Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy
Ilda Botelho de Sousa, Lawyer, registered with the Portuguese Bar Association, with the Regional Council of Porto, with professional address at Av. do Marechal Gomes da Costa, 310, s/2.4, 4150-354 in Porto, is the owner of the name of domain and contents of the website www.ciberlaw.pt and the Responsible for the Processing of your Personal Data, under the terms and for the purposes of current legislation, Regulation(EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (GDPR) and National enforcement law (Law 58/2019 of August 8).
This policy aims to inform about the processing of personal data collected, by the lawyer or on her behalf, in the various contacts she has with us, in person or through digital means, which may be processed manually or automatically, according to for the respective purpose and in the context of the advocacy and legal consultancy services provided or operated by the lawyer or on her behalf.
For what purposes and on what legal basis do we process your data?
- to respond to requests for information about our services/areas of activity, fees or budgets – based on pre-contractual measures at your request.
- to provide legal services (opening and managing a file; communications with the client and other parties and/or entities, including courts; physical and digital documentation archive, invoicing, among others) – based on the execution of the contract, This is a necessary requirement to conclude the contract and the holder is obliged to provide their personal data, as if they do not provide it, we will not be able to provide the desired service.
- to send the Newsletter or information on legal updates on our networks, if you have given us your consent to do so.
- to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject.
- for selection and recruitment – based, respectively, on the consent of the holders and based on the necessary pre-contractual measures.
- for hiring employees or legal service providers – based on the execution of the contract.
Who are the recipients of the personal data processed?
Within the scope of the professional activity of law, depending on the cases requested from us, we may have to communicate or share some of your personal data with counterparties, other lawyers, Public Authorities, Courts, private entities, among others necessary, always observing the fundamental principles of Data Protection, limiting ourselves to those strictly necessary in each situation.
Will data be transferred to third countries or international organizations?
We do not intend to transfer your personal data to third countries or to any international organization, but if this is necessary to fulfill the requested services, we undertake to comply with the conditions for them, either by verifying the existence of an adequacy decision, or by verifying that there are appropriate or adequate guarantees and means of obtaining copies of them or where they were made available, all in order to ensure that the level of protection of your personal data guaranteed by the GDPR is not compromised.
What are the periods during which we will retain your personal data?
We will not retain your personal data longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was processed or for the period defined by law.
- As part of the provision of our services, your personal data will be kept for the duration of the mandate, until the effective resolution of situations and/or legal actions, or for the period during which the contractual relationship is maintained, plus 5 or 10 years, respectively, for archiving completed processes or matters and for billing archiving purposes.
- In processes submitted in judicial and extra-judicial directories of the respective entities, the data will be kept for the period in which the respective process or dossier lasts.
- For the newsletter or legal update information to which you have subscribed, we will retain your personal data until you express your objection.
- Personal data for selection and recruitment will be kept, respectively, for a period of 6 months and for the period during which the employment or service provision relationship is maintained, plus the legally applicable deadlines in tax, social security, insurance matters or other legally applicable.
- The data required for billing will be kept for the legal period of 10 years.
What are your rights as a holder of personal data?
As a holder of personal data, you have the rights to request access to personal data concerning you, as well as its rectification or erasure and limitation of processing in relation to you.
You also have the rights to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability.
In cases where we process your personal data based on your consent, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without compromising the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on your previously given consent.
You also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority, the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD), through this authority's own website.
Links to third party websites
We use social networks to communicate and publicize the services, and we may use other websites. You should consult the respective privacy and data protection policies of these sites.
Contacts:
For any questions related to this Privacy Policy you can contact us via the following:
By email: protecaodedados@ciberlaw.pt;
For mobile phone: 351 925 240 028 (Call to national mobile network)
By letter or in person at the address: Av. Do Marechal Gomes da Costa, 310, s/2.4, 4150-354 Porto
We recommend that you consult this Policy regularly, being duly updated
Last updated on 02/16/2023