privacy terms and conditions

The information that we provide you with on our website constitutes an information resource only and does not purport to constitute legal or professional advice. We do not warrant that the information is complete, accurate or actual. If you wish to seek advice on a particular matter or for further information on a specific topic, please contact us.

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to legal or other advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

We own or license all intellectual property rights on our websites, such as the copyrights in the content (text and pictures) or embedded softwares and the rights to our trademark and logo.

You may download and print the information contained on our websites but you may not amend the information or remove part of it and you must state the source of the information as coming from our websites. If you provide the information to other persons, you must subject them to these Terms of Use.

APPLICABLE LAW AND PLACE OF JURISDICTION

The substantive laws of Switzerland are exclusively applicable, without giving regard to its conflict of law rules. The ordinary courts at our seat have exclusive jurisdiction

OUR LIABILITY

Under no circumstances are we liable for any direct or indirect damages that result from the access or use of our websites.

The information contained on our websites does not establish an attorney-client relationship between you and us.

We may want to record information about your usage of our website which may be stored directly by us and/or indirectly through third-party service providers, generally this will be anonymous other than identifying the internet address that you are accessing the internet from, some general browser and computer detail and may include search terms that you have used to reach our website and navigate within it.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

 

DATA PROTECTION POLICY

The Law Firm Network (hereinafter “we”) collects your personal data. We process your personal data in accordance with the provisions of the Swiss Data Protection Act (hereinafter “DPA”) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”). Unless you have been otherwise informed, we process your personal data as data controller. This Data Protection Policy describes how we process and use your personal data.

1. What personal data do we collect?

“Personal data” means information that relates to you or that we may otherwise associate with you. The personal data we collect includes the following data: company name, first and last name, title, register seat, postal address, email address, telephone and fax numbers, date of birth, bank information and any information we receive from you or collect as set out in section below.

When you access our websites, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser inquiry and general information transmitted to the operating system or browser.

2. How do we collect your personal data?

We collect personal data that you have voluntarily provided us with, for example, when you (i) contact us and provide us information; (ii) when you ask third parties to provide us with information; (iii) when you ask us to send you communications or newsletters.

We also collect personal data (i) from publicly accessible sources such as public registers (commercial register, debt register, land register, civil register), press, internet, etc. (ii) from authorities, courts, arbitral tribunals or other third parties involved or linked to the services we provide.

We also use tracking technologies such as cookies to collect data stated above to better understand how users use our websites. These technologies help us to manage our websites and improve its user-friendliness. For example, we can see if your computer has previously connected to us and see which areas of our websites are most frequently used.

3. For what purpose do we process your personal data?

We need your personal data to: (i) enter into an agreement with you or to perform our agreement; (ii) transmit data to third party providers, such as lawyers; (iii) send you newsletters and other information; (iv) comply with our legal obligations; and (iv) administer the websites and ensure error-free provision of our websites.

4. Whom do we provide your personal data to?

For the performance of our agreement and for the purposes mentioned above, we may share your personal data with third parties (in particular other providers of legal services, authorities, IT service providers and service providers etc.).

We may disclose your personal data if we are legally obliged to do so.

5. How do we use cookies?

We use cookies on our websites. Cookies serve to make our websites more user-friendly, effective and secure and do no damage to your device.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. However, when cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our websites may be limited.

Cookies, which are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions requested by you, are stored on the legal basis of Art. 13 DSG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website provider has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for technically error-free and optimized provision of its services.

6. How do we use social media plugins?

LinkedIn Plugin

Plugins from LinkedIn may be integrated on our website. Provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Gardner House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. You can recognize the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo on our websites.

By clicking on the LinkedIn button, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the LinkedIn server. LinkedIn receives the information that you have visited our websites together with your IP address. LinkedIn may use data capture, syndication analysis and other similar tools to track, extract, compile, aggregate and analyze any data or information resulting from use of the Plugin.

For more information, please see LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy.

7. How do we use website analytics services?

Our website uses google analytics. Provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google analytics tells us the total number of users who visited on our website and what pages you visited and for how long. However, we do not receive any data with which we can identify you personally.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website. You can also prevent tracking by disabling the Google tracking cookies from your Internet browser under User Preferences.

For more information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.

8. Why do we process your personal data and on what legal grounds?

We process your personal data in order to enter into or to perform our contract or legal obligations (Art. 4 para. 3 and 13 para. 2 lit. a DSG, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and c DSGVO) and for communication purposes based on the consent that you have provided us with at the time your personal data has been collected (Art. 4 para. 5 DSG, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke your consent at any time.

9. Where is your personal data stored?

All your personal data is stored in LFN global web site database.

For example on cross-border matters, we may transfer your personal data abroad in order to provide our services, e.g. in case of filing to an authority or court abroad or to contact foreign lawyers.

10. How long do we keep your personal data?

We process and keep your personal data as long as required for the performance of our contractual obligations and compliance with legal obligations or for the purposes set out in section 3. We keep personal data for the duration of our entire business relationship and thereafter for a duration of ten years, as a rule, to comply with legal retention obligations as well as for our legitimate documentation interests.

11. Data integrity

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against loss and unauthorized access.

12. Your rights

You have the right to know what personal data we process about you. You also have the right to request that incorrect personal data about you be corrected and that your personal data be deleted. You can also forbid the processing of certain personal data and can request that data processing is restricted. The restriction of the processing or deletion of personal data is not possible if this data is necessary for the performance of a contractual or legal obligation or if we have a legitimate interest in the processing. You also have the right to data portability.

If you do not agree to our data processing, you can report this to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”) and/or the competent supervisory authorities in the EU.13       How can you contact us?

If you have any questions about how we process your personal data, please contact us by phone or email as below

 

A CARBON NEGATIVE WEB SITE

The Law Firm Network web site is carbon negative. Our web host is Green Geeks.

Green Geeks has been recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency since 2009 as a Green Power Partner.

Green Geeks work with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in Portland, Oregon. “BEF” is also a recognized Green Power Partner by the U.S. EPA and they work with wind farms.

Green Geeks tell BEF how many servers, personnel, etc. that they have and they calculate Green geeks yearly energy consumption and carbon footprint. Green Geeks then have BEF purchase from the wind farms 3 times as much wind energy than they have consumed, and have that energy put back into the grid.

This offsets the energy Green Geeks consumes as well as 2 other companies of the same size, which makes GreenGeeks and their customers’ web sites such as that of the Law Firm network ‘CARBON NEGATIVE’.