Data protection

DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

We process personal data (i.e. data that can be used to identify natural persons directly or indirectly) that you or third parties provide to us on the basis of a contract with us. The same applies to data that we collect ourselves. Your attorney-at-law is responsible for processing personal data in accordance with this declaration.
Certain personal data is therefore provided to us by you (or other persons concerned) when you (or these persons) contact us by e-mail or telephone to request our services. This may include the name, contact details or information on the role of the person concerned within the company, the organisation for which you (or the respective contact persons) work, or on whose behalf you (or they) contact us. In the course of carrying out the assignment, we also process personal data that we collect from our correspondence with clients or third parties (in particular opposing parties, authorities, courts, their respective employees or other contact persons). This may include names, contact details, dates of birth, information on employment relationships, income, family situation or state of health. We also collect certain personal data ourselves, for example from public registers or websites.
With regard to the purposes for which we process personal data, we primarily use it to provide, document and invoice our legal services.
Finally, we process the contact data of customers, their employees or other persons for marketing purposes (using any means of communication such as email, social media, post or telephone) in order to provide information about publications, events, new services or products that may be of interest to them.
In order to achieve these purposes, it may be necessary for us to transfer personal data to the following categories of recipients: external service providers, customers, opposing parties and their legal representatives, business partners with whom we may co-ordinate legal services, and the authorities and courts.
We process personal data relating to our sphere of responsibility in Switzerland and in the EU/EEA. We may also transfer this data to recipients (in particular customers, opposing parties or the authorities) who in turn process personal data in other countries, even if these countries do not guarantee a level of protection comparable to Swiss law. In the latter case, we will only do so on the basis of consent or standard contractual clauses. The same applies if the transfer of data is necessary for the performance of a contract or to assert legal claims].
We retain personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the contract, but in any case for the statutory retention or documentation period, or for as long as there is an overriding private or public interest. We take appropriate and proportionate measures to protect personal data against loss, unauthorised modification or unlawful access by third parties. If you provide us with personal data via a third party (e.g. your employees or other contact persons), you must inform them in full of the data processing carried out by our law firm and other legal or external service providers (e.g. in a data protection declaration for your employees).
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that, in order to carry out the mandate, we use external IT service providers or cloud providers with their servers in Switzerland. In such cases, we use certain IT services or means of communication that may be associated with data security risks (e.g. e-mail and video conferencing).
The aforementioned purposes are based on a legitimate interest in the processing of personal data. Some processing is also necessary for us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. The same applies to the legal obligations to which we are subject, e.g. our obligation to retain documents.
In particular, data subjects have the right to obtain information about the personal data stored about them, to know the purpose of the data, to rectify it, to delete it, to restrict its processing, to object to it being processed and to have recourse to a supervisory authority. These same people also have the right to the transmission or portability of their data. Please note, however, that these rights are subject to conditions and exceptions. To the extent permitted or required by law, certain requests may be refused. For example, we may or may have to retain personal data or continue to process it in some other way for legal reasons, despite a request to delete or restrict data processing
This declaration does not require the express consent of the customer, his employees or other contact persons. This declaration only provides information on the nature, scope and purpose of the data processed by your attorney-at-law. Your attorney-at-law reserves the right to unilaterally modify the content of this declaration at any time and without prior notice. We therefore recommend that you regularly consult your attorney-at-law data protection declaration, which can be consulted on our website www.aalegal.ch
If you, your employees or other contact persons have any questions or wish to assert your or the data subject's data protection rights, please contact us at info@aalegal.ch or write to your attorney-at-law, boulevard des Tranchées 36, 1206 Geneva.