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Privacy Policy

At Legalscope, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data when you interact with our services, website, and personnel. We are dedicated to maintaining transparency and adherence to applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant regulations. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

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1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services. The nature of the information collected depends on your interaction with Legalscope.

  • Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, postal address, phone number, date of birth, and professional title. We collect this when you engage our services, subscribe to our newsletters, or contact us.
  • Professional Information: Details about your company, role, business activities, and legal needs that are relevant to the services we provide.
  • Financial Information: Payment details, billing addresses, and transaction history necessary for processing payments for our legal services.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services, including pages viewed, links clicked, and duration of visits.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences.

2. How We Collect Your Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

  • Direct Interactions: You may give us your identity, contact, and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Apply for our services;
    • Subscribe to our publications;
    • Request marketing to be sent to you;
    • Give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, primarily to deliver and enhance our legal services and to manage our business operations effectively.

  • To Provide and Manage Services: To fulfill our contractual obligations to you, deliver legal advice, represent you, and manage your case or matter.
  • To Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, send you updates about your case, provide information about our services, and send newsletters or other marketing communications that may be of interest to you (with your consent where required).
  • For Billing and Payment Processing: To process payments for services rendered, manage invoicing, and prevent fraudulent transactions.
  • To Improve Our Website and Services: To analyze usage patterns, identify areas for improvement, personalize user experience, and develop new services.
  • For Marketing and Promotional Purposes: To inform you about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, or to provide you with information about events, publications, and legal updates.
  • For Legal and Regulatory Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, regulatory requirements, internal policies, and to protect our rights and interests.
  • For Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our systems and data from unauthorized access, maintain the security of our services, and detect and prevent fraudulent activities.
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4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal data with third parties in the following situations:

  • Service Providers: We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our business, such as IT support, cloud hosting, payment processors, and marketing agencies. These providers are contractually bound to protect your data and only use it for the purposes specified by us.
  • Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may disclose your information to comply with legal obligations, enforce our policies, respond to lawful requests, or protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
  • Professional Advisers: We may share your data with our professional advisers, including auditors, lawyers, bankers, and insurers, who provide professional services to us.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction.
  • With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal data to other third parties with your explicit consent.

5. Data Security

Legalscope has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from accidental loss, unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. These measures include:

  • Encryption: Data is encrypted both in transit and at rest where appropriate.
  • Access Controls: Strict access controls and authentication protocols are in place to limit access to personal data to authorized personnel only.
  • Regular Audits: We conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments to identify and address potential weaknesses.
  • Employee Training: Our employees receive regular training on data protection and privacy best practices.
  • Incident Response Plan: We have a robust incident response plan to promptly address any potential data breaches.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and any transmission is at your own risk.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
  • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
  • Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us: