Privacy Policy

Randl Partners, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o., Company ID No.: 06681077, with its registered office at Budějovická 1550/15a, Michle, 140 00 Prague 4 (hereinafter the “Law Firm” or “Randl Partners”) hereby presents these personal data processing rules, which explain what we do to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data. The purpose of this document is to inform you what personal data we collect, on what grounds, how we handle it, from which sources we obtain it, for what purposes we use it, to whom we may disclose it, where you can obtain information about the personal data we process concerning you, and how that data is secured.

1. Controller of personal data

The Law Firm is the controller of your personal data. Being a controller means that the Law Firm complies with the principles of personal data processing and handles your personal data solely in accordance with applicable legislation, decides on the purpose and means of processing your personal data, and ensures that your personal data is consistently secured.

Advocates who have concluded a permanent cooperation agreement with the Law Firm are also controllers of personal data; a list of them is available on the Law Firm’s website www.randls.com.

We process personal data in accordance with legislation, in particular Act No. 85/1996 Coll., on the Legal Profession, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), and Act No. 110/2019 Coll., on Personal Data Processing.

2. To whom do these rules apply?

These personal data processing rules apply to the processing of personal data of all data subjects whose personal data the Law Firm processes, in particular:

visitors to the website www.chciodskodneni.cz;
contact persons of the Law Firm’s clients who regularly receive legal updates (legislative updates, newsletters and the like), invitations to events and similar communications;
contact persons of the Law Firm’s clients and other persons in connection with the provision of legal services;
contact persons of any third party with which the Law Firm cooperates or wishes to cooperate (for example suppliers and business partners).

These personal data processing rules need not apply in all cases to the processing of personal data that must remain strictly confidential under the duty of confidentiality arising from Act No. 85/1996 Coll., on the Legal Profession.

3. What personal data do we process?

The Law Firm processes the following personal data or categories of personal data. This does not mean that we would process all of the personal data listed below for every data subject.

identification data such as first name, surname, academic title, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, address of residence, birth identification number, passport number, identity card number, nationality, job position and employer;
personal data obtained in connection with the provision of legal services;
photographs (only with consent) and security camera recordings;
information about your browsing of the website, such as cookies, IP address and information about your device.

4. On what grounds do we process your personal data?

The Law Firm processes personal data only on lawful grounds, examples of which are given below.

Compliance with a legal obligation

The provision of legal services by the Law Firm is governed by legislation and by the professional rules of the Bar. In order to ensure compliance with them, to provide legal services to the Law Firm’s clients properly and to carry on our business, we process some of your personal data.

Performance of a contract

The contract for the provision of legal services on the basis of which we provide legal services to you, or other contracts we have concluded together, require the processing of personal data in order to fulfil their meaning and purpose.

Legitimate interests of the controller

It is a legitimate interest of the Law Firm to carry on its business in the provision of legal services effectively, to provide legal services in accordance with legislation, to secure its premises, documentation and equipment, to carry out the necessary supervision of the activities performed, to manage internal processes, and to promote its legal services and communicate with the Law Firm’s clients. In order for the processing of personal data to be based on a legitimate interest, the Law Firm assesses each case individually.

Consent

In exceptional cases, and only where none of the lawful grounds for processing personal data set out above can be relied on, the Law Firm may ask for your explicit consent to the processing of your personal data. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

5. Why do we process personal data?

Provision of legal services

The Law Firm processes personal data primarily in order to provide legal services properly to the Law Firm’s clients and to carry on its business.

We also process personal data when communicating with prospective clients interested in legal services. This includes the data you provide to us through the case assessment form on this website.

Organisational arrangements for the running of the Law Firm and cooperation with suppliers

The Law Firm processes personal data for the purpose of ensuring the effective operation of its business and in connection with maintaining business relationships with clients and with suppliers of goods and services.

Website

We also process the personal data of users of the website www.chciodskodneni.cz so that we can evaluate the traffic to our website and improve its user experience.

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a simple text file that the website you visit sends to your web browser. To measure traffic we use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, which acts as a processor on our behalf; statistics cookies are set only on the basis of your consent, which you may withdraw at any time. A detailed overview of the cookies used, their purpose and their storage period can be found on a separate page, Cookies. You can also configure the rules for the use of cookies in your browser.

Marketing communications

In some cases we also use personal data for the purpose of sending commercial communications containing information about legal updates or about the Law Firm’s legal services to our existing clients.

We may use personal data to send commercial communications only if the recipient has not refused that option.

Everyone has the right to refuse the sending of commercial communications at any time and free of charge at the e-mail address liskova@randls.com or via the link in the commercial communication.

Not every time we contact you is a commercial communication. We also use your contact details to communicate with you or, for example, to send information about updates to these personal data protection rules.

6. How do we obtain personal data

We most often obtain your personal data directly from you, because you share it with the Law Firm. When providing legal services we also obtain personal data from other third parties (opposing parties in legal cases, courts, public authorities or institutions) or from publicly available sources.

7. How long do we retain your data?

We process personal data only for the period laid down by legislation or for the period strictly necessary in view of the purposes of the processing. We assess on an ongoing basis whether there is still a need to process particular personal data for a particular purpose. If we find that it is no longer necessary for any of the purposes for which it was processed, we destroy the data.

8. To whom do we disclose your personal data?

As a rule, we do not disclose your personal data to anyone outside the Law Firm. Personal data processed under these rules may further be made available to authorised public authorities, institutions or other entities where the conditions laid down by legislation are met. Where this is necessary to fulfil the purpose of the processing of personal data, necessary for compliance with legal obligations or with our obligations under a contract, necessary to protect our legitimate interests, or where it follows from your consent, we may disclose your personal data to external suppliers that support us in providing legal services.

9. What are your rights?

You have the right to request information about and access to your personal data that we process. You also have the right to ask us to rectify or erase your personal data or, in certain cases, to restrict its processing. You may also object to the processing of your personal data directly to the Law Firm or ask us for the portability of your personal data. Please note, however, that we may not always be obliged to comply with your request for erasure, restriction, objection or data portability, in particular having regard to the statutory duty of confidentiality in the provision of legal services. Assessments of our legal obligations and of the exceptions to these rights will be carried out on a case-by-case basis.

You also have the right to address your request, complaint or other submission directly to the Office for Personal Data Protection (Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů), with its registered office at Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7, telephone number +420 234 665 111, e-mail: posta@uoou.cz.

Further information about your rights is also available on the website of the Office for Personal Data Protection (here) or directly in the General Data Protection Regulation.

10. Contact details

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, please contact our data protection officer, Mgr. et Mgr. Irena Lišková, telephone number: +420 222 755 311, e-mail: liskova@randls.com.

11. Updates to these rules

These rules may be updated in order to reflect changes that occur in connection with the processing of your personal data.