If you’ve been injured due to third-party negligence at an activity centre, you may want to find out about activity centre personal injury claims. Learn how to claim compensation with a No Win No Fee solicitor in this guide.

Legislation is in place to reduce activity centre harm. We explore what activities are covered and where there might be exemptions. In addition, we look at what legislation governs health and safety in the workplace. Activity centres owe a duty of care to their users and their employees. If the duty of care is breached and someone is injured, that person could claim compensation.

Examples of potential compensation for injuries and costs you could recover are included in this guide. In addition, we look at what evidence you could use to strengthen a potential claim. We also break down how a No Win No Fee arrangement works. Hiring legal representation may benefit your claim, we explain why.

Begin your claim today:

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1. What Are Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims?
2. Where Do Most Activity Centre Accidents Happen?
3. Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims Time Limit
4. Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims Calculator 
5. How To Make Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims

What Are Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims?

Outdoor activity centre injury compensation claims are personal injury claims that could be made against any outdoors centre for injuries sustained by customers during the activities or on the grounds.

While there are some specific legislations governing safety at these types of centres which we will examine later, in general terms, the activity owes a duty of care to all visitors under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. This act stipulates that steps must be taken to ensure the reasonable safety of those visitors while they are on the premises. Also, owners of such activity centres need to ensure that they comply with Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004 and the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety Act 1995.

As An Injured Employee At An Activity Centre, Can I Make A Claim?

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HASAWA) sets out the duty of care all employers owe their employees. Reasonable steps to reduce workplace risks must be taken by your employer. If your employer neglects their duty of care and you are injured, you might be able to make an accident at work claim.

Examples of what your employer should supply include:

• Free training where appropriate. This could include health and safety training.
• Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) where necessary. This should also be provided for free.
• Equipment that’s safe to use. Required equipment checks should be carried out. These could include inspections of large equipment. Also, teaching staff how to spot check equipment, such as inspecting floatation devices in a waterpark for holes.

You can read on for more detailed information about activity centre personal injury claims. Or, to get a free assessment of your eligibility to seek compensation, contact our advisors today using the number provided above.

Where Do Most Activity Centre Accidents Happen?

Accidents leading to injuries occur in different ways. This depends upon the activity and the location in which it is taking place. A gym accident may have a different cause than a soft play accident. The nature of the injuries may be different as well. However, both the gym and soft play centre could be at risk of a wet floor resulting in a slip, trip and fall injury.

Activity centre personal injury claims could occur when staff or a member of the public is injured due to the centre’s negligence. If you’ve been injured, either as a staff member, or a member of the public in an activity centre, our advisors could discuss your potential claim.

 Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims Time Limit

You might want to file for compensation if you or your child has been injured due to the activity centre’s negligence. Users and employees could make activity centre personal injury claims. You could also file on behalf of your child as a litigation friend if your child experienced an injury.

If a claimant is under 18 years old, a litigation friend would need to claim on their behalf. However, they could have 3 years to start a claim from the date of their 18th birthday if nobody does this on their behalf when they’re a minor.

Some accidents — such as slips, trips and falls — leading to injuries could happen anywhere if the activity centre neglects its duty of care. However, some injuries are going to be specific to the type of activity. A theme park accident claim, for example, may involve a faulty rollercoaster, whereas a waterpark could involve an injury relating to waterborne disease.

Expert advisors are standing by to discuss your potential claim.

Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims Calculator

If you decide to claim compensation, you may notice that your compensation could be divided into two heads. These are general damages and special damages. We further explain each below.

General Damages

To compensate for your injuries and any emotional distress, you claim general damages. Solicitors refer to a document titled the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) to help assign value to injuries. Injuries are listed alongside potential compensation brackets. We’ve included examples from the JCG in the table below.

Compensation Table

It is important we point out that this table has been included for guidance purposes only. The top entry is not a JCG figure.

Special Damages

Special damages is the head of claim that recovers costs related to the injury. In order to claim under this head, however, you must supply evidence, such as payslips or receipts.

Examples of costs you could recover include:

• Lost wages. Payslips could help you recover loss of earnings. This could include future loss of earnings too.
• Cosmetics. Plastic surgery that the NHS couldn’t cover or specialist makeup could both be included. Other devices to reduce scarring could also be recovered.
• Medical expenses.  Also, medical bills could be recovered, including therapy costs and renting medical aids if the NHS couldn’t cover this.

For details of what evidence you could supply to claim under special damages, contact our advisors.

How To Make Activity Centre Personal Injury Claims

Legal representation could make the activity centre personal injury claims process seem easier. The costs associated with a solicitor could be prohibitive. There is another way, however.

A No Win No Fee arrangement, such as a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) offers a way to have legal representation with reduced financial risk. There are no upfront solicitor fees with No Win No Fee arrangements. The awards of successful claims will have a legally capped success fee taken from them.

Estimates of potential compensation based on your injuries are available from our advisors. They can also advise on what evidence you could submit to strengthen your claim. If your claim seems eligible, our advisors can connect you with our personal injury solicitors.

Begin your claim today:

• Use our claim online form
• Use the live chat feature
• Phone 0800 073 8804

Public Place Accident Claims

For more information about activity centre personal injury claims:

• Information about Adventure Activities Licensing for the Public from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 
• First Aid Guide from the NHS
• Employee Health and Safety Guide from the HSE

We have lots more guides on personal injury claims which you can browse below:

• A guide to the claims process
• Climbing wall activity accident claims
• Claiming compensation for quad bike injuries
• Claiming compensation for a mountain bike injury
• How does the personal injury claim process work?
• Missing tile accident claims
• Success fees in personal injury cases
• How many claims go to court?
• Special damages in personal injury claims
• CCTV footage in personal injury cases
• Claiming compensation for injuries caused by faulty furniture
• How to claim against your employer
• Compensation tables for personal injury
• Try our personal injury claims calculator
• Multi-story car park accident claims
• The Pre-Action Protocols in personal injury
• How much compensation can you get for a personal injury claim?

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Mountain bike activity personal injury claims may be something you need to consider after being injured? Do you work at an outdoor activity centre and were hurt by poor standards of health and safety?

Mountain bike activity personal injury claims guide

Perhaps you are a customer or service user who was given a mountain bike to use that was damaged? Or did a negligent instructor take you or your child on a hill or forest trail that was too rigorous for your level of experience?

In this guide, we explain what you can do to seek compensation from the party who failed to apply proper health and safety precautions. Looking at the severity of the injury and how this has impacted your finances, evidence can be used to calculate a compensation amount. Our advisors can assess your mountain bike activity personal injury claim in minutes. Find out more by:

• Speaking to our advisors who can offer free legal advice on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us and request a call back online
• Use the ‘live support’ option below
• Or read the sections below and click on the highlighted text for more advice

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1. What Are Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims?
2. Types Of Mountain Bike Activity Injuries
3. How Common Are Mountain Biking Accidents?
4. How To Claim For A Mountain Bike Activity Accident
5. Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims Calculator
6. How We Could Help With Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims

What Are Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims?

What exactly is a personal injury claim involving a mountain bike? At work and in public leisure venues there are laws that apply a common duty of care to employers and service providers to ensure they have taken reasonable steps to keep those who use their services or who are employed safe.

The Health and Safety At Work etc Act 1974 requires employers to take all reasonably practicable steps to keep employees safe. So an eligible claim can be started by any employee of an outdoor activity centre who is harmed if expected to use a faulty mountain bike or traverse an unsafe terrain.

The Occupier’s Liability Act 1957 likewise expects all those in control of spaces accessible to the public to apply similar safeguards. This means ensuring that all public facilities are safe, fit for purpose, and used in accordance with health and safety guidelines.

The Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (AALA)

In addition, under the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) The Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (AALA) programme ensures that activity providers follow good safety management practices that allow users (especially young people) to experience thrill-seeking outdoor activities like mountain bike riding without being exposed to avoidable risks of disabling injury or death.

There are limits to what employers and operators can be held liable for. Both employees and members of the public have a duty to safeguard their own well-being, follow instructions and use facilities in the correct way.

However, if you were injured because of an obvious lapse in the expected standards of health and safety, you could start a mountain bike activity personal injury claim against that party.

Types Of Mountain Bike Activity Injuries

Mountain bike accidents can be of a serious nature. This type of activity takes place on terrain that can be quite treacherous. Not all accidents will mean that another party is to blame. It is only when accidents caused by a breach in the duty of care that the injured party becomes eligible to pursue a claim

Some examples of injuries that could be caused by a mountain bike accident include:

• Cuts and abrasions from falling off the mountain bike.
• Joint Sprain issues can arise when a ligament is torn or stretched.
• Knee or lower back pain can be triggered by overuse on a route that is too demanding.
• Fractured sternum from impact with heavy handlebars
• Concussion from falling off a bike on difficult or overly rugged terrain
• Fractured clavicle (broken collar bone) injuries or other broken bones
• Multiple injuries can arise from collisions with other riders on a poorly organised course.

