Vicky Barrett

VLT LEGAL provides intellectual property law solutions to SMEs and can assist with IP and data protection audits and due diligence, all types of agreements, copyright and trademark advice and registration, website compliance, and more. Please contact victoria@vltlegal.co.uk or 07887 810020 for a free initial consultation.

Safe Harbor may be dangerous to your business

Safe Harbor may be dangerous to your business US and EU flags

What’s all the fuss about? You might have heard about Safe Harbor recently and been wondering what it is and how it might affect your business. It concerns repeated, large-scale, international transfers of personal data. What it doesn’t concern: small-scale, one-off transfers of personal data transfers of personal data (with consent) that are necessary to carry […]

Never do business on the Internet without a legal understanding

Never do business on the Internet without a legal understanding goats butting heads

Whose law applies to international Internet transactions? In this article, I’m going to take a very brief look at jurisdiction and governing law as they apply to Internet transactions. Terminology Jurisdiction refers to the country whose courts will hear a dispute. Governing law refers to the country whose law will apply. They are not necessarily the same […]