips affiliated entities so when we mention “Fisher Phillips”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to the relevant Fisher Phillips entity responsible for processing your data.

We have appointed a Privacy and Data Protection Manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Privacy and Data Protection Manager using the details set out below.

3. CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices generally, please contact our Privacy and Data Protection Manager in the following ways:

Firm name: Fisher Phillips

Email address: DataPrivacy@fisherphillips.com

Postal address: 1200 Abernathy Road, Suite 950, Atlanta, GA 30328

4. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE USE IT

We may collect personal information:

1. that you voluntarily submit to us such as your contact details when you use our Site or interact with us by email, including when you apply to work for us, at online and physical events, in person or over the phone, or in the course of our business activities. Such information includes your first and last name, job title, company or business name, email address, phone number and postal address (“Contact Details”); and
2. from third parties, such as from publicly accessible sources (e.g. UK Companies House), client due diligence providers, websites which identify you, social media platforms (like LinkedIn), third party introducers or business contacts (e.g. accountants), recruitment agents and your business associates (together “Third Party Sourced Data”)

We may also collect and use technical information relating to your Site visits, device and interaction with our online communications. This might include:

• your device’s Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider, device identifier, your login information, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and geographical location;
• information about your visits and use of the Site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our Site, pages you viewed and searched for, page response times, length of visits to certain pages, referral source/exit pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and website navigation and search terms used; and
• information collected by cookies on our Site (for more information on our use of cookies and similar tracking devices, please see our Cookie Policy at Annex 1).

(together “Online and Technical Data”)

We may also receive from you your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences (“Marketing and Communications Data”).

Unless needed for a particular client matter we are working with you on, we do not generally seek to collect special categories of personal data (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data) or criminal offence or convictions data about you.

The table below summarises the categories of personal information we collect about you, how we use that information and the appropriate legal bases which we rely on to process the personal information.

 

We will indicate to you where the provision of certain personal information is required in order for us to provide our services or provide certain features of the Site. If you choose not to provide such personal information, we may not be able to provide access to certain aspects of the Site to you, provide our services to you, or respond to your other requests.

5. AGGREGATED DATA

We may anonymise and aggregate any of the personal information we collect (so that it does not directly identify you). We may use anonymised, aggregated, statistical information for purposes that include testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our Site and developing new products and features. We may also share such anonymised information with others.

6. DATA RETENTION

We will store the personal information we collect about you for no longer than necessary for the purposes set out in section 4 above in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interests.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, reporting or other requirements we may be subject to as a law firm.

7. RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with the following persons for the purposes set out in section 4 above:

• Fisher Phillips partners, staff and consultants as necessarily required;
• Other entities and offices which are affiliated with Fisher Phillips (see section 2 above for further information regarding the Fisher Phillips affiliated entities);
• Service providers: we may share your personal information with third party vendors and other service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, which may include IT services, IT infrastructure, information security, risk and compliance, monitoring, email hosting, communications (e.g. video calls), document management, collaboration and storage systems, recruitment, expenses, printing, post, access controls, device management, data storage/back-up and marketing;
• Professional advisors, including counsel, lawyers (e.g. in other jurisdictions), bankers, accountants, financial advisors, surveyors, auditors and insurers;
• Purchasers and third parties in connection with a business transaction: your personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a transaction, such as a merger, sale of assets or shares, reorganisation, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.

Law enforcement, regulators, governmental authorities and other parties for legal reasons: we may share your personal information in this way if we consider disclosure to be required by law or the rules of any applicable governmental, regulatory or professional body. These may be tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, regulators and professional bodies (including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Law Society in England and Wales) and other authorities. In certain circumstances, we may be prohibited from telling you that a disclosure has been made.

8. MARKETING

We will only send you marketing messages if you have given us your consent to do so, unless consent is not required under applicable law (e.g. you are a corporate subscriber or we have a pre-existing relationship where your consent is not required). Where you provide consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time, but without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. In any case, you have the right to opt out of receiving email marketing communications from us at any time by:

• contacting our Privacy and Data Protection Manager using the contact details set out above; or
• using the “unsubscribe” link in emails.

9. SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted over the internet.

10. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

It may be necessary for us to share and store your personal data outside the UK, or the European Economic Area (together “European Territories”) as follows:

• with other entities and offices which are affiliated with Fisher Phillips (see section 2 above for further information regarding the Fisher Phillips affiliated entities);
• with our service providers located outside the European Territories;
• if you are based outside the European Territories; and/or
• where there is an international aspect to the matter on which we are working with you.

Where applicable data protection laws apply, and personal data is transferred by us to, and stored outside, the European Territories, we take steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, including:

• transferring your personal data to a country, territory, sector or international organisation which the appropriate supervisory authority has determined ensures an adequate level of protection, as permitted under applicable data protection laws;
• entering into standard contractual clauses in a form approved by the appropriate supervisory authority, obliging recipients to protect your personal data as required under applicable data protection laws;
• in the absence of an adequacy decision or of appropriate safeguards as referenced above, we will only transfer personal data to a third country (that is, outside the European Territories) where permitted under applicable data protection laws, including where the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Please contact us (using the details set out above) if you would like further information on the specific mechanism we use when transferring your personal data out of the European Territories.

11. YOUR RIGHTS IN RESPECT OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

In accordance with applicable privacy law, you have the following rights in respect of your personal information that we hold:

1. Right of access. You have the right to obtain access to your personal information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of your personal data which we are processing. We may refuse to comply with a subject access request (partly or wholly where applicable) if the request is: manifestly unfounded or excessive or repetitive in nature; in relation to information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings; and/or in respect of information in respect of which we owe a duty of confidentiality to our client.
2. Right of portability. You have the right, in certain circumstances, to receive a copy of the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that supports re-use, or to request the transfer of your personal data to another person.
3. Right to rectification. You have the right to obtain rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you without undue delay.\
4. Right to erasure. You have the right, in some circumstances, to request for us to erase your personal information without undue delay if the continued processing of that personal information is not justified.
5. Right to restriction. You have the right, in some circumstances, to require us to limit the purposes for which we process your personal information if the continued processing of the personal information in this way is not justified, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you. 
6. Right to withdraw consent.  If you have provided consent to any processing of your personal information, you have a right to withdraw that consent. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We may advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

You also have a right to object to any processing based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your particular situation. There may be compelling reasons for continuing to process your personal information, and we will assess and inform you if that is the case. You can object to marketing activities for any reason.

Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under applicable law apply. We may refuse a request for erasure, for example, where the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details in section 3 of this privacy policy.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is manifestly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Complaints

You have the right to lodge a complaint to your national data protection authority.  If you are in the UK, information on how to contact the Information Commissioner is available at www.ico.org.uk.   If you are located in the EU, further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you contact the regulator so please contact us (using the contact details in section 3 above). Where we receive a complaint relating to the processing of your personal data, we will acknowledge receipt of the complaint no later than 30 days from when we received the complaint and, without undue delay, take appropriate steps (making enquiries into the subject matter of the complaint, to the extent appropriate) to respond to the complaint, keeping you up-to-date on the progress and informing you of the outcome of the complaint.

12. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. For more information on our use of cookies and similar tracking devices, please see our Cookie Policy at Annex 1 below.

13. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and Fisher Phillips does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

14. CHILDREN

Our Site is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 16 years and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children under this age. 

15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy from time to time and so you should review this page periodically. When we change this privacy policy in a material way, we will update the "last modified" date at the end of this privacy policy (see below). Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

This privacy policy was last modified on the 1^st of June, 2026.

ANNEX 1

COOKIE POLICY

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar tracking technologies are small text files or code placed on your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Site or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognise a particular device.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on the Site and in our marketing emails. 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 Site, 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.

Cookies serve many functions, but in general we use cookies to: 

• recognise you whenever you visit the Site (this speeds up your access to the Site as you do not have to log in each time);
• obtain information about your preferences and use of the Site;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content and services and to help us better understand our users’ requirements; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

We may use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that remember if you have consented to other (non-strictly necessary) cookies.

Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

COOKIE TABLE 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

For further detail regarding the cookies set by Google, please visit their website. 

For further information on how to opt out of Google Analytics, please click here;

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WE USE IN EMAIL

We also use pixels or web beacons in direct marketing emails that we send to you. These pixels track whether our email was delivered and opened, the links within the email were clicked and which pages of our website you have visited. They also allow us to collect information such as your IP address, browser, email client type and other similar details. We use this information to measure the performance of our email campaigns, and for analytics.

You can always opt-out of our marketing communications by using the “manage your preferences” link located at the bottom of our email communications, or you can email us using the contact details set out below.

CONSENT TO USE COOKIES

Where required according to applicable data privacy laws, we will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar tracking technologies on your device, except where exceptions apply under such applicable laws. In particular, consent is not needed for cookies or tracking technologies which are essential (or ‘strictly necessary’) to provide the online service.

HOW TO TURN OFF COOKIES

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Site.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, you can visit the third-party website: www.allaboutcookies.org. 

UPDATES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

The date at the bottom of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last updated.

CONTACTING US

If you have any queries, comments or requests regarding this cookie policy, you can contact us using the contact details provided in our privacy policy.

Last updated June 1, 2026.