Speak to our team for guidance on mountain bike activity personal injury claims if you are unsure about your case.

How Common Are Mountain Biking Accidents?

The British Journal of Sports Medicine provided some statistics that show the type of injury sustained in rural mountain bike accidents out of 84 patients in one year:

Source: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/35/3/197

How To Claim For A Mountain Bike Activity Accident

Mountain bike activity personal injury claims need to show that either your employer (if you were injured at work) or the activity provider where you were riding failed to safeguard your health and wellbeing as much as they should have. In order to do this, there are some steps that you can take to gather supporting evidence:

• Firstly, have your injuries properly attended to and if an employee, log the accident formally
• Ask others if they would give a witnesses statement to your solicitor (if you choose to use one)
• Try to obtain CCTV footage if possible
• Access your medical records to have ready as proof
• Take pictures of the faulty bike or signposts of the track you were on
• Connect with a personal injury specialist to start a claim or commence one independently.

How Long Do You Have To Claim?

The Limitation Act 1980 applies time limits to personal injury claims. With this in mind, there is a three-year period to commence a mountain bike activity personal injury claim normally. This period can start from:

• Either the date of the accident or injury itself
• Or the date that you first began to suffer symptoms.

In addition to this, there are some exceptions. If the injury happens to someone under the age of 18, the three-year period can commence from the date of their 18th birthday. Effectively giving them until age 21 to start a claim. Or an adult can start a claim on behalf of a minor or someone who lacks the mental capacity to represent themselves.

This role is that of a litigation friend. It can enable an adult or concerned party with the person’s best interests at heart to assume the duties of the case for them.

Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims Calculator

Claim calculation uses two types of damage called general and special. General damages require a medical report that shows how badly injured you are and then compares your injuries with those listed in a publication called the Judicial College Guidelines.

These amounts offer an estimate, not a guaranteed amount to acknowledge the pain and suffering or loss of amenity caused by the injury. Below is an excerpt from the JC Guidelines to show what may apply in a personal injury claims:

Special damages are the second amount that may apply. In order to claim for these, receipts, statements, and other documentation must show financial loss attached to the injuries. So, for example, you may be able to prove:

• Medical costs
• Physiotherapy or counselling sessions
• Loss of earnings
• Travel expenses to get to hospital or work
• Damage to your bike

Talk to our team for more help on this. Alternatively, you can use the compensation claims calculator we provide.

How We Could Help With Mountain Bike Activity Personal Injury Claims

At Legal Expert, all our solicitors work under a No Win No Fee arrangement. They can assess mountain bike activity personal injury claims and possibly take yours up under a No Win No Fee agreement. Generally with a No Win No Fee service there are no up front fees, only a maximum 25% fee from the settlement if you win. Nothing is due to your solicitors if the case is unsuccessful.

Why not learn more about how No Win No Fee agreements could help you by:

• Speaking to our advisors right now on 0800 073 8804
• Contact us online
• Or use the ‘live support’ option below

Related Sports and Activities Claims

In conclusion, as well as mountain bike activity personal injury claims, we look at related topics in the helpful links below:

• What compensation you can claim for cycling without a bike helmet
• Bike safety tips from THINK!
• Highway Code rules for cyclists

We have lots more guides on personal injury claims which you can browse below: 

• A guide to the claims process
• Climbing wall activity accident claims
• Claiming compensation for quad bike injuries
• Activity centre injuries – how to claim compensation
• How does the personal injury claim process work?
• Missing tile accident claims
• Success fees in personal injury cases
• How many claims go to court?
• Special damages in personal injury claims
• CCTV footage in personal injury cases
• Claiming compensation for injuries caused by faulty furniture
• How to claim against your employer
• Compensation tables for personal injury
• Try our personal injury claims calculator
• Multi-story car park accident claims
• The Pre-Action Protocols in personal injury
• How much compensation can you get for a personal injury claim?

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Last Updated 14th April 2025. In this guide, we explain what a UK GDPR breach is and how a compensation calculator can help when estimating what could be awarded in a successful personal data breach claim. The laws around the safe use of your personal information are tighter than ever since the introduction of new data security legislation. Under the new laws, if data has been breached because those who were handling it (data controller or processor) failed to adhere to data protection laws and it causes distress then you could have a right to be compensated.

If data controllers or processors (those organisations that handle personal data) are found not to be applying the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and The Data Protection Act 2018 properly could suffer a fine from the governing body called the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). It could also enable you to seek compensation for emotional distress and financial trouble if your personal data is breached as a result.

Speak to our team in complete confidence now to learn more about what your rights are after a data breach. They can advise how our data breach specialists could help you with your data breach claim. Simply:

• Call our advisors on 0800 073 8804
• Visit our online contact page
• Open up the live chat tab you see below to start a conversation.

You can also watch our video below which explains the key takeaways from our guide:

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1. When Can UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims Be Made?
2. Types Of Sensitive Or Personal Data
3. Who Can Claim For A UK GDPR Breach?
4. Compensation For Data Breach – Examples Of Data Breaches
5. Should I Report My Data Breach?
6. Evidence You’ll Need To Claim UK GDPR Breach Compensation
7. UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims Calculator
8. Statistics For GDPR Data Breaches
9. UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims With Our No Win No Fee Solicitors

When Can UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims Be Made?

You could be eligible for compensation for a data breach if you can prove the following:

1. The data breach was caused by the organisation’s failures.
2. Your personal data was compromised in the breach.
3. As a result of your personal data being breached, you suffered mental harm or financial loss.

Personal data is any information that could directly identify you or could identify you in combination with other information. Your name, home address, and national insurance number are all classed as personal data. In the next section, we will provide more examples of what could be classed as personal data.

A personal data breach is a breach of security that leads to the accidental or unlawful alterations, destruction, or loss of personal data. It also included the unauthorised disclosure or access to personal data.

Per the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), any organisation that processes the personal data of UK residents must do all that they can to keep it safe. This could include ensuring that they update their cyber security measures and provide efficient data protection training to all staff members. If you can prove that an organisation’s failings caused your personal information to be compromised, you could make a claim for your data breach.

Contact our advisors today to receive free legal advice regarding your specific claim. Additionally, they could answer any questions you may have about personal data breach claims.

Types Of Sensitive Or Personal Data

In order to interact with virtually every type of business or organisation, both on and off-line, we are obliged to provide details about ourselves. Some of this information is required by law. We trust that the organisations that retain and use this data are doing so in accordance with UK GDPR law. For example, you may need to provide:

• Name and address
• Email address
• Date of birth and disclosed ethnicity
• Details of dependants
• Housing and employment details
• Bank information
• Affiliations with religious groups
• Biometric data such as fingerprints

The ICO calls these pieces of information ‘identifiers’ which means that they can be used to identify you.

Who Can Claim For A UK GDPR Breach?

Data breach victims may only discover the breach long after the initial problem occurred. Companies are legally required to report a serious data breach to the ICO within 72 hours. Also, they should contact any customer or service user affected to alert them.

If you are subjected to a personal data breach you can do the following:

• Raise a complaint with the organisation that breached your data as soon as you become aware
• The ICO does not pay compensation either but their involvement can lend weight to your claim.
• Start to assemble evidence of the financial or emotional toll the data breach has taken on you
• Reach out for help with a data breach solicitor

Tracking a data breach back and obtaining proof that the party involved caused the issue through positive wrongful conduct are essential. Professional help can organise this. Furthermore, a solicitor can ensure that you calculate all the costs to you caused by the problem. After a successful data breach claim following a UK GDPR breach, a compensation calculator could help to estimate what you may be awarded.

Data Breach Claims – What Are The Time Limits?

If you are claiming data protection breach compensation, you need to start your claim within the time limit. There are two different time limits involved with data breach claims. The time limit will depend on the nature of the organisation you are claiming against.

Generally, you must start your claim within six years of the incident.

When making a claim against a public body, such as a local council, the time limit to start your claim is typically only one year.

Call our advisors to learn how much compensation for a data breach you could get if you are within the time limit or what factors could affect the data breach compensation amount.

Compensation For Data Breach – Examples Of Data Breaches

Before discussing examples of compensation for a data breach, it would be helpful to explore different scenarios in which a valid UK GDPR breach claim might arise.

Some examples of when a personal data breach could occur may include:

• Your personal data is stolen during a cyber attack due to an organisation not updating its cyber security measures.
• Your personal information is sent to the wrong postage address, despite a company having your correct home address on file
• An organisation sends a group email but accidentally shares your email address with other recipients because they failed to use blind carbon copy (BCC)
• Your employer verbally discloses your personal data to an unauthorised party without a lawful basis for doing so.

Our data breach solicitors have helped countless clients secure UK GDPR breach compensation amounts in the UK. Get in touch at any time to arrange a free consultation and to see if you could be eligible to work with one of them.

Should I Report My Data Breach?

If you are concerned that your personal data was breached by an organisation then you should report this issue. We advise that it is best to take control of the breach as soon as possible to prevent further harm or losses and support your claim for data breach compensation.  

If you are suspicious that an organisation has breached your data, you should report the issue to them by:

• Sending them an email or;
• Sending them a letter 

It is also important to keep a record of any correspondence regarding the breach between yourself and the organisation.  This may be used as evidence to support your claim. 

You can also report the breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Not only will this support your claim but the ICO may help to control the breach and limit the impact it has on you. 

If an organisation suffers a data breach that affects the rights and freedoms of data subjects, it must be reported to the ICO within 72 hours of discovering the data breach. If a data subject would like to make a report, they must not wait longer than three months since their last meaningful conversation with the organisation.

After reporting your data breach, it may benefit you to get in touch with our helpful advisors. They can help determine whether you are eligible to start a data breach compensation claim and explain GDPR breach compensation amounts with you.

Evidence You’ll Need To Claim UK GDPR Breach Compensation

When you make any kind of UK GDPR breach claim, it’s your responsibility to prove that the organisation or company responsible for your data failed to comply with data protection law.

To do this, you’ll need to support your data breach claim with evidence. This might include:

• Correspondence with the ICO.
• Medical records or a letter from a psychiatrist detailing how the breach has affected you mentally.
• Receipts, bills, bank statements, and other financial documents that prove the financial losses you’ve suffered.
• Statements or communication with the other party.
• The results of an ICO investigation.

One of the benefits of making a data breach compensation claim with the help of a solicitor is that they can handle this step. They can talk to witnesses who have seen how the breach has affected you, contact an independent medical professional to arrange an assessment, and collate your financial losses.

To learn more about how a solicitor could help you, get in touch today. Or, keep reading to learn more about making a claim and find out how our data breach compensation calculator could help you.

UK GDPR Breach Compensation Calculator

A UK GDPR breach compensation calculator can give you a useful insight into what you could be awarded, but you may also like to know how data breach compensation works.

There are two types of harm for which you can seek compensation. One is material damage, which means the impact of a data breach on your financial situation. That might mean:

• You’ve missed work due to the stress of the situation.
• The breach meant you had to move house, at your own expense.
• A data breach badly affected your credit score.

Material damage will address these things. Sharing proof of your loss, such as bank statements or payslips, will be vital.

When a data breach calculator asks you what mental harm you have suffered due to the breach, it is looking to estimate harm from non-material damage. During your claim, those responsible for reaching a data breach compensation amount will attempt to value your psychological injuries.

They might get support from a set of guideline compensation figures from the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). We’ve used the document and its brackets to make the table, which you might find handy as a guide.

In case you are wondering, you can seek a payment for both material and non-material damage or for just one of them. If you’d like to learn more about using a data breach compensation calculator or would appreciate a more detailed review by an advisor, simply call the number above.

Statistics For GDPR Data Breaches

Now that we have addressed the question, ‘How much compensation for a GDPR data breach could I receive?’, you may wish to look at some of the statistics that are available. The ICO publishes trends on data breaches each year, looking at the number of data breach breaches that were reported and how they occurred. 

In 2024, 12,193 data breach incidents were reported to the ICO. Some of the most common causes include:

• 21% of incidents occurred due to data being emailed to the incorrect recipient
• 10% of incidents resulted from unauthorised access to personal data
• 10% of incidents happened due to phishing (this is when a fraudulent email is sent pretending to have a legitimate request for details, such as passwords)
• 7% of incidents occurred due to a failure to redact personal data
• 5% of incidents resulted from data being posted or faxed to the incorrect recipient
• 5% of incidents were caused by ransomware (malicious software)

As you can see, data breaches have a variety of cyber and non-cyber causes. They can also be the result of malicious intent or human error. 

If you have any questions on the common causes of data breaches, we recommend that you reach out to our team of experienced advisors. They can explain how a data breach can occur in greater detail and outline how to use our UK GDPR breach compensation calculator.

UK GDPR Breach Compensation Claims With Our No Win No Fee Solicitors

If you’re eligible to make a personal data breach compensation claim, one of our solicitors could represent you in your claim. Additionally, one of them may offer to work with you on a No Win No Fee basis with a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA).

If you work with a No Win No Fee solicitor, you won’t be required to pay them any upfront or ongoing fees for their work. Furthermore, if your claim is unsuccessful, then you won’t have to pay for your solicitor’s services.

If you make a successful claim, a success fee is taken from the compensation awarded to you. It’s a legally capped percentage of your compensation that’s taken by the solicitor supporting your case.

For more information on claiming compensation for a UK GDPR breach of personal data, you can contact our advisors today. They may also connect you with one of our solicitors if they believe you may have a valid case.

You can reach them through the following methods:

• Calling 0800 073 8804
• Requesting a call back through our claim form
• Using the 24/7 live chat service

Learn More About A UK GDPR Breach And How A Compensation Calculator Could Help You

• Details on  bank data breach compensation claims
• Also, FAQ’s on data breach compensation issues
• With this in mind, more details on how to report a data breach incident
• Advice from the Government on cyber security
• If you work for a school or if your personal data held by a school is shared by email, you could make a data breach claim against that school.
• Tips for being more cyber aware
• In conclusion, cyber security guidance for businesses

Thank you for reading our guide about a UK GDPR compensation calculator.

By Danielle Jordan. Last Updated 27th February 2024. This guide will explain if it is possible to claim compensation for an exam results data breach. Data breaches can be a gross violation of privacy. The Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation UK GDPR are the most stringent data protection laws to date. They give greater control to the data subject, an individual whose personal data is processed, and apply greater security of personal information. If a school or university (data controllers) breaches information about your exam results, and you experience emotional distress can you make a claim? In extreme situations, you may have suffered acute stress from the data breach or another psychiatric injury.

As schools, universities and exam boards are data controllers they are responsible for protecting the personal data they collect. Whether a school exam results data breach or a university exam results data breach harmed you, to be eligible to claim compensation you must be able to demonstrate that personal data was breached because the data controller failed to adhere to the correct data protection laws. Similarly, if a school breached your child’s personal data, you could act as a litigation friend and claim compensation on their behalf.

Don’t hesitate to contact us today to begin your educational data breach claim. Call our advice line on 0800 073 8804, or you can contact us online. If we can see that you are eligible for compensation, we can provide you with a skilled lawyer to handle your claim.

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What Is An Exam Results Data Breach?

A personal data breach is a security incident in which personal data has either been lost, stolen, destroyed, altered, disclosed or accessed without a lawful basis. An exam results data breach can happen if a school or university processes such data in an unlawful way. However, data breaches can also happen through accidental means or deliberate actions. Human error is the single most common cause of data breaches.

The Data Protection Act 2018

The Data Protection Act gives you the right to know what data an organisation holds on you. However, it also outlines other rights designed to protect your personal data from being breached or used in a way that might cause you harm or loss.

What the Data Protection Act says, in terms of your rights, includes:

• Having access to your personal data
• Being informed about how and why your data is collected and processed
• Having any incorrect information updated
• The ability to have your data erased
• Stopping your data from being processed unlawfully

Following a breach of the Data Protection Act, your exam results could be exposed, causing you to suffer. Get in touch to find out if you are eligible to claim compensation.

Education Data Breach Statistics

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) publishes data security incident trends every quarter. These statistics show us how common education and childcare data security incidents are in the UK:

• Education and childcare institutions reported to the ICO 388 data security incidents, in Q3 2021/22.
• 311 were non-cyber security incidents.
• 77 were cyber security incidents.

Data Breach Claim – What Makes You Eligible To Claim Compensation?

Following a data breach, you may wonder if you are eligible for compensation. In this section, we look at Article 82 of the UK GDPR. This is the article that sets the right to data breach compensation.

It states that if your personal data was compromised as a result of an organisation’s failure to adhere to the data protection legislation and you suffered damage, either non-material or material, you could be eligible to make a data breach claim.

However, you must have evidence supporting your claim. For example, the school or exam board may have notified you of a data breach. Communication between yourself and the organisation can help support your claim. It must also show that your personal data was included. Additionally, if the ICO investigated the breach, this could also support your claim.

