Do you have evidence that you have suffered harm by the police in a witness details data breach? If so, you may be eligible to claim compensation. A personal data breach can have serious and negative effects on your day-to-day life.

Police witness details data breach claims guide

In this guide, we will discuss when you may be eligible to claim against the police for a personal data breach. Similarly, we will discuss how legal professionals calculate compensation in personal data breach claims.

Following this, we will touch on how one of our solicitors could guide you through the data breach claims process with the help of a No Win No Fee agreement.

Our advisors are on hand to provide support if you have any questions that are not answered by this guide. Through a free consultation, they can offer free legal advice and more guidance surrounding the claims process. Should they find your claim to be valid, they may also put you in touch with one of our solicitors. For more information:

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1. What Is A Police Witness Details Data Breach?
2. How Should Witness Details Be Protected?
3. How To Access Your Witness Data
4. Claiming For A Breach Of Data Protection By The Police
5. Police Witness Details Data Breach Claims Calculator
6. Talk Us About Claiming For A Police Witness Details Data Breach

What Is A Police Witness Details Data Breach?

If you witness a crime, the police may take your details to take a witness statement from you. Personal data is any information that could identify you as a living person. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), your personal data is protected information. This means that any organisation that handles it must comply with the steps laid out by the legislation above.

A police force can act as both a data controller and a data processor. A data controller makes the decisions regarding the use of your data, and a data processor processes this data for the controller. If they fail to comply with the above legislation, this could lead to a personal data breach.

A personal data breach is a security incident that affects the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of your personal data. However, in order to claim for a breach, you must be able to prove that:

• The controller or processor’s wrongful conduct led to the breach
• The breach affected your personal data
• You experience harm to your mental health or finances as a result of the breach

If you have evidence that you have been harmed by the police in a witness details data breach, contact our team today.

How Should Witness Details Be Protected?

The personal data of UK residents should be protected in line with the UK GDPR and DPA. If a police force fails to do so, this could result in a personal data breach. Some examples of how a police data breach could occur can include:

• Failure to redact data: If the police fail to redact your personal data from a witness statement before sharing it as a result of human error, this could result in a personal data breach.
• Failure to use the blind carbon copy (BCC) feature: If the BCC feature isn’t used in an email to communicate with a group of witnesses, this could expose your email address, and allow other recipients to infer your identity.
• Verbal disclosure: If an employee verbally discloses personal data from a recorded witness statement to an unauthorised party, this could be classed as a data breach.

If you have evidence that the police failed to protect your witness details in line with data protection legislation, contact our advisors today.

How To Access Your Witness Data

As a data subject, you have a right to access the data held about you. The Data Protection Act gives you the right to ask the police what data they hold on you through a Subject Access Request (SAR).

If the police are holding your personal data after you gave a witness statement, this should be disclosed when you make a Subject Access Request.

Can The Police Disclose Information?

If the contents of a statement assist investigations, the police can request your consent to disclose personal information. In some cases, the police may share your personal data without consent if they can establish a separate lawful basis for processing.

Contact our team of advisors today to find out if you could be eligible to make a personal data breach claim.

Claiming For A Breach Of Data Protection By The Police

There are multiple steps that you can take to help you through the claims process. These include:

• Collecting evidence: Collecting evidence can help strengthen your claim and help you establish who is liable for the breach. Evidence can include documents that illustrate the harm caused by the breach, such as medical records or bank statements, as well as proof that the breach occurred.
• Contacting the police: Following a breach, you can contact the police yourself and ask for more information. They may be able to confirm that the breach occurred and tell you what information was involved.
• Contacting the ICO: If you do not hear back from the police, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office within three months of your last meaningful contact with them. The ICO are an independent data protection watchdog, and may open an investigation into the breach, the results of which could also be used as evidence.

If you would like to start a claim, our solicitors are here to help. Get in touch today if you have evidence that you have been harmed by the police in a witness details data breach.

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A personal data breach claim can result in two heads of compensation. Non-material damage compensation aims to address how the breach has affected your mental health. For example, you may suffer psychological injuries such as depression after a data breach. In this case, you could be owed non-material damage compensation.

Solicitors will often use the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) to help them calculate non-material damage compensation. This document provides guideline awards for various injuries, including psychological injuries. Please note that these figures are not guaranteed. The compensation you could potentially receive can differ.

Material damage compensation addresses the financial impacts of the data breach. For example, if your credit card or debit card details are exposed, this could allow cybercriminals to make fraudulent purchases in your name. Material damage compensation aims to help recoup these costs.

Talk Us About Claiming For A Police Witness Details Data Breach

If you are interested in making a personal data breach claim, our solicitors may be able to help. They could offer you a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA), which is a kind of No Win No Fee arrangement, allows you to gain access to legal representation, generally without paying any upfront fees to your solicitor. Likewise, your solicitor usually won’t ask for any ongoing fees as your case progresses.

Should your claim succeed, your solicitor will take a success fee from your compensation. This is a percentage with a legislative cap which helps ensure you get the most of your award. But, if your claim fails, you won’t pay this fee.

To find out how one of our solicitors could help you start the claims process, get in touch with one of our advisors by:

• Call us on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us online
• Or use the live support option

Police Witness Details Data Breach & Other Resources

• Police data breach compensation claims
• The police failed to redact my personal data, can I claim?
• Tax information data breach claims
• Do I need to use data breach solicitors near me? Find out how to find reliable data breach solicitors with our guide.

Or, for further resources:

• ICO – For the public
• NHS – Stress
• MIND – Mental health charity

To learn more about claiming if you have evidence that you were harmed by the police in a witness details data breach, get in touch with our team.

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Edited by Hampton

In this guide, we aim to explore when you may be eligible to claim following a lost files data breach. There are several types of personal data could be contained within files held by organisations. The information can depend on the organisation and nature of the personal data they are processing. However, the organisations have a responsibility as per data breach law to protect your personal data. This guide will explore their responsibilities in further detail and the steps you can take should they fail to uphold these responsibilities.

Lost files data breach claims guide

Additionally, this guide will provide examples of how files containing personal data could be lost and the type of personal data that could be compromised as a result.

Furthermore, this guide will explore the compensation you could receive should your claim succeed.

If you have any additional questions after reading, please get in touch with our team. To contact an advisor, you can:

• Speak to an advisor via our live chat function at the bottom of the page.
• Call our team on 0800 073 8804
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1. What Is A Lost Files Data Breach?
2. Why Do Organisations Collect Data?
3. What Files And Data Do Organisations Hold?
4. Causes Of Lost Files Data Breach Incidents
5. Lost Files Data Breach Compensation Calculator
6. Contact Us To Make A No Win No Fee Claim

What Is A Lost Files Data Breach?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is an independent body that is in place to uphold a data subjects rights and freedoms. This involves them ensuring data controllers and processors are adhering to data protection law.

Data controllers decide how and why they are processing your personal data and can process data themselves. Data processors process personal data on behalf of the data controller.

An updated version of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) outline the responsibilities they have to protect your personal data. The DPA was updated after the UK left the European Union.

However, there are instances where a data controller or processor might fail to uphold their responsibilities. As such, it could result in different types of data breaches such as a lost files data breach compromising your personal data.

A personal data breach is defined as a security incident that has affected the confidentiality, integrity or availability of your personal data. This could involve files containing your personal data being accidentally misplaced or disposed of incorrectly leading to an unathorised individual accessing the files.

Alternatively, file containing your medical records could have been stolen in a ransomware attack due to the data controller failing to keep their cyber security up to date. In addition, your personal data may not have been locked away or secured meaning it was accessed by someone without authorisation.

If an organisations failings have caused you to sustain damage to your finances or mental harm as a result of your personal data being breached, call our team.

Why Do Organisations Collect Data?

Organisations may collect, store and process your data for many reasons. Examples might include:

• An employer may require your bank details to pay your salary each month.
• A hospital collects data relating to your health in order to provide you with a service.
• An online shop may require your email address to send you confirmation of your order.

However, in some cases, the data controller or processor may fail to protect your personal data. This could result in their wrongful conduct causing a breach of your personal data. This might involve them failing to take reasonable steps to protect your data.

In instances where you have experienced mental suffering or an impact on your finances, you could make a data breach claim to seek compensation.

For more information on when you might be eligible to make a lost files data breach claim, call our team.

What Files And Data Do Organisations Hold?

The personal data contained in lost files will depend on the industry. For example, a medical organisation or your employer may process different types of data.

However, personal data is information that can be used to identify you either directly or when processed alongside other information. This could include:

• Name
• Email address
• Postal address
• IP address
• Bank details
• Credit or debit card details

In some cases, the personal data contained in lost files may be more sensitive. This is known as special category data and requires more protection due to it’s nature. Examples of this could include data relating to your:

• Health
• Racial or ethnic origin
• Religious beliefs
• Sexual orientation

Depending on the information contained in files, a lost files data breach could involve your medical records or other documents.

Causes Of Lost Files Data Breach Incidents

There are various ways a lost files data breach could occur. Examples include:

• Someone might take files containing your personal data home with them. As a result, someone who isn’t authorised accessing your personal data.
• Files containing your personal data may be stored in an unlocked filing cabinet leading to someone stealing the files.
• An organisation may have failed to keep their cyber security systems up to date. This may have made them more susceptible to an cyber attack such as a ransomware attack leading to your online digital files being stolen.

As you can see, not all breaches of personal data are through deliberate malicious intent. Instead, a breach can happen accidentally. However, in order to claim, you must prove that an organisation’s failings caused your personal data to become compromised and resulted in your suffering financial damage or psychological harm.

Call us for more information.

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Data breach compensation could comprise up to two heads of claim.  These are known as material damages and non-material damages.

Material damages compensate for the financial costs and losses incurred as a result of the personal data breach. For example, someone may have stolen your credit card details leaving you with ongoing bills and a poor credit score.

Non-material damages is the head of claim that compensates for the mental harm you have suffered as a result of the personal data breach. This could include different types of psychological injuries, such as depression, anxiety, stress, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

You can now claim compensation for any psychological harm without having suffered any financial losses. Previously, this wasn’t possible.

In order to assign a value to non-material damages, solicitors can refer to the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) to help them. This is a document that contains a list of psychological injuries with corresponding bracket compensation amounts.

The table below uses figures from the 16th edition of the guidelines, which was published in April 2022. The figures are only a guide.

Call our team to find out how much compensation you could receive following a successful lost files data breach claim.

Contact Us To Make A No Win No Fee Claim

If you are looking to hire a solicitor to represent your claim, we could help.

Our advisors could assign a data breach solicitor from our panel to represent your claim. They can offer to represent your case under a Conditional Fee Agreement. This is a type of No Win No Fee arrangement which means you don’t have any upfront fees to pay for your solicitor’s services.

If your claim succeeds, you will need to pay a success fee from your compensation. This fee is legally capped. However, you won’t need to pay the fee should your claim fail.

If you have any additional questions about your potential lost files data breach claim, please get in touch with our team. To contact an advisor, you can:

• Speak to an advisor via our live chat function at the bottom of the page.
• Call our team on 0800 073 8804
• Complete our online contact form with details of your query.

Useful Resources

• ICO- Data Security Incident Trends
• NCSC- Data Breach Guidance
• GOV- Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2021
• Joint Bank Account Data Breach
• Counsellor Data Breach Compensation Claims
• Tax Information Data Breach
• Find out if you could claim for the misuse of data after a personal data breach with our guide.

We hope this guide on making a lost files data breach claim has helped. If you have any other questions, call our team on the number above.

If your foot was ran over by a car, you’re probably fully aware of the pain and disruption an injury like this can cause. In addition to your physical and mental suffering, you may have also experienced financial losses. This guide will help you understand when you may be able to seek personal injury compensation.

Our guide opens with an explanation of the eligibility criteria for claiming personal injury compensation after suffering a foot injury. There is also a detailed explanation of compensation – what it covers and how it is calculated.  

Additionally, we explain the time limit you must begin your claim within, and we also detail the evidence that you can assemble to give your claim its best chance of success.

To conclude our guide, we explore the numerous advantages of appointing one of our expert solicitors to handle your case. They offer a type of No Win No Fee contract, which removes the financial obstacle of funding the work of a legal professional.

Please read on to learn more. Or if you’re keen to discuss your claim after someone in a car ran over your foot, you can:

• Call advisors now on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us online.
• Ask a question in the live chat.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I Claim After My Foot Was Ran Over By A Car?
2. How Much Foot Ran Over By Car Compensation Could I Get?
3. Examples Of Drivers Running Over Someone’s Foot
4. The Most Common Ran Over Foot Injuries
5. How Long Do I Have To Claim For A Run Over Foot?
6. Will I Need Evidence To Prove My Foot Injury?
7. No Win No Fee Foot Ran Over By Car Claims
8. More Information

Can I Claim After My Foot Was Ran Over By A Car?

You can start a compensation claim after your foot was ran over by a car if you meet the required criteria. You need to prove that:

• At the time of injury you were owed a duty of care.
• The duty was breached.
• You suffered an injury as a direct result of this.

All UK motorists are required to drive their vehicles and navigate roads in a way that minimises the risk of harm or damage to other road users. In order to fully meet this duty of care, they must follow both the Road Traffic Act 1988 laws and the rules and guidance laid out for them in the Highway Code.

If you have any questions so far about eligibility, please feel free to connect with our advisory team for free guidance.

How Much Foot Ran Over By Car Compensation Could I Get?

The total amount of compensation applicable after a car ran over your foot depends on the value of two categories of loss, called general and special damages. General damages provides you compensation for your injury and assess factors such as:

• The extent of pain and injury.
• The anticipated recovery.
• Whether a loss of amenity was also suffered (e.g. not being able to participate in your usual hobbies, such as football).

Those entrusted with the task of calculating general damages will use medical evidence to guide them. In addition to this, they may also refer to the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). This provides a list of guideline compensation brackets for different injuries according to their severity.

We have compiled a list of these entries relating to foot injuries in the following table. Please note that the first entry does not come from the JCG.

Compensation Guidelines

Calculating My Compensation For An Injured Foot

The compensation calculated depends largely on the severity of injury, and there can be a wide array of associated financial problems based on this. For example, damage to a single toe may not give rise to the same level of aftercare, physiotherapy, or prosthetic use as the complete crushing of the entire foot. Compensation is therefore calculated to reflect this.

The financial consequences of your foot being run over by a car could be compensated under special damages. To include this as part of your claim, it is necessary to put forth documented proof of monetary harm or loss, such as:

• Payslips proving a loss of earnings.
• Invoices for medical expenses, such as rehabilitation fees.
• Receipts or estimates for the cost of installing essential adaptations at home, like wheelchair access or a stairlift.
• Proof of travel costs to vital appointments.
• Bank statements for care costs, either professional or from a relative.

To learn more about how compensation is calculated in a personal injury claim, you can contact one of our advisors.

Examples Of Drivers Running Over Someone’s Foot

How exactly could a driver run over your foot in a way that gives rise to a claim? Here are some examples:

• A motorist was looking at their mobile phone rather than concentrating on the road. Because of this, they failed to come to a halt at a pedestrian crossing and ran over a person’s foot, crushing their toes.
• In a car park, the driver failed to check their rear view mirror and reversed onto the foot of a small child, causing severe crush injuries.
• A motorist parked their car partially on the pavement, and as they pulled away slowly, the car caught the foot of a pedestrian crossing the road. The weight of the car left the toes so injured that they needed amputation.

Your foot may also be run over in an accident at work. In the workplace, your employer owes you a duty of care, under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, to take reasonable steps to ensure your safety. An example of when you may be able to claim for an injury at work includes:

• Your employer failed to repair or replace the faulty brakes of a forklift, and still required your colleague to use it. This meant they were unable to come to a stop and ran over your foot, causing a severe crush injury.

There are other scenarios where you may be able to make a compensation claim. Contact our advisors to discuss your eligibility today.

The Most Common Ran Over Foot Injuries

Next, we look at some of the more common types of injuries you could experience after your foot was ran over by a car:

• Soft tissue injuries.
• Toe, ankle and foot fractures.
• Achilles tendon damage.
• Calcaneus fractures to the heel.
• Crush injuries.
• Partial or full amputation.
• Nerve damage.

If you have suffered an injury after someone ran over your foot, contact our advisors today to see whether you may be eligible for compensation.

How Long Do I Have To Claim For A Run Over Foot?

There is a 3-year standard time in which to begin personal injury claims as stated in the Limitation Act 1980. There are certain groups who are not subject to this standard time frame:

• A pause applies to claims sought by those under 18. Instead, they have 3 years to begin a legal action from the date of their 18th birthday.
• Time limits are frozen for claimants who are unable to manage their own personal affairs due to reduced mental capacity. Instead, they have 3 years to commence a claim from any date that mental capacity returns (if it ever does).

In both instances where the claimant cannot begin their own proceedings, a litigation friend can be appointed by the courts and make a claim on their behalf.

If you need to claim for someone else, or have general questions about time limits and compensation after your foot was run over by a car, please connect with advisors using the options below.

Will I Need Evidence To Prove My Foot Injury?

To build your claim, you will need to rely on evidence that proves that your foot was ran over by a car due to the negligent actions of the driver and you were injured. To do this, you could try to assemble as much of the following as you can:

• CCTV footage or dashcam footage of the accident.
• The registration of the vehicle and the details of the driver.
• Photos of the injuries to your foot and the vehicle involved.
• The points of contact for anyone who saw what happened. A statement could be taken from them at a later date.
• Copies of your medical records and treatments you received, the prognosis and proof of any essential medications prescribed.
• Details from the workplace accident book, if it occurred at work.

Our solicitors can help you collect valid evidence for your particular case. Contact our advisors to learn more.

No Win No Fee Foot Ran Over By Car Claims

After your foot was ran over by a car, you could qualify to start a compensation claim. Our solicitors can help eligible claimants via a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This type of No Win No Fee arrangement removes many of the obstacles that prevent people from seeking legal representation. For example:

• No upfront solicitors’ fees apply.
• No fees are expected for all the work performed as the case unfolds.
• Should the claim fail, the solicitors request no payment for finished services,
• A claim that settles positively requires payment of a success fee from the compensation. This amount is a percentage that is agreed upon prior to work starting and capped by law.

Contact Us

If your foot was ran over by a car, contact our advisors to see if you have an eligible compensation claim. They may also connect you with one of our expert solicitors.

• Call advisors now on 0800 073 8804 to discuss your foot injury claim.
• Contact us online.
• Ask a question in our live chat.

More Information

These other links to guides on our website might be useful:

• This guide looks at compensation for a broken foot bone injury.
• Here we explore the compensation that can apply for an ankle fracture.
• Also, find out more about road traffic accidents in general.

External links to useful information:

• This resource from the NHS looks at foot pain.
• Learn if you could receive statutory sick pay from Gov.UK
• Guidance on when to call 999 from the NHS.

To see if you could claim after your foot was ran over by a car, you can contact our advisors.

In this guide, we will explore what steps you could take should a Starling bank data breach occur.

Starling bank data breach – could I claim compensation?

Banks have a responsibility, as data controllers, to ensure they adhere to data protection law. Controllers set the purpose for processing personal information. We have explored the responsibilities they have further in our guide.

Additionally, we will look at examples of how a bank data breach could occur and the impact it could have on your life.

Furthermore, we have looked at when you might be eligible to seek compensation for the impact a personal data breach has had.

Please continue reading for more information. Alternatively, you can get in touch with our team to find out more by:

• Calling on 0800 073 8804
• Filling out our online contact form
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1. Starling Bank Data Breach – Could I Claim Compensation?
2. Can A Bank Share Your Personal Data?
3. Examples Of Bank Data Breaches
4. What Could You Do Should A Starling Bank Data Breach Occur?
5. Calculating Compensation For A Data Breach
6. Talk To Our Team Should A Starling Bank Data Breach Occur

Starling Bank Data Breach – Could I Claim Compensation?

Under the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) data controllers and data processors have a responsibility to protect your personal information.

Personal data is any piece of information that can be used to identify you either directly or when processed alongside information that can directly identify you. Examples include your:

• Name
• Postage address
• Email address
• Banking details, such as your credit or debit card information
• Phone number

Additionally, certain information is classed as special category data which needs extra protection. Examples include:

• Biometric data
• Information revealing your trade union membership
• Information relating to your sexual orientation

These are examples of the type of personal data a bank could hold about you. As such, they must adhere to data protection law in order to protect your personal information. If they fail to do so, you could experience financial loss or psychological harm due to your personal data being breached. In some cases, you have the right to seek compensation for the damage you have sustained under the UK GDPR.

To learn about when a potential data breach claim against Starling bank could be justified, get in touch on the number above.

Can A Bank Share Your Personal Data?

Organisations within the financial sector, such as banks, must have a valid lawful basis for processing your personal data. There are 6 bases in total, including:

• Consent
• Legal obligation
• Contract
• Vital interests
• Public task
• Legitimate interests

The basis an organisation chooses will depend on the purpose for processing. As such, organisations do not always need consent to process personal data if they have another lawful basis for doing so.

For more information on when a bank could share your personal information, get in touch on the number above.

Examples Of Bank Data Breaches

There are various ways in which a data breach could occur in a bank. In some cases, it could be due to the data controller or processor failing to take proper security measures either cyber or physical.

For example, they fail to up date their cyber security systems leaving them more vulnerable to a cyber attack. Alternatively, they may fail to have physical security measures in place, such as locked filing cabinets to store physical data. This could make it easier for those without authorisation to access your personal information.

Human error is another way that data breaches could occur. For example:

• A member of staff sends an email containing information relating to your bank account to the wrong person
• A letter is sent containing your new debit card to the wrong postal address
• Documents containing sensitive information aren’t correctly disposed of

If you have experienced a similar incident that has compromised your personal data and caused you financial or psychological harm, get in touch on the number above. An advisor can discuss whether you’re eligible to make a claim.

Alternatively, continue reading to learn about the steps you could take should a Starling bank data breach occur.

What Could You Do Should A Starling Bank Data Breach Occur?

There are several steps you could take should a bank data breach occur and comprise your personal information. For example:

• Raise your concern with the organisation directly. By doing so, you can find out more about what information was affected and how the organisation plans to address the incident. Additionally, any communication between you and the organisation can be used as evidence if you make a claim.
• Report your concern to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who are tasked with upholding the rights and freedoms of data subjects. They may investigate your concern, in which case, you could use their findings as evidence to support your potential claim.

There are also steps an organisation should take should a data breach occur and affect the rights and freedoms of data subjects. For example, they must report the incident to the ICO within 72 hours. They also must make data subjects aware of the breach without undue delay.

Please note, the ICO cannot award compensation. However, they can issue fines and take other enforcement action against the organisation.

To learn more about the steps you could take should a Starling bank data breach occur, get in touch on the number above.

Calculating Compensation For A Data Breach

As part of your data breach compensation settlement, you could receive up to two heads of claim. The first is called material damage. This accounts for monetary losses you have incurred due to the personal data breach. For example:

• Stolen funds from your bank account
• A loan taken out in your name due to having your credit card stolen

You will need to provide evidence of these costs, such as bank statements and credit card statements.

The second head of claim is called non-material damage. This accounts for the emotional harm you have sustained due to the personal data breach. Examples of emotional harm can include anxiety, depression, stress and post-traumatic stress disorder in more severe cases.

When calculating the value of compensation awarded for non-material damage, legal professionals can use guidelines from the Judicial College. This contains guideline compensation brackets that relate to different types of psychiatric injury.

Whilst we have included these figures in the table below, you should only use the figures as a guide because you’re actual settlement could vary.

To learn more about the compensation you could be awarded following a successful claim, get in touch on the number above.

Talk To Our Team Should A Starling Bank Data Breach Occur

If you have a valid basis for making a data breach claim, one of our No win No Fee solicitors could help. They can offer their services under a Conditional Fee Agreement.

This allows you to access the services they provide without having to pay upfront. You also won’t need to pay for these services should your claim lose. In successful cases, your solicitor can take a success fee from your compensation. However, this is subject to a legal cap.

To find out more about starting a claim on this basis, you can get in touch with an advisor from our team. They can also discuss more about the steps you could take should a Starling bank data breach occur.

For any further enquiries, please get in touch. You can:

• Call on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us online
• Speak with an advisor via the live chat function below.

Learn More About Bank Data Breach Claims

Below, please find some additional resources and more of our guides:

• Council data breach claims
• Joint bank account data breach
• Debt and arrears data breach compensation
• GOV – Find out about the data an organisation has about you
• ICO – Data security incident trends
• ICO – Your data matters

We hope this guide on steps you could take should a Starling bank data breach occur, has helped. However, if you need any other information, please get in touch on the number above.

Written by Waters

Edited by Mitchell

By Max Mitrovic. Last Updated 24th June 2024. If your personal data has been exposed by a gym data breach, you could be entitled to make a claim. You would need to show that the breach was caused by the failings of the party processing the data.

Organisations that process your personal data have a responsibility to protect it. This is set out in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and an updated version of the Data Protection Act 2018.

If they fail to follow the rules set out in these regulations around handling and processing personal data, a breach could occur. This could cause financial and emotional harm.

If you have been affected by a gym data breach, we may be able to help. Get in touch with one of our experts today by:

• Calling 0800 073 8804
• Filling out our online claim form
• Using our live chat on the page now

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1. What Is A Gym Data Breach?
2. What Data Do Gyms Hold?
3. How Could You Be Affected By A Gym Data Breach?
4. What Evidence Do I Need To Prove A Gym Data Breach Compensation Claim?
5. How Much Compensation Can You Claim?
6. How To Claim For A Gym Data Breach

What Is A Gym Data Breach?

Personal data is any information that can be used to identify a natural person. Personal data can also be data that cannot identify you directly but can be used alongside other information to identify you.

A data breach occurs when a security incident leads to the confidentiality, integrity or availability of personal data being affected. A data breach can either be deliberate or caused by human error, but it must have resulted from the failings of the organisation that was processing your data.

To make a claim, you must show that you have suffered material and/or non-material damage because of the data breach. Material damage relates to financial loss, such as someone stealing your credit card information, impacting your credit score. Non-material damage refers to harm to your mental health, like stress, anxiety or depression brought about as a result of the breach.

Read on to find out more about how the gym could breach your data protection rights and how much compensation you could be entitled to. If you have any questions about your claim, don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our experts.

What Data Do Gyms Hold?

Gyms can hold various types of your personal data, whether you are a client or an employee. Potential gym data could include:

• Names
• Email addresses
• Dates of birth
• Postal addresses
• Financial details, such as bank account details
• Phone numbers

If information like the examples listed above are exposed as part of a data breach by a gym, it could negatively impact your life. If the breach was caused by a third party mishandling your data, and it led to either material losses or psychological injuries, you may be able to claim compensation.

You may also be looking to make a gym data breach claim if some of your special category data is stolen, lost or mishandled. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) independently regulates data subject rights in the UK. As part of this, they explain what different types of personal data are, including that special category data is more sensitive and can include:

• Information about your race or ethnicity
• Biometric data which can be used for identification purposes. This can include fingerprints, for instance.
• Health data. This can detail any health conditions you have and so can be of a very sensitive nature.

Businesses in the UK must adhere to the rules and regulations detailed by the ICO when processing sensitive personal data. If you would like to know more about claiming for a gym data breach, please contact us for free using the details above.

How Could You Be Affected By A Gym Data Breach?

As we’ve already mentioned, you can experience material and non-material damages as the result of a breach. You can receive compensation for both of these individually as well as together.

If your personal data is exposed in a gym data breach, then this could cause you psychological suffering. You may feel distressed and upset. In some cases, for example, if you had an abusive ex-partner, this could pose a risk to your well-being and could cause you to be anxious and depressed.

Alongside psychological damage, data breaches can create financial difficulties. If your gym is hacked by a criminal enterprise or another malicious third party, they could use your data to steal your identity which can then affect your credit score. You might also have to move to a different gym to protect your identity, which could cause you to incur joining fees.

To find out more about your options if you have been the victim of a gym data breach, get in touch with one of our advisors today.

What Evidence Do I Need To Prove A Gym Data Breach Compensation Claim?

In order to make a claim for the harm caused by a gym data breach, you need to provide evidence. This could include:

• Bank statements and financial records if money has been stolen from your account
• Correspondence between you and the gym if you’ve raised your concerns with them and they’ve confirmed that a breach has taken place
• Medical records if the data breach has affected your mental health

If a data breach happens that threatens the rights and freedoms of the data subject, then they should be informed without undue delay and the breach should be reported to the ICO. If you’re worried about how a gym is using your personal data, then you can raise your concerns with them.

You can report a data breach to the ICO if you’re not happy with the response from the organisation. You should do this within 3 months of the last meaningful communication you had with them. If you wait any longer, they might not look into it for you.

For more information on the evidence you could use to support your claim, speak with an advisor today. They can offer you free legal advice. They may also be able to provide you with a solicitor.

How Much Compensation Can You Claim?

You can claim data breach compensation for both material and non-material damage because of a data breach. As explained above, material damage relates to the financial loss that the breach has caused.

Non-material damage includes all the psychological effects of a data breach, like anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder. For example,  you might have trouble sleeping as a result of the breach.

You can claim compensation for non-material damage even if you haven’t suffered any financial loss because of a ruling in the Court of Appeal case Vidal-Hall and others v Google. Previously, the breach must have affected you financially in order to claim for mental harm.

The table below, which we have produced using the 2022 edition of the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG), includes guideline compensation brackets for mental injuries. Although usually used by legal professionals to value personal injury claims, the case of Gulati vs MGN means that it can also be used in data breach claims.

For more information on how much compensation you could receive, please speak with an advisor today for more information. They could offer free legal advice and may also be able to connect you with a solicitor.

