Data Policy
Al Jisr Law Office (JLO) takes data privacy seriously. We have an internal policy that we follow within all our offices, benchmarked against best international practices and regulations (example: EU General Data Protection Regulations, GDPR).
This privacy statement explains how we collect, store, and use your personal data in compliance with applicable data protection laws in Lebanon and best international practices and regulations, where relevant, as amended from time to time.
1. How do we collect your personal data?
We may collect your personal data:
• Directly from you when you engage with us.
• Indirectly from third-party sources, including your organization, your representatives, publicly available sources, our service providers, and other Clifford Chance entities.
• Our clients, when we handle personal data for the purpose of providing our services.
• Regulatory bodies.
• Other companies providing services to us.
When we collect personal data directly from you, it is your decision whether to provide data. If you do not provide data, it may hinder your use of, or make it not possible to use, our services or products, not allow you to remain in contact with us, to enter into contracts/agreements with us, to participate in our programmes, or to exercise your rights. If you provide information to us about another person, you must ensure that you comply with any legal obligations that may apply to your provision of the information to us, and allow us, where necessary, to share that information with our service providers.
2. How do we use your personal data?
How we use your personal data depends on the nature of your relationship with us. We will only use your personal data when applicable law allows us to.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data, although we will obtain your consent before sending third-party direct marketing communications to you or where your consent is otherwise required under applicable law. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details set out under "Contacting Us" below.
We do not sell your personal information. We do not envisage your personal data will undergo any automated decision-making.
When you visit our website or microsites, we automatically collect, store, and use technical information about your equipment and your interaction with our website. This information is sent from your computer to us using cookies.
We process personal data, including login credentials, to provide access to and manage our premium tools and restricted areas. We do so either because you have consented to their use or because we have a legitimate interest in:
- Providing you with access to the information, tools, and services offered via our website.
- Reviewing, developing, and improving our premium services.
- Managing our website and online services, including monitoring compliance with our terms of use.
3. How do we protect your personal data?
We are committed to protecting your personal data and have implemented appropriate technical, physical, and organizational security measures to protect personal data. We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we collected it, to comply with any legal, regulatory, or reporting obligations, or to assert or defend against legal claims.
4. Your rights
To the extent that our processing of your personal data is subject to data protection legislation with data subject rights, you may have rights that are explained below:
- You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data. This right is subject to applicable law and relevant exemptions.
- You can ask us to correct or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- You can (in certain circumstances) ask us to delete your personal data. We may be unable to delete your data if we are legally obliged to retain it.
- You can (in certain circumstances) object to our processing of your personal data or ask us to “restrict” our use of it.
- If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you can withdraw your consent.
- You have the right to ask that personal data that you have provided to us be provided to you in machine-readable format if we process that data using automated means, you have consented to its use, or so that we can enter into a contract with you.
If you have any queries regarding anything mentioned in this privacy statement or want to exercise any of the rights mentioned, please contact us at [info@jisrlaw.com]