Privacy policy
The protection of your privacy and the security of your personal data is important to us. We will only process your personal data in conformity with the applicable legislation.
To whom does this privacy policy applies
This privacy policy applies to:
- clients and potential clients
- visitors to our website www.ox-wolf.com
- suppliers of OX & WOLF
- recipients of e-mails that we send
- all other persons whose personal data we process.
The personal data collected by us
We process personal data. These are data about identified or identifiable natural persons and comprise data that can be directly or indirectly traced back to a person. These may be data that you yourself have provided to us within the scope of our engagement by you or as a result of your visit to our website. The following data may be collected by u
- data that is required by us to provide legal services to you.
- your first name and surname, title, prefix, title, gender, nationality, training, civil status, date of birth and contact details such as your e-mail address, postal address and telephone number
- your account number, tax identification number and other data that you send us in the context of the agreement concluded with OX & WOLF
- data obtained by the use of cookies
- the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the equipment that you use
- data that we have obtained via public platforms, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Land Registry
- all other personal data relating to you which you provide to us or which we can obtain in connection with legal proceedings or advice or on the basis as stated below.
Purpose of using personal data
OX & WOLF uses your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide legal services to you and to invoice services provided
- To comply with legal obligations, such as tax obligations and compliance with the relevant legislation concerning the combatting of money-laundering and financing of terrorism
- To maintain contact with you so that you can, for example, be invited to certain events and for marketing communications aimed at you
- To be able to analyze and improve our website
- To investigate a potential conflict of interests.
Legal grounds for processing personal data
We process personal data on the basis of the following legal grounds:
- on the basis of a contract to provide legal service
- to comply with statutory obligations as stated above
- in connection with a legitimate interest of OX & WOLF to process personal data while taking into consideration the proportionality and subsidiarity and various security and organizational measures to protect your data
- you have granted permission to process your personal data. You have the right to withdraw your consent at all times. This does not affect the use of your data before the time when you withdrew your consent.
Sharing of your personal data
Persons associated with OX & WOLF may receive your personal data. Personal data may also be shared with third parties who are important for our legal services, such as opposing parties, courts, lawyers, regulatory agencies and government agencies. In addition, OX & WOLF makes use of IT support companies that provide services to us under our instructions. Those support companies may have access to your personal data but only in the context of and to the extent necessary for the provision of such IT services. OX & WOLF may also provide your personal data to payment services companies in connection with the payment of our legal services or our payment to you of you are a supplier. In principle, OX & WOLF does not provide your personal data to other third parties. Only if we are legally obliged to do so we will provide your personal data to regulators, other parties or persons or authorities.
Retention period for personal data
OX & WOLF will not retain your personal data for longer than is strictly necessary to achieve the purposes referred to in this privacy policy. On the basis of statutory obligations, OX & WOLF will retain your administrative data for ten years after a case file is closed.
Protecting your personal data
OX & WOLF has taken the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data. This is to protect your data against, among others, loss, destruction or damage and to prevent prohibited or unlawful processing or disclosure of your data. The security of your personal information is important to us. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If we become aware of any security breach potentially affecting your Personal Information, we will notify you of such breach and the measures we are taking to prevent and minimize further data leakage.
Your rights as a data subject
You have the following rights as a data subject:
- the right of examination. This means that you can submit a request to examine the personal data we have collected about you. Client-attorney privilege may prevent us from fulfil your request to provide copies of personal data
- the right to rectify your data if these are incorrect
- the right to erase your data. It is possible that we cannot comply with your request for legal or statutory reasons
- the right to object to (future) processing of your data or to restrict this, provided that there are no legal or statutory principles preventing this
- the right to revoke a specific consent for processing you have given
- depending on where you reside you may have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority
Requests regarding your rights and/or complaints in connection with our collection and use of your personal data can be sent to info@ox-wolf.com.
Cookies and Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics offered by Google Inc. only upon consent thereto. This service analyses the use of our website by its visitors. We make use of this service to improve our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to carry out this analysis.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies can be used to track your session on our website, to serve customized ads from Google and other third-party vendors. When you visit this website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other third parties. Through first-party and third-party cookies, these third parties may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and across the Internet based on your prior visits to this website and elsewhere on the Internet. We do not collect this information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see.
You can manage your Google preferences via Google Display Network ads by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/), and the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (http://www.google.ca/ads/preferences/plugin/).
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you on our website and by email.