ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services
to clients worldwide, Lexenor Law Firm, including its affiliated partnerships,
(collectively, the firm) 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 the firm 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 and Cookie Policy (the “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 the firm’s 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 parties
outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or
use the firm’s websites, our apps, our social media sites, our extranets, as
well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this
Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also
describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information
in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The firm collects Personal Information in the course of
providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website
or users of Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about
you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third
parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain
Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate
interest to do so for the following purposes:
- to
contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries
- to
personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you
while you use those services
- to
carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
- to
conduct our recruiting and selection process
- to
provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the
firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct
us on
- to
contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal
or law firm developments that may be of interest to you. If you do not
want to receive publications or details of events or seminars that we
consider may be of interest to you, you may do so by clicking on the
unsubscribe link in electronic marketing communications
- to
enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds
- to
comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional
obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering
requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for the firm to
carry out its anti-money laundering checks failure to provide such
information may result in the firm not being able to provide the
representation.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal
Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always
been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the
information our clients entrust to us.
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 do
not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain
data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data
processors, including, where applicable, European Union’s data protection laws
and regulations.
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 firm 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 an international firm, 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
between our offices. We have entered into EU Standard Contractual Clauses for
transfers between our offices, which you can request under the “Contact Us”
section below.
Cookie Policy
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and
placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies can be usefully divided
into two different types, session and persistent. Session cookies differ from
persistent cookies primarily in that session cookies are temporary and expire
and are normally deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies, in
contrast, remain stored on your computer after you close your browser until
they are deleted either because they expire or you delete them. The firm uses
session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, except for Internet
Services that require you to log in, such as our client extranets, and a Region
Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed to the
correct version of our website.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet
technologies, such as web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet. For
example, the firm uses cookies in conjunction with web beacons, which are small
sections of code that we may place in our Internet Services to understand the
number of unique users that have visited a specific page. Similarly, we may use
or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued
by another website. These tracking scripts are not used to gather information
on your use of the Internet unrelated to the firm, and they do not identify you
unless you choose to provide Personal Information to the firm.
The firm’s Internet Services use cookies. The firm uses
session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, specifically for
cybersecurity purposes, to provide you with customizations of your experience,
such as highlighting your recently viewed items, to detect and remember your
region and language preferences, and track your activities on the Internet
Services. We also use a Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures
that you are directed to the correct version of our website.
Although the firm uses the services of third parties in
connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider
to use Personal Information about the users of our Internet Services.
None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our
Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow
your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the
Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have
adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet
Services will issue cookies when you logon to the firm’s Internet Services. For
more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use
the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of
your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each
device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies. If you
do not wish to receive advertising cookies, you may wish to visit the Network
Advertising Initiative (NAI) website by clicking here and
the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) website here.
Do Not Track Signals
“Do Not Track” signals are options available on your browser
to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity
tracked. Our websites operate no differently if these “Do Not Track” signals
are enabled or disabled. Our Internet Services do not allow any third parties
to collect Personal Information about your online activities over time or
across websites for their own purposes.
Children
In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not
knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online
via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm
collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes
mentioned in the Statement, the firm will only do so with the appropriate
consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
Your London Privacy Rights
Under London Civil Code Section 1798.100 (London Consumer
Privacy Act), London residents may have certain data protection rights
regarding their Personal Information. These rights which may be subject to
limitations and/or restrictions include: (i) the right to disclosure, deletion,
access, and non-discrimination; and (ii) the right to opt out of having your
Personal Information shared or sold. The firm does not sell or share your
Personal Information with third-party companies for their direct marketing
purposes without your consent. To exercise your rights under the London
Consumer Privacy Act, please send us your request using the “Contact Us”
section below.
The following are categories of Personal Information defined
under the Act we may collect, receive, or maintain in the course of
administering firm business or receive from a client in the course of providing
legal services: Identifiers, Personal information described in the London
Customer Records statute (Lon. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), Protected
classification characteristics under London or law, Commercial information,
Biometric information, Internet or other electronic network activity,
Geolocation data, Sensory data, Professional or employment-related information,
Non-public education information, and inferences drawn from other personal
information.
Your European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) Data
Protection Rights
Under EU and UK data protection laws (UK GDPR/2018 Data
Protection Act and EU GDPR), individuals may have certain data protection
rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions and which
includes: (i) the right to request access to and, rectification or erasure of
your Personal Information; and (ii) the right to ask us to restrict the
processing of your Personal Information. You may also have a right to object to
processing of your Personal Information where carried out for our legitimate interest
or direct marketing. To exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please
send us your request using the “Contact Us” section below.
Individuals may also have a right to lodge a complaint about
the processing of their Personal Information with their local data protection
authority.
The firm’s data protection officer, dealing with EU and UK
matters, can be contacted at, Data Protection OfficerLondon E14 5AB, UK Canary
Wharf, United Kingdom.
Your Singapore, People’s Republic of China (PRC), and
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Rights
Our processing of your personal information within the scope
of the following legislation may afford you certain specific rights:
- Singapore’s
Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (the “PDPA”)
- Mainland
China’s Personal Information Protection Law (the “PIPL”)
- The
DIFC’s Data Protection Law DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020
The firm’s Data Protection Officer, dealing with these
matters, can be contacted at [email protected] or
by writing to Data Protection Officer, London E14 5AB, UKCanary Wharf United Kingdom, if you have any questions
in this regard.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time
without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet
Services, the firm will post it on this website and relevant Internet Services.
Contact Us
The firm maintains a Privacy Program with a Chief Privacy
Officer, and a Data Protection Officer, to enhance and promote compliance with
privacy and data protection principles. These positions serve as points of
contact for answering questions, accessing, amending, or correcting your
information and resolving issues and disputes. If you have any questions
relating to our use of your Personal Information please contact the Chief
Privacy Officer at [email protected],
or by mail at:
