ADISON LAW PRIVACY POLICY
ADISON LAW PRIVACY POLICY
Version 1.0 – 1 January 2023
As a law firm specialized in privacy and data protection, ADISON LAW gives the utmost importance to the confidentiality and security of all the personal data it processes.
Hereby ADISON LAW clearly and transparently informs you regarding the collection and use of your personal data.
This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as ‘Notice’) describes how ADISON LAW collects, uses, or otherwise processes personal information in the course of its business operations.
This Notice covers the following matters:
WHO ARE WE
ADISON LAW, with registered office in Belgium, Belgielei 108, 2018 Antwerp, registered at the CBE under number BE 0506.609.818, is responsible for processing your Personal Data as a Data controller, particularly in association with its provision of services, business development practices and potential future operations via its main website (www.Adisonlaw.com).
2. HOW AND WHEN YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED AND USED
Your personal data is collected and used whenever you:
Use our website, social media, or any other communication via phone, fax and e-mail.
Contract or communicate with us as a client, partner or supplier.
Agree to register for our newsletter, or alerts.
Enter an application for one of the company’s positions.
Register for a webinar or event.
Fill out a particular form on the website.
Comment on a blog.
3. THE TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT
3.1. Data You provide to Us
Depending on your interactions with us, we collect different types of personal information about you. Which may include:
Unique identifiers: data that identifies you uniquely as an individual and may include the following: name and first name, phone number, address, e-mail address and social media profile links.
Demographic Data: data that includes severe personal information, such as your age, gender, race and marital status.
Professional and Educational Data: data that gives more insight about the person’s career, such as current or previous employer, job title, degrees, professional qualifications, education, bar information, languages and certifications.
User Content: data whereby you interact with the digital person of the company, such as comments and likes on a certain blog or post.
Any other information you choose to provide to us
In general, you as our website user/ visitor can access our website without providing explicit personal data, however we may still collect personal data automatically, as we describe hereunder.
3.2. Information that can be automatically generated or collected
As you interact with us via our website, we may automatically collect and generate information about you, which may include the following categories:
Unique Identifiers: You or the device through which you interact with our website may automatically provide us with information that uniquely identifies you, such as an IP address or device and mobile advertising identifiers.
Device Data: The type of device you use to interact with our website, the operating system and version of that device, and the type of browser you use may automatically be collected by us.
Interaction Data: We may automatically gather data about your experience with our website, including what content you view and features you use, the pages you view before and after accessing our website, how you interact with content available on our website, and any search terms used.
When you use, access, or otherwise interact with our website, we and our service providers or other third parties may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (hereafter: "Cookies") to collect and store information on your device.
Please refer to our Cookies Policy to learn more about how we use cookies and your choices.
4. LEGAL GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION
ADISON LAW relies on the following legal grounds for its processing activities:
Performance of a contract: To enter into a contract with you or to perform a contract that you have with us, we may need to collect and use your personal information. If you use our services, we will use your personal information to respond to your requests and provide you with such services.
It may be necessary for us to ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the information provided below.
Legitimate interests: In order to improve our services, as well as the content on our website, we may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, which will not override your fundamental rights.
Legal obligation: In order to comply with our legal obligations, we may process personal information.
5. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND CONTENT
ADISON LAW does not sell any personal data and will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless the latter is required in the context of provision of its Services or in case of legal requirements. To that end, any third party applicable, who acts as a processor – vendor or third-party contractor, is bound by confidentiality and acts in accordance with the applicable laws.
6. PROTECTION AND STORAGE OF THE DATA WE COLLECT.
In order to comply with applicable legal requirements and safeguard the information we collect, we utilize commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Third parties who may have access to your personal information must provide written assurances that such information will be protected by safeguards that are equivalent to those adopted by ADISON LAW, when required or appropriate and feasible.
However, please note that we are not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, such as the Internet and wireless networks.
7. HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The timeframe of our ongoing contractual relationship and provision of services to you);
The legal obligations to which we are subject;
Whether data retention is advisable considering our legal position and for recordkeeping purposes).
8. DATA TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE EU
In case we transfer personal data outside the EU, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Standard Contractual Clauses: We use the most updated version of contracts approved by the European Commission, ensuring the same data protection standards as applicable in the EU.
Where Standard Contractual Clauses are not sufficient to ensure an adequate level of data protection, we will implement supplemental measures to increase the protection of your personal data abroad.
9. YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
Cookies: For information about the choices you may have in regard to our use of Cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Privacy Rights: As an international law firm, ADISON LAW operates in jurisdictions that impose varying obligations and grant individuals different levels of protection, particularly with respect to personal information.
Following hereto, you are entitled to certain rights regarding your personal information, including, the right to:
Request access to certain personal information of yours that we process.
Update or correct your personal information if you believe it is incomplete or inaccurate.
Erase or delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions under local law.
Object to our processing of your personal information or otherwise restrict our processing activities.
Request not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you personally.
Restrict certain transfers of your personal information to third parties.
Withdraw your consent to processing, where we base our processing of your personal information on consent.
Obtain your personal data in a structured, commonly used format and/or transfer this data to another controller.
Complain to your local supervisory authority.
10. HOW TO CONTACT US
In order to exercise your rights, contact us:
By letter:
Natali Adison, ADISON LAW
Belgielei 108, 2018 Antwerp
Belgium
By email: Nataliadison@adisonlaw.com
11. HOW TO CONTACT THE BELGIAN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY
You can contact the Belgian Data Protection Authority,
By letter:
Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussel
By email:
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE:
Whenever we update this Notice, we will update the date at the top to reflect the date when it was updated.
We will endeavor to provide you with notice before any essential material changes we make take effect in how we collect, use, and/or share the personal information that you have provided to us, by posting a prominent notice on the ADISON LAW website.