Bivonas Law LLP ("Bivonas") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Notice describes how we, as data controller, may collect, use, and share information about you in the course of operating our business and your rights in relation to that information.
We will collect and process personal information such as name, contact details, and any other details you give us at a meeting, during a telephone call or otherwise communicate to us in any way.
It is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or our client on your behalf.
It is necessary in connection with a legal obligation.
You have provided your consent to such use.
We consider such use of your information as not detrimental to you, within your reasonable expectations, having a minimal impact on your privacy, and necessary to fulfil our legitimate interests.
You have consented for us to do so.
We are under a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to do so.
It is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings, or to exercise or defend legal rights.
It is required or will assist us in providing our services.
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area without your consent. We do not sell, rent or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party.
We have put in place appropriate electronic or physical security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We are required by law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) and maintain your case file for a minimum of 6 years after which time it will be destroyed, unless we are required by our regulatory authorities to keep the data for a longer period.
Right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Right to restriction of processing: in certain circumstances you can apply to restrict the way your data is being processed.
Right to judicial remedy: you have the right to a judicial review where you believe that your privacy rights have been infringed.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk), we would however prefer you to contact us first as we should be able to resolve any matter quickly and to your satisfaction.