Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we at Eunoia Law, handle and treat your data when you:
- register or visit our site, www.eunoialaw.com.ng or associated sites or pages (the “Site”); or
- engage with us to use the products or services that Eunoia Law provides (our “Services”). It also includes information about individuals whose personal information we may process as a result of providing the Services to third parties.
This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Site and our Services and/or to understand how your personal information may be processed by us.
What information do we collect about you and how?
- Business development and business acceptance
We collect personal information about prospective clients and their beneficial owners or controllers as part of business development initiatives and our business acceptance process. The type of personal information we may collect includes name, address, nationality, business interests and employment history. Weobtain this information from publicly available open sources.
- Legal services and keeping you up to date with relevant marketing
The type of personal information that we may collect includes current and historical information including your name and contact details (such as your address, email address and telephone numbers) and identifiers such as your organization, employment history and positions held. We obtain personal information from your IP address and the operating system and web browser that you use to access our Websites. It enables us to identify which organizations have visited our Site and we use this information to compile statistical data on the use of those sites to help us to improve the user experience.
We use a third party service provider to manage the firm’s contact database and deliver emails to inform you about our services, legal developments and updates and invite you to Eunoia Law events (including those we may jointly host with other organizations).
You can control the information you receive through our direct marketing function by using the “Managing your preferences” option at the bottom of the emails. If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails relating to our services by email or post, you can unsubscribe at any time by using the “Unsubscribe” option on the emailfooteror by contacting hello@eunoialaw.com.ng
- Recruitment
If you apply for a role or work experience opportunity, or event at the firm you may need to provide personal information including special categories of personal information (for example, details of extenuating circumstances). Your application directly to us, or via a recruitment agency, will constitute your express consent to our use of this information. We will use this information to consider your application for a position with Eunoia Law. We may also use the information to carry out checksto verify the information provided byyou (including reference, background, identity, suitability etc).
How we use your information
We will only use your personal information if and to the extent that applicable law allows. We will therefore only process your personal information if:
- it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or the organization you work for;
- it is necessary in connection with a legal obligation;
- you have given your consent (where necessary) to such use or the organization you work for has obtained your consent (where necessary) to share your information with us; or
- if we (or a third party) have a legitimate interest which is not overridden by your interests or your rights and freedoms. Such legitimate interests include the provision of legal services, running the firm’s business and marketing relevant services directly to you.
We may use your personal information to:
- consider whether we can pursue certain business development initiatives;
- comply with our legal obligations to identify and verify the identity of our clients and their beneficial owners;
- deliver legal services to you and/or the organization you work for, if you are a client;
- run the firm’s business (e.g. carry out administrative or operational processes, including recruitment);
- maintain and develop our business relationship with you;
- improve our services and products to you, if you or the organization you work for are a client or prospective client;
- identify services you may be interested in;
- send you marketing and invite you to events;
- monitor and analyse our business; or
- process and respond to requests, enquiries or complaints received from you.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including for the purposes of complying with any legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to certain website administered by us or on our behalf.
How and why do we share your personal information?
We may share your personal information with our offices and associated partnerships working on a matter. We use third parties who provide services on our behalf and will share your information with them, for example a technology supplier may have access to your personal information when providing software support, or a company we use for a communications campaign may process the personal information of our contacts for us. We may also have to share your personal information with regulators, government agencies, courts and other third parties.
We may only share your personal information with third parties where you have consented to us doing so (where necessary) or the organization that you work for has obtained your consent for us to do so (where necessary) and we are under a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to do so (for example, to comply with anti-money laundering or sanctions requirements).
Confidentiality and the security of your personal information
We are committed to keeping the personal information provided to us secure and we have implemented appropriate information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
All of our partners, employees, consultants, workers and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal information on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of such personal information.
Your rights
You have some rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. These rights are:
- Your right of access your personal information
- Your right to rectification of your personal information
- Your right to erasure of your personal information
- Your right to restrict processing of your personal information
- Your right to data portability
- Your right to object to processing of your personal information
- Your right to withdraw consent in relation to processing your personal information.
Collection of information by third-party sites and sponsors
The Site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. You are therefore advised to consult the other sites’ privacy notices as Eunoia Law has no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. To ensure that you are always aware of how we use your personal information we will update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We therefor encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we use your personal information.