The confidentiality of your personal data is one of the main concerns of Andreea Rainer – Law Office, headquartered in Romania, Bucharest, 3rd District, 10 Lt. Nicolae Pascu Street, block 5, 6th entrance, 1st floor, ap. 151, represented by founder attorney at law Andreea Rainer („Andreea Rainer Law Office” or „we”), in its capacity of personal data controller.
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") intends to inform you with respect to the processing of your personal data and your rights in connection with these data, in the context of using the website www.andreearainerlaw.ro ("Website"), when you contact us via the email address associated with the Website or in any other way. When you contact us via social media networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram) certain personal data may be processed by these platforms.
We are joint controllers with these social networks. For information on the processing of personal data, please study the following documents:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy, https://web.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum?_rdc=1&_rdr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy, https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum
Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy, https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
At the same time, the Privacy Policy provides the modality in which you may contact us in case you have questions about its content or if you want to send us suggestions/ complaints in connection to the modality in which we process your personal data.
We process your personal data in accordance with the applicable law, such as Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data („General Data Protection Regulation” or "GDPR") and any other applicable regulations at European or national level adopted in the context of the GDPR and we implement technical and organizational measures to protect all operations directly or indirectly concerning personal data, which prevent unauthorized or illegal processing, as well as accidental or illegal loss or destruction.
It is not mandatory to provide us your personal data. However, if you do not provide us your personal data, we will not be able to process and/ or, as the case may be, transfer those personal data whose processing is necessary in the context of solving your requests.
We process the following categories of data: name, surname, email address, as well as any other data you provide us with.
We process personal data for the following purposes and legal grounds:
The processing of your data for this purpose is performed in order to provide or to initiate the provision of the requested legal services, in order to perform or to initiate the legal assistance contract concluded between you and Andreea Rainer Law Office concluded in written form, signed by both parties. The refusal to provide the data will have as a consequence the impossibility of initiating or carrying out the contractual relationships between you and Andreea Rainer Law Office.
In order to provide our legal services, the following grounds are relevant:
the necessity to perform the contract concluded with you, including the necessity to take the actions in order to conclude a contract following your request (article 6 para. (1) letter (b) of GDPR);
achieving your legitimate interest to benefit from legal assistance and legal representation (article 6 para. (1) letter (d) of GDPR);
achieving the public interest of providing legal services and the legitimate purposes of the attorney at law (article 6 para. (1) letter (e) of GDPR);
fulfillment of the obligations imposed by law on the attorney at law, such as the verifications performed by the attorney at law in order to prevent and combat money laundering and terrorist financing, fiscal obligations related to the payment of the attorney fees, financial-accounting obligations, fulfillment of the professional obligation to keep records of contracts concluded by the form of exercising the profession of lawyer (article 6 para. (1) letter (c) of GDPR);
for the execution and performance of other contracts than those of legal assistance (article 6 para. (1) letter (b) of GDPR)
As a collaborator, we will process your personal data (respectively, name, surname, tax identification data, professional training, professional experience) in order to execute and perform the contract concluded with you. We will also process your personal data when you request us to take certain actions before concluding such a contract.
The above mentions regarding the performance of the legal assistance contract apply accordingly in case of these contracts as well.
or
to satisfy certain legitimate interests of Andreea Rainer Law Office, such as exercising and defending our rights (article 6 para. (1) letter (f) of GDPR).
We will not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area.
We do not use personal data for automated processing or for profiling. We do not process data for secondary purposes incompatible with the purposes for which we collected them.
In principle, we will process your personal data for as long as it is necessary to achieve the processing purposes mentioned above.
In case you are a client, we will process your data for the entire duration of the contractual relationship and subsequently, according to the legal obligations incumbent on Andreea Rainer Law Office (for example, the obligation to keep professional legal records).
If your personal data are processed on the basis of your consent, the processing will continue until the consent is withdrawn, unless there are legitimate reasons justifying further processing by us (including a legal obligation to do so) and which prevails over your interests, rights and freedoms or if such data are necessary in order to establish, exercise or defend a right in court.
We reasonably use up-to-date data storage and security means to keep your data safe in electronic and physical form to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, misuse or disclosure, unauthorized alteration and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
However, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we reasonably take appropriate and proportionate measures to manage the presented risks, we cannot guarantee the security of the pieces of information transmitted to our online services.
We strictly respect and ensure professional secrecy. We do not disclose the data except for achieving your interests or for the fulfillment of legal obligations. Confidentiality is for us not only a professional obligation of the attorney at law, but also an essential value.
All partners and service providers who have access to confidential information (including personal data) are subject to confidentiality obligations.
Andreea Rainer Law Office may share your personal data with third parties only if:
we have legal or professional obligations in this regard;
it is necessary for the purpose of judicial procedures performed or for the purpose of exercising or defending legal rights;
you have agreed to do so (if applicable - for instance, by accessing the links to websites of third parties mentioned on the Website) or the legal entity you legally or conventionally represent has obtained your consent for us to do so (if applicable);
in order to fulfill the mandate entrusted by you, such as disclosure to other lawyers, other legal specialists, consultants and/ or experts in various fields involved in the cases we deal with for you, to third parties expressly indicated by you or to certain services suppliers (for example, public notaries, translation service providers, insurance, cloud services, IT services and IT systems maintenance or hosting).
We will respect your rights and we will act promptly and in accordance with the legal provisions regarding the processing of your personal data. These rights are, unless otherwise provided by law:
right to information, respectively the right to receive details regarding the processing activities performed by us, according to those described in this Privacy Policy;
right of access, which implies the right to request access to your personal information and to request certain pieces of information in connection with their processing;
right to request the rectification, respectively the right to obtain the correction, without undue delay, by us of the inaccurate/ unjustified personal data, as well as the completion of the incomplete data;
right to request the deletion of data, without undue delay ("right to be forgotten"), if one of the following reasons applies:
personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed and there is no other legal basis for processing;
if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for processing;
if you oppose the processing and there are no legitimate reasons to prevail;
if the personal data have been illegally processed;
in case the personal data must be deleted in order to comply with a legal obligation.
right to request the restriction of the processing, insofar as:
you contest the accuracy of the data, for a period that allows us to verify the correctness of the data;
the processing is illegal, and you object to the deletion of personal data, requesting instead the restriction of their use;
we no longer need personal data for the purpose of processing, but you request them to establish, exercise or defend a right in court; or
you object to the processing, for the period of time in which it is verified if our legitimate rights prevail over your rights.
right to portability, respectively:
right to receive personal data in a structured, commonly used and easy-to-read format, as well as
right for these data to be transmitted by us to another data controller, insofar as the conditions provided by law are met.
• right to object to the processing, except in cases where we can demonstrate that we have legitimate reasons justifying the processing and which prevail over your interests, rights and freedoms or that the purpose is to establish, exercise or defend a right in court;
• right to withdraw the consent at any time, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent before its withdrawal;
• right to address to the National Supervisory Authority for the Processing of Personal Data or the courts of law, insofar as you consider necessary.
We mention that the intervention on the data you have provided to us may be of nature to prevent the initiation or the performance of the contract concluded between you and Andreea Rainer Law Office. In this case Andreea Rainer Law Office is exempted from liability.
For any additional questions regarding the modality in which personal data are processed and in order to exercise your rights mentioned above, please contact the e-mail address: avocat@andreearainerlaw.ro.
We periodically review the Privacy Policy and the data collected, assessing the extent to which their retention is necessary for the mentioned purposes, your legitimate interests or the fulfillment of legal obligations by Andreea Rainer Law Office. Please study the Privacy Policy on the Website to inform you in connection to the aspects related to the processing of your personal data. Whenever the Privacy Policy is updated, it will be published on the Website and the date of the update will be displayed.
The Privacy Policy has been drafted bilingually, in Romanian and in English languages, and in case of discrepancy between the two versions, the Romanian version shall prevail.
Updated on June 5th, 2021
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