Privacy Statement
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients worldwide, our office including its affiliated partnerships, is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of our office to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Statement is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to the countries in which we operate. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Statement is intended to summarize our data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Statement is also specifically addressed to the Clients using our services, who provide Personal Information to our office or who visit or use our websites, our social media sites, our extranets, as well as messages.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Our office may collect Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or users of our Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of our office to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
Attorney-Client relationship comes under the category of fiduciary relationship which means it involves an element of trust. Any information provided by you to us or our employees shall not be disclosed or used under any circumstances except by getting your prior approval for the same.
We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the office except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.
As we are engaged in providing legal services worldwide, we operate systems that may make data related to your matters accessible from our various offices around the world and often transfer client data which may include Personal Information among our offices. We have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers between our offices.