How To Claim For A Gym Data Breach

If you have been a victim of a gym data breach and have sustained mental and/or emotional harm as a result, our data breach solicitors are here to help.

They can offer representation on a No Win No Fee basis. This means:

• There’s nothing to pay upfront
• You don’t make any payments as they work on your claim
• If your claim is not a success, you won’t pay for your lawyer’s services
• In the event of a successful claim. your lawyer will take a legally-capped percentage from your settlement amount.

You can contact us by:

• Calling us on 0800 073 8804
• Filling out our online claim form
• Speaking via our live chat

Related Leisure Accident And Data Breach Claims

Below are some more of our guides that you might find helpful:

• Pharmacy data breach compensation claims
• Optician data breach compensation claims
• Hotel data breach claims
• Sickness At Work Data Breach Compensation Claims
• UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims
• Child Custody Data Breach Claims
• Estate Agent Data Breach Claims
• Discrimination Data Breach Claims

We’ve also included the resources below from other sites:

• ICO page on action they’ve taken
• National Cyber Security Centre- Information for individuals 
• Information on anxiety from the NHS

For more information on making a gym data breach claim, speak with an advisor today.

Has your personal information been compromised in a wealth manager data breach? Have you suffered harm as a result of this breach? If your personal data has been compromised as a result of wrongful conduct on the part of your wealth manager, you may be able to claim.

This guide will explain what a wealth manager is and what information they may have access to. We will also explore data protection legislation in the UK and how it applies to financial services, how to report a personal data breach, and how one of our No Win No Fee solicitors could help you.

How to make a wealth manager data breach claim guide

A personal data breach involving a wealth manager can cause mental health problems with undue stress and anxiety, as well as significant financial harm.

If you intend to pursue a data breach claim, our advisors can help. They may also put you through to our No Win No Fee solicitors who can help begin your claim. Contact us today by:

• Calling us on 0800 073 8804
• Starting your claim online
• Emailing [email protected] 
• Using the live chat feature

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1. What Is A Wealth Manager Data Breach?
2. What Financial Data Could A Wealth Manager Have Access To?
3. Does The UK GDPR Apply To Financial Services?
4. Reporting A Wealth Manager Data Breach
5. What Could I Claim For A Wealth Manager Data Breach?
6. How To Claim For A Data Breach By A Wealth Manager

What Is A Wealth Manager Data Breach?

A personal data breach is a security incident that compromises the integrity, availability, or security of your personal data. The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (UK GDPR) are two pieces of legislation that establish the data protection rules in the UK.

There are also terms that you may want to make yourself familiar with. For example, a data subject’s (referring to you) personal information is processed by a data controller. In Article 4 of the UK GDPR, definitions are provided for:

• Data controllers – For example, an organisation that says why and how you data shall be processed. If a wealth managers handles your personal data they become a data controller.
• Data processors – An external party a data controller can hire to process data on their behalf.

Data controllers must comply with data protection law to safeguard your personal data. If they fail to do so, and you suffer harm as a result, you may be able to make a personal data breach claim.

To find out if you have a valid wealth manager data breach claim, contact our advisors today.

What Financial Data Could A Wealth Manager Have Access To?

Since wealth managers manage the finances of individuals or families, they have access to both personal data, and a type of personal data called special category data. Personal data covers any information that could identify you. For example, this could include your name, email address, or phone number. In terms of financial information, your wealth manager may have access to:

• Debit card data
• Credit card data
• Sort code and account number
• Current or savings account details
• Joint bank account details

Special category data is a type of personal information that requires extra protection according to data protection law. Special category data can include:

• Religious or philosophical beliefs
• Trade union membership
• Politics
• Health, biometric and genetic data, such as medical records
• Sexual orientation
• NI number

For more information about what type of data could potentially be involved in a wealth manager data breach, contact our advisors today.

Does The UK GDPR Apply To Financial Services?

The UK GDPR and the DPA apply to all organisations in the UK that process personal data including financial services such as wealth managers, accountants, and banks. However, In order to make a data breach claim, there must be proof that a breach was a result of positive wrongful conduct. 

Organisations must be able to provide a valid reason to collect and process your personal data. This is called a lawful basis for processing, which can include:

• Consent – The data subject consents to the processing of their personal data.
• Contract – To fulfil a contract
• Legal obligation – It is necessary to process your data to comply with the law.
• Vital interests – Data must be processed to protect the life of an individual.
• Public task – In order to perform a task in the interest of the public 
• Legitimate interests – processing is necessary for legitimate interests

For a wealth manager data breach claim to be valid the onus will be on you to show how data protection laws were not followed. You will also need to show how this led to your personal data being breached and what harm was caused. 

Reporting A Wealth Manager Data Breach

If you believe your data has been breached, you can contact your wealth manager or their firm and request more information. If the breach threatens your rights or freedoms, they are legally required to inform you as soon as possible, as well as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the independent body responsible for enforcing data protection law.

However, if you do not receive a satisfactory response, you can make a complaint directly to the ICO. Wait no more than three months following the last meaningful contact you had with your wealth manager or their firm regarding the breach. It’s important to note that the ICO cannot provide compensation, but it can enforce a fine on organisations found to be in breach of the UK GDPR or DPA.

Get in touch with our team of advisors today to find out how reporting a wealth manager data breach could help strengthen your claim.

What Could I Claim For A Wealth Manager Data Breach?

The two heads of claim you can pursue as part of your personal data breach claim include:

• Material damages –  This looks at financial losses and identity fraud or theft. 
• Non-material damages – Such as the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, general stress, paranoia, depression, and other psychological issues.

The 16th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) establishes the possible compensation brackets for non-material damages, dividing them by the sort of injury and intensity level as shown in the table below:

Following the case of Vidal-Hall v Google Inc, the Court of Appeals changed how some compensation is claimed in personal data breach claims. You may now claim for non-material damages without the presence of financial losses.

For more information on successful wealth manager data breach compensation claim amounts, connect with our advisors today.

How To Claim For A Data Breach By A Wealth Manager

Personal data breaches can be a complex part of the law, and as such, you may benefit from legal advice during your claim. We urge you to contact our advisors today if you wish to pursue your claim, as they can help you determine whether your claim is valid. 

Our solicitors offer Conditional Fee Agreements (CFA). This agreement provides access to legal representation without upfront or ongoing costs. Under a CFA, solicitors take their payment through a success fee. The fee is a minor amount of your compensation, and it is only taken if your case succeeds. If it fails, you do not pay their fee.

To find out how one of our No Win No Fee solicitors could benefit you and your case, get in contact with our advisors today by: 

• Calling us on 0800 073 8804
• Starting your claim online
• Emailing [email protected] 
• Using the live chat feature

Financial Service Data Breach Resources

To get more information on financial service data breaches, we suggest:

• A Company Has Misused My Personal Data – Can I Sue?
• My Criminal Conviction Data Breach – Can I Claim Compensation?
• Solicitors Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide
• Sickness At Work Data Breach Compensation Claims
• UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims
• Child Custody Data Breach Claims
• Estate Agent Data Breach Claims
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary Data Breach Claims

Or, for more helpful information:

• ICO – Your data matters
• NHS – Stress
• Mind – Mental Health Charity

Contact our advisors today for more advice on a wealth manager data breach.

If an estate agent data breach affected you financially or psychologically, you could potentially claim compensation. This article discusses what makes a valid claim.

Estate agent data breach claims guide

Estate agents often process personal information from their clients when they are renting or selling a home. If this data is breached, you might experience emotional distress. Moreover, an estate agent may process financial information such as bank statements. If certain financial information is accessed by criminals, they could use it to steal money or assets from you. You could claim if you suffer financial loss or mental harm, or both, because of a personal data breach.

