Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy of your individual Personal Data is important to us. Solicitor Trademark is part of the Solicitor Group which includes all our offices worldwide. This Website Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) will explain what Solicitor does with your Personal Data when you use our website or use one of our services.

It also provides information on the type of data we collect, the purposes for which we use Personal Data, and the parties with which we share Personal Data, where applicable, always in accordance with applicable data privacy laws and regulations, which include the General Data Protection Regulation.

When using the term “Personal Data” in our Privacy Policy, we mean information that relates to you and allows us to identify you, either directly or in combination with other information that we may hold.

This Privacy Policy covers this website and other sites that reference this Privacy Policy.

We control the ways your Personal Data are collected and the purposes for which we use your Personal Data acting as “data controller” for the purposes of the GDPR.

Contact details

You can address any question with regard to this policy and privacy aspects in general to dataprivacy(at)solicitor(dot)com.

Solicitor Trademark may share your Personal Data with its affiliated companies detailed list of entities can be consulted.

Consent

By using this website and/or by using one of our services, you consent to the collection and use of information as described herein. This Privacy Policy is updated from time to time.

Personal Data we collect and extend data processing

1. Types of Personal Data we process

   • Identification information (such as first name, family name, date, place of birth, gender).
   • Business contact information (such as phone and fax numbers, email address, country of residence).
   • Publicly available information (such as LinkedIn profile, etc.)
   • Financial information (such as identification and number of bank accounts, notably linked to billing).
   • Personal information provided to us by or on behalf of our customers or generated by us in the course of providing services.
   • Other relevant personal details (such as nationality, citizenship, job title, function within a company, preferred language).
   • The content you provide (such as CV, education history, comments, responses to questions).
   • IP addresses.

Extent and legal basis of data processing

We will process your Personal Data if and to the extent applicable law provides a lawful basis for us to do so.
We will therefore process your Personal Data only if:

1. Types of Personal Data we process

   • You have consented to us doing so, or
   • We need it to perform the contract we have entered into with you or
   • We need it to comply with a legal obligation or perform a task carried out in the public interest, or
   • We (or a third party) have a legitimate interest that is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Such legitimate interests may for instance be the provision of services by us, administrative or operational processes and direct marketing, the sharing of Personal Data within the Solicitor Group or
   • You have made an information request to us, or
   • You wish to attend an event (offline or online) organized by us or
   • You participate in one of our surveys or blogs, or
   • You subscribe to our newsletter.

2. Purpose for the processing of your Personal Data

   We only process personal data where we have a lawful reason for doing so or you gave us your prior consent and only process Personal Data that is relevant and necessary to achieve the intended purpose for the processing of your Personal Data. The purpose for the processing of Personal Data performed by us will always be one of the following, depending on the concerned processing, nature of Personal Data, and data subjects:

   • To establish, administer and implement a business relationship;
   • To strengthen the existing business relationship or develop a new business relationship or approach interested parties including information on current IP-related developments and our range of services (Marketing);
   • To provide our services to you and manage our relationship with you, including communicating with you in relation to the products and services you obtain from us.
   • To fulfill our administrative purposes and protect our business interests;
   • To comply with our legal obligations (e.g. laws of the financial sector, anti-money-laundering, and tax laws), including disclosures to tax authorities, financial service regulators, and other regulatory and governmental bodies, and investigating or preventing crime;
   • To ensure the safety of our clients, employees, and other stakeholders;
   • To provide and improve our website, including auditing and monitoring its use;
   • For any other purposes, we notify you from time to time.