We are the law firm SEDLAKOVA LEGAL s.r.o., ID No. 056 69 871, with its registered office at Purkyňova 648/125, Medlánky, 621 00 Brno, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Regional Court in Brno under file No. C 97278, represented by Mgr. Jana Sedláková, Managing Director.
We are a team of lawyers who are aware of the trust you place in us. As we require some personal information when providing legal services and visiting our website, we have prepared this privacy policy for you.
In this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about all the information concerning the processing of your personal data.
Legal language is full of complex concepts and long sentences. We will therefore try to explain to you the key terms related to your personal data in a clear and simple way. On 25 May 2018, the new 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, came into force. This long name is better known to everyone as "GDPR". The GDPR regulates various obligations for data controllers - us, and rights for data subjects - you. From time to time we use external companies or other entities to help us with processing and to handle personal data in certain ways. The GDPR refers to these entities as processors of personal data.
What is meant by personal data? It is any information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly. For example we can identify you directly by your name, surname, birth number and other similar data. Indirectly, then through information in conjunction with other information.
Anything not clear? Do not hesitate to contact us at gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com.
Our activity consists in providing legal and related services. In order to provide these services, we need to obtain some of your personal data. The following figure shows what information we usually require to provide our services:
However, we will often need additional data to properly provide our legal services, in particular data about your employees, business partners or individuals against whom you assert claims or who assert claims against you. We may also obtain other data in the course of providing our services which is necessary for the proper performance of the relationship. From time to time, we may also require so-called special categories of personal data (better known as sensitive personal data), for example, in situations where we are providing you with legal services in relation to non-pecuniary damage (in particular personal injury).
As stated above, the primary reason we process your personal data is to provide legal and related services, in particular to provide training in various legal areas. We take care of the security of your personal data, we only process the necessary data that is required for specific purposes and we try to regularly check its timeliness and relevance.
Each data controller may only process personal data where there is a legal basis for the processing. In this case, the legal basis is the necessity for the performance of a contract. In other words, we need the data in order to fulfil the obligations of our contractual relationship with each other. If we process special categories of personal data for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual relationship, we will do so for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (in other words, in order to defend your interests). We also have to comply with certain legal obligations, in particular those laid down in the Advocacy Act, the Archives and Records Act, the Act on Certain Measures against the Legitimisation of the Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism and the Value Added Tax Act.
However, we may also use your personal data for the purpose of defending or enforcing our legal claims based on our legitimate interest. A typical example of this would be the use of your personal data in the event of legal recovery of unpaid invoices.
The data provided is a contractual requirement, without providing it, we cannot offer our legal services. If you refuse to no to share this personal data, we may be unable to provide our services.
Your personal data is handled in many areas when providing services. In order to keep your personal data safe and to provide prompt legal services, the following data processors and data recipients help us process your personal data:
With your consent, we may transfer some of your personal data to our partner law firms and other entities with whom we work. However, always subject to our obligation of confidentiality.
The retention period of your personal data may vary from case to case. It is certain that we will process personal data for the duration of the provision of our services, i.e. for the duration of the legal services contract. Thereafter, we will retain your personal data for the period of time specified by individual laws, such as the Law on Advocacy, the Law on Accounting, the Law on Archives and File Service and the Law on Certain Measures against the Legitimisation of Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing.
We will also retain personal data for the purpose of defending our legal obligations, resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements.
We may also be subject to legal, contractual or similar obligations to retain various data. Examples include laws governing mandatory data retention, government regulations requiring us to retain data related to an investigation, or data that must be retained for litigation purposes. In such cases, we will process the personal data for that period of time.
If you are wondering how long we will keep your data, please contact us at gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com.
You may be reading this policy because you have received a newsletter from us. In this section we would like to provide you with some basic information about this mailing.
You received the newsletter because you are our client and therefore we can offer you similar services related to the services already provided. You may also have given us your consent to receive newsletters. Please find below information on your consent.
We use your e-mail address for sending newsletters and, where appropriate, your name and surname to personalize our message. Sending newsletters is our legitimate interest.
We will send you newsletters for as long as you are our client and for one (1 ) year thereafter. However, you have the right to opt-out of receiving further commercial communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in your emailor by sending an email to office@sedlakovalegal.com.
Training
Do you like education? We do, that is why we organise various training courses for you. Since there are an astronomical number of training courses on the internet today, it's easy to get lost in the offer. That's why we offer you the opportunity to stay informed about our upcoming trainings and similar events.
However, we will need your consent to process your personal data in order to do so. If you give us your consent, we will send you information about upcoming trainings and related events to your email address.
You grant your consent for a period of three (3 ) years, but you may withdraw your consent at any time by sending a message to gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com.
Newsletter
On our website you can subscribe to our newsletter (if you wish to receive news). In this case, however, you must give your consent for us to use your email address for this purpose. To complete your subscription, you need to confirm your email address via a message that we will send you after you have filled in the details on our website.
You grant your consent for a period of three (3 ) years, but you may withdraw your consent at any time by following the link in the email you receive or by sending a message to gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com.
If you have contacted us via the contact form on our website, we will process data in the range of first name, surname, email address and any data contained in the enquiry itself.
The legal basis for processing this data is the performance of contractual obligations. Personal data will be deleted after the enquiry has been dealt with. However, if we subsequently provide further legal services , we will retain this data for the purposes of providing legal services as described above.
You have the following rights in relation to our processing of your personal data:
the right of access to personal data;
the right to rectification;
the right to erasure ("right to be forgotten");
the right to restriction of data processing;
the right to object to processing;
the right to data portability;
the right to filing a complaint about the processing of personal data.
Your rights are explained below to give you a clearer idea of their content.
The right of access means that you can ask us at any time to confirm whether or not the personal data concerning you are being processed and, if so, for what purposes, to what extent, to whom they are disclosed, how long we will process them, whether you have the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or to object, where we obtained the personal data and whether automated decision-making, including possible profiling, is taking place on the basis of the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data, the first provision of which is free of charge, and we may charge a reasonable administrative fee of CZK 50 for further provision.
The right to rectification means that you can ask us to correct or complete your personal data at any time if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to erasure means that we must erase your personal data if (i) it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, (ii) you withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data and there are no other legal basis for processing it, (iii) you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for processing, (iv) the processing is unlawful, or (v) we are under a legal obligation to do so.
The right to restrict processing means that until we have resolved any disputed issues regarding the processing of your personal data, we may not process your personal data other than by storing it and, where appropriate, using it only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The right to object means that you can object to the processing of your personal data that we process on the basis of legitimate interest. This objection will be evaluated and we will then tell you whether we have complied with the objection and will no longer process your data, or that the objection was not justified and the processing will continue. In any case, processing will be restricted until the objection is resolved.
The right to data portability means that you have the right to obtain personal data relating to you which are processed by automated means and on the basis of consent or contract, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have those personal data transmitted directly to another controller.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights as set out above, please contact us using our dedicated email address gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com. We will respond to your questions or comments without undue delay and within one month at the latest.
Our activities are also supervised by the Office for Personal Data Protection, to which you can file a complaint in case of dissatisfaction. You can find out more on its website (www.uoou.cz).
This policy was last updated on 16 March 2022. We will be happy to send you the previous version if you email us at gdpr@sedlakovalegal.com.