Privacy policy

GENERAL INFORMATION

The protection of your personal data is important for LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados.

When processing your personal data, we follow the principles of lawfulness, loyalty, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, conservation limitation, integrity and confidentiality, responsibility, in strict compliance with professional deontology.

Through this Privacy Policy, we inform you that your personal data will be treated in the following terms:

RESPONSIBLE FOR TREATMENT

The person responsible for collecting and processing your personal data is LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados, registered with the General Council of the Portuguese Bar Association under number 15/06, with NIPC 507 495 470, located at Rua Caldas Xavier, n.º 38, 5º - Direito, 4150-162, Porto.

RESPONSIBLE FOR TREATMENT

When you communicate your personal data to us through some form or any other means of communication, we will, depending on the applicable purpose, in a non-exhaustive list, process:

  • Name, civil and tax identification number, passport, residence, profession..

  • Telephone contact and/or email address.

  • Information relating to processes, as well as those necessary for the services purchased and data resulting from the type of services contracted.

FUNDAMENTALS AND PURPOSES

The data collected is used to provide the legal service, provide information requested by the client, as well as guide and manage the relationship of the mandate, including, for this purpose, the processing of data from the client and third parties.

Personal data are also processed with a view to complying with legal obligations and exercising rights or defending judicial and/or extrajudicial proceedings.

The grounds for use are:

  • Provision of consent: the client gives his free, clear, specific and unequivocal consent, in writing or verbally.

  • Execution of the contract and pre-contractual measures: the processing of personal data is necessary for the proper execution of the sponsorship, within the scope of the provision of services in judicial and/or extrajudicial proceedings.

  • Compliance with a legal obligation: the processing of personal data is necessary in order to comply with legal obligations, such as identifying the customer or communicating this data to police, judicial, tax or regulatory entities, as well as location data to ensure any emergency services.

  • Legitimate interest: the processing of personal data corresponds to a legitimate interest of LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados, in accordance with the improvement of service quality and fraud detection.

RECIPIENTS

Your personal data is not sold, rented or made available to third parties, for commercial purposes, and the sharing of these with third parties, in accordance with the contractual and legal provisions in force, is strictly linked to:

  • Public entities, in the exercise of their mandate, namely, Courts, Tax Authority, Conservatories, Social Security, among others;

  • Professionals who collaborate with LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados;

  • Service providers of  LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados, whenever requested by the client, such as translation services, proofreading, copies and revision of documents.

If the provision of the service implies conflict with a legal system other than Portuguese, it may be necessary to transfer your personal data to locations outside Portugal. In the event that the data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, and that it is not part of the list of countries that the European Commission considers to have adequate levels of protection of personal data, such transfers are ensured in full compliance with the applicable legal norms, in particular the set out in Chapter V of the GDPR.

CONSERVATION

For the protection and conservation of your personal data, adequate, necessary and sufficient physical security measures are implemented against destruction, loss, alteration, dissemination, unauthorized access or any other form of accidental or unlawful treatment.

In addition, your data is processed only for the period strictly necessary to pursue its purpose and according to what is applicable, namely:

  • During the entire forensic mandate relationship, to which a period of 20 years is added: for data processed within the scope of the provision of advocacy services.

  • For 10 years: for information to the Tax Authority for tax and accounting purposes, as well as commercial bookkeeping data.

  • For 7 years: as a measure to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

After the aforementioned conservation period has elapsed, in cases where such data should not be kept for a different purpose that may survive, they will be deleted and destroyed.

YOUR RIGHTS

The exercise of your rights is free of charge, except in the case of a manifestly unfounded or excessive request, in which case a reasonable fee may be charged taking into account the costs.

Exercise your rights described below through the following email address: [email protected]

  • Right of access: right to obtain confirmation of which personal data are processed and information about them..

  • Right of rectification: right to request the rectification of data that are incorrect, incomplete or out of date.

  • Right to erasure of data or “right to be forgotten”: right to obtain the deletion of personal data, when there are no valid grounds for its conservation.

  • Right to portability: right to receive the data provided, in a digital format that is commonly used and can be read automatically, or to request the direct transmission of such data to another person, as the new person responsible for personal data.

  • Right to withdraw consent or right of opposition: right to object or withdraw consent, at any time, to data processing.

  • Right of limitation: right to request the limitation of the processing of personal data, in the form of suspension of the same for certain categories or purposes.

  • Right to complain: right to present a complaint to LFRT – Sociedade de Advogados via the email address [email protected], as well as to the competent supervisory authority - the CNPD.