Privacystatement

May 2020

Good Law and personal data

Good Law respects your personal data and ensures that the personal data we process is handled with care and confidentiality. Personal data concerns all information about a person. Also data identify an individual indirectly, are personal data. With this privacystatement the obligation, laid down in the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to inform the data subject(s) whose personal data Good Law processes, is implemented.

Lawfulness of processing

Good Law processes the personal data (specified below) solely on the basis of the following principles laid down in article 6 GDPR:

Legal obligation
Performance of a contract
Consent of the data subject
Legitimate interest

Purposes of the processing

Good Law processes personal data to offer services, to be able to improve services and to be able to communicate personally with you as a data subject.

Good Law processes personal data solely for the following purposes:

Providing legal services, including the execution of an agreement and conducting (judicial) proceedings
Collecting claims
Consulting, mediation and referral
Complying with our legal obligations
Marketing- and communication activities
Recruitment and selection (application)
To offer and improve the Good Law website
To send out newsletters

Categories of personal data

Good Law processes the following (categories) of personal data for the purpose of providing services or which have been provided by the person concerned on his/her own initiative:

Name and titles
Address
Bank account number
Social media accounts
Company names
Telephone numbers
Email address
Date of birth
Place of birth
Identification papers
Sex

These personal data Good Law processes because they have been provided by you as a data subject on your own initiative, have been obtained in the context of the provision of services, have been made known to us by third parties, including counterparties, or have become known through public sources.

Transfer of personal data

Good Law exclusively transfers your personal data with third parties if necessary for the provision of the legal services with due regard for the foregoing purposes. the observation of the practice by another lawyer, the performance of an expert examination or the engagement of another third party on behalf of and by order of Good Law, such as an IT supplier, but also the provision of your personal data in connection with (judicial) proceedings or correspondence with the other party.

Apart from this Good Law can provide personal data to a third party, like such as an organization vested with public authority, in so far as there is a legal obligation to do so.

With the third party who processes your personal data on behalf of and on the instructions of Good Law, parties will enter into a Data Processing Agreement under which that third party will also be obliged to comply with the GDPR. Third parties engaged by Good Law, who offer services as processing agents, are responsible for (further) processing of your personal data themselves in order to comply with the GDPR. This could include an accountant, civil-law notary, third party engaged for a second opinion or expert report.

Security of processing

Good Law values the security and protection of your personal data greatly and provides appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, taking into account the state of the art. In the event that Good Law makes use of the services of third parties, such as an IT supplier, Good Law will lay down adequate security measures in a processing agreement within the framework of the protection of personal data.

Data retention

Good Law processes personal data no longer than is necessary for the aforementioned purposes of the data processing, or than is obligated by law or regulation.

Rights of data subjects
You can send a request to invoke your right of access, rectification, restriction of processing, erasure, data portability of the personal data, and your right to object or to revoke the consent to process personal data, to the following address. You will receive a reply from us within four weeks of receiving your request.

Circumstances may arise where Good Law cannot (completely) perform your request as a data subject. For example the duty of confidentiality of lawyers and statutory retention periods.

The aforementioned requests can be sent to:
Good Law B.V.
secretariaat@goodlaw.eu
Dorpsstraat 26, 1191 KB, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
The Netherlands

To ensure that we provide the personal data to the right person, we request you to verify your identity by submitting a passport, driver’s license or identification papers with a shielded passport photo and identification number (Dutch: BSN). Good Law will only consider requests focused on your own personal data.

Right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authority

If you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the a relevant supervisory authority ex article 77 GDPR. In the Netherlands this would be the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. You can lodge a complaint with the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens here (link only available in Dutch).

Altering the privacy statement

Good Law has the right modify this privacy statement at any time without prior notice. Modifications of the privacy statement will be published on the website. You should therefore consult our website (www.goodlaw.eu) regularly.

Questions and remarks

If you have any questions or remarks with regard to the processing of your personal data and this privacy statement, you can contact us via the aforementioned address or secretariaat@goodlaw.eu.