Data & Privacy Notice
Our Privacy Policy
This Notice is primarily for the benefit of our clients or potential clients or for related third parties whose data we may process as part of the provision of legal services. We maintain and will provide separate privacy notices in relation to the collection and use of personal information about our staff and employees, including potential employees, during and after their working relationship with us.
This firm processes your data in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018, the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the relevant provisions relating to the General Data Protection Regulation contained within the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (UK GDPR). This Data & Privacy Notice explains, in detail, the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we will store and handle that data and keep it safe. Unless otherwise indicated, references in this Data and Privacy Notice to the GDPR refer to the UK GDPR.
We know that there’s a lot of information here, but we want you to be fully informed about your rights, and how our firm uses your data. We hope the following sections will answer any questions you have but if not, please do get in touch with us.
Conditions for Processing Data
We are only entitled to hold and process your data where the law allows us to. The current law on data protection (Article 6 GDPR) sets out a number of different reasons for which a law firm may collect and process your personal data. These include:
Contractual obligations
The main purpose for our holding your data is to provide you with legal services under the agreement we have with you. This agreement is a contract between us and the law allows us to process your data for the purposes of performing a contract (or for the steps necessary to enter in to a contract).
Legitimate Interests
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. This may include to satisfy our external quality auditors or our Regulators.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity.
Consent
In some situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you tick a box to receive email newsletters. When collecting your personal data, we’ll always make clear to you which data is necessary in connection with a particular service.
When do we collect your data?
We normally collect your data when you provide it to us or when it is provided to us by others (your opponent’s solicitors for example) during your case. You may give us your data by email; through an online web form; over the telephone; face to face; or by post.
We also collect data automatically with regard to each of your visits to our website including technical information.
What sort of data do we collect?
Information you provide to us
You voluntarily give us your personal information for instance when:
- you contact us via our website
- provide a comment on our website
- write a review
- sign up to any newsletters
- interact with us on social media platforms, and/or
- use our services.
Where we request information from you we will collect the information set out in the relevant web pages, or as explained to you over the telephone or face to face.
Client services
We may collect personal data as follows:
- name and contact details (including address, email and phone numbers). This may include asking for and keeping a copy of your passport/driving licence and proof of address
- date of birth
- personal information that may be included in communications with us
- payment information and financial information that relates to a contractual relationship including bank details.
We may gather details of your age; ethnicity; gender etc.
We also collect and hold information about your case or legal problem.
Depending on the circumstances of their legal matters, for some clients, we may have access to or process special category data including:
- personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership
- genetic data
- biometric data processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, or
- data concerning health or a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
In addition to contract lawful condition for processing under Article 6 of the GDPR (see above), Article 9(2)(f) of the GDPR) permits us to process this data where it is necessary for, connected to and/or or relates to legal claims including for the purposes of assisting with legal proceedings, obtaining legal advice and/or establishing, exercising or defending legal rights. We will only process this specific data if it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend a client’s legal rights. We will ensure that the use of this data is relevant and proportionate and that we do not hold any more data than is needed. All such data is processed in line with the commitments and policies within this Privacy Notice.
Website or third party sources
We collect certain related technical information including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, logs (including, where available, the IP address and location of the device connecting to the online services and other technical information and identifiers about the device and the nature of the visit such as clickstream to, through and from our website) and other communication data, and the resources that you use.
On occasions, we acquire information from other companies, to collect information about how visitors to our website use the site. Information is also collected about how you arrived at our websites in the first place, including what links or adverts you have viewed or clicked on to reach us, or any search terms you have used. We do this to maintain and improve our website, getting a better understanding of visitor and client profiles and ultimately delivering a better experience. Information may be collected through the use of cookies or pixels.
How do we use your data?
Provision of services
We only use your data for the purposes of providing you with legal advice, assistance and where appropriate, representation and for reasons directly associated with those services (i.e. providing information to quality auditors etc.).
In particular:
- to deliver our services
- to manage our relationship and communicate with you
- to provide you with advice or guidance about our services
- to make and manage payments
- to respond to complaints and seek to resolve them
- to train our staff and measure the quality of the service we give to clients.
