PRIVACY POLICY

In the context of this Privacy Policy the terms “TSIMIKALIS KALONAROU”, “Law Firm”, “Firm”, “us”, “we”, “ours” refer to the entity with the name TSIMIKALIS KALONAROU LAW FIRM with the following contact information:

Neofytou Vamva 1, 10674
Athens, Attica, Greece
Tel: +30 210 3647528,
Fax: +30 210 3632576,
Email: info@athenslegal.gr
Website: www.athenslegal.gr

This Privacy Policy applies to any processing of personal data performed by us and on our behalf, in the course of our professional activities and includes the use of our website.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-parties that receive your data from or through us and process them separately and on their behalf. For example, we are not in any way responsible for any separate and further processing that might take place, either when we share your data (after you have been informed accordingly) directly or indirectly with third parties in the course of litigation or meditation proceedings, negotiations or discussions on you behalf or when you access a link that directs to a third-party website that may be found on our website. In such cases, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies, which you will need to check beforehand.

Nothing in this Policy is intended to create, or alter an existing, lawyer-client relationship.

We collect and process your personal data for specific purposes without processing them further, without informing you first and, provided that we have obtained, where this is necessary, your prior express consent. In particular, we collect and process the following personal data from you:

Identity and Contact Data, including your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, passport number, employment history, educational or professional background, tax status, job title and function, and other personal data concerning your preferences relevant to our services;

Financial and Payment Data, including your bank account and other data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, and other related billing information;

Business Information, including information provided in the course of the contractual or client relationship between you or your organisation and TSIMIKALIS KALONAROU, or otherwise voluntarily provided by you or your organisation;

Information relevant to our legal advice, including personal data relevant to any contractual matters, dispute, right, litigation or arbitration, or other legal advice we have been asked to provide to you as our client or to you in your capacity as an employee of our client;

Profile and Usage Data, including your preferences in receiving marketing information from us, your communication preferences and information about how you use our websites, including the services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs). To learn more about our use of cookies or similar technology please check our cookies policy here;

Technical Data, including information collected during your visits to our website, the Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, device type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. To learn more about our use of cookies or similar technology please check our cookies policy here;

Physical Access Data, relating to details of your visits to our premises;

Sensitive personal data: In the course of our client services, we may represent you and/or your organisation in legal matters that require us to collect and use sensitive personal information relating to you (that is, information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union activities, physical or mental health, sexual life and sexual orientation or details of criminal offences, or genetic or biometric data).For example, if we represent you in a criminal case, we will collect information about the alleged offences and any related criminal history. In some employment representations, such as disputes involving alleged discrimination, information about medical conditions, race, religion and/or sexual orientation may be relevant to the representation. Where we process sensitive personal information in the course of these and other similar client services, we do so to assist you and/or your organisation to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or to assist you and/or your organisation in fulfilling the rights and obligations of applicable employment or social security laws.

Information about other people
If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, your employees, counterparties, your advisers or your suppliers, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it.

The processing of personal data that we perform can be divided in two categories. The first covers the processing of personal data through our website and the second covers the provision of our services in general.

1. Website

You do not need to reveal any of your personal data in order to use this website. However, your personal data will be collected and processed if you choose to:

– Use any of the special forms that are available on our website or you decide to send us direct communication, in which case you will share with us some of your personal data, which we will collect and process in order to respond to your respective request.

– Agree to the use of any cookies (aside from the strictly necessary), in which case personal data of yours may be collected and processed, in order to provide you with a better browsing experience. Please check our Cookie Policy where more, detailed information about the cookies that we use and how to manage them, is available

The following table describes each data processing activity, separately mentioning the data subject, the kind of data processed, the purpose of their processing, the legal basis along with its retention period on a case-by-case basis.

2. Legal Services

If you choose to entrust us with your legal representation, in the process of providing services to you, you will disclose personal data that concern yourself, your employees, or other parties, which we will need to process in order to provide you the requested legal services.

In any event, any information shared to us in the course of legal advice is protected by confidentiality and attorney-client privilege.

The following table describes each data processing activity, separately mentioning the data subject, the kind of data processed, the purpose of processing, the legal basis along with its retention period on a case-by-case basis.

We will not use your personal data for any purposes that are incompatible with the aforementioned ones, without informing you first and having obtained – where applicable – your prior consent, unless otherwise required by law.

The circumstances in which we can collect personal data about you include:

• when you or your organisation seek legal advice from us;
• when you or your organisation offer to provide, or provides, services to us;
• when it is provided to us by a third party because you are the subject of, or your data is otherwise included in, legal advice we are asked to provide to that third party client (for example, where we are asked to provide advice in an employment dispute)
• when you correspond with us by phone, email or other electronic means, or in writing, or when you provide other information directly to us, including in conversation with our lawyers, consultants and staff;
• when you or your organisation browse, complete a form or make an enquiry or otherwise interact on our website;
• when you attend our seminars or other events or sign up to receive personal data from us, including training;
• by making enquiries from your organisation, other organisations with whom you have dealings such as former employers and educational institutions, or from third party sources such as government agencies, a credit reporting agency, information service providers or from publicly available records.

In general, we will not share your personal data with any third party unless this is required for the carrying out of the instructions, we have received from you.

However, we might share your personal data with public bodies and authorities, regulatory authorities and governmental agencies, to the extent this is permitted by you, or this is required by the applicable legislation and not forbidden by our professional obligations. In such circumstances, we shall make all reasonable efforts to notify you beforehand, unless prior notice is prohibited by the applicable legislation, or if this is not possible or justified under the applicable circumstances.

Furthermore, like every firm, sometimes we also use trusted third-party providers in order to provide our services with more efficiency and efficacy and in order to maintain the consistency of our services. For example, we may share personal information in case of outsourcing certain support services such as, without limitation, Accounting, IT, Marketing, Insurance, Mail and Translation.

Wherever, we use third parties in order to process your personal data on our behalf, we conduct prior due-diligence in order to ensure that they have already taken the appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data. During our cooperation with these third parties, we monitor their performance (as well as that of their sub-processors), in order to ensure that your personal data, remain safe.

Each of our third-party providers that processes your personal data on our behalf, does so only under the following conditions:

• For the same purposes for which we are allowed to process your personal data (see above)
• The processing is necessary in order for the service-provider to meet its obligations towards us and provide its services
• The processing is conducted exclusively, in accordance with our instructions

• If you are a visitor of our website, we will never transfer any of your personal data, which we possess, outside the EEA (European Economic Area that consists of EU States along with Lichtenstein, Norway and Iceland).
• If you are a client or a third person involved in our clients’ legal proceedings, your personal data might be transferred outside the EEA, only in case this is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of our clients’ legal claims.