You will also need to have evidence that proves you were harmed due to your personal data’s compromise in order to claim. For example, you could submit medical records to prove non-material damage. In addition to this, you might be requested to attend an independent medical exam to assess the severity of your mental suffering. To prove non-material damage, you could submit bank statements if someone used your compromised personal data to access your bank account.

To discuss data breach compensation amounts in the UK, call our advisors. They can offer free advice about what evidence you could submit as well as assess your eligibility to claim.

Causes Of An Exam Results Data Breach

Many data breaches are accidental and caused by human error. However, data breaches can also happen because of malicious or illegal activity such as a cyber attack. Here are some example scenarios of how data breaches can happen:

• A school forgets to update a student’s contact details and sends personal data to the wrong address.
• A laptop is lost or stolen with the files containing students’ personal details.
• School data breaches can happen if a school publishes a document on their website without redacting any personal information first.
• Likewise, a university data breach can happen if a secretary leaves files containing students’ personal details in a public area.

When Should Data Breaches Be Reported?

As previously stated, personal data could be compromised due to exam results. For example, if a school does not update an address and sends results to the wrong postage address. Although under the Data Protection Act, exam results would likely not be considered personal data and therefore can be shared, though some data included within results may be considered personal.

If you ask, “are exam results personal data?”, the personal data that could be compromised includes any information that may identify you as the subject. For example, your name, address, phone number and email address are considered personal data.

If you suspect your personal data has been compromised, you may like to know when data breaches should be reported. The data controller must notify you without undue delay if your personal data was included in a breach and your rights could be impacted. Additionally, the data controller has 72 hours after the incident was noticed to report it to the ICO.

Call our advisors to discuss whether exam results are confidential. If they think you have a valid claim for a personal data breach, you could be put in touch with our No Win No Fee solicitors.

What Should You Do After An Exam Results Data Breach?

The UK General Data Protection Regulation UK GDPR allows data subjects who have had their personal or sensitive information involved in a data breach to be eligible to make a claim.

You may be eligible to make a data breach claim if:

• An organisation breached your personal data.
• The organisation must have failed to protect your data from a security threat,
• Subsequently, you experienced emotional distress or psychological injuries and/or financial losses because of the data breach.

Please get in touch with Legal Expert today if a data breach exposed your exam results. If we can see that you have legitimate grounds to claim compensation, we can provide you with a No Win No Fee lawyer to handle your claim.

Exam Results Data Breach Compensation Calculator

If your personal data breach claim is successful, you can receive up to two types of compensation:

• Firstly, you can claim material damages. If you lost money or other assets because of the data breach, you might be able to claim back these costs.
• Secondly, you can claim non-material damages, compensation for emotional distress or mental health problems you suffered because of the data breach. Having your personal information exposed can be an upsetting experience. In some cases, victims develop psychological injuries as a result.

You can use this table as a data protection breach calculator. Please look up the distress or injuries you experienced to see what you may be eligible to claim in non-material damages.

We used compensation guidelines from the Judicial College to create this table. Although solicitors use these guidelines to help them value data breach claims, the final compensation payment may vary. When you speak to a claims advisor, they can provide you with a personalised compensation quote.

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When you claim compensation for a data breach, you may choose to use a No Win No Fee solicitor. This means you will not pay a solicitor’s fee before your solicitor starts to work on your claim.

Instead, if your solicitor wins your claim; you will pay a success fee. The success fee is a legally capped payment deducted from your compensation payment. Therefore using a No Win No Fee agreement to fund the work of your solicitor is the more affordable option for many claimants.

Please get in touch with us today to see if you can begin your claim for a university or school exam results data breach. If we can see that another party owes you compensation, we will assign a skilled lawyer to start working on your claim.

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Related Educational Data Breach Claims

If you would like to know more about claiming compensation for a data breach in the education sector, please read our guides today.

Nursery Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide

What Was The Blackbaud Data Breach – Compensation Claims Guide

University  Data Breach Compensation Claims Guide

An ICO guide to online safety for children

An ICO guide to your right to limit how organisations use your data

A guide to avoiding and reporting online scams and phishing

Thank you for reading our guide to exam results data breaches.

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By Cat Way. Last Updated March 2024. This guide will explain how to make an anxiety data breach claim. If you become a data breach victim because your personal and sensitive information has been breached this can cause not only financial losses but also mental suffering. Consequently, some victims of a data breach experience emotional distress or psychiatric injuries, such as anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this guide, we will explain who could be eligible to make a compensation claim for anxiety following a personal data breach.

This guide will look at what makes a data breach victim eligible to claim compensation. Moreover, we will look at how a data breach can affect a person’s mental health and general wellbeing. And we will explain how to claim compensation for psychological harm caused by a data breach.

Please get in touch with us today to begin your data breach claim.

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• Could A Data Breach Cause Anxiety?
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What Is An Anxiety Data Breach Claim?

Organisations may collect personal data from stakeholders. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which runs alongside the Data Protection Act 201, organisations are obliged to protect the personal data they collect. For example, organisations should train their employees to handle data safely. Moreover, organisations should have appropriate security measures to protect their databases.

A personal data breach is a security issue that compromises personal information. It could happen in the following ways:

• The organisation exposes or leaks personal data
• Personal data is lost or stolen
• The organisation destroys, encrypts or alters the personal data accidentally or deliberately
• An employee discloses personal data without a lawful basis
• Or the organisation gives the wrong person access to the data

Victims of a data breach can claim compensation if an organisation did not do enough to protect the personal data they hold. If the company did all they could to keep this information confidential but a data breach happened anyway a claim is unlikely.

The data subject will need to have suffered emotional distress or psychiatric injuries or financial losses as a result. For example, an anxiety data breach claim can be made if the claimant developed an anxiety disorder because of a data breach.

To claim compensation for a data breach that caused anxiety or stress, please contact Legal Expert today.

Could A Data Breach Cause Anxiety?

As we have mentioned, data breaches can expose information that is not only private and confidential but data that is sensitive. Special category data, such as a person’s religious beliefs, medical information, and political beliefs all need extra protection when being processed by a data controller or data processor.

If a personal data breach was to expose personal medical information or sexuality then a person could go on to suffer not only emotional distress but this could very seriously lead to psychological harm.

Data breaches can also be traumatic if they put an at-risk person in danger. For example, a social services data breach may leak information about an abuse victim’s home address. Therefore the person’s abuser may use the information to access the victim’s home, compromising their safety. Consequently, the person may experience high-stress levels because of the data breach.

In response to a distressing data breach, the data subject may develop psychiatric injuries, including:

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder
• Clinical depression
• Symptoms of PTSD
• Other mental illnesses

How To Make An Anxiety Data Breach Claim

After a data breach, you may have experienced anxiety or other mental illness problems. You can make an anxiety data breach claim under the following circumstances:

• Firstly, an organisation breached your personal data, intentionally or unintentionally.
• Also, the organisation must have failed to protect the data they had collected from you. For example, the organisation did not have an up to date cyber security system. So, the organisation failed to prevent a hacking attack in which criminals stole your data.
• Consequently, you suffered emotional distress or psychiatric injuries, such as anxiety, or financial losses.

If an organisation breaches your personal data and it affects your rights and freedoms they should notify you and report the incident to the ICO. On the other hand, if you believe you have discovered a personal data breach, please report the incident to the organisation.

However, if you are not happy with the way the data controller is handling the breach you can report the data breach incident to the ICO within three months of your last meaningful contact with the organisation’s Data Protection Officer if you are not satisfied with the progress made.

Anxiety Data Breach Claim Calculator

If your anxiety data breach claim is successful you could be awarded up to two different types of data breach compensation. We have provided this table below that looks at one type of data breach compensation – non-martial damages.

We used guidelines from the Judicial College to create this advisory information on how much you can claim for emotional distress or a psychiatric injury. Data breach solicitors use these guidelines to value a claim.

However, many factors will determine how much your compensation claim may be worth. So please call our data breach claims helpline, and we can help you estimate what your compensation payment could be.

If your claim for anxiety caused by a data breach is successful, you can receive up to two heads of claim:

• Material damages compensate you for any financial losses the data breach caused. For example, if criminals targeted you for online fraud after the data breach, you may have eligibility claim back these losses.
• Non-material damages are compensation for psychiatric injuries such as PTSD, or emotional distress that the data breach caused.

Begin Your Anxiety Data Breach Claim

If you are ready to start your claim for anxiety after a data breach, one of our solicitors may be able to help you, provided you have a valid case. With years of legal experience, our solicitors can help you support your personal data breach claim, answer any questions you may have, and guide you through the claims process under a No Win No Fee agreement.

Our solicitors offer their services under a No Win No Fee arrangement known as a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). Under this kind of agreement, your solicitor will work on your claim without taking any upfront or ongoing fees. Similarly, if your claim fails, your solicitor won’t take a fee for their work.

Should your claim succeed, your solicitor will take a small, legally-capped percentage of your compensation as their success fee. This legal cap helps to ensure that you keep the majority of your settlement.

For more information on how one of our solicitors could help you claim personal data breach compensation, contact our team of advisors today. They can help you identify whether your personal data breach claim is valid, and may also connect you with a solicitor from our panel. To get started:

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• Start your claim online
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Related Data Breach Resources

Please read these online guides if you want to know more about making a data breach compensation claim.

• I suffered from stress due to a data breach, could I claim compensation? Find out with our helpful guide.
• I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After A Data Breach, Can I Claim? Our guide offers more information.
• If your Medical Records Have Been Stolen, you may be wondering if you can make a claim. Learn more about the personal data breach claims process with our helpful guide.

External resources:

• An ICO guide to identity theft
• An ICO guide to claiming compensation for a data breach
• Your data protection rights

We appreciate you reading our guide to anxiety data breach claims.

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Edited By Melissa.

Foster care data breaches can put already vulnerable children at risk and cause emotional distress to foster parents. What’s more, a foster data breach can affect the anonymity and security of children in care. Under legislation such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Data Protection Act 2018, social services must safeguard the personal data they collect.

Foster care data breach claims guide

So if a foster care data breach has affected you, you may be eligible to claim compensation. Moreover, if the foster care system breached your child’s data, you can act as a litigation friend, claiming compensation on your child’s behalf. However, not all data breaches mean a compensation claim is possible only when it can be proven that the breach occurred because there was a failure to adhere to data protection laws.

If a social worker or children’s care services breached personal data about you, please contact Legal Expert to inquire about making a data breach compensation claim. We can appoint a skilled data breach solicitor to work on your compensation claim. You can make a claim with a No Win No Fee data breach solicitor, so you will only pay a success fee if you win your claim.

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What Is A Foster Care Data Breach?

Foster care happens when a child is removed from the home by social services and put into the temporary care of a state-certified caregiver. Many children in foster care have had traumatic backgrounds. For example, violent biological parents may have abused the child before child services removed them from the family home.

A personal data breach is a security incident which leads to personally identifiable information being lost, stolen, disclosed, altered, destroyed or accessed without authority. A foster care data breach can mean sensitive and personal information about a vulnerable child or their foster family being exposed.

Information breaches can cause emotional distress to children and foster families because it exposes sensitive data. A child services data breach can threaten a family’s security if the data breach releases confidential information such as names and addresses. Therefore an abuser could gain access to the child.

Furthermore, those employed by child care services could also be subjected to an employee data breach if their personal information is exposed by an employer data breach.

Examples of incidents that could cause a data breach:

• Social services disclose confidential data without a lawful basis
• A council email containing personal information about a child in care is sent to the wrong email address.
• Lost personal data on a device that is left on a train.
• A cybercriminal accesses a council’s database that contains the addresses of foster carers.
• Social services disclose the whereabouts of a foster family by accident to the child’s biological parents.

Local Government Data Breach Statistics

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) releases statistics about the number of data security reports they receive quarterly. In Q3 2021/22, 217 local government data security incidents were reported to the ICO. 208 were non-cyber and 9 were cyber data security incidents.

Types Of Foster Care Data Breach

Personal data breaches can happen by accident or deliberate actions. However, human error is the most common way for a data breach to occur. The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), and the Data Protection Act 2018, do not protect all types of data just data that is personal. This can include name, address, and email address but can also include data that needs extra protection such as health data, data about your religion or your sexual orientation.

Below we look at example data breach scenarios:

• Social services could send information about a child in foster care to the wrong email address. Therefore social services could put the child’s security at risk.
• Similarly, a social services employee may neglect to use Blind Carbon Copy on a mass email to foster parents. Therefore this would share information that identifies the foster parents with the group.
• Hackers may target child services to gain illegal access to their databases. The hackers may steal personal information and use it for blackmail purposes.
• Lost or stolen devices, such as work laptops. If the device is not password protected, a stranger can access personal data on the laptop.
• Child services publish by accident information about their employees online, causing a foster worker data breach.

Reporting Foster Care Data Breaches To The Information Commissioner

Foster care data breaches can be very serious, especially if they endanger a child. If child services discover that they have breached your personal data, they should inform you as soon as possible. The organisation will also report the data breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) within 72 hours; if the data breach jeopardises the rights and freedoms of the data subject. The ICO may investigate the data breach and issue a fine.

If you believe you have discovered a child services data breach, please raise your concerns with the organisation. They should resolve the problem internally and may be able to advise you on what to do to keep you and your family safe.

However, if you do not feel they have taken the data breach seriously enough, you can report the data breach incident to the ICO. But please get in touch with the Information Commissioner’s Office within three months of your last meaningful contact with the organisation’s data protection officer.

How To Claim For A Foster Care Data Breach

You may be eligible to claim for a foster care data breach under the following circumstances:

• You are within the data breach claims time limit, as determined by the Limitation Act 1980.
• An organisation breached your personal data by not adhering to data protection laws
• Furthermore, you suffered emotional distress after the data breach. Or you experienced psychological injuries such as PTSD and/or you lost out financially.

Please get in touch with Legal Expert today to enquire about claiming compensation for a data breach.

Foster Care Data Breach Compensation Calculator

If you make a successful data breach claim, you will receive up to two different types of compensation:

• Material damages compensate you for any money lost because of the data breach.
• You can also claim non-material damages compensation. Therefore you will be compensated for any emotional distress or stress due to the data breach. Moreover, if you experienced psychiatric injuries, you can claim compensation for these.

Please use the table to estimate how much non-material damages compensation you can claim. The compensation amounts in the table are based on Judicial College guidelines. But please be aware that the amount of compensation you receive may vary depending on your circumstances.

To discuss how much compensation you could receive, please call our claims helpline, and an advisor can speak to you in-depth.

Start A Claim For A Foster Care Data Breach

Please get in touch with Legal Expert today to inquire about claiming compensation for a foster care data breach. If you are eligible for compensation, we can provide you with a No Win No Fee solicitor to handle your claim.

A No Win No Fee solicitor will not require any upfront payment. Instead, your solicitor will charge you a success fee if you win your claim. Moreover, because you don’t pay an upfront solicitor fee, a No Win No Fee solicitor may be the more affordable option for you.

To discuss your options and see if you can begin your claim, please get in touch with us today:

• Chat with an advisor using our Live Support widget
• Begin your claim enquiry online, using our website
• Or call our advice line for free on 0800 073 8804

Find Out More About Data Breach Claims

If you wish to claim compensation for a data breach, these online guides may be helpful.

• Data Breach Compensation Claims
• How To Claim Compensation For A School Data Breach
• How To Make A Claim Against Social Services?
• Fostering in England 2020 to 2021: Main Findings
• How To Access Information From A Public Body
• An ICO guide to keeping your personal data private online
• Brentwood Borough Council
• East Suffolk Council
• Solicitors Lost My Medical Records – Can I Claim?
• Sickness At Work Data Breach Compensation Claims
• The Police Sent My Personal Data To Someone Else, Can I Claim?

We are appreciative of you reading our guide to foster care data breaches.

By Cat Way. Last Updated 30th January 2025. When you seek the help of a psychologist, you are trusting someone with private and deeply personal information. Therefore, when a psychologist breaches your data, it can leave you feeling unsafe and isolated. However, you could be eligible to seek compensation for a psychologist data breach with the help of a No Win No Fee solicitor.

Keep reading to find out how psychologist data breach claims are defined and the criteria you must meet to make one. We will also look at the types of data that psychologists hold.

Furthermore, We explain what data is protected by UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and detail the claim process. You can also find out how one of our No Win No Fee solicitors could help you to proceed. 

If you have any questions about your case, why not speak with one of our advisors? They can help you to understand the claim process and the eligibility criteria. Your case could potentially be referred to an expert No Win No Fee solicitor today:

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1. What Is A Psychologist Data Breach Claim?
2. Types Of Psychological Health Data
3. When Could You Make A Psychologist Data Breach Claim?
4. What Data Is Protected By The UK GDPR?
5. How To Make A Psychologist Data Breach Claim
6. Start A No Win No Fee Psychologist Data Breach Claim

What Is A Psychologist Data Breach Claim?

Psychologists work with people who suffer from psychological conditions, such as depression and anxiety.

A psychologist may collect a considerable amount of your personal information, such as your address, name, and date of birth. Personal data is any information that can identify you, whether directly or indirectly.

They might also keep sensitive information that relates to your mental health issues, such as your specific condition and any medications you could be on. All of this data could be impacted by a personal data breach.

Health Data And Special Category Data

Health data and special category data are protected under the UK GDPR as well as the Data Protection Act 2018. These work in tandem with each other and cover the ways in which personal data and information can be shared or used by data controllers and data processors.

A data controller is an organisation that decides how and why personal information is used. They sometimes use the services of data processors (organisations that process personal data on the controller’s behalf).

Types Of Psychological Health Data

Certain healthcare information is known as special category data. This means that it needs a larger amount of protection when being processed. The different types of health data could include:

• Electronic health records
• Prescriptions
• Appointment notes
• Image data – CT scans, for example

When Could You Make A Psychologist Data Breach Claim?

You could make a claim when you have proof that your data was compromised because the data controller failed to protect it. This could come from the organisation notifying you themselves, or through other means.

Examples of how a personal data breach could occur due to wrongful conduct include:

• Unsecure physical records –  If physical documentation or archived information has been incorrectly stored or left in an unsecured place, then a person with unauthorised access could read them as well as take photographs or simply take the files and distribute the information.

• Theft of devices that contain personal data – If a member of staff has electronic devices stolen, such as stolen computers, any personal data that was unsecured on that device could be lost or sold.

What Data Is Protected By The UK GDPR?

Medical information is covered by the UK GDPR, along with all other personal and sensitive data. The UK GDPR has crafted a series of data protection principles that data processors and controllers need to follow to ensure that the personal data they collect and store is protected.

Special category information also includes data relating to:

• political leanings and religious beliefs
• sex life and sexual orientation
• biometric data (where used for ID purposes)
• your genetics
• trade union membership
• racial or ethnic origin
• philosophical beliefs

How To Make A Psychologist Data Breach Claim

You must have experienced psychological harm or financial loss to make a personal data breach claim. This includes any financial harm that occurred following a breach, or mental harm, such as suffering anxiety or PTSD following the experience.

If you believe that your personal data was involved in a personal data breach, you can contact the data controller or processor responsible. They should respond and provide you with the required information.

However, if you haven’t received a satisfactory response from them, you could contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You’d need to do so within 3 months of the organisation’s final unsatisfactory response to you.

The ICO is a public body that oversees laws for data protection and data rights. The ICO also has the ability to carry out investigations, as well as impose fines on those who are found to be in breach of data protection laws.

If you need further advice or guidance on how to make a psychological data breach claim, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Compensation Table

Material damages compensation and non-material damages compensation are the two types of compensation that you could claim when making a personal data breach claim. You can claim for both or either damages.

The Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) covers the psychological injuries that you suffer as a result of a personal data breach. These guidelines can be used by legal professionals when valuing injuries.

The compensation table below demonstrates examples of the different forms that mental health issues can take along with potential corresponding compensation brackets.

 Non-Material Damages

Non-material damages are the mental health effects you have suffered as a result of a personal data breach. These could include mental issues such as:

• Depression
• PTSD
• Anxiety

These are just to name a few examples. However, there could be other variations of psychological issues that may present as a result of a personal data breach.

The Court of Appeal heard the case of Vidal-Hall and others v Google Inc (2015). The decision was made that you could claim non-material damages without the need to also claim for material damages. This means that you could claim for one set of damages or both.

When claiming compensation for non-material damages, you’ll be asked to have a medical assessment. Its purpose is to establish if the damage you suffered was severe enough to have a lasting impact on your day-to-day life. The assessment can then be used as another form of evidence, potentially strengthening your claim.

Material Damages

Material damages, on the other hand, are the financial loss that you have experienced through a personal data breach. This could include your debit and credit card details being stolen, or bank account details being used in a fraudulent way. These could affect your credit rating and impact any future financial decisions you may make.

Any additional information on the different types of damages can be given by our advisors. They are on hand to help and support you as you go through the claims process.

For more information on how you could make a claim for a personal data breach because of a psychologist, don’t wait to contact us.

Start A No Win No Fee Psychologist Data Breach Claim

The psychologist data breach claims process might seem daunting. However, one of our experienced solicitors could help you claim personal data breach compensation on a No Win No Fee basis by offering a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA), provided you have a valid case.

When you enter into a CFA, you aren’t required to pay any fees to your data breach solicitor in order to access their services or for them to begin working on your case. Additionally, should your claim fail, then your solicitor will not take a fee for their services.

If your claim is successful, then your solicitor receives a success fee. This is a small percentage of your compensation which is legally capped.

Our advisors are here to help if you’d like to work with one of our solicitors on your personal data breach claim. When you contact our team, they can offer you a free consultation, where they will evaluate your claim and identify whether it could be valid. If it is, then they could connect you with one of our solicitors.

You can get started by:

• Using the live chat
• Contacting us via our website
• Calling us on 0800 073 8804

Medical And Health Data Breach Resources

We have gathered a collection of resources for you to have a look through. These are linked below.

• Find out how to claim compensation after a medical record data breach caused you to suffer harm.
• Learn about the medical conditions data breach claims process and find out if you could be entitled to compensation.
• Read our guide to data breach compensation claims against the NHS for information on what to do should such a breach occur.

Furthermore, for more information on data breach claims and how the ICO can be a useful tool, see the links below provided:

• How to minimise the risk of personal data breaches happening
• Make a complaint
• How to report a breach

For any further information on psychologist data breach claim, contact us via the live chat feature or our website.

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Edited by Victorine

By Cat Way. Last Updated March 2024. Has your personal information been exposed in a tax information data breach? Are you unsure if you would be eligible to make a personal data breach claim? This article aims to provide information on what steps to take should your personal data be exposed in a tax information data breach.

As part of this guide, we will look at different types of laws that will protect your personal data such as The Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s governing body of data privacy laws and can issue fines to those who fail to adhere to the applicable legislation.

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6. Find Out If You Could Claim With A No Win No Fee Solicitor

What Is A Data Breach Of Tax Information?

A personal data breach can be defined as a security incident that has affected personal data confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Only certain types of data are protected by data security laws in this country.

Generally, all personal information must be kept secure this includes any sensitive or special category personal data also. When we speak of personal information we are talking about data that can help to identify an individual such as name, address, email address, DOB and telephone number, to name a few.

A successful personal data breach claim will show how you have suffered financially or mentally because of the breach in personal information. It will have been proven that the data controller or processor will be liable for the breach in some way i.e. they never protected the data in the way it should have been.

A data controller is very often an organisation who decides how and why personal data is processed. They can outsource this data to a processor for it to be processed.

How Long Do I Have To Claim For A Tax Information Data Breach? 

It’s important to consider the time limits in place for starting a personal data breach claim for a tax information data breach. Generally, you will have six years to start a personal data breach claim; however, the time limit is reduced to one year if you are claiming against a public body.

One of the benefits of working with a solicitor on your personal data breach compensation claim is that they can help ensure that your claim is filed within the relevant time limit. To find out how one of our solicitors could help you through the claims process, we recommend getting in touch with our team of friendly advisors today.

How Your Tax Information Privacy Could Be Breached?

Personal data included in a tax Information data breach could have been exposed in several ways, including malicious intent, such as cyber-attacks or phishing attempts. It could also be due to human error, such as poor administrative practices. Examples of how a data breach could occur are listed below.

• Phishing: Achieved by clicking on any suspicious links within emails can be the gateway for hackers to enter and steal sensitive information.
• Poor administrative practices: Poor training in data security awareness can lead to human error data breaches. Also if a company does not have up to date cyber security systems in place cybercriminals can infiltrate their systems with ease.
• Mis delivery of data: This is when personal information or data has been sent to the wrong email address or home address.

Please get in touch with our advisors for further information on how to claim compensation if your personal information has been exposed in a tax information data breach. They are available to answer any questions and guide you through the process.

What Is Exempt From The UK GDPR?

The UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 set out exemptions for certain rights and obligations in some circumstances. Exemptions are given to organisations on a case by case basis. This means that an organisation can not rely on having routine exemptions. Therefore, the organisation would need to have a document justification of its reasons for needing an exemption.

Exemptions include

• The right to be informed
• The right to access
• Dealing with other individuals’ rights
• Reporting personal data breaches
• Complying with the UK GDPR principles.

Examples Of Tax Information Data Breach Claims

A  data breach can happen in several ways, both through cyber and non-cyber means:

Firstly, cyber-attacks can happen to any organisation. It could be due to ransomware that targets databases. Ransomware, for example, is a virus crafted to hide information away, so it becomes inaccessible. Therefore the cyber attackers can demand a ransom to be paid for the information to be returned.

Secondly, human error is one of the major causes of many data breaches. Sending your personal information to the wrong email address could be caused by human error or a lack of training in data safety awareness.

Having proof of an accountant data breach is vital to be able to pursue a personal data breach claim. Not all those who are affected by a data breach will hold a valid claim.

• Firstly, you must be able to show that your personal or sensitive data has been involved in a data breach.
• Secondly, you will need to prove that the breach happened because those who had a responsibility to keep your data safe failed in these aspects. If the data controller had done all they could to protect and keep your data secure a claim would not be possible.
• Thirdly, you can claim two types of damages for the harm you have suffered.

Please feel free to contact us through our live chat feature for any more information on data breaches involving tax information.

Tax Information Data Breach Calculator

There are two kinds of compensation you could receive as a part of your data breach claim:

Material damage

These kinds of damages cover the financial aspects of the data breach, the claim itself and any financial losses caused by the suffering. They can include funds that have been stolen from your bank account or credit card if your financial information has been breached. However, they can also include loss of earnings if you needed to take time away from work while you recover from any mental suffering.

Non-Material damage

These damages will compensate for the suffering and mental injuries that have resulted from your information being breached. After learning that personal or sensitive information may have been exposed your mental health could suffer causing depression or anxiety.

We have used guidelines from the Judicial College in the table below. The guideline bracket amounts are often used when valuing injuries in civil claims.

For a free evaluation of what your claim for a data breach involving tax information could be worth, get in touch with our advisors today.

Find Out If You Could Claim With A No Win No Fee Solicitor

If you have decided to use legal representation you might be interested in a No Win No Fee arrangement. Very often a Conditional Fee Agreement CFA will be used for this type of contract. The CFA will state the terms and conditions of the agreement.

If a data breach solicitor agrees to offer their service on this basis it may mean you pay no upfront fees to hire the solicitor.

If the case does not succeed for whatever reason you would not be required to pay the solicitor for the service they have provided.

Only when the case is won will a fee need to be paid. This will be a success fee that is capped by law and is taken from the settlement before it is given to you.

For free legal advice about personal data breach claims, please

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Financial Data Breach Resources

We hope that this guide has provided you with some valuable information on whether you can claim for a tax information data breach. Below we have included some use external guides as well as some more of our own articles.

• • How to make a complaint to the ICO
  • Can I minimise the risk of a data breach
  • Who can report a data breach to the ICO?
  • Learn what to do if your data has been breached, and get more help with the data breach claims process.
  • Are you wondering if you can make a claim for lost or stolen paperwork in a data breach? Read our guide to learn more.
  • Who is liable for lost or stolen electronic devices? Find out if you could claim if a lost or stolen device resulted in a personal data breach.

Furthermore, if there are any further questions, please contact us. Our advisors can answer any questions about a tax information data breach.

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Last Updated 2nd June 2025. Have you suffered a financial data breach that involved information on your wages or salary? Are you looking to make a wage data breach claim and are unsure whether you are eligible to receive compensation? This guide has been designed to help you understand the process of claiming compensation and what you can expect from the whole process.

This guide will walk you through the roles of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as well as how a No Win No Fee agreement could be beneficial to you.

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1. What Is A Wage Data Breach?
2. Who Could You Make A Salary Data Breach Claim Against?
3. How To Report A Wage Data Breach
4. How Does The Claims Process Work?
5. Wage Data Breach Compensation Calculator
6. How Our Solicitors Can Help You Claim Compensation
7. Learn More About No Win No Fee Data Breach Claims

What Is A Wage Data Breach?

A personal data breach is when a security incident means personal information is lost, stolen, leaked, exposed, destroyed, altered or accessed without authorisation and no lawful basis.

Only personal and sensitive data is protected by data-protection laws. Personal data refers to your name, address DOB, email address, and telephone number – all data that can be used to identify you or in conjunction with other information to identify you such as national insurance number, bank details, and car registration.

A data breach can be either caused by human error or cyber or non-cyber means. Personal data breaches can to financial loss or an impact on your physical and/or psychological health. For example, your employer could send an email to the wrong recipient with personal details contained within it such as financial information about your salary and wages.

Additionally, it is important to note that there are time limits for making a data breach claim. You have 6 years to begin proceedings, or 1 year if it involves a human rights issue.

For more information on the time limits and if you believe that you have been a victim of a data breach, don’t hesitate to contact our advisors, they are happy to help. They can offer advice and guidance on your claim.

Who Could You Make A Salary Data Breach Claim Against?

Organisations such as banks, loan companies, mortgage providers and other official financial organisations as well as your employer may collect personal details about you and your financial situation.

Under the Data Protection Act, 2018, and the UK GDPR all personal and sensitive information must be kept safe when being processed by a data controller. A data controller is any organisation that processors personal data. To be eligible to make a personal data breach claim you first must establish whether the data that was breached was protected under data protection laws. You must go further to determine liability i.e. the data controller or processor must be at fault for the breach in order to be able to claim. Lastly, you must have suffered mentally and/or financially to be eligible for data breach compensation.

If you are contacted about a data breach, the organisation that made contact with you would need to inform you of the information that has been breached. This contact, either email or letter, can be a form of evidence that goes on to strengthen your claim.

How To Report A Wage Data Breach

When a personal data breach has occurred, there is a process you could follow to make a formal complaint:

1. Approach the organisation responsible for the breach and ask for an explanation.
2. If there is no response or the response is inadequate, you could make a complaint to the ICO. It is important to not wait longer than 3 months since contact with the data controller to complain to the ICO. The ICO cannot award compensation but it can investigate the data breach. The report they may create could be used as evidence in your claim.

If you need any additional information on what to do in reporting a data breach, the ICO has a helpful guide on the process. Moreover, our advisors are available to offer free advice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

How Does The Claims Process Work?

When you begin the claims process, there are several steps in the process. If a personal data breach has occurred that affects your rights and freedoms, then you would be contacted by the company or organisation that had been affected.

The data controller should tell you about the information that has been breached and how the breach occurred. Again you can make a complaint to the organisation you think is responsible for the breach. You can escalate the complaint when you are not happy with the response. As we have said above you can even ask the ICO to investigate the breach.

If you discover that you have been impacted by a personal data breach then there are some ways to secure your information and collect evidence for the claims process.

• Change your password – It is a good idea to update your passwords or use different passwords across all the accounts you use.
• Monitor your bank account and credit reports for any suspicious activity – If you believe that your data has been breached then you could be at risk of falling victim to theft or identity fraud.
• Reporting the breach – You could file a complaint with the ICO.
• Seeking out legal advice -solicitors offer advice and guidance on the claims process and can advise on what evidence you would need to collect so that you could claim for any damages you have stuffed.

Wage Data Breach Compensation Calculator

If your personal data breach claim is successful you can be awarded up to two types of data breach compensation. The way that compensation for a data breach is calculated is made up of the following two different types of damages: material damages and non-material damages. These damages are calculated based on the severity of your losses and how you were affected by the breach.

Material Damages

Material damages are the damages that involve any financial losses you may have suffered as a result of a data breach. You would have to assess what has been lost so far and any future impact the breach may have on your financial information.

Non-Material Damages

Non-Material damages, on the other hand, cover the psychological damages that you may have suffered as a result of a data breach.

Psychological damages that could come under non-material damages:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• PTSD.

In order to claim compensation for non-material damages, you may need to be medically assessed. This is to help to prove that you have suffered from a psychological issue, assessing the severity of the issue and the recovery process.

In 2015, the Court of Appeal heard the case of Vidal-Hall and others v Google Inc (2015). The ruling was that you no longer need to have suffered material damages to claim for non-material damages. You can apply for non-material damages by itself. For instant, this means that you don’t have to have suffered any financial losses in order to make a claim.

The Judicial College provides guideline compensation brackets for common physical and psychological injuries. Examples from the JCG of the types of mental anguish you could suffer are listed below. However, the top figure was not taken from the JCG.

For any more information on how you could be compensated for a data breach, don’t hesitate to contact our advisors.

How Our Solicitors Can Help You Claim Compensation

If you have sustained psychological injuries due to a wage data breach, our professional solicitors may help you claim the compensation you deserve for your suffering.

At Legal Expert, we have a team of solicitors who specialise in data breach claims. They have undergone extensive training to become experts in this field of law and possess decades of combined experience in helping individuals claim compensation.

Our solicitors can help you start a wage data breach claim by:

• Supporting you through each stage of the claims process
• Explaining legal terminology associated with your claim
• Helping you obtain evidence to support your claim
• Explaining how salary data breach compensation is calculated
• Helping you apply for interim payments
• Helping you claim compensation from anywhere in the country
• Setting you up with specialist appointments, such as counselling
• Negotiating compensation settlements with third parties on your behalf

At Legal Expert, we value customer service and want to help you claim the compensation you are entitled to for your suffering.

We also recognise that starting a data breach claim can be overwhelming, especially if you are not familiar with the claims process. However, our solicitors are here to support you every step of the way.

If you have any questions regarding how our solicitors can support you throughout the claim process, please get in touch with our friendly advisors.

Learn More About No Win No Fee Data Breach Claims

No Win No Fee agreements are an arrangement between you and your solicitor. If you aren’t successful, you wouldn’t have to pay a success fee to your solicitor. However, if you are successful, a success fee, which is capped by law, is deducted from your compensation. Your solicitor will discuss this with you in order to avoid any surprises.

If you have any further questions about wage data breaches, or wondering if you are eligible to make a compensation claim. Our advisors can offer advice on the claims process and would be happy to speak to you. To contact us:

• By telephone, on 0800 073 8804
• Via our live chat feature
• On our website

Find Out More About Salary And Wage Data Breach Claims.

Here are some additional resources for you to look at that could help you understand how data breaches can happen and what to look out for.

There is also a guide on how to make a complaint, with the ICO.

We have guides on credit card data breaches and compensation claims.

Also, we have articles on what you can do if your data has been breached.

We have guides and articles on data breaches that involves lost or stolen devices.

If you require any further advice about a wage data breach claim, please do not hesitate to contact us for free advice and guidance.

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Last Updated 19th May 2025. Can you claim for a joint bank account data breach? What do you do when security systems or staff error in a financial institution fails? Can you be compensated if cybercriminals are able to access the personal banking details of you or your partner and steal funds from your joint bank account?

We hope that banks will keep our information safe. But data breaches can happen easily if the legal requirements to keep it safe are not applied. In this guide, we define exactly what constitutes a data breach. We look at what you and your partner can do to be compensated for both your financial losses and the anguish caused if your financial information is breached due to failures to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018

You can discuss your bank data breach suspicion in complete confidence with a member of our team right now if you would prefer. Simply:

• Call our team on 0800 073 8804
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1. What Is A Joint Bank Account Data Breach?
2. Types Of Financial Data
3. Examples Of Financial Sector Data Breaches
4. How To Claim For A Joint Bank Account Data Breach
5. Joint Bank Account Data Breach Compensation Calculator
6. Why Should I Work With A Data Breach Solicitor?
7. Start A Claim For A Joint Bank Account Data Breach

What Is A Joint Bank Account Data Breach?

A joint bank account data breach can be when personal information that relates to your financial dealings is involved in a security incident either by being:

• Lost
• Destroyed
• Duplicated
• Altered
• Stolen
• Shared without authorisation or lawful basis.

Breaches can make it easier for criminals to commit fraud and identity theft. The data breach can be an accidental human error or a deliberately negligent act or the result of outside cybercriminals who have managed to infiltrate the bank’s security defences.

The Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) describe detailed procedures that all organisations and businesses must follow if they process personal data. This is to ensure that errors with data are kept to an absolute minimum and that the data rights of a data subject are as protected as much as possible.

In order to uphold a claim for a personal data breach, it is necessary to show that there was ‘positive wrongful conduct’ on the part of the data controller – those organisations that say why and how data is processed or data processors.

An independent body called the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is set up to uphold information rights. It has the power to issue fines against any data controller that fails to adhere to good data practices as identified in the Core Principles.

Types Of Financial Data

Banks and building societies need to retain a great deal of personal information about us. We provide this information on the trust and understanding that they have the required procedures in place to protect it. Some examples of this data include:

• Our name and address
• Date of birth
• Martial status
• Details about spouse or dependants
• Email address and mobile phone numbers
• Employment status and details about salary
• Passport and other ID proof
• Credit card and debit card details
• Passwords

Banks may need to retain copies of these items and share them across their own internal departments. Each time an employee encounters your personal information they are bound by UK GDPR law to take personal accountability for the way it is handled.

Examples Of Financial Sector Data Breaches

The ICO gives a detailed record of enforcement action taken against organisations and businesses for data breach issues or mishandling of personal information. Financial services feature heavily and some recent examples include:

• Saga Personal Finance was fined £75,000 for sending 28,523,745 unsolicited direct marketing messages which contained material that subscribers had not provided valid consent for.
• American Express Services Europe Limited – From 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019, a confirmed total of 4,098,841 direct marketing messages were sent to clients. Those messages had marketing material that subscribers did not provide consent for.

Cyber Security Data Breach Statistics

Statistics from the cyber data breaches and attacks survey offer an insight into the data security issues. The survey included 1,419 businesses: 741 micro firms, 265 small firms, 210 medium firms, 203 large firms and 487 charities.

How To Claim For A Joint Bank Account Data Breach

You or your partner may have a concern that a bank has not handled your personal information with the lawfulness and protection required by UK GDPR. If so, you can start to assemble proof of this for a joint bank account data breach claim.

Requesting and assembling the relevant proof can be complex. Although you are able to do this yourself, the help of a legal professional with data breach experience can be vital. Speak with our team for help on this if you wish. Steps to take when beginning your joint bank account data breach claim include:

• Complaining to your bank directly
• Raising a complaint with the ICO no later than three months from the last meaningful contact with the bank on the matter. After this time the ICO may consider the matter resolved.
• Starting to assemble proof of damage to either your finances or health.
• Retaining receipts or bills that demonstrate your efforts to cope with the data breach consequences.

Any significant breach in personal data needs to be reported by the data controller to the ICO within 72 hours of discovery. They may or may not investigate. Furthermore, the ICO does not pay compensation to you, but you can complain to them directly about your bank if you discover a problem and wish to involve them. Their involvement can add much-needed support to your complaint.

If you can prove that your bank mishandled personal information in a way that damaged you, speak to our team.

Joint Bank Account Data Breach Compensation Calculator

After a Court of Appeal case Vidal-Hall v Google, it was recognised that it is possible to suffer emotional anguish after a data breach, irrespective of whether you suffered financial loss. The two are no longer necessarily connected in a claim for damages and you are now able to seek either one or both.

With this in mind, it is still essential to have evidence that proves the emotional and financial damages. Non-material damages relate to the stress or anxiety the data breach caused you and how it damaged your health.

They can therefore be monetarily assessed using the same tool used for other personal injury compensation claims called the Judicial College Guidelines. An example of their award brackets  for mental distress shows:

These are not certain awards, merely guidelines. However, if you or your partner can demonstrate mental health suffering to a similar level because of the data breach, you could apply for a similar amount in damages.

Material damages are the actual financial losses that you suffered. This can be either from the joint bank account data breach itself or your need to spend money trying to deal with it. For example, in a severe case, you may have needed to completely relocate. Or put your children in another school due to the invasion of privacy. Retain all proof of costs as these could form part of your total compensation award.

Why Should I Work With A Data Breach Solicitor?

One of our expert solicitors could help you to make a joint bank account data breach claim. You are not legally obliged to work with a solicitor in order to make a compensation claim. However, you could be eligible to access these incredible services:

• Assistance with collecting the evidence that will boost your claim, including an independent medical assessment where appropriate
• Handling all correspondence with the defending party and representing your interests
• Explaining complicated legal terms and processes to help with your understanding of the data breach claim
• Negotiating the settlement of compensation claims
• Connecting you with specialists who could help you to recover such as psychologists
• Talking to you throughout the process and providing you with regular updates

Our solicitors have already helped our clients to gain over £80 million in compensation so far. If you are eligible to proceed, they will provide you with the customer-focused services we have mentioned and draw on decades of combined experience to help you gain compensation. 

Get in touch with our advisors today to find out if you can claim for a data breach on a joint bank account. A compensation award could help you recover from the mental and financial impact of a data breach. We offer advice with no strings attached, so reach out today for more information.

Start A Claim For A Joint Bank Account Data Breach

At Legal Expert, we can provide No Win No Fee data breach solicitors. This affords you several instant advantages:

• No fees are needed upfront to retain a No Win No Fee solicitor
• A successful claim requires only a maximum 25% fee to be paid from any settlement to cover the success fee
• If the claim fails there is no success fee to pay.

Data breach cases can be complex. Assembling the right proof to show the bank was at fault can also be time demanding. Whilst anyone is free to represent themselves in data breach claims against a bank, it is worth considering the ease and convenience a professional can bring to your case. If you would like to learn more, please get in touch by:

• Calling our team on 0800 073 8804
• Or contact us and request a call back
• Alternatively, use the ‘live support’ option at the bottom of this screen

Financial Data Protection Breach Resources

In addition to joint bank account data breach topics, the following resources offer more reading on the subject:

• More details on bank data breach compensation claims
• Some FAQ’S on data breach compensation
• More information on data breach No Win No Fee solicitors
• Help from the National Cyber Security Centre to stay safe online at home
• As well as this, further reading about cyber security from the Government
• In conclusion, ICO offers statistics on data security incidents.