PRIVACY POLICY

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Hi and welcome to lavolegal.pl website (hereinafter referred to as “LAVO”). This privacy policy presents the methods we use to collect, use and share data that may be provided by you when using our LAVO’s website. For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to all persons who may provide us with personal data as “Clients”. Please read the entire content of this document. It is very important to us that you know how much we care about the safety of your data.

This is us – if you have any questions, let us know!

We must tell you that your personal data will be co-administered by the founders of our Law firm – attorney Natalia Szabatowska (LAVO Kancelaria Adwokacka Adwokat Natalia Szabatowska, ul. Stefana Batorego 11B, 37-100 Łańcut) and attorney Igora Sumara (LAVO Kancelaria Adwokacka Igor Sumara, ul. Na Wzgórzu 13, 32-087 Pękowice). Together we decide on the purposes and scope of processing of the personal data. Contact with the administrators is possible at: biuro@lavolegal.pl 

Here are some more details about what data we can collect as part of our cooperation.

1. Personal data necessary to make contact such as name and surname, address, e-mail and telephone number.

2. Personal data necessary to perform the services – legal advisory services or taking action in court. This may include the data such as name and surname, address, e-mail address and telephone number, as well as sensitive data such as information on health.
   
3. Personal data related to direct marketing i.e. contact details, address, e-mail, telephone number, website navigation and clicked website items.

4. Personal data related to the fulfilment of legal obligations i.e.: name and surname, address, e-mail, telephone number.

5. Personal data related to the prevention of using the data in an unlawful manner: name and surname, address, e-mail, telephone number.

6. Data related to browsing the content of LAVO’s website: information on interaction with individual elements of the website, including system logs containing: date, time of visit and IP of the computer from which the connection was made, domain name, browser type, operating system type, information on website viewing statistics e.t.c.

In this section you will find some more provisions on data processing. We want to show you that everything we do is legally correct.

Performance of the contract and customer service

1. Browsing the content of LAVO’s website does not require provisioning of personal data. When contacting us for legal consultation or commissioning us to conduct your case, it is natural that we have to process your personal data. These dates may vary from case to case. More information on this can be found in the chapter: “The period for which personal data will be stored”.
2. The administrators will process the Client’s personal data in the scope of contract performance and customer service pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 point. b) GDPR, and to the extent necessary to fulfill the legal obligation to provide services pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 point. c) GDPR.

Direct marketing

1. The Administrator may send commercial information about LAVO’s products and services provided by LAVO, including in the form of webcasts, newsletters.
2. The administrators will process the Client’s personal data in the above scope on the basis of art. 1 point. a) GDPR, i.e. based on the Client’s consent.

Content related to browsing LAVO’s website

1. LAVO may obtain information resulting from the general rules of connections made on the Internet, such as IP address, number and source of visits on LAVO’s website, time of the visit. Content viewed, number and type of subpages opened, references used which may be used by LAVO for technical and statistical purposes. The Administrator does not combine the above information with the personal data of the Clients and does not use them to identify the Clients, unless it is necessary for the proper provision of services by LAVO. The administrator uses the information referred to above only for the purposes of market research and internet traffic as part of LAVO’s website, for statistical purposes, in particular to improve the quality of services provided by LAVO.
2. The administrators will process the Client’s personal data in the above scope on the basis of art. 1 point. f) GDPR, i.e. the legitimate interest of the Administrator.

Compliance with legal obligations

1. Administrators will use the Client’s personal data to comply with legal obligations. In addition, it will use the Client’s personal data to collect and confirm financial data in order to comply with accounting principles.
2. The administrators will process the Client’s personal data in the above scope pursuant to art. 6 sec. 1 point. b) and point c) GDPR, i.e. in order to perform the contract and fulfil the legal obligations incumbent on the Administrator.

Crime prevention and unlawful use of data

1. The administrators will use the Client’s personal data to prevent losses, detect and prevent the use of online services in a manner inconsistent with the rules and regulations.
2. The administrators will process personal data on the basis of Article 6 para. 1 point. c-e) GDPR, i.e. in order to prevent the use of our services in a way that may violate the law.

Personal data processed on the basis of the consent expressed by the User in the cases referred to above.

The User’s consent to the processing of personal data is made by marking the appropriate place in the form during the registration procedure or other procedure aimed at enabling the use of LAVO’s services. Each customer has the opportunity to choose whether and to what extent he wants to use our services and share information about himself. Please note that failure to provide certain data in certain cases may prevent you from using the services we offer. The user may at any time withdraw consent to the collection and processing of personal data provided by him.

Your data is not kept by us forever. In this section you will get to know our data retention rules.

1. Personal data processed in order to conclude or perform a contract and fulfill the Administrator’s legal obligation, i.e. pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 point. b) and point c) GDPR will be stored for the duration of the contract, and after its expiry for the period necessary to:

• • • after-sales customer service;
    • securing any legal claims due to the Administrator or the Client (maximum period of 6 years from the date of completion of the contract),
    • fulfilling the Administrator’s legal obligation (e.g. resulting from tax regulations);

2. Personal data processed on the basis of a legitimate legal interest – pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 point. f) GDPR will be processed until the data subject objects, unless the Administrators are able to find a legal justification for this process.

3. Personal data processed on the basis of a separate consent will be stored until its withdrawal.

This is probably the most important part of this document. Here we have listed all your rights under the GDPR.

1. Right of access to data. You have the right to request information about which personal data we process.

2. Right to Portability. You have the right to receive a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used and readable format. This copy may be sent to you or to another entity.

3. The right to correct data. You have the right to request that your personal data be corrected if they are incorrect, as well as to complete incomplete data.

4. The right to delete data. You have the right to request the deletion of data processed by us at any time, except for:

• unfinished proceedings that we are conducting and are obliged to conduct for a certain period of time under separate provisions of law;
• keeping an archive of cases and storing accounting documentation;
• in order to secure or pursue any legal claims due to the Administrator or the Client (maximum period of 6 years from the date of completion of the contract).

  5. Right to object to direct marketing. You have the right to object to receiving direct marketing materials. You can opt out of receiving direct marketing materials as follows:

• following the instructions contained in each e-mail in the case of newsletters,
• by contacting us at the business address or by e-mail to the following address:biuro@lavolegal.pl

  6. The right to object to data processing based on the Administrator’s legitimate interest: You have the right to object to the processing of your data based on our legitimate interest. We will then stop processing your personal data unless we can find a legitimate justification for this process.

  7. Right to Restrict. You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under the following conditions:

• if you object to data processing based on our legitimate interest, then we will limit the processing of such data after verifying whether there is such a legitimate interest,
• if you report the incorrectness of personal data, then we will limit any data processing until its correctness is verified,
• where the processing is unlawful, you can object to the erasure of your personal data and instead request the restriction of the use of that personal data,

8. Right to lodge a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority or the supervisory authority of another European Union Member State competent for your place of residence. The Polish supervisory authority is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (address: Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw).

9. Right to withdraw consent at any time, however, the withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

The rights listed above, with the exception of the right described in point 8, can be exercised by contacting the Administrator by e-mail to the following address: biuro@lavolegal.pl

Brief information about how we cooperate with other subcontractors.

The use of some services of LAVO may involve the disclosure of the Client’s personal data to other entities. If, as a result of the above, personal data is transferred to another entity, the processing of personal data will be subject to the privacy policy applied by that entity. LAVO may share the collected data with the following entities: payment operators for the purpose of electronic payments, accounting service providers, courier companies, entities providing system support for website operation, entities providing technological solutions for mailing service, entities supporting the promotion of LAVO’s offer . In addition, the information provided by the Client may be made available to the competent courts, administrative authorities, law enforcement authorities and other government or local government units.

Our security measures at glance.

LAVO makes every effort to protect your personal data. We use all necessary security measures for servers and websites, in particular SSL encryption. Printed data is also secured and stored in a safe place. We would like to inform you that the actions taken by LAVO may prove insufficient if the Clients do not follow the safety rules themselves. Each Client should keep confidential the data they provide to LAVO, including in particular sensitive data.

We store the collected personal data within the European Economic Area (“EEA”), but it may also be transferred to a country outside this area and processed there. Each operation of transferring personal data is performed in accordance with applicable law. If data is transferred outside the EEA, we use standard contractual clauses and other recognized safeguards in relation to countries for which the European Commission has not found an adequate level of data protection.

Time for cookies.

We use “cookies”. Cookies are safe for your devices. Cookies allow to identify the software used by the Client and adjust the website operation individually to each Client. Cookies usually contain the name of the domain they come from, their storage time on the device and the assigned value. The Administrator may also use other technologies with functions similar or identical to Cookies.

The Cookies mechanism does not allow for downloading any personal data or any confidential information from Clients’ devices. Cookies are stored on Clients’ devices and remain there until they are deleted. Ending the session of a given browser or turning off a given device does not delete them from the device of a given Client.

Each customer has the option of limiting or disabling the access of cookies to their device. If you use this option, the use of LAVO’s website will be possible, except for functions that by their nature require cookies.

Some more details about the usefulness of cookies.

1. Adjusting the content of LAVO’s websites to the preferences and rights of clients, recognising the device and properly displaying the website, remembering the settings selected by clients, e.g. in terms of the selected language or region from which it comes, font size, website appearance, etc.
2. Client authentication in connection with the use of LAVO’s services and ensuring the Client’s session on LAVO’s website, including maintaining the Client’s session.
3. Administrators will use Cookies for analysis and research as well as auditing website functionality, creating anonymous statistics that help understand how clients use LAVO’s website, which allows improving its structure and content.
4. Administrators will use Cookies to provide advertising services presented through third parties.
5. Administrators will use Cookies to ensure the security and reliability of the website and its data and content.

What can you do yourself when using Cookies?

Each Client may independently and at any time change the settings for Cookies, specifying the conditions for their storage and access to their device. Settings can be changed using the web browser settings. These settings can be changed in particular in such a way as to block the automatic handling of Cookies in the web browser settings or to inform about them each time they are placed on the device of a given Client. Detailed information on the possibilities and ways of handling cookies are available in the web browser settings. Each customer may delete cookies at any time using the functions available in the web browser he uses. Restricting the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on LAVO’s website.

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns! We are here to help.

Remember, you can contact us at any time to obtain information on whether and how we use your personal data and information obtained using Cookies. The fastest way to contact us by e-mail at biuro@lavolegal.pl