INFORMATION CLAUSE IN CONNECTION WITH GDPR

Pursuant to Article 13(1)-(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free flow of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the „General Data Protection Regulation”) (hereinafter „GDPR”), we inform you that our Law Firm processes your personal data.

 

The administrator of your personal data is Kancelaria Radców Prawnych K&L Legal Granat i Wspólnicy Sp.k. with its registered office in Wrocław (50-076) at ul. Karola Szajnochy 11 lok. 1C, registered in the Register of Entrepreneurs of the National Court Register under no. 0000296281, District Court for Wrocław – Fabryczna Economic Division of the National Court Register, tel. +48 71 7345914, email: sekretariat@kllegal.pl.

 

What are the purposes of processing your data?

 

We will process your data only for the purpose of concluding and performing the contract for legal assistance, as well as for the purpose of asserting claims and protecting our important interests as an administrator.

 

Please be advised that we also process data for analytical purposes based on traffic to our website www.kllegal.pl and to better understand the preferences of users of this service. This data is anonymized and its processing is based on our legitimate interests.

We also process data for archival (evidentiary) purposes to secure information in the event of a legal necessity to prove certain facts, as well as data for the purpose of establishing, investigating or defending against claims, which is our legitimate interest.

 

We will process your data in accordance with the principles listed in Article 5 of the GDPRand the Law on Legal Advisers.

 

To whom do we share your data?

 

We will share your data only with our subcontractors: accounting offices, IT service providers and other law firms with whom we cooperate in providing legal assistance. Your personal data may be transferred to lawyers who are required by law to maintain secrecy – only for the purpose of enabling the replacement of the legal counsel or attorney handling your case, or to employees of the law firm who are entrusted in writing with the processing of personal data and who are responsible for violations of the processing rules.

 

What will we not do with your data?

 

We will not use your data for profiling, we will not use your data for direct marketing purposes. If, in order to improve the quality of our services, we will transfer your data outside the EU, we will use IT measures to ensure a level of protection in accordance with the GDPR, and you will be informed separately about the transfer of your data outside the EU.

 

How long will we keep your data?

 

We will keep your data related to inquiries and the process of concluding a contract for the period of negotiating the conclusion of that contract, and then until the end of the calendar year following the year in which you last contacted us.

 

We will process your data obtained for the purpose of contract execution until the end of the statute of limitations for all claims arising from the contract and matters entrusted to us under the contract. We would like to remind you that the processing of data in some cases will not be equivalent to the storage of the entire case file. On the basis of the agreements concluded with us, you may collect these files from us after the completion of its conduct, and if you do not exercise this right under the terms of the agreement, the files may be securely destroyed.

 

What are your rights?

 

At any time you have the right to object to the processing of your data, processed for the purpose and on the basis indicated above. We will stop processing your data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate that there are compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or your data is necessary for us to possibly establish, assert or defend claims.

 

You are entitled to:

 

(a) the right to access your data and receive a copy of it

 

  1. b) the right to rectify (amend) your data

 

  1. c) the right to erasure of your data.

If, in your opinion, there are no grounds for us to process your data, you may request that we delete it.

 

(d) limitation of data processing

 

You may request that we restrict the processing of your personal data only to storing it or performing activities agreed with you, if in your opinion we have inaccurate data about you or are processing it unfoundedly, or you do not want us to delete it because you need it to establish, assert or defend claims, or for the duration of your objection to the processing.

 

(e) Right to data portability:

 

You have the right to receive from us in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format (e.g., „.csv” format) the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us on the basis of a contract or your consent. You may also have us send this data directly to another entity

 

(f) The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you believe that we are processing your data unlawfully, you may file a complaint about it with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection or other competent supervisory authority

 

Provision of data is voluntary, except that refusal to provide such data may hinder or prevent due legal assistance.

 

If we process your data on the basis of your consent, we would like to inform you that at any time you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, (including those belonging to a special category), but the withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of the processing that was carried out lawfully before its withdrawal.