If an estate agent data breach harmed you, you might be eligible to claim data breach compensation. We can appoint a skilled data breach solicitor to work on your claim if your case qualifies.

Please get in touch with us to make your enquiry:

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• Could you fill out our online claims form?
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1. What Is An Estate Agent Data Breach?
2. Does The UK GDPR Apply To Estate Agents?
3. Types Of Data That Estate Agents Handle
4. Examples Of Estate Agent Data Breach Cases
5. What Could You Claim For An Estate Agent Data Breach?
6. How To Claim For An Estate Agent Data Breach

What Is An Estate Agent Data Breach?

An estate agent data breach is a security incident that leads to the unlawful or accidental loss, destruction, disclosure, change or access to personal data. The data breach may affect anyone who has shared their information with the company, such as clients, employees, or stakeholders.

Personal information or personal data is information that can be used to identify you. It can include your name, for example, or your credit card details.

The following errors can count as a data breach:

• An estate agent loses personal data, or a criminal steals it
• The company discloses personal information without a lawful basis to do so
• The company alters, encrypts or destroys personal data without a lawful reason
• Unauthorised persons gain unlawful access to personal data

Rates Of Data Breach By Sector

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the public body in the UK that upholds data protection laws. The ICO publishes data security incident trends quarterly. From Q1 2019/20 to Q4 2021/22, there were 1,346 data security incidents reported in the land and property services sector. 399 data breaches were cyber security incidents, and 947 were non-cyber security incidents.

Does The UK GDPR Apply To Estate Agents?

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 are laws that require data processors and data controllers to protect the personal data they collect.

Data controllers are organisations that decide how and why they process personal information. An estate agent, for example, may require your personal information in order to provide you with a service. A data processor is an organisation that processes personal data on behalf of the controller if needed.

Property businesses are responsible for training their employees to handle personal data correctly, to avoid an estate agent data breach. Without proper training, an employee may make an error leading to a data breach. Moreover, estate agents are responsible for proper security measures to protect against cyber crimes or malicious actions.

Sometimes, you can claim data breach compensation if an estate agent breached your personal data. You will need to prove that the following happened:

• A data breach occurred because of the wrongful conduct of an estate agent. For example, the company had substandard online security so your personal data was easily accessed online by hackers.
• Your personal data was compromised in the breach.
• Subsequently, you experienced financial loss or mental health injuries (or both) because of the personal data breach.

Please note that, sometimes, there may be exemptions for an estate agent to share your data without your consent. For example, if the police require your personal data, a business does not necessarily need to ask your permission.

If you suffered because of a data breach, why not get in touch?

Types Of Data That Estate Agents Handle

Estate agents may collect the following personal data about a client, employee or stakeholder:

• Name
• Address
• Date of birth
• Email address
• Phone number
• Bank account details
• Debit card information
• Credit card information
• Password

If an estate agent data breach compromises this data, criminals may use the data to commit fraud or other crimes. So, the data breach could be a security risk.

Examples Of Estate Agent Data Breach Cases

We will now look at examples of two recent estate agent data protection breaches.

The Life At Parliament View Ltd

The estate agent Life At Parliament View Ltd suffered a security incident. The company left personal information exposed online from 4 March 2015 until the vulnerability was discovered in 2017. The data included the following:

• Bank statements
• Salary information
• Postal addresses
• Images of passports

The Infomation Commissioner’s Office investigated the data breach and fined Life At Parliament View Ltd £80,000.

The Foxtons Data Breach

The Foxtons estate agent data breach occurred in 2020—over 16,000 data records were sold on the dark web. The stolen information included financial details.

Please contact us today if you are eligible to claim compensation for a data breach. If we can determine if you are eligible to claim, we can provide you with a skilled No Win No Fee data breach solicitor to work on your case.

What Could You Claim For An Estate Agent Data Breach?

A personal data breach can be the digital-age equivalent of a criminal breaking into your home. You can potentially claim the below damages for the harm the estate agent data breach caused.

• Material damages: Compensation for financial losses because of the data breaches. You could claim for necessary expenses and money or assets lost because of the data breach, such as medical expenses if you needed medication because of a mental health injury.
• Non-material damages: Compensation for emotional distress or psychological injuries you experienced because of the data breach.

You can use the below compensation table to estimate how much non-material damages compensation you can claim. Material damages are not included, but if you call us, we can help you estimate what your material damages payout could be.

We used the compensation brackets from the April 2022 Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) to help create the compensation table above. These Guidelines can be used by solicitors when they value claims. Please take note if your claim is successful, your compensation payment may differ from what is on the table. For a free estimate of what you could claim, why not reach out?

How To Claim For An Estate Agent Data Breach?

Why not contact us today to see if you can claim compensation for an estate agent data breach? You could make a No Win No Fee claim if you have enough evidence to support your data breach claim.

Traditionally when you claim compensation, you pay an upfront solicitor’s fee. The solicitor’s fee may not be refundable if you don’t win the claim. To reduce the financial risk of funding the services of a solicitor, you can make a No Win No Fee claim.

What Are The Benefits Of Making A No Win No Fee Claim?

• You won’t have to pay the solicitor a fee for their services if the claim doesn’t win. This means they share the risk of the claim with you.
• If the claim does win, the solicitor’s fee is taken from your compensation payout so you don’t need to worry about having enough money to pay for the service upfront.

Please get in touch with us today to see if you can claim compensation for a data breach:

• Call Legal Expert to speak to a claims advisor on 0800 073 8804
• Or write to us via our website
• Or ask us a question using the web chat widget on your screen

Related Commercial Data Breaches

You may find the following data breach guides helpful:

• Experian Data Breach
• HSBC Bank Data Breach
• A Company Has Misused My Personal Data – Can I Sue?
• Solicitors Lost My Medical Records – Can I Claim?
• Sickness At Work Data Breach Compensation Claims
• UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims
• Child Custody Data Breach Claims
• Citizens Advice Data Breach Claims
• Taking your case to court and claiming compensation – an ICO guide
• An ICO guide to avoiding identity theft
• The right to object to the use of your data – an ICO guide

Thank you for reading our guide to claiming compensation for an estate agent data breach.

Written by Chelache

Edited by Victorine

A child custody data breach can be an upsetting experience for any family. Child custody battles often happen when a couple divorces or separates, which can be a sensitive and upsetting time. What’s more, the data breach can compromise a child’s safeguarding. So child custody data breaches can cause emotional distress or psychological trauma.

Child custody data breach claims guide

Under data protection legislation such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 DPA, organisations are responsible for protecting the personal data they process. A data controller, usually a company or organisation that processes personal data, must take proactive measures to prevent data misuse. A custody data breach claim may be possible in circumstances when a data controller fails to comply with data security laws and this causes a personal data breach.

Please call our claims helpline to speak to an advisor in confidence to see if you are eligible to claim. If you are eligible to claim compensation, we can appoint a data breach solicitor to start working on your case immediately.

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• Call our claims helpline on 0800 073 8804
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• What Is A Child Custody Data Breach?
• What Child Data Could Be Leaked?
• Examples Of Local Authority Data Breaches Involving Children’s Records
• Reporting A Child Custody Data Breach
• What Could I Claim For A Child Custody Data Breach?
• How To Claim For A Child Custody Data Breach

What Is A Child Custody Data Breach?

Personal data is protected by data security laws and is information which identifies an individual. A personal data breach is a security incident compromising the integrity, confidentially and security of such information.

