55LEGAL PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

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.

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

  • EU General Data Protection Regulation n°2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”);
  • Any applicable national data protection laws (including but not limited to the Luxembourg law of 1st August 2018 organizing the National Commission for data protection and the general system on data protection, as amended from time to time).

CATEGORIES OF PROCESSING

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:

  • Identification data: we collect data about you such as your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data, date and place of birth, gender, country, and preferred language;
  • Electronic identification data: we use cookies to collect data on how you use our website and view our marketing emails. This may include, for example, information on which 55LEGAL’s website pages you have visited, how long you stayed on them or which items you clicked on.;
  • Business contact information: we collect data about you such as job function, job title, department, organisation name, size and location, and whether or not you are acting on behalf of a client;
  • Financial information: we collect your financial information, such as financial account information or income or estate information, if needed to take payment or fulfil contractual obligations or for related purposes;
  • Contractual information: any information provided by the data subject allowing 55LEGAL to perform its contractual duties;
  • Sensitive data (i.e., personal information specifying criminal offences/convictions, medical or health conditions, biometric or genetic data, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or information specifying the sex life of the individual), strictly to the limited extent that may be necessary for 55LEGAL in the context of employment and in the context of performing a contract with a client or to fulfil a legal obligation.

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.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA

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:

  • Assessment of your legal situation and legal advice;
  • Legal assistance, in contentious and non-contentious matters;
  • Management of the (pre)contractual relationship with you;
  • Sending of information relating to your situation; and
  • Organising and maintaining our professional relationships with you.

For each of the purposes listed above, the collection and processing of data is :

  • Carried out in accordance with the GDPR,
  • legally founded :
  • Performance of a contract to which you are a party;
  • Performance of pre-contractual measures taken at your request;
  • Necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which we are subject;
  • Upon your consent;
  • Legitimate interest recognized by us.

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

PERSONS HAVING ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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.

PROCESSING LOCATIONS FOR PERSONAL DATA

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.

CORPORATE REORGNISATION

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.

YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Within the limits of the GDPR and applicable laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • Right to access your personal data;
  • Right to rectification;
  • Right to erasure;
  • Right to restriction of processing;
  • Right to object; 
  • Right to data portability;
  • Right to withdraw consent;
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.

To exercise these rights, please follow the procedure described below.

RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL DATA

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.

WHAT 55LEGAL EXPECTS FROM YOU

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.

EXCERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

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-Duchy of Luxembourg (www.cnpd.lu).

UPDATE OF THE POLICY

55LEGAL undertakes to update this notice whenever necessary. The latest version is systematically put online on our website.

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