PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is important to us. It is Associates Law Firm’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, (https://www.associatelawfirm.com), and other sites we own and operate.

1. Information we collect

Log data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details.

Device data

We may also collect data about the device you are using to access our website. This data may include the device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, device settings, and geo-location data. What we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

Personal information

We may ask for personal information, such as your:

• Name
• Email
• Phone/mobile number
• Home/Mailing address
• Work address
• Social media profiles
• Date of birth
• Payment information
• Referral

2. Legal bases for processing

We will process your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. We collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so.

These legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them, meaning we collect and use your information only where:

• It is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract (for example, when we provide a service you request from us);
• It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote our services, and to protect our legal rights and interests;
• You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose (for example, you might consent to us sending you our newsletter); or
• We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

Where you consent to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time (but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place).

We do not keep personal information for longer than is necessary. While we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. That said, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and cannot guarantee absolute data security. If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal obligation or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

3. Collection and use of information

We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

• To enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our website;
• To enable you to access and use our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
• To contact and communicate with you;
• For internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
• For analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
• To run competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you
• For advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;
• To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have; and
• To consider your employment application.

4. Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• Third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors and payment systems operators;
• Our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
• Sponsors or promoters of any competition we run;
• Credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
• Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
• Third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services or direct marketing to you; and
• Third parties to collect and process data.

5. International transfers of personal information

The personal information we collect is stored and processed where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to the disclosure to these overseas third parties.

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.

Where we transfer personal information from a non-EEA country to another country, you acknowledge that third parties in other jurisdictions may not be subject to similar data protection laws to the ones in our jurisdiction. There are risks if any such third party engages in any act or practice that would contravene the data privacy laws in our jurisdiction and this might mean that you will not be able to seek redress under our jurisdiction’s privacy laws.

6. Your rights and controlling your personal information

Choice and consent:

By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. If you are under 16 years of age, you must have, and warrant to the extent permitted by law to us, that you have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to access and use the website and they (your parents or guardian) have consented to you providing us with your personal information. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of this website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

Information from third parties:

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Restrict:

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below. If you ask us to restrict or limit how we process your personal information, we will let you know how the restriction affects your use of our website or products and services.

Access and data portability:

You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You may request that we erase the personal information we hold about you at any time. You may also request that we transfer this personal information to another third party.

Correction:

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.

Notification of data breaches:

We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

Complaints:

If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Unsubscribe:

To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

7. Cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.

8. Business transfers

If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may continue to use your personal information according to this policy.

9. Limits of our policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

10. Changes to this policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect current acceptable practices. We will take reasonable steps to let users know about changes via our website. Your continued use of this site after any changes to this policy will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information.

If we make a significant change to this privacy policy, for example changing a lawful basis on which we process your personal information, we will ask you to re-consent to the amended privacy policy.

Other Automatically-Gathered Information

We may automatically record information when you visit our Website, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your visit. We use this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our Website or customize communications and information that you receive from us. If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our Website.

Other Legitimate Interest

We may process information or use it to communicate with you on the basis that doing so is necessary to achieve a legitimate interest, either to you or to us. Where we use your information on this basis, we do so after having given careful consideration to:

• Whether the same objective could be achieved through other means;
• Whether processing (or not processing) might cause you harm;
• Whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would consider it reasonable to do so.

For example, we may process your data or communicate with you for any of the following purposes:

• Advertising and marketing to you, which includes sending promotional communications, targeting advertising, and presenting you relevant offers based on information you provide or our prior dealings;
• Operating our business, which includes analyzing our performance, meeting our legal obligations, developing our workforce, and doing research;
• Record-keeping for the proper and necessary administration of our business;
• Responding to customer complaints or service requests;
• Responding to unsolicited communications from you to which we believe you would expect a response;
• Protecting and asserting the legal rights of any party;
• Insuring against or obtaining professional advice that is required to manage business risk;
• Protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so.

We will continue to use this information for this purpose until the legitimate interest no longer exists or such use is not necessary to achieve the legitimate interest.

Our Use of Remarketing

Remarketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our Website in order to be able to show you an advertisement for our products or services when you visit some other website. We may use a third party to provide us with remarketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Our Website uses “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our Website, services and products. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use.

Those terms are here: (http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html).

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser: (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

Acceptance of Terms/Changes to This Privacy Policy

Your use of the (https://www.associatelawfirm.com) Website at any time indicates your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time of such usage. The Law Offices of Associates Law Firm reserves the right to change this policy at any time without advance notice. If any changes are made, the new policy will go into effect once it is posted to the website, and it will apply only to information collected after the new policy goes into effect.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2024 The Law Offices of Associates Law Firm. All rights reserved.

The Law Offices of Associates Law Firm claims a copyright in all proprietary and copyrightable text, graphics and computer code on this website, the overall design of this website, and the selection, arrangement and presentation of all materials on this website to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Questions Regarding This Privacy Policy?

If you have any questions or enquiries regarding this Privacy Policy, please send us an email to: enquiry@associatelawfirm.com or contact us .

This Privacy Policy is effective as of: 3rd September 2023.