55LEGAL is a société à responsabilité limitée existing under the laws of Luxembourg registered with and regulated by the Luxembourg bar and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies’ Register under number B 277514.
This 55LEGAL Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) provides you with information on the use of your personal data in all 55LEGAL activities.
To operate effectively and provide you with the best services, 55LEGAL collects data, especially about you as an individual, i.e. your personal data. Acting as data controllers or data processors of your personal data, we are highly committed to safeguarding your privacy. We have developed this Policy that covers how we may collect, use, share, protect and retain your information and your rights regarding it.
55LEGAL is your legal counsel or is intended to become your legal counsel to assist you or, where appropriate, to provide legal services for your benefit or that of third parties. In order to carry out our mission, we are required to collect your personal data.
Depending on the type of intended purpose, the categories of processed data are as follows:
55LEGAL ensures that only adequate and relevant data is collected, processed and kept for the declared purposes.
No legal provision obliges you to provide us with the personal data we request but, if you do not provide us with such data or exercise certain rights relating to your personal data as set out below, we may be unable to provide the services you request, to offer you services that may be of interest to you, to adapt our offers to your needs.
We collect and use the personal data that you provide to us or that we receive from your counsel or legal representative exclusively or the purposes mentioned hereafter:
For each of the purposes listed above, the collection and processing of data is :
If you send data concerning your legal situation on your own initiative or at our request, this means that you expressly consent to their processing within the limits and in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in this Policy.
55LEGAL ensures that your personal data is processed in a way that is compatible with the purposes stated above.
This data is shared internally within the strict framework of the missions entrusted to each individual.
55LEGAL has the right to disclose and transfer personal data to other companies/entities or to subcontractors located inside or outside the European Economic Area when this is necessary for the provision of services.
55LEGAL expressly has the right to disclose and transfer personal data, without this list being exhaustive, to courts, bailiffs and notaries, banking institutions, auditors, accountants, notaries, experts, other legal advisors, opposing parties but also to administrative, IT, payment, data processing, collection and other service providers it uses. 55LEGAL is also authorized to share personal data with competent Luxembourg or foreign authorities to fulfill its legal obligations.
Your data is processed at the premises of 55LEGAL. For reasons of security and backup of your data, they are also transferred to an approved Digitalisation and Conservation Service Provider located in Luxembourg and in Europe, which is also in charge of their backup. For these transfers, 55LEGAL has put in place binding agreements in compliance with the GDPR and applicable laws.
If 55LEGAL merges with another company or entity, of whatsoever form, or is partially or entirely acquired by such company or entity, the acquiring company or entity shall have access to all your personal data in 55LEGAL’s possession. Without prejudice to the right to update the present Policy, the acquiring company or entity shall be bound by this Policy.
Within the limits of the GDPR and applicable laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
To exercise these rights, please follow the procedure described below.
We will retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of the above-mentioned purposes or as long as required by law. The storage period for contractual data ends at the end of the statutory limitation period following the closure of your file with the law firm.
We expect you to inform us in writing and without undue delay of any changes of the information you provided to us, so that we can keep it up to date.
If you provide us with personal information not relating to you (e.g., information about your respective representatives, staff members and agents, beneficial owners, shareholders, etc. or about any third party), you must first inform them about this and make sure they acknowledge that we can use such information as set out in this Policy. In particular, you must provide them with the information relating to their rights as data subjects. We assume that these third parties are informed of the processing of any personal information relating to them that we may carry out and of the disclosure of the same to third parties and countries as described herein and that, as far as necessary, you obtained these data subjects ‘prior written consent.
You may address your questions concerning the processing of your personal data and exercise your rights mentioned above to info@55LEGAL.lu or by post to: 55LEGAL, 5b rue François Hogenberg, L-1735 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. We will reply to you personally. A copy of both sides of your valid identity document must also be sent to us.
Any complaint concerning the processing of your personal data may be sent to the postal and e-mail addresses mentioned above or to the data protection authority, namely for Luxembourg Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD), 1, Avenue du Rock’n’Roll, L-4361 Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg(www.cnpd.lu).
55LEGAL undertakes to update this notice whenever necessary. The latest version is systematically put online on our website.