Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes how Cases&Lacambra collects, uses, and shares the information you provide to us and the information we collect in the course of operating our business and our websites. Your privacy is important to us.

Unless you tell us that we can disclose it or unless the law requires or permits us to disclose it, any confidential information you give us through this website will remain confidential.

This Policy lets you know what information we might collect from you, and how we might use it. In this Policy, when we refer to Cases&Lacambra or “we”/“us”/“our” we mean Cases&Lacambra and also other companies and entities that are associated with us.

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Policy at any time by amending this page. Although we will likely notify you of any relevant change of this Policy, you are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you.

Use of Cookies and Tracking User Traffic

Some pages on our website may use “cookies”—small files that the website places on your hard drive for identification purposes. Some parts of the website may also use cookies to track user traffic patterns.

Cases&Lacambra does this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users/visitors and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users/visitors reach that information. Please note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not.

If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on our site.

The information that we collect and where we get it from

“Personal Information” is any information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control.

We will collect and process the following Personal Information about you:

Information that you provide to us

In the course of our business as a law firm, we will process Personal Information that you give to us, including when you email us or contact us through various channels as follows:

  • Signing up for services on our Site: when you sign up for newsletters, seminars, conferences, or events, or obtain legal services from us, or when you contact us with queries or respond to our communications, the personal information you provide may include your full name, title, telephone number, email address and content, date and time of your email correspondence, and information about your employer or your business.
  • In connection with our provision of legal services: if you are a client of Cases & Lacambra, you will provide us with Personal Information when you or the company you represent become a client. If you are not a client, we may collect or receive your Personal Information because you are involved in one of our clients’ matters.
  • Recruitment application: when you apply for a position with us, you may provide us with certain Personal Information as requested on our application. This may include details such as your full name and education and qualification information as contained in your CV.

Information we otherwise collect about you

We will also collect information about when you use our services or when we otherwise interact or correspond with you.

We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites. For technical purposes, but not including personal data information, we may, for example, collect information about the type of device you use to access the websites, your IP address and your geographic location, the operating system and version, your browser type, the content you view and features you access on our websites, the web pages and the search terms you enter on our websites.

Information we obtain from other sources

  • If you apply for a position with us, we may collect Personal Information relating to past employment, qualifications and education, and other details about you, which will be provided to us by a third party that provides background screening services to us.
  • If we collect or receive your Personal Information in the context of providing legal services, we might receive information from third parties such as your employer, other parties relevant to the services we are providing (e.g. counterparties in transactions) and others such as regulators and authorities. That information could include your name, contact details, employment details and other information relevant to the legal services that we are providing to our client.

How we use the information we collect

We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose Personal Information that visitors submit through our Sites, except as described in this Policy.

We also may use the Personal Information we collect to protect us against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, and our policies and terms.

We use Personal Information for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by a law that applies to us.

We may USE your Personal Information in the following ways:

  1. Use it to provide legal services to the relevant client.
  2. Use it to engage in marketing and business development activity in relation to our legal services. This may include sending you newsletters, legal updates, marketing communications, and other information that may be of interest to you.
  3. Where you have applied for a position with us, to review and process your job application.
  4. Use it to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that we have to discharge.
  5. Use it to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings.
  6. Use it for technical purposes record and monitor your use of our websites or our other online services for our business purposes which may include analysis of usage, measurement of site performance and generation of marketing reports.
  7. Use it for our legitimate business interests, such as conducting business research and analysis or managing the operation of our websites and our business.
  8. Use it to look into any complaints or queries you may have, and
  9. Use it to prevent and respond to actual or potential fraud or illegal activities.Also, we may collate, process and share any statistics based on an aggregation of information held by us provided that any individual is not identified from the resulting analysis and the collation, processing, and dissemination of such information is permitted by law.

Grounds for using your personal information

We rely on the following legal grounds to process your Personal Information, namely:

  • Consent – we may need your consent to use your Personal Information. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us (see below).
  • Performance of a contract – we may need to collect and use your personal information to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you.
  • Legitimate interest – we may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.
  • Compliance with law or regulation – we may use your personal information as necessary to comply with applicable law.

How we share information with third parties

We share Personal Information with our international offices and the various entities that make up our international network.

As a result, your Personal Information may be transferred to locations outside the European Union as well as within it for the purposes described above.

We may also share your personal information outside Cases&Lacambra. This may include:

  • Third party agents/suppliers or contractors, bound by obligations of confidentiality, in connection with the processing of your Personal Information for the purposes described in this Policy. This may include, but is not limited to, IT and communications service providers.
  • Third parties relevant to the legal services that we provide. This may include, but is not limited to, counterparties to transactions or litigation, other professional service providers, regulators, authorities, governmental institutions, and stock exchanges. These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.
  • To the extent required by law or court order, for example, if we are under a duty to disclose your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation.
  • Where we transfer your personal information outside Europe, we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with legal requirements applicable to the information. This can be done in a number of different ways, for instance:
    • The country to which we send personal information may be approved by the European Commission.
    • The recipient may have signed a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission, obliging them to protect your personal information, or
    • Where the recipient is located in the US, it may be a certified member of the EU-US Privacy Shield scheme.

In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside Europe.

In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal information when it is transferred outside Europe (including a sample copy of the model contractual clauses) by contacting us using the details set out below.

Keeping your information and information security

How long we hold your personal information for will vary and will depend principally on:

  • The purpose for which we are using your Personal Information – we will need to keep the information for as long as is necessary for the relevant purpose,
  • Legal obligations – laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your Personal Information.
  • We will ensure that the Personal Information that we hold is subject to appropriate security measures.

Your choices and rights

Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to and rectification of the Personal Information we maintain about you, to request the restriction of the processing of your Personal Information, or to object to that processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.

In addition, you may have the right to request the erasure of your Personal Information in certain circumstances provided by applicable law. Subject to applicable law, where technically feasible and upon written request and verifiable identification, we will provide you with a copy of your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. To exercise these rights, please contact us as indicated below. You may lodge a complaint with a data protection authority if you are not satisfied with our response.

Links to other websites

In addition, this website contains links to websites that have been created and are maintained by others. We make no warranty, express or implied, about the accuracy or reliability of the information contained either on this website or on any other website to which this site is linked. Links to other sites are not intended to state or imply that Cases&Lacambra sponsors or is affiliated or associated in any way with or the information contained therein those other websites.

Furthermore, the opinions expressed in the materials contained on this website are the opinions of the individual authors and may not reflect the opinions of Cases&Lacambra or any of its partners or employees.

Privacy of Children

Children under 13 years old are not the target audience of our website. To protect their privacy, Cases&Lacambra prohibits the solicitation of Personal Information from children under 13 years of age.

How to contact us and other important information

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, or processing of your Personal Information or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please contact us by email at dataprotection@caseslacambra.com.