A data breach could happen when your data has been:

• Lost or stolen
• Altered or encrypted
• Deleted or duplicated
• Unlawfully destroyed
• Exposed or leaked to an insecure environment
• Seen by unauthorised persons
• An organisation discloses processed personal data, verbally or in writing, without a lawful basis to do so.

There are instances when an organisation can share personal information without the data subject’s permission. Under data protection laws, organisations can share and process personal information if they have a lawful basis to do so. For example, social services may share personal information with the police to protect a child.

What Child Data Could Be Leaked?

If a family is affected by a child custody data breach it may mean that lots of personal and personally sensitive information could be involved, depending on what data has been breached. Here are some examples of data that the breach could compromise:

• First name and surname
• Address
• Data of birth
• Email address
• Phone number
• Financial information
• Online logins and passwords

However, a child custody battle often involves highly sensitive information about the lives of those involved. For example, the data breach may leak information that the UK GDPR considers special category data that requires even more protection. Therefore the data breach could have a detrimental effect on the victims’ personal life.

Examples Of Local Authority Data Breaches Involving Children’s Records

Leicester City Council accidentally emailed 27 companies a spreadsheet that contained information on vulnerable people including children in their care. Attached was a document containing information about vulnerable people, including children under the courts’ protection.

Leicester City Council asked the firms to delete the email and reported the breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO is the public body in the UK that enforces our data protection laws. And the ICO has the power to investigate and fine organisations that breach data protection laws.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-42667451

Reporting A Child Custody Data Breach

When a personal data breach occurs that affects the rights and freedoms of data subjects then the data controller must take several steps:

1. Report the data breach to the ICO within 72 hours
2. Inform the data subject that their personal data has been involved in a data breach.

There are also steps you, the data subject, can take:

Firstly, you can make a formal child custody data breach complaint to the organisation involved. The data controller should investigate the breach formally. If you do not receive a satisfactory response, you can report the data breach to the ICO. You should make the report within three months of your last meaningful contact with the data controller.

Secondly, you can contact Legal Expert to see if you can claim child custody data breach compensation. To make a successful claim, you will need to provide evidence to prove the following:

• An organisation failed in its legal obligation to correctly secure your personal data.
• This caused your personal data to be breached
• Consequently, you experienced emotional distress or mental health injuries because of the data breach.
• Or the data breach led to financial losses.

What Could I Claim For A Child Custody Data Breach?

A child custody battle data breach can expose personal and sensitive information. Moreover, it may involve sensitive information about children. Which, if exposed, could compromise the safety of the child. After a breach, you may experience emotional distress. Moreover, you may experience mental health injuries, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or acute stress due to a data breach.

Moreover, you may have experienced financial losses. For example, you may have had to pay for medication to treat a mental health injury. Or, if the breach made you feel less safe in your home, you may have had to pay for a home security system.

If your child custody battle data breach compensation claim is successful, you could potentially receive these damages:

• Material damages are compensation for past and future financial losses.
• Non-material damages are compensation for psychiatric injuries or emotional distress.

You can use our data breach compensation table for non-material damages. Material damages compensation you could claim is not included in the table.

We used the 16th edition Judicial College Guidelines to create the table. The guidelines were updated for 2022. Please feel free to contact us for a personalised compensation quote.

How To Claim For A Child Custody Data Breach

Legal Expert can provide you with a No Win No Fee data breach lawyer.

A No Win No Fee solicitor means you won’t pay a solicitor’s fee before or during the claims process. Alternatively, you will pay a success fee if you win your compensation claim. And you won’t have to pay a success fee if you don’t win. You will pay your success fee out of your compensation payout at a legally capped rate.

Please use the details below to contact us about making a data breach claim:

• Call 0800 073 8804 to talk to an advisor
• You could fill out our online claims form?
• Or use our web chat feature to speak to us directly

Related Data Breach Claims

You may find these data breach guides helpful if you wish to claim data breach compensation.

• Local Authority And Council Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide
• How To Report A Data Breach Incident
• School Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide
• Solicitors Lost My Medical Records – Can I Claim?
• Foster Care Data Breach Claims
• Sickness At Work Data Breach Compensation Claims
• UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims
• Cumbria Constabulary Data Breach Claims
• Personal data breaches – an ICO guide
• Safeguarding children’s data – an ICO guide
• Your rights under the Data Protection Act 2018 – a government guide

Thank you for reading our guide to claiming compensation for a child custody data breach.

Guide By Chelache

Edited By Melissa

Has your personal data been involved in a veterinary surgery data breach? Were your bank details or contact information breached, and this caused you financial or emotional harm? If a vet surgery processes your personal data, they become known as a data controller. All data controllers must legally take steps to protect any personal information they handle in regard to their clients and employees.

Veterinary surgery data breach claims guide

This guide explains how data controllers and processors must adhere to data portection laws; the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In order to make a personal data breach claim, you must be able to show how an organisation that had a responsibility in keeping your data safe failed in this regard.

To find out if you have a valid veterinary surgery data breach claim, contact us today by:

• Call our advisors for free, no-obligation help on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us online to see how we could connect you with a data breach solicitor
• Or use the live support option, bottom right, for immediate help

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1. What Is A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach?
2. Data Protection Guidelines For Vets
3. Insurance And Financial Records Held By Vets
4. How To Report A Data Breach By A Vet
5. What Could You Claim For A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach?
6. How To Claim For A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach

What Is A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach?

The Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR define personal data as any information that could be used to identify you as a living person. This data can be used independently or alongside other details to infer or indicate personal facts about you.

Certain sensitive information called special category data has even more potential to harm the data subject if leaked or breached and must be processed with greater care. With this in mind, all companies must fulfil at least one of the six lawful bases for data processing.

An independent body called the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regulates, investigates and can penalise those who fail to do this.

Furthermore, a personal data breach can take place when your personal information is accidentally or unlawfully;

• Lost
• Deleted
• Destroyed
• Accessed by unauthorised parties
• Or verbally disclosed

Data breaches can happen through human error, such as sending an email to the wrong recipient or posting details to an incorrect address.

External hacks are quite rare compared to these mistakes. A claim may not be valid if the veterinary surgery can prove they were trying their best to defend against an external breach.

Data Protection Guidelines For Vets

Vets need to keep more information than just the name of our pets. Names, addresses and contact details are essential, and possibly debit or credit card information may also be retained on record.

In order to keep secure the personal data vet surgeries process they may opt to:

• Secure documents in locked filing cabinets or other safe places to prevent lost or stolen paperwork
• Train staff on how to avoid wrong person fax mistakes or wrong postage address errors
• Apply passwords to access information
• Have ‘time out’ functions on computer screens
• Train staff fully in the UK GDPR obligations
• Encourage a culture of open communication with staff and clients about data processing

To make this as easy for companies as possible, the UK GDPR details ‘7 Core Principles’ that must be followed when processing data.

Insurance And Financial Records Held By Vets

In addition to the basic contact details and bank information that a veterinary surgery may need to hold, there are insurance details that may apply. Pet insurance is a popular way of ensuring that funds are available if a pet falls ill or needs surgery and other expensive procedures.

Information that could be held on record includes;

• Name, address and contact details like email address
• Bank details and direct debit instructions
• Salary or earnings information
• Details of spouse or partner
• Insurance provider details

If your personal or special category data is involved in a data breach caused because of failure on the part of the organisation to comply with data protection laws, you may be eligible to claim for any harm caused.

How To Report A Data Breach By A Vet

Discovering a data breach is something that can happen long after the actual security incident itself. Worryingly, the first you may know of it is when money has already left your account, or email accounts start to feature strange activity.

All companies faced with a data breach must inform the ICO within 72 hours if it infringes the data subject’s rights. The company must also let you know about the breach as soon as possible.

You can raise a complaint with the surgery if you suspect they are at fault for breaching your data. If you do not get a response or an unsatisfactory response, you can complain to the ICO; however, they do not pay compensation.

What Could You Claim For A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach?

After a successful veterinary surgery data breach claim, you could be eligible to seek compensation in two areas. Material damage can be claimed for any financial losses.

Being able to present bank statements or invoices that clearly show a directly-related cost to you is important when claiming compensation.

The second area is non-material damage which looks at the level of psychiatric distress the data breach caused you. Such as:

• Stress
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

The Judicial College Guidelines demonstrate:

These guidelines are used when legal professionals are valuing injuries and illnesses in civil claims.

It’s important to bear in mind that these amounts are guide brackets only. 

How To Claim For A Veterinary Surgery Data Breach

As you approach your veterinary surgery data breach claim, you could consider working with a data breach solicitor under a No Win No Fee agreement.

Contracts such as this mean a data breach solicitor requires no upfront hiring fees or ongoing fees.

Cases that win require a deduction from the settlement. This is capped at a maximum of 25%. This is to reward the solicitors for their efforts but ensures you receive the bulk of any compensation given.

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By Marlon Cooke. Last Updated March 2024. This guide will explain if you are eligible to claim compensation after a lawyer data breach.

When we use the services of a lawyer, they may be privy to all sorts of personal data, such as your name, home and email address, and contact number, as well as a type of personal data known as special category data. Very often, a law firm will be considered a data controller, a party that has control over the means and purpose of data processing. They could choose to outsource the processing to a data processor or conduct it in-house. Both the data controller and processor must comply with data security laws. Failure to do this can make them liable should you suffer harm if your personal data is breached.

If you contact Legal Expert, we can offer free legal advice about making a data breach claim. Moreover, if you have a legitimate reason to claim compensation, we can appoint a knowledgeable data breach solicitor to work on your claim.

So please get in touch with us today to see if you can begin a claim for compensation for a data breach:

• Call our helpline on 0800 073 8804
• Fill out our online claims form
• Or speak with an advisor directly using our Live Chat widget

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• What Is A Data Breach By A Lawyer?
• How Could A Lawyer Data Breach Happen?
• Types Of Sensitive Data Lawyers Could Handle
• How Long Do You Have To Claim For A Data Breach By A Lawyer?
• Lawyer Data Breach Claims – What Could You Claim?
• How To Claim For A Lawyer Data Breach

What Is A Data Breach By A Lawyer?

If you hire a lawyer, they will need to process your personal data in order to offer you their service. The UK General Data Protection Regulation UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 DPA requires any personal data to be protected according to their rules.

A security issue can comprise the availability, security and integrity of your personal data leading to a breach. If personal data is accidentally or deliberately ;

• Lost or stolen
• Deleted, altered or encrypted
• Accessed without authority
• Or verbally disclosed

Then a data breach has taken place.

For a data controller to legally process your personal data, they must have a lawful basis for doing so. They must also comply with the 7 principles of the UK GDPR.

To be eligible to claim data breach compensation for a lawyer data breach, it must first be proven that the data breach is the fault of the lawyer/law firm as they failed to comply with data protection legislation. This will have led to your personal data being breached and you suffering harm as a consequence.

Data breach cases can be complex matters. So please feel free to call our claims helpline, and an advisor can let you know if you can begin a claim for a solicitor data breach.

How Could A Lawyer Data Breach Happen?

A lawyer data breach can happen because of human error. A human error data breach may be unintentional, but the incident can still harm the victims of a data breach. Unfortunately, some data breaches are caused by cybercriminals.

We will look at how a personal data breach could happen:

• A law firm employee can verbally disclose a client’s ethnicity without a lawful basis to do so.
• Lawyers email containing personal data is sent to the wrong email address. Consequently, the lawyers would share the data with an unauthorised party.
• Similarly, a lawyer could send a letter about a case to the wrong address.
• A law firm’s cyber security system may be substandard. Therefore leaving the firm vulnerable to a cyber attack.
• A computer is stolen from a law firm. If the device is not password protected, the criminal could access files on the device that contain personal data.

How Common Are Data Breaches In The Legal Sector?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is an independent public body responsible for governing adherence to data protection legislation. It publishes data security incident trends every financial quarter. From Q2 2019 to Q2 2022, the legal sector reported 2,457 data security incidents. Of these, 1,955 were non-cyber-related, whereas 502 were caused by cyber-attacks.

Types Of Sensitive Data Lawyers Could Handle

A lawyer data breach could potentially expose sensitive data about a client. Lawyers may handle sensitive information about a client. If a lawyer breaches sensitive data, this could cause emotional distress, stress or psychiatric injuries.

Sensitive data is a type of personal data that is categorised as special category data. This type of sensitive data is given added security when being processed by a data controller. Special category data includes the following:

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Political information
• Philosophical or religious information
• Trade Union membership
• Biometric or genetic data

Call our team today and have your lawyer data breach case looked at by one of our advisors. Valid claims can be connected to an expert No Win No Fee data breach solicitor.

How Long Do You Have To Claim For A Data Breach By A Lawyer?

If you are wanting to start a lawyer data breach claim, you must be mindful of the limitation period. The data breach claims time limit varies depending on which party is liable for the breach. However, claims time limits can be a complex matter, so please feel free to contact us to see if you can claim compensation.

• Generally, you have 6 years to start the claim
• Or, 1 year against a public body

Lawyer Data Breach Claims – What Could You Claim?

If a data breach by your lawyer, or a data breach that your lawyer was liable for had affected you financially, then you could make a claim for suffering from material damage.

There are many ways that a data breach can affect a person financially. You could:

• Lose money to fraud, if someone uses your personal details to steal money from you
• Incur replacement costs, to replace any exposed or breached materials
• Lose out on income, if the breach affects your ability to work

You should collect evidence of how you have been financially affected to present as part of your claim.

If the breach had affected you mentally, then you could also make a claim for suffering from non-material damage.

The figures in the table below are from a document called the Judicial College Guidelines, which could be used to value your claim for psychological harm.

These types of compensation can be sought as part of the same claim, or separately. This follows the ruling made in the Court of Appeal Case of Vidal-Hall and others v Google Inc [2015].

You can reach out to one of our advisers for more advice about how your claim could be valued, or to learn more about how to start a claim against a solicitor for a data breach.

How To Claim For A Lawyer Data Breach

If you are thinking about using legal representation for your case, have you thought about using a solicitor on a No Win No Fee basis? Generally, solicitors that opt to work on this funding basis use a Conditional Fee Agreement CFA. Usually, there are no upfront fees to pay your solicitor for their service. Only a success fee is required if the case is won. This is a percentage of the payout, but it is capped by law. If the claim does not succeed, then you do not have to pay this success fee.

To see if you can begin the claims process, please use the information below to reach us.

• Call our helpline today. Just dial 0800 073 8804
• Send us a message using our online claims form
• Or you can ask us a question using the web chat feature on the corner of your screen

More About Data Breach Claims

To find out more about data breach claims, please look at these online resources.

Employer Personal Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide

Loan Company Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide

Trade Union Membership Data Breach Compensation Claims

Guide to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) – an ICO guide

Raising A Complaint With An Organisation – an ICO guide

How To Protect Yourself From Nuisance Calls – an ICO guide

We are grateful that you took the time to read our guide to making a lawyer data breach claim.

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Edited By Melissa.