Regulatory
We also use data to communicate with our regulators or legislators and to obey laws, regulations and codes of conduct that apply to us.
For example, we will process your data to enable us to identify and/or verify your identity and conduct fraud, credit and anti-money laundering checks in accordance with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing legislation and regulation.
Website enhancement and business development
We also use data to develop our business and services. In particular:
- to respond to individual experiences shared with us and for editorial content
- to enhance your online experience
- to conduct research and surveys
- to develop and manage our services including marketing of new or enhanced services
- to research your views and experiences for research and editorial purposes, including through requests for feedback on our services
- to understand your website journey, including what pages you have viewed and for how long
- to administer and keep safe and secure our website and for internal operations, including data analysis, testing, statistical purposes.
Cookie Policy
Please see our cookie policy.
Web Hosting and Technical Infrastructure
Purpose: Provision of website hosting infrastructure and server capacity Data Processed:
- Server log files including IP addresses
- Date and time of access
- Requested pages and files
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referrer URL (previously visited page)
- Amount of data transferred
- Access status (successful access, error messages)
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) – ensuring stable and secure operation of our website Hosting Provider: IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany Storage Period: Server logs are automatically deleted after 7 days Data Processing Agreement: In place with hosting provider
Third-Party Services Used on Our Website
In providing our services and maintaining our website, we use various third-party services that may process your personal data. Below is a detailed list of these services, their purpose, and how your data is handled:
Analytics and Website Performance
Google Analytics
Service Provider:
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
- In the EU/EEA: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose: To understand how visitors use our website and improve user experience
Data Processed:
- IP address (anonymized)
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Device information (type, manufacturer, model)
- Screen resolution and language settings
- Pages visited (URLs, page titles)
- Time spent on each page
- Date and time of visit
- Referrer URL (how you arrived at our site)
- Search terms used to find our site
- Geographic location (country, region, city – derived from IP)
- Interactions with site elements (clicks, scrolls, form interactions)
Legal Basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR)
Data Location: USA (with appropriate safeguards)
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). You can view their certification at: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/
Retention Period: 14 months (configurable in Google Analytics settings)
Consent Required: Yes – Statistics category
Data Processing Agreement: Google Analytics Terms of Service and Data Processing Amendment
Google Tag Manager
Service Provider:
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
- In the EU/EEA: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose: To manage website tracking codes and analytics tags without modifying website code
Data Processed:
- IP address
- Browser information
- Device identifiers
- Page URLs
- Timestamp of interactions
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) for tag management infrastructure; Consent for tags that process personal data
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
Consent Required: Yes – Statistics/Marketing category (depending on tags deployed)
Marketing and Advertising
Google Ads (including Remarketing and Conversion Tracking)
Service Provider:
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
- In the EU/EEA: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose: To measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, track conversions, and show relevant ads to users who have previously visited our website
Data Processed:
- Cookie identifiers and device identifiers
- IP address
- Browsing behavior on our website
- Conversion events (form submissions, page visits)
- Ad click and impression data
- Geographic location
- Demographic information (age range, gender – estimated by Google)
Legal Basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR)
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
Retention Period: As per Google’s advertising data retention policies (typically 540 days for remarketing lists, 90 days for conversion data)
Consent Required: Yes – Marketing category
Your Rights: You can opt out of personalized advertising at: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Website Functionality
Google Fonts (Now Self-Hosted)
Purpose: To display consistent fonts across our website
Data Transferred: None – fonts are now hosted locally on our own servers at oraclelawglobal.com
Previous Configuration: Fonts were previously loaded from Google’s servers (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), which resulted in IP address transfers to Google
Current Configuration: All fonts (Merriweather, Merriweather Sans, Open Sans) are self-hosted using the OMGF (Optimize My Google Fonts) plugin
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) – website functionality and consistent typography
Privacy Impact: Minimal – no personal data is transferred to third parties
