Privacy statement
This privacy statement was last modified on 22 October 2021.
If you use our services or visit our website, Rozemond Advocaten (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) processes your personal data. In this privacy statement, we inform you about how we use your personal data.
Rozemond Advocaten is a data controller, in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for processing personal data.
Clients
As part of our legal services, we may process our clients’ personal data or that of other parties involved. The data we process in this context are: name and address, gender and title, contact details business details and bank details. This data is used exclusively for carrying out the agreement, such as giving advice, conducting proceedings for clients, settling disputes, or other legal work.
Website visitors
As part of our online services, any visitor can leave their contact details on our website. We will use this information to contact you. If necessary, we will also retain this information so we can answer your question.
Cookies are small text files that remember what you do on our website. Our website uses Google Analytics cookies which monitor the behaviour of our visitors for statistical purposes. For example, these statistics tell us how often our website is visited and which parts of the website are used most. This enables us to make the website content, navigation and structure as user-friendly as possible.
You can share and like articles from our website via the LinkedIn, X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook links. These social media parties use their own cookies to enable such links to function. For information about the cookies placed by the social media parties and any data they collect with them, please refer to the privacy statements these parties provide on their own websites. We do not have any influence on this process, and we are not responsible for the data processing of these parties. Before using these social media services, it is advisable to read the privacy statements these parties provide.
Newsletter subscribers and workshop participants, etc.
We send out a newsletter every few months. You will only receive our newsletter if you have given your consent, or if you are an existing client and we wish to inform you of legal services and developments relevant to you. We use GetResponse for distributing our newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, you can unsubscribe using the link in the newsletter.
When you register for a workshop, seminar or other event, we will process your personal data, such as your name and address, telephone number, e-mail address, company name and position. If appropriate we may request additional data such as gender, and other details related to the registration (such as education, position and work experience).
Applicants
Rozemond Advocaten sometimes publishes vacancies on its website or on social media networks. Applicants can apply in writing, per e-mail or via a form on the website. As part of the application procedure, we process personal data including name and address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, application data (CV, cover letter, grade lists, internship reports), and other information, related to the application or otherwise. This information will be used exclusively for filling the vacancy. Only those involved with our recruitment and selection activities or those concerned with the vacancy will have access to this information. Open applications will be processed in the same way.
Other contacts
For suppliers and other service providers, we may process personal data such as name and address, telephone number, and e-mail address as well as a bank account number which are necessary for supplying goods and services or for our own administration.
Legal basis
In principle, we use the personal data you provide to fulfil the agreement we have with you. We also process personal data to comply with a number of legal obligations, such as the requirement to keep records, as well as identification and tax obligations. Finally, we process personal data on the legal basis of legitimate interest, for example: to improve our services or to conduct marketing activities.
Your personal data and third parties
We will only share your personal data with third parties if this is necessary for our services and only for the purposes specified. Such third parties include an IT supplier, bailiff, courier or a legal authority. Where required, we reach an agreement with this third party to make clear arrangements regarding the purposes for which they may use the data and to ensure data security, all in accordance with the prevailing European legislation. We may also be obliged by law or regulations to share certain personal data with competent authorities or officials.
Security
The security and protection of your personal data is very important to us. With the latest technology in mind, we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a security level appropriate to the risk, even if we use a third party for data processing.
Retention period
We retain the data collected for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with statutory requirements. To comply with tax legislation, Rozemond Advocaten is legally obliged to retain invoice and payment data for seven years.
Privacy rights
If you wish to exercise any of your data protection rights (such as your right of access, your right to rectification, to erasure, to restrict processing, to data portability, to object and your right to withdraw personal data previously given) please contact us by e-mail, info@rozemond.nl, or by post at the address given below, and stating ‘Exercising privacy rights’ at the top of your correspondence. For verification purposes we may ask you for proof of your identity.
There may also be circumstances under which we cannot fulfil or fully fulfil your request as data subject. These circumstances may include our duty to observe confidentiality as lawyers and statutory retention periods. If you consider our processing of your personal data violates the privacy regulations and after reporting this, no solution is found to your complaint, you can file a complaint with the privacy regulator, the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
Changes and questions
We may amend this privacy statement at any time and we will always publish the latest version on our website. We therefore recommend that you check our website regularly.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or about your privacy, please contact us by e-mail: (info@rozemond.nl) or by post at the address given below, and stating ‘Rozemond Privacy Statement’ at the top of your correspondence.
Rozemond Advocaten
Herengracht 567
1017 CD Amsterdam
info@rozemond.nl