How Hill Smith King & Wood collects, uses and protects your personal information.
Our website address is: https://hskwlaw.com.
At Hill Smith King & Wood, we value and respect the protection of your privacy and the security of your personal information. We handle personal information in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming) and the provisions of other applicable laws, regulations and rules.
When using the term 'personal information' in this policy, we mean information that relates to you and allows us to identify you, either directly or in combination with other information that we may hold. This policy applies to all the personal information that HSKW collects when you interact with us, such as when you use our services, when you visit our websites and when you interact with us as a business customer, supplier or business partner. This includes, without limitation, all online and offline collections of all types of personal information.
In the course of providing services to you, we may collect information that could reveal your racial or ethnic origin, physical or mental health, religious beliefs or alleged commission or conviction of criminal offences. Such information is considered "sensitive personal data" under article 9 GDPR. We only collect sensitive information where you have given your explicit consent, it is necessary, or you have deliberately made it public.
We use your personal information for contact and communication purposes, to manage our relationship with clients and fulfil our (pre-)contractual obligations to them, fulfil our legal obligations, improve our website and our services, for recruitment purposes and other legitimate business purposes. Personal information submitted on this website will solely be used for the purpose for which it was transmitted to us. We will not use it for any other purpose without your prior permission.
We apply the following principles when processing your personal information:
We take the necessary administrative, technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information. Furthermore, we do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party.
We do not share, sell, transfer or otherwise disseminate your personal information to third parties and will not do so in future, unless required to provide our services and comply with the obligations arising from contractual agreements concluded with you or unless you have given explicit consent to do so. For instance, it may be necessary to pass on your personal information to third parties such as vendors and service providers. Also, we may, from time to time, need to transfer your personal information to one of our group companies (in the United Kingdom (London) and the United States (New York)) for the purposes specified above. Although unlikely, we may be required to disclose your information to comply with legal obligations or requests.
Where necessary, we have entered into EU Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure adequate safeguards to protect your personal information. During the provision of our services, your personal information may of course also be transferred to countries outside the EEA where necessary, e.g. in the context of international legal proceedings or cross-jurisdictional legal services.
In accordance with data protection laws, you are entitled to obtain confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed, verify its accuracy, update it, and/or request to rectify inaccuracies. You also have the right to have your personal information erased, as well as the right to object (on legitimate grounds) to the processing of your personal information.
To exercise such rights and/or if you have any further questions or complaints about how we process your personal information, then please contact us at administration@hskwlaw.com. If you still have any concerns about how we handle your personal information, you have the right to report this to the data protection authority.
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