PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS
SITE

What’s in these terms?
These terms tell you the rules for using our website (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us
leaplegal.co.uk is a site operated by Jude D’Alesio and the Legal Education and Access Programme (We). To contact us, please email info@leaplegal.co.uk.

By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of service refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
– Our Privacy Policy below, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.

We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 14 August 2025.

We may make changes to our site
We may update and change our site from time to time.

We may suspend or withdraw our site
Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available orbe uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We may, but are not obliged to, give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of service and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

Our site is only for users in the UK
Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

How you may use material on our site
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our
site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your
organisation to content posted on our site. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations,
photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user- generated). You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of service, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these terms of service).

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

– Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
– Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790). You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model. This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
Our site, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to, and intended for use by, individuals located in the United Kingdom. By continuing to access, view or make use of our site and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in the United Kingdom. If you are not located in the United Kingdom, you must immediately discontinue use of our site and any related content and services. Use of the site from jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom and is at the user’s own risk, and we make no representations about compliance with foreign laws.

Rules about linking to our site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@leaplegal.co.uk

Do not rely on information on this site
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

We are not responsible for viruses
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not introduce viruses
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
– We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:
– We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
– We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
– use of, or inability to use, our site; or
– use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
– In particular, we will not be liable for:
– loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
– business interruption;
– loss of anticipated savings;
– loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
– any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:
– We only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy below.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. We both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in
Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

PRIVACY POLICY

– This privacy policy sets out how Jude D’Alesio and the Legal Education and Access Programme (collectively, LEAP) uses and protects your personal data.

Important information and who we are
– Privacy policy
– This privacy policy gives you information about how LEAP collects and uses your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you apply for our programmes, contact us, or register to attend our events.
– This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect
data relating to children. Any data unknowingly collected will be deleted upon discovery.

Controller
– LEAP is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
– If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact LEAP using the information set out in the contact details section.

The types of personal data we collect about you
– Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
– We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

1. Identity Data includes first name, last name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
2. Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
3. Usage Data includes information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services.
4. Consent Data includes any data you consent to providing to LEAP, including, but not limited to, data provided through your submission of an application form, event registration, or contact via email with LEAP.
5. Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. How is your personal data collected?
   – We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through: Your interactions with us. You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
6. apply for our services;
7. email us; or
8. register to attend our events.

Technical Data may be collected from analytics providers such as Google based outside the UK.

How we use your personal data
– Legal basis
– The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
– Legal obligation: We may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on this legal basis.
– Consent: We rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your personal data for a specified purpose, for example if you subscribe to an email newsletter.

Disclosures of your personal data
– We may share your personal data where necessary with mentors on LEAP’s mentoring scheme and volunteer programme assistants under confidentiality obligations

Data security
– We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
– We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data retention
– How long will you use my personal data for?

– We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. For data collected through application forms and emails to LEAP, this will be retained for a maximum of twelve months. However, we may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
– To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether
we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
– In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.

Your legal rights
– You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

You have the right to:
– Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
– Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
– Request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
– Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) as the legal basis for that particular use of your data (including carrying out profiling based on our legitimate interests). In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your right to object.
– You also have the absolute right to object any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
– Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
– Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in one of the following scenarios:

9. If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;
10. Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
11. You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
    – If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email info@leaplegal.co.uk.
    – No fee usually required
    – You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
    – What we may need from you
    – We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to
    receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
    – Time limit to respond
    – We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Contact details
– If you have any questions about this privacy policy or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact info@leaplegal.co.uk.

Complaints
– You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, before doing so please make sure you have first made your complaint to us or asked us for clarification if there is something you do
not understand.

Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes
– We keep our privacy policy under regular review.
– It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us, for example a new address or email address.

Third-party links
– This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.