Privacy Policy
Dossary Law Firm (“DLF”) is the Hamad Khalifa Aldossary Law Firm, LLC Company registered to practice in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pursuant to Ministry of Justice license number (37/506) and a registered member of the Saudi Bar Association under register number (SBA00005835) and registered in Ministry of Commerce (2050148652).
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Dossary Law Firm respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. It applies to all individuals who access our website at www.dossarylaw.com ("Website"), engage our legal services, or who participate in our recruitment activities. We recommend that you read this Privacy Notice in full to ensure you are fully informed.
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This Policy
This privacy policy applies to Dossary law firm, ("DLF", "we", "us", "our") and explains how we may Process your Personal Data. This Policy is issued by Dossary Law Firm, a Saudi law firm registered in Saudi Arabia.
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CONTROLLER
Dossary Law Firm is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data and this website.
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Collection of Personal Data
We may collect Personal Data about you from the following sources:
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Data you provide: We may obtain your Personal Data when you provide it to us (e.g., where you contact us via email or telephone, or by any other means, or if you provide us with your business card).
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Relationship data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data in the ordinary course of our relationship with you (e.g., in the course of corresponding with you).
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Data you make public: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data that you choose to make public, including via social media (e.g., we may collect information from your social media profile(s), if you make a public post)
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App data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data when you download or use any of our Apps.
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Site data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data when you visit any of our Sites or use any features or resources available on or through a Site.
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Registration details: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data when you use, or register to use, any of our Sites, Apps, or services.
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Content and advertising information: If you choose to interact with any third party content or advertising on a Site or in an App, we may receive Personal Data about you from the relevant third party.
Creation of Personal Data
We may create Personal Data about you (e.g., records of your interactions with us). We may also create Personal Data about you, such as records of your communications and interactions with us, including attendance at events we hold or interviews in the course of applying for a job with us. We may record telephone calls, meetings, depositions, and other interactions in which you are involved, in accordance with applicable law.
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Categories of Personal Data
Personal data is any information from which you can be identified. It does not include data anonymous data.
We may collect and process the following types of personal data from you:
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Contact Data: this includes for example name, home or business address, email address, phone number and social media handles.
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Client Data: this includes for example data provided to us by or on behalf of our clients and data that we gather in the course of providing our services to our clients.
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Technical Data: this includes for example data that we collect from you when you interact with our website, applications and email communications, such as your IP address and your login data.
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Financial Data: this includes for example bank account, payment card and other related financial data.
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Recruitment Data: this includes for example CV, work history and qualifications.
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Marketing Data: this includes for example preferences in receiving marketing from us.
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Other Data: any other data that you provide to us and which can be used to identify you.
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USE OF PERSONAL DATA
We may disclose the personal data for the following purposes:
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if you have given consent to processing for one or more specific purposes; and/or
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if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you; and/or
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if it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject; and/or
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if it is necessary for the purposes of our or a third party’s legitimate interests, where those interests are not overridden by interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data.
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DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATE TO THIRD PARTIES
We will share the personal data within DLF and with third party service providers who assist us in the administration and operation of DLF and in providing our legal services to our clients. We may also share the personal date for legitimate business purposes (including operating our Sites and our Apps, and providing services to you), in accordance with applicable law and subject to applicable professional and regulatory requirements regarding confidentiality and professional secrecy.
Third parties with whom we may share your personal data include:
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Our information technology and telecommunications service providers, including data centers and cloud storage providers.
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Our marketing service providers.
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Law and accountancy.
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Expert witnesses.
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Cybersecurity service providers.
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Other service providers to whom we outsource aspects of the provision of our legal services and the administration and operation of DLF.
If DLF engage a third party Processor to Process the Personal Data, the Processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to:
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Only Process the Personal Data in accordance with our prior written instructions; and
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Use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the Personal Data, together with any additional requirements under applicable law.
DATA SECURITY
DLF implemented appropriate security measures to protect the personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
Since the internet is an open system, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement all reasonable measures to protect personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us using the internet – any such transmission is at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that any Personal Data that you send to us are sent securely.
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DATA RETENTION
DLF take every reasonable step to ensure that the Personal Data are only Processed for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we collected it, including any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal data.
The criteria for determining the duration for which we will keep the Personal Data are as follows:
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We will retain copies of Personal Data in a form that permits identification only for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, unless applicable law requires a longer retention period.
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We may retain the Personal Data for the duration of any period necessary to establish, exercise or defend any legal rights.
LINKS
Our website may contain links to other sites over which we have no control and whose privacy policies may differ from ours. You should consult the privacy policies on those sites and we do not accept any responsibility for their use of your personal data.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You may have a number of rights regarding our Processing of your Relevant Personal Data, these rights are:
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the right not to provide your Personal Data to us.
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Request access to, or copies of, your Personal Data.
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Request rectification of any inaccuracies in your Personal Data;
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Request the erasure of your personal data that we hold.
Nothing in this Policy affects any of your other statutory rights.
Please be informed that we may need to request specific information from you to proof of your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data before you exercise any right mentioned in this policy.
Cookies
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POLICY REVISIONS
DLF reserves the right to revise or modify any part of this policy from time to time. This policy was last updated on 1st January 2020.
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If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us at the contact information on the site.