Privacy Policy

What personal information we collect about you?

The personal information that we process includes:

• basic information, such as your name (including name prefix or title), the company you work for, your title or position and your relationship to a person
• contact information, such as your postal address, email address and phone number(s)
• Other personal data regarding your preferences where it is relevant to legal services

We collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us, when you engage our legal services or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our staff and clients.

We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as using publicly available sources or collecting information from third party sources as part of our business acceptance, including government agencies or publicly available record.

2. How and why, we use your personal data?

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• to provide services and information required by you
• to manage your business relationship with PARINTIA Law Office
• to comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, complying with compliance screening or recording obligations (e.g. for anti-money laundering and fraud prevention) and protecting the rights of third parties
• to analyse and improve our services and communications to you
• protecting the security of and managing access to our premises, IT and communication systems, preventing and detecting security threats or fraud
• for any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your personal data was provided to us
• to fulfill our legal obligations, we may need to collect and use your personal information to enter into a contract with you or to perform a contract that you have with us

Depending on for which we use your personal data, we may process your personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:

• performance of contract - because processing is necessary for the performance of a client instruction or other contract with you
• legitimate interest - because processing is necessary for purposes of our legitimate interest or those of any third-party recipients that receive your personal data, provided that such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms
• consent, where your consent is required by law

Where you have expressly given us your consent, we may process your personal data also for communicating with you through the channels you have approved to keep you up to date on the latest legal developments, announcements, and other information about our services, products and technologies (including client briefings, newsletters and other information) as well as our events and projects.

With regard to marketing-related communication, we will – where legally required – only provide you with such information after you have opted in and provide you the opportunity to opt out anytime if you do not want to receive further marketing-related communication from us. We will not use your personal data for taking any automated decisions affecting you or creating profiles other than described above.

Please note that if you provide us with personal data (for example by sending an email or by asking for information via mail forms), PARINTIA Law Office will use your data to respond to your request, and for further reference purposes.

3. Who has access to your personal data?

PARINTIA Law Office may share the personal data of clients with its employees in order to perform the contract between PARINTIA Law Office and the client. Access to personal data is in place with the sole intention of providing proper legal services as stated in the engagement letter or other agreements signed by the client.

If you are a client, we may disclose your personal data to:

Third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf. This will include advisors, banks, notaries, consultants, experts, potential transactional partners and counterparties duly engaged with your instructions in your matter. Such acts are therefore made on behalf of the client, with the knowledge of the client, based on the necessity of the execution of a contract.

This can also include third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a transaction in which clients are acquired by or merged with another company. Such acts are therefore made on behalf of the client, with the knowledge of the client, based on the necessity of the execution of a contract.

We may be required to disclose your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. We will use reasonable endeavors to notify you before we do this, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.

4. Data Security

In addition to our legal duties to keep your information confidential in the course of offering legal services, PARINTIA Law Office will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, disclosure of and access to personal data. Personal data may be kept on our personal data technology systems or in paper files. PARINTIA Law Office applies appropriate commercially reasonable technical, physical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data or accidental loss or destruction of your personal data. Our employees will handle your personal data with due care in compliance with the data protection measures and they will treat your personal data strictly confidential. They access your personal data only to the extent necessary to serve the applicable legitimate purposes for which the data are processed and to perform their duties.

5. Data Retention

PARINTIA Law Office will process and store the relevant personal data for the duration of our services or for the duration of the business relationship. PARINTIA Law Office may also store the data for as long as it is necessary or required in order to fulfill legal, contractual or statutory obligations and, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and in general where it has a legitimate interest for doing so.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

6. What are your rights?

You, as a data subject, have the following rights:

• The right to be informed
• The right to access your personal data
• The right to rectification and erasure of your personal data (the right to be forgotten)
• The right to restriction to (part of) the processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object to (part of) the processing activities
• Automated individual decision

Subject to certain legal conditions, you have the right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you, to have any inaccurate personal data corrected and to object to or restrict our using of your personal data. You may also make a complaint to us if you have a concern about our handling of your personal data.

If you wish to do any of the above, please contact us in the contact details. We may request that you prove your identity by certain acts (e.g. by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification) in order for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorised disclosure of data. We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your data, and for any additional copies of the personal data you request from us.

We will consider any requests or complaints which we receive and provide you with a response within one month from the receiving date of the request. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner as follows:

Komisioneri për Mbrojtjen e të Dhënave Personale
Adress: Rr. “Abdi Toptani”, Nd. 5, Kodi postar 1001, Tirana, Albania
Email: info@idp.al

Updates to this Privacy policy

PARINTIA Law Office reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time. Please check the Privacy Statement frequently and particularly before you submit additional personal information. All revisions to this privacy statement will be reported on the website via a link from the homepage. We will also place the effective date. By visiting the Website(s) you are accepting and consenting to the practices and provisions set out in this privacy statement.

Questions and Comments

For any question about our privacy statement, or if you need assistance accessing or updating information we have collected about you, please contact us at the below address: