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Shehadeh Law Firm 26 Main Street, Ramallah, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories Email: info@shehadehlaw.com
Introduction
Shehadeh Law Firm (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Shehadeh Law Firm collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a product or service, or take part in a competition.
Controller
Shehadeh Law Firm is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:
Full name of legal entity: Shehadeh Law Firm
Email address: info@shehadehlaw.com
Postal address: 26 Main Street, Ramallah, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories
Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes
This version was last updated on [Insert Date]. We may update this policy from time to time, and we will notify you of any changes by updating this policy on our website.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name and last name.
- Contact Data: includes email address.
3. How is Your Personal Data Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct Interactions: You may provide us with your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Fill out the contact form on our website;
- Request information to be sent to you;
- Give us feedback or contact us.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to respond to your inquiries.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of Data | Lawful Basis for Processing Including Basis of Legitimate Interest |
|---|---|---|
| To respond to inquiries submitted via our contact form | Identity, Contact | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to respond to inquiries and potential client interest) |
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above:
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Third parties to whom
we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International Transfers
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or any other location deemed inadequate under applicable data protection laws. In the event that such a transfer becomes necessary, we will ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the contact details provided in Section 1.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy policy when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out in Section 1.
This privacy policy is drafted as a general template and should be reviewed and customized according to the specific practices and legal requirements of Shehadeh Law Firm.