Data Location: United Kingdom (our servers)
Google Maps
Service Provider:
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
- In the EU/EEA: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose: To display our office locations and help visitors find us
Data Processed:
- IP address when interacting with embedded maps
- Geographic location (if location services are enabled)
- Device information
- Zoom level and map interactions
- Cookies set by Google Maps
Legal Basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR)
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
Consent Required: Yes – Functional category
Note: Maps are loaded only after you provide consent through our cookie banner
Google Hosted Libraries
Service Provider:
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Purpose: To load JavaScript libraries (such as jQuery) that power website functionality
Data Processed:
- IP address
- Browser information
- Timestamp of request
- Requested library files
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) – ensuring fast and reliable delivery of essential website functionality
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
Social Media Integration
Twitter / Twitter Syndication
Service Provider:
- Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland
- Parent company: X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Purpose: To display social media content and share buttons
Data Processed:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Cookies and similar tracking technologies
- Twitter user ID (if logged into Twitter)
- Browsing behavior and interactions with Twitter content
Legal Basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) UK GDPR)
Data Location: Ireland (EU/EEA) and USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) approved by the European Commission
Consent Required: Yes – Marketing category
Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy
Reviews and Reputation
ReviewSolicitors
Service Provider:
- ReviewSolicitors.co.uk (operated by a UK-based company)
- Location: United Kingdom
Purpose: To display client reviews and ratings to demonstrate our service quality
Data Processed:
- Review content and ratings
- Reviewer name (if provided)
- Date of review submission
- IP address when widget loads
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) – displaying social proof and client testimonials
Data Location: United Kingdom
Consent Required: Yes – Marketing category
Note: The ReviewSolicitors widget is blocked until you provide consent through our cookie banner
Compliance and Consent Management
Complianz (Cookie Consent Management)
Service Provider:
- Complianz B.V., Burgemeester Wuiteweg 39, 9203 KV Drachten, Netherlands
Purpose: To manage cookie consent preferences and ensure GDPR compliance by blocking non-essential cookies and scripts until consent is granted
Data Processed:
- Consent preferences (which cookie categories you accept/reject)
- IP address (anonymized)
- Timestamp of consent
- Consent ID (unique identifier for your consent record)
- Browser and device information
Legal Basis: Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) UK GDPR) – GDPR requires us to obtain and document consent for non-essential cookies
Data Location: Netherlands (EU/EEA)
Storage Period: Consent records are retained for proof of compliance purposes for 3 years
Privacy Policy: https://complianz.io/privacy-statement/
Other Services
IPinfo (if applicable)
Service Provider:
- IPinfo LLC, based in the United States
Purpose: IP geolocation services to provide location-based content or services
Data Processed:
- IP address
- Geographical location derived from IP (country, region, city)
- Internet Service Provider information
Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR)
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC)
Consent Required: Yes – Statistics category
Note: This service is only used if location-based functionality is active on the website
BambooHR (if applicable)
Service Provider:
- BambooHR LLC, 2701 Ashton Blvd Suite 150, Lehi, UT 84043, USA
Purpose: Human resources management system for employee data (NOT used for client or website visitor data)
Data Processed: Employee data only (names, contact information, employment records, payroll information)
Legal Basis: Contractual necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) UK GDPR) – employment contracts
Data Location: USA
Third-Country Transfer Mechanism: Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC)
Note: This service processes only employee data, not client or website visitor data. If integrated into the careers section of our website for job applications, separate consent notices will be provided.
Your Control Over Third-Party Services
You can control which third-party services are allowed to process your data through our cookie consent banner. When you visit our website for the first time, you will see a consent banner that allows you to:
- Accept All: Allow all third-party services to load and process your data
- Reject All: Block all non-essential third-party services (only technically necessary services will load)
- Customize: Choose which categories of services to allow:
- Necessary: Essential for website functionality (always active)
- Functional: Enhance website features (e.g., Google Maps)
- Statistics: Help us understand website usage (e.g., Google Analytics)
- Marketing: Enable advertising and personalization (e.g., Google Ads, social media)
Changing Your Preferences: You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of our website. This will reopen the consent banner, allowing you to modify your choices.
Withdrawing Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal.
Data Transfers Outside the UK
Some of the third-party services listed above transfer personal data to countries outside the United Kingdom, primarily to the United States. Where personal data is transferred outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data:
Transfer Mechanisms We Use:
- EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF):
- Google services (Analytics, Ads, Tag Manager, Maps, Hosted Libraries) are provided by Google LLC, which is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
- This framework was recognized by the European Commission as providing adequate protection for personal data
- You can verify Google’s DPF certification at: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/
- Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC):
- For services not covered by adequacy decisions or DPF certification, we use Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office
- These clauses are contractual commitments between us and the service provider to protect your data
- Adequacy Decisions:
- Where the UK government has determined that a country provides adequate protection for personal data, we may transfer data to that country
- Example: European Economic Area (EEA) countries, including Netherlands (Complianz) and Ireland (Google Ireland, Twitter International)
Your Rights Regarding International Transfers: You have the right to obtain information about the safeguards we have in place for international data transfers. If you would like a copy of the specific safeguards applied to your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the details provided below.
Data Retention Periods
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with legal obligations:
Website and Analytics Data:
- Server logs (web hosting): 7 days
- Google Analytics data: 14 months
- Cookie consent records: 3 years (for compliance proof)
- Contact form submissions: 6 months or until inquiry is resolved
Client Matter Data:
- Active case files: Duration of case plus 6 years (as required by our regulator, the SRA)
- Closed case files: 6 years after case closure
- For clients under 18: 6 years after they reach age 18
- Fraud prevention data: 5 years from case closure or end of relationship
Marketing and Communication Data:
- Email newsletter subscribers: Until you unsubscribe or 3 years of inactivity
- Marketing consent records: 3 years after consent withdrawal
- Advertising block list: Indefinitely (to honor your opt-out)
Financial Data:
- Payment records: 7 years (HMRC requirement)
- Cardholder data: Immediately after transaction processing (not stored)
Complaint Records:
- 6 years after complaint resolution
For more details on data retention for client matters, please see the “How long will we keep your data?” section above.
Categories of Recipients
In addition to the third-party services listed above, we may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients as necessary for the provision of legal services:
Legal and Professional Services:
- Barristers and counsel
- Expert witnesses
- Translators and interpreters
- Costs draftsmen
- Process servers
- Court reporters
IT and Administrative Services:
- Secure file storage and destruction companies (e.g., Iron Mountain UK Holdings Limited, UK)
- IT support and system administration providers
- Cloud storage providers
- Document management systems
- Backup service providers
Regulatory and Compliance:
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- Legal Ombudsman
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
- Law enforcement agencies and courts (when legally required)
Financial Services:
- Banks and payment processors
- Accountants and auditors
- Tax advisors
Quality Assurance:
- External quality auditors (e.g., Lexcel, CQS assessors)
- Professional indemnity insurers
All recipients are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal data and may only use it for the specific purposes we authorize.
How do we protect your data?
We take protecting your data very seriously. The data you give us may be subject to Legal Professional Privilege and is often extremely sensitive and confidential.
With this in mind we will treat your data with the utmost care and take all appropriate steps to protect it. We have clear data protection and information security policies and procedures in place (along with Regulatory and other legal obligations to keep your data safe) and these are regularly assessed as part of our Quality Standards and compliance processes.
We protect our IT system from Cyber Attack. Access to your personal data is password-protected, and sensitive data is secured by encryption.
We regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security.
How long will we keep your data?
We use the following retention periods and review these periodically to make sure we are only keeping personal data and other data for as long as is needed:
- information in a matter file or related to a matter or instructions to us such as information on our case management system will usually be kept for a period of six years after the case or matter ends unless it is required to be kept for longer (for instance, the information is required for another or related case or matter or where the person is currently under the age of eighteen, in which case data will need to be held for six years after they reach the age of eighteen), or we have another legal basis to process that information. This is because we are required to keep client files for that period by our Regulator and/or by the SRA. This also protects you should you be unhappy with our services and want to complain or even due us after your case ends.
- data obtained for compliance with crime or fraud prevention has to be retained by us to meet our legal or regulatory obligations for five years from the close of the individual matter or the end of our business relationship with a relevant person, whichever is later
- enquiries where we do not take on your case are kept for only 18 months
- any complaints files for six years after the complaint is concluded (with the associated matter file(s)
- financial information and any financial transactions will be kept for a period of 7 years to comply with HMRC requirements except for cardholder data which will generally be destroyed immediately after the transaction is processed.
For some data we may decide that it is proper and appropriate to keep data for longer than the above, but we will notify you if we believe that your case falls into this category or there is another reason your data has to be retained.
Who do we share your personal data with?
We sometimes share your personal data with trusted third parties. We only do this where it is necessary for providing you legal services or for the effective operation of our legal practice.
For example, we may share your data with barristers; experts; translators; costs draftsmen; process servers; secure file storage and destruction companies; auditors; the company that securely hosts our off-site cloud storage servers.
We apply a strict policy to those recipients or data processors to keep your data safe and protect your privacy. In particular:
- We provide only the information they need to perform their specific services.
- They may only use your data for the exact purposes we specify in our contract with them.
- We work closely with them to ensure that your privacy is respected and protected at all times.
- If we stop using their services, any of your data held by them will either be deleted or rendered anonymous.
Where is your data processed?
Your data is stored and processed within the United Kingdom (UK). If we ever have to share your personal data with third parties and suppliers outside the UK we will seek your specific consent to do so.
What are your rights?
You have the following rights under the UK GDPR:
- the right to be informed – the provision of clear and concise information about what we do with your personal data, as outlined within this Data & Privacy Notice
- the right of access – commonly referred to as a ‘data subject access request’, this enables you to request a copy of your personal data to understand how and why we are using your data, and to check we are doing so lawfully. If we choose not to action your request, we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal
- the right to rectification – the ability to have inaccurate personal data rectified or, in specific circumstances dependent on the purposes for our processing of your data, the ability to have incomplete personal data completed
- the right to erasure – also known as the right to be forgotten, this permits you to request we erase your personal data. This only applies to data we hold at the time your request is received and does not apply to any data that may be obtained in the future. Please note that this is not an absolute right and only applies in certain circumstances. We may have overriding duties to retain some data which you cannot ask to be erased immediately or at all. For instance, once you become a client of our firm or you are an interested party in a case, we will be required by our regulators and for legal purposes to retain some of your personal data and other information within casefiles for a certain period (for retention periods, please see above)
- the right to restrict processing – the ability to request a temporary restriction on the processing of your personal data, where one of a limited number of reasons specified by the ICO applies
- the right to data portability – the ability to receive personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format. This also gives you the right to request that we transmit this data directly to another Data Controller
- the right to object – the ability, in certain circumstances, to request we stop processing your personal data. This request may relate to all of your personal data we hold or only certain information, and may only apply to a particular purpose for processing
- rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – restrictions on the use of automated decision making and profiling where such decisions have a legal or similarly significant effect on you. It is unlikely that our firm will use automated decision making and profiling.
For further details on your rights, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/.
Contact Details
For information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of our information, and to exercise your rights to access information we hold on you, please contact us. Similarly, if you believe that the information we hold is wrong or out of date, please let us know and we will update it. The person in this firm responsible for data protection is our Data Protection Officer, Sajjad Shan, CEO and enquires and requests can be sent to him by telephone 020 3051 5060, by emailing info@oraclelawglobal.com or in writing to Oracle Law Global, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7QH.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement or policy applicable to the website in question.
The Regulator
If you feel that your data has not been handled correctly, or you are unhappy with our response to any requests you have made to us regarding the use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
You can contact them by calling 0303 123 1113.
Or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns (opens in a new window; please note we can’t be responsible for the content of external websites).
Changes to this Notice
We do not intend to process a client or related third party’s personal information for any reason other than stated within this privacy notice. If this changes, we will update this privacy notice on this webpage and in any documentation we will send to you. However, internet and data privacy best practice and acceptable standards are developing. We therefore reserve the right to revise this Notice at any time. If this Notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this webpage. For all other clients with ongoing instructions, we will provide a copy directly. Continued instructions to us will signify that you agree to any such changes.
February 2026