Privacy Policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about what data we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete it.

Effective as of May 25, 2018

In accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, on the protection of individuals 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), the personal data you provide to us through the contact form on the website www.sumaqabogados.es and/or by navigating on said website will be processed by SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P.

The website www.sumaqabogados.es (hereinafter referred to as the "website") is owned by SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P., with Tax Identification Number B09811969, duly registered in the Registro Mercantil de Barcelona on March 17, 2022, in VOLUME 48282, SHEET 26, PAGE B 578654, ENTRY 1, and with registered office at Calle Valencia 262 3º 2ª – Postal Code 08007 – Barcelona (Spain).

You can contact SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. at the email address gisella.zuniga@sumaqlawfirm.com or by calling (+34) 691 704 887, Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (UTC+1).

This policy describes the practices of SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. with respect to the information and personal data obtained through this website. By using it, you confirm that you agree with this policy.

Our privacy policy is an integral part of the terms and conditions of use of our website.

Purpose of Data Collection

SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P., with the aim of offering you the best possible service and providing you with the highest quality for the development of contractual relationships between both parties, collects your personal data.

The personal data obtained through our website is primarily intended to provide a contact platform for our clients in order to resolve doubts, request more information, or address issues related to the services provided by SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. This includes the possibility of making a phone call or contacting the firm through the website's contact form or the provided email.

What Personal Data Do We Collect?

When visiting our website, we may collect information about you through systems that automatically record your IP address, search history, browser, operating system, access times, web connection time, gender, location, network, and traffic source. We need this information to understand how our website is used and to report aggregate statistics to the providers that handle our website technology.

When using a mobile device to visit our website, we may also collect other data such as the type of device you use, your preferences, and your location.

By providing us with your personal data, you confirm that it is authentic and accurate, and that it is up to date. Likewise, you confirm that you have the authorization to provide it to us.

How Do We Obtain Your Personal Data?

¿Cómo obtenemos tus datos personales?

While browsing our website, we obtain your personal data by giving you the option to contact us through your email address, providing us with your first and last name, and only after receiving your confirmation of acceptance of the privacy policy and data processing. In this way, you give us your free, specific, informed, express, and unequivocal consent to process your personal data.

We also obtain your personal data automatically when you visit our website. We also use tracking tools such as cookies. If you want to know more about these tools and how to control them, go to the Cookies and Tracking Tools section.

Why Do We Collect and How Do We Use Your Personal Data?

We use your personal identification information (and occasionally other information we collect) for various reasons. Your personal data may be used in the following ways:

To send you informative emails.
To send you information related to our services.
To respond to queries sent by email.
To conduct market research and help us improve our service offering and user experience.
To manage and resolve legal disputes in some cases where required by legal compliance or by investigations required by law.

Unless you have opted out of receiving our commercial information, we use your personal data to tailor that information to your interests and send it to you.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?

We will retain your personal data as long as we have legal responsibilities related to the services we have provided to you. We guarantee that if we no longer have any legal reason or obligation to process your personal data, we will delete or store it anonymously.

Regardless of the above, if you have requested and accepted to receive emails with updates and news from SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P., we will retain your email for this purpose until you unsubscribe.

To unsubscribe, you can contact us through the email or postal addresses shown in the Who is responsible for your personal data at SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P.? section.

Regardless of the duration of the retention period, you can request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.

For more information on how to manage your personal data, see the sections What are your rights? and How can you control your personal data? of this privacy policy.

How Does SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. Share Your Data with Third Parties?

We only share your information when you request it, when it is necessary to do business with you and provide our services, or when required for legal reasons. We will not sell to anyone non-public information or personal data we collect about you on our website.

If SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. (or part of it) is acquired by third parties or changes management, the new owners would have access to your personal data for the purposes established in this privacy policy.

We may disclose your personal data if required by law, for example, for the administration of justice or at the request of authorities. This includes court orders, subpoenas, and orders arising from legal proceedings and administrative or criminal investigations. We may also disclose your personal data if necessary for the prevention, detection, or prosecution of criminal activities; to prevent further harm; in response to legal action; or to enforce our rights and remedies.

What Are Your Rights?

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016, concerning the processing of personal data, you are granted the following rights:

Right of Access. You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and, if so, to obtain a copy of this data and complete information about the processing.
Right to Rectification. You have the right to correct errors, modify inaccurate or incomplete data, and ensure the accuracy of the information subject to processing. This right can be exercised, among others, with respect to partial, inaccurate, incomplete, fragmented, misleading data, or data the processing of which is expressly prohibited or has not been authorized.
Right to Erasure. You have the right to request the erasure of your data without undue delay, in case the processing is unlawful or the purpose that motivated its processing or collection has disappeared.
Right to Restriction of Processing. You have the right to request the suspension of processing if it is unlawful or the accuracy of the data has