PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIES
PRIVACY
With regard the conclusion and implementation of agreements for legal services, as well as for the provision of timely and adequate answers and consultations to your requests via email, telephone or at our office, we process personal data of natural persons in accordance with this Policy.
Through this Privacy Policy, we inform you for our practices we apply for protection of your personal data and rights. When collecting and processing your personal data, we obey the applicable laws and regulations, which regulate the collection and processing of the personal data, for what goals and what guarantees for protection of your personal data shall be applied. The relevant laws include, but not limit to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46 /EC, the Personal data protection Act and the related acts.
Please read carefully this Privacy Policy before using the website www.legalisfirm.com and before using our services as well. If you do not wish to process your personal data the way described in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide your personal data to us. If you have any questions with regard this Privacy Policy, please contact us on the following email: office@legalisfirm.com.
“Controller”means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
“Processor“ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
“Restriction of processing” means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;
“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
“Applicable law” means the legislation of EU and of the Republic of Bulgaria, which is relevant to the personal data protection;
“Profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements;
„Data subject“ means natural person, who may be identified direct or indirect, more specifically through identifier like name, identification number and data for location;
“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;
“Consent” of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
“Regulation (EU) 2016/679” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46 /EC, promulgated in the official State Gazette of the European Union on May the 4th 2016;
“Supervisory Authority” means Commission for personal data protection (CPDP), independent public authority, responsible for the supervision and application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
With regard the provision of our legal services and conclusion of agreements for legal services, we process information from the following data subjects:
The personal data we collect is data containing information about our Clients such as: name, address, email, phone number, date of birth, age, gender.
We collect only such personal data, which is necessary for the provision of our services, or data which is provided by you voluntarily. Our website uses cookies for analyze, statistics and improvement of the consumer experience, which are describes below.
Contact form – Data collected via the feedback form (name, phone, e-mail), serve only to answer your queries. They are confidential, not used for other purposes and not shared with third parties.
Inquiry Form for online legal consultation – Data collected by form (name, IP address), serve only to answer your queries. They are confidential, not used for other purposes and not shared with third parties.
Comments – data collected by the form of comments (Name, E-mail) are used solely for discussions on the website. They are confidential, not used for other purposes and not shared with third parties.
Except in cases when we collect personal data based on the law, contract, legitimate interest or to protect your vital interests, we will ask for your permission. We will use your data for the specific purpose after your explicit consent. You have the right, on a later stage if reconsidered by you, to withdraw your consent. In cases when it is necessary for us to collect your personal data due to our legitimate interest or to protect your vital interests, we will timely inform you and will inform you about your rights. You have the right to object against the collection of your personal data if you consider that we do not have legitimate interest for its collection. We will take additional measures and we will provide you with further information and our arguments in one-month term considered as of the date of your request.
We disclose your personal data only in the following cases:
We collect, processes and stores personal data in compliance with all legal requirements and applying adequate technical and organizational security measures. For maximum security during processing, transfer and storage of the personal data, we use where necessary additional mechanisms for protection like encryption, pseudonymisation, etc.
Your personal data is stored within the time limit, determined by the effective legislation, depending on the goal for which are collected. In the absence of such legal time limit, we accept that we will store your personal data for a reasonable time limit, defined on the basis of additional criteria. The criteria for defining the time limit is complied with our goal to provide you services at high level and the normal development of our partnership as well. We respect the principle of storing data only for the period for which storage is needed to fulfill the purpose for which they were collected, unless the law provides storage for a longer period. When your personal data is no longer necessary for the mentioned goals we delete it, anonymize it or we destroy it though other way.
You have the following rights at any time when we process your personal data:
To obtain information on what personal data concerning you we process and for what purposes.
To request rectification of untrue or inaccurate personal data concerning you.
To request erasure of your personal data – when there are no grounds to continue the processing of your personal data, you may request, at any point of time, erasure of all the information concerning you, which we store. If we have terminated our partnership relations and we have no statutory obligation to store this information, it will be erased.
To request storage of your personal data without processing in any other way – if there exist no grounds to continue the processing of your personal data but you do not want it to be erased, e.g. in view of possible future partnership, you may request us, at any point of time, to stop any other form of processing and only store your personal data. In this case, we may process your data only on the basis of your consent or by virtue of law.
To request access to your personal data – You may always ask for a copy of all your data which we process. In this case, you should specify whether we can provide the data on a hard copy or electronic means in a standard file format.
To object to the processing of your personal data – When we process your personal data for the purposes of protecting the interests of the law firm, you may object to the processing at any time. The processing will be discontinued immediately in case it is done for the purpose of sending commercial communications or similar information. If the processing is intended to protect another legitimate interest of ours, we will assess whether we are in a position to discontinue the processing or not.
We do not engage in profiling and we do not use automated decision-making procedures which might affect your rights in the processing of your personal data.
You can exercise your rights under the terms of this Policy by filing a request for exercising the certain right.
A request for exercising your rights may be filed at our address: Sofia, 88 G. S. Rakovski str. or by sending an email to office@legalisfirm.com or via post service.
The request shall contain the following information: identification number – name and PIN (if applicable), contact – address, phone number, email and request – description of your request.
We provide information on the actions taken with regard your request in one-month term as of receiving the request.
If necessary, this term may be extended with additional two months, taking into consideration the complexity and the count of the requests of the person. We inform the person for every extension in one-month term as of receiving the request with justification of the reasons for such extension.
We are not obliged to reply to the request if we are not able to identify the data subject.
We may request the provision of additional information, necessary for confirmation of the identity of the data subject, when there is a reasonable doubt for the identity of the natural person who filed the request.
When the request is filed via electronic devices, we provide the information electronically except when the data subject has requested otherwise.
If we reject the request, we provide our arguments and inform the data subject for his right to file a complaint before the Commission for personal data protection (CPDP).
We will cooperate for exercising your rights and will inform you additionally for every right you have.
We strive to fulfill your requests when they are admissible and well-grounded and will reply in the statutory term. In rare cases we may extend this term but no longer than the maximum term provided by the law.
Right of appeal – in case you decide that we violate your rights, you may contact us to review the issue. Also you may file a complaint before the Commission for personal data protection.
Commission for personal data protection
Seat and address: 2, Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov Blvd., 1592 Sofia
tel. 02/91-53-518
Website: www.cpdp.bg
Revision/update – this Policy shall be revised and updated by us regularly in order to be clear, correct and to include any changes which affects us (in case of necessity).
COOKIES
When you first visit www.legalisfirm.com, we will we’ll ask you to accept the use of “cookies” in accordance with the terms of these rules, through the use of our website and the acceptance of these rules, you agree to use ‘cookies “in accordance with the terms in the present.
A cookie is a small file size, formed by letters and numbers, which will be stored on your computer, mobile device or other equipment of a user used to access the Internet. A cookie is installed by requiring sent from the server to a web page to the browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Chrome), and is completely “passive” (contains no software viruses or spyware and has no access to information from the hardware to the user).
These files enable knowledge of the user’s device and presentation of content in the appropriate manner adapted to the user’s preferences. Cookies provide the user a pleasant experience while navigating our website. Also, cookies are used for the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us understand how a user prefers to use our website, allowing us to improve the structure and content, excluding the identification of the individual user.
We use two types of cookies – on a user session and fixed. The first are temporary files that remain in the user’s device until the end of the user session or until closing the application (web browser). The fixed files remain on the user’s device for the period parametered by the cookies or until they are manually deleted by the user.
Visiting our website may create cookies for the following purposes:
Cookies themselves do not require information of a personal nature so to be used most often and do not identify individual Internet users. Personal data collected during the use of cookies can be collected only to facilitate the use by the user. These data are encrypted in a way that prevents unauthorized persons to have access to them.
Generally an application for access to web pages allows the storage of cookies by default. These settings can be modified so that the automatic management of cookies to be blocked by the web browser or the user can be informed whenever cookies are sent to his terminal. Detailed information about the opportunities and how to manage cookies can be found in the application settings (web browser). Limiting the use of cookies may affect some features of the website.
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, for example:
Blocking all “cookies” will have a negative impact on the usage of many websites. If you block “cookies” you can not use all the functions on our website.
You can delete “cookies”, which are already stored on your computer; for example:
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
The cookies we use are anonymous and does not contain any personal data.
More information on how the business use cookies can be found at: www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you have any questions with regard this Cookies policy, you may contact us at office@legalisfirm.com.