This Privacy Policy explains how Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd, trading as Celiksoy Immigration Lawyers, collects, uses, stores and protects personal information in connection with its United Kingdom legal services.
Last updated 18 September 2026
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Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd
Trading as Celiksoy Immigration Lawyers
5 Merchant Square
London W2 1AY
United Kingdom
Email: uk@celiksoylaw.com
Telephone: +44 7784 720070
Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd is registered in England and Wales under company number 16420891 and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA number 8012472.
For the purposes of applicable UK data protection law, Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd is the data controller for personal information processed in connection with its UK enquiries and client matters.
We process personal information in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.
Celiksoylaw.com also provides access to United States legal services offered separately by Celiksoy Law Firm PC.
Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd and Celiksoy Law Firm PC are separate legal entities and separate professional practices operating in different jurisdictions.
Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd is responsible for its UK enquiries and UK client matters. Celiksoy Law Firm PC is separately responsible for its United States enquiries and client matters.
Submitting a UK enquiry or instructing Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd does not mean that you have instructed Celiksoy Law Firm PC.
UK enquiry forms are directed to Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd. Information provided in connection with UK enquiries and UK client matters is not routinely shared with Celiksoy Law Firm PC.
The fact that both practices are presented through the same website does not create a joint client relationship or a shared client file.
The information we collect depends on the nature of your enquiry and the legal services you ask us to provide.
It may include:
We seek to collect only information that is relevant and reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it is required.
Immigration and legal matters can involve particularly sensitive personal information.
Depending on your circumstances, this may include information concerning:
We process special category information only where an appropriate lawful basis and additional condition under UK data protection law applies.
This may include circumstances where processing is necessary for obtaining legal advice or establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.
Criminal offence information is processed only where permitted under applicable UK data protection legislation.
Where relevant to your matter, we may receive information about you from another person or organisation.
This may include:
Where personal information is obtained from another source, we will handle it in accordance with our legal and professional obligations.
Where you complete a UK enquiry, contact or eligibility assessment form on celiksoylaw.com, the information you provide is directed to Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd for the purpose of dealing with your UK enquiry.
UK enquiry information is not automatically sent to the US practice.
Please avoid submitting information that is unnecessary for your enquiry, particularly sensitive documents, unless they are relevant to the service you are requesting.
We may use personal information for the following purposes.
We use your information to:
Our lawful basis will generally be taking steps at your request before entering into a contract and, where appropriate, our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and administering our legal practice.
If you instruct us, we use your information to:
Our lawful basis will generally be the performance of our contract with you.
We may process personal information to comply with legal, professional and regulatory requirements.
This may include, where applicable:
The applicable lawful basis may include compliance with a legal obligation.
We may process information for purposes such as:
Where appropriate, we may rely on our legitimate interests in administering and protecting a regulated legal practice.
We consider the impact of legitimate-interest processing on the rights and interests of the individuals concerned.
We do not currently use personal information collected through UK legal enquiries or client matters to send marketing emails.
If our marketing practices change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any consent or other legal requirement applicable at that time will be respected.
We do not sell personal information.
Where necessary for your matter, our professional obligations or the proper operation of our practice, information may be provided to categories of recipients including:
Where an organisation processes personal information on our behalf, we take appropriate steps to ensure that it is handled securely and only for authorised purposes.
Celiksoy Law Firm PC is not a routine recipient of UK client or enquiry information.
Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd does not routinely provide UK client files, UK enquiries, supporting evidence or other client information to Celiksoy Law Firm PC.
There is no routine sharing of client information between the two firms merely because their services appear on celiksoylaw.com.
If there were an exceptional circumstance in which information needed to be disclosed to another organisation, including the US firm, it would only be disclosed where there was an appropriate lawful basis to do so and in accordance with our professional obligations concerning confidentiality.
We do not transfer your personal information to Celiksoy Law Firm PC simply because its services are also presented on celiksoylaw.com.
Some technology, professional or other service providers used in connection with our UK practice may, where applicable, process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is subject to a restricted international transfer, we will comply with the requirements of UK data protection law and use an appropriate transfer mechanism or safeguard where required.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and to meet our legal, regulatory, professional and insurance obligations.
Client matter files will ordinarily be retained for approximately six years after the matter closes, unless there is a legal, regulatory, professional or case-specific reason to keep particular information for a different period.
Immigration matters may sometimes justify a longer retention period because information concerning an earlier application or immigration history may be relevant to a future immigration, nationality or legal matter.
Information relating to enquiries that do not become client matters will be retained only for a reasonable period, having regard to matters such as enquiry management, conflict checking, regulatory requirements and potential legal claims.
When personal information is no longer required, it will be securely deleted, destroyed or anonymised as appropriate.
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information from:
Measures may include access-controlled systems, authentication and security controls, restricted access to client information, secure document-sharing arrangements and confidentiality obligations.
Access to personal information is limited to individuals who require it for legitimate professional, regulatory or administrative purposes.
As an SRA-regulated solicitors’ practice, we are subject to professional obligations concerning client confidentiality.
Those professional obligations operate alongside our responsibilities under data protection law.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy reduces the professional duties of confidentiality that apply to information held in connection with our legal practice.
Depending on the circumstances and the basis on which we process your information, you may have the right to:
These rights are not absolute.
For example, we may need to retain or withhold certain information because of legal or regulatory requirements, legal professional privilege, the establishment or defence of legal claims, or duties of confidentiality owed to another person.
Requests concerning your personal information should be sent to uk@celiksoylaw.com.
We may ask you to provide information necessary to verify your identity before acting on a request.
Where we rely on legitimate interests to process your personal information, you may have the right to object to that processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.
To exercise this right, please contact uk@celiksoylaw.com.
We will consider your request in accordance with applicable data protection law.
If you have concerns about the way we have handled your personal information, please contact us so that we can investigate and respond.
You also have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator. Further information is available at ico.org.uk.
We do not use solely automated decision-making to provide legal advice or make professional assessments concerning your legal or immigration matter.
Legal advice and case assessments are undertaken by appropriately authorised individuals.
Government authorities may use their own automated or technology-assisted systems. We do not control the way those organisations process information.
Celiksoylaw.com has a separate Cookies Policy, which explains the use of cookies and similar technologies on the website.
Please refer to the Cookies Policy for further information.
Our legal work may involve personal information relating to children, including where a child is an applicant, dependant or family member relevant to an immigration matter.
We process children’s information only where it is reasonably necessary for the relevant legal matter or another lawful purpose.
Where appropriate, instructions or authority will be obtained from a parent, guardian or another person legally entitled to provide them.
We may update this Privacy Policy where our practices, website functionality or legal and regulatory requirements change.
The Last updated date at the top of this page shows when the policy was most recently revised.
Where a material change affects the way we process information relating to an existing client, we will take appropriate steps to bring that change to the client’s attention.
For questions about this Privacy Policy, to exercise a data protection right, or to contact us about personal information held in connection with a UK enquiry or client matter:
Bekenbey Solicitors Ltd
Trading as Celiksoy Immigration Lawyers
5 Merchant Square
London W2 1AY
United Kingdom
Email: uk@celiksoylaw.com
Telephone: +44 7784 720070
Registered in England and Wales under company number 16420891.
Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA number 8012472.
