Privacy Policy, Personal Data Protection Policy & Legal Disclaimer
Our law firm and the ratsalaw.com website provide absolute protection and transparency to those who do business with or communicate with us. This Privacy Policy (hereinafter “Policy”) concerns the conditions related to the collection, storage and use of personal data by the ratsalaw.com website (hereinafter the “Website”).
Collection and use of Personal Data
On the Website there are standard contact forms in order to facilitate communication with each interested party. In order to manage and respond to your inquiries and requests, we may collect and store your full name, e-mail, address, contact details and any other information you may have provided to us. This information is used strictly to satisfactorily respond to your inquiries or requests and will not be disclosed to third parties except as stated in this policy or where disclosure is required or permitted by law.
In addition, we provide the telephone numbers of the law firm for a more direct communication, if this is required.
For the lawful processing of your data under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, we recognize a lawful basis before processing the personal data. In the above cases, the legal basis for the processing of personal data on our part is the granting of your express consent for the processing, by submitting the respective form only in case you agree with this policy.
Transfer of Personal Data
The Website may transfer personal data that has been collected to the extent that this is reasonably necessary for the management of legal operations. Such transfers will be protected by appropriate safeguards (eg subcontractors disclosure clauses, third party vendor disclosure clauses, personal data disclosure clauses necessary for legal compliance, etc.). In addition, we may transfer personal data when such processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Retention of Personal Data
The Website undertakes not to retain personal data for a period longer than necessary and we will ensure that we delete it securely.
Rights of Subjects
In this section the Website explains the rights stemming from Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and how data subjects can satisfy these rights.
Right of Access
The Website considers that the personal data collected directly from the subjects is accurate and complete. Individuals can access their own personal data using the Subject’s Rights Request.
Right to Correction and Erasure
The data subject may request the updating, deletion or removal of any information held about him, and any third party who processes or uses the data must also comply with this request. An erasure request can only be refused if an exception applies. The right to Erasure can be exercised using the Application for the Exercise of Subject Rights.
The Website is obliged to delete personal data when any of the following applies:
Ø The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed.
Ø The data subject withdraws his consent and there is no other legal basis for processing.
Ø The data subject objects to the processing carried out based on the legitimate interests of the Data Manager and there are no other overriding legal reasons for the processing.
Ø The personal data has been subjected to illegal processing.
If the request to delete the personal data has been received, the identification has been confirmed, the request meets one of the above requirements and there is no legitimate reason to object to the processing, the law firm must delete the relevant data in its entirety. The request should be registered in the Data Subjects Request Registration File.
If the Website cannot delete the personal data, it will ensure that:
- It cannot or will not attempt to use personal data to justify any decision about an individual or in a way that affects that individual in any way.
- It does not give any other organization access to the personal data, it protects the personal data with appropriate technical and organizational security, and it is committed to the permanent deletion of the information if, or whenever, it becomes available.
Right to Restriction of Processing
The data subject has the right to request from the administrator, restriction of processing using the Subject’s Rights Exercise Request.
Right to Object
The subject has the right to object, at any time and for reasons related to his particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him using the Application for the Exercise of Subject Rights.
Right to Data Portability
Upon request, the data subject should have the right to receive a copy of the personal data in a structured format using the Data Subject Rights Request.
These requests should be processed within one (1) month, provided that there is no undue burden and it does not compromise the privacy of individuals. A data subject may also request that their data be transferred directly to another system. This request must be implemented free of charge.
If the Website cannot fully respond to this request within 1 month, the Data Protection Officer should nevertheless provide the following information to the Data Subject, or his legally authorized representative within the time period specified:
- An acknowledgment of receipt of the request.
- Any information found to date.
- Details of any information or amendments requested, which will not be given to the data subject, the reason(s) for the rejection, and any available procedures for appealing the decision.
- An estimated date by which the remaining responses will be provided.
- An estimate of any costs to be paid by the data subject (e.g. when the request is in the nature of excessive) and the name and contact details of the Data Protection Officer.
Amendments
In the event that our law firm chooses to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on our website. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to e-mail the affected users with the new details. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent to make these changes.
Terms of use
These terms of use regulate the rights and obligations regarding the use of the website located at the electronic address www.ratsalaw.com and which will be referred to as the “Website”.
Commitment
Acceptance of these terms of use is deemed to have occurred when the visitor / user enters and navigates the Website. This acceptance constitutes his express, unconditional and irrevocable agreement to comply with these terms. If the user/visitor disagrees with any of the terms, he/she must stop and avoid browsing the Website, notifying, if he/she so wishes, the administrator.
The website reserves the right to modify the terms of use at any time and without justification, while the modifications are taken into account only if they are formulated in writing and incorporated into this text. Users are therefore advised to periodically check the content of these terms. In case of total or partial invalidity or impossibility of application of individual terms, the validity of all the remaining terms is not affected. The gap that may be created in the agreement between the website and the user by the invalid term will be filled with new or modified terms that will, as far as possible, be appropriate to the legal purpose of the invalid term. The above applies in any case and for any issues not expressly regulated within the text of the terms of use.
Intellectual and industrial property rights
With this agreement you accept and acknowledge that the entire content of the Website (documents, texts, marks, drawings, images, services, electronic files, etc.) is the intellectual property of the Owner from the moment of its publication on the Internet, subject to the rights of third parties. Therefore, the content enjoys the protection of the relevant provisions of Greek and European law as well as international conventions. The domain name www.ratsalaw.com is legally registered in the database of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Posts Commission (EETT). As regards the intellectual and industrial property rights of third parties (e.g. collaborating websites, members or companies), their protection rests exclusively with the beneficiaries.
It is expressly prohibited in any way to use, copy, store, reproduce, republish, transmit, publish, download, translate and modify part or all of the content of the Website and the services offered on it without the prior written permission of the Owner. In the event that it is noticed by the administrators of the Website that any natural or legal person proceeds to systematically extract, manually or automatically, all or a substantial part of its content, the Owner reserves the right to exercise any of his legal rights.
However, limited publication of parts of the content in print or electronic media, as well as social media accounts is permitted on condition that the source citation and electronic link to the original source of the Website are indicated at the beginning. In no case can this be interpreted as an indication of a will to grant intellectual property rights on the part of the Owner.
A part of the images used on the Website come from databases with creative commons licenses, according to the terms set by these websites.
Limitation of Website Liability
The Website cannot under any circumstances be held responsible for any damage and/or any other negative consequence that may result from accessing it and/or using the information and services provided on it.
All content and services of the Website are provided solely for the information of visitors and no guarantee is made by the Website that the pages, options and contents will be provided without interruptions and errors or that such errors will be corrected. In no case are there any guarantees on behalf of the law office for the correctness, completeness and availability of the content of the pages and services. Finally, there is no guarantee on the part of the Owner that any other linked website or the servers through which it is made available, are provided to you without viruses or other harmful components. Therefore, no claim of a financial or other nature can be made for the reparation of damage arising from the above reasons, while the costs are in any case borne exclusively by the visitor/user.
The website may publish certain announcements, supporting documents, laws, court decisions and other legal documents for the sole purpose of informing its visitors and users. There is no guarantee on the part of the Owner and the Website regarding the suitability, completeness, lack of errors or adequacy of these texts. In the context of the free circulation of information on the internet, users/visitors of the Website are responsible for cross-checking the information provided and are encouraged to submit any comments or corrections they have to the website administrator.
Exclusion of legal advice
All the information and general content presented on the Website are indicative and have an exclusively informative nature for Internet users, while under no circumstances can they be taken as legal advice. The owner and the editorial team do not under any circumstances provide legal or similar advisory services and bear no responsibility for any damages resulting from any act or omission based, in part or in whole, on information provided by the Website.
The Website in no way seeks to replace the role of a lawyer, instead it aims to highlight the necessity of recourse to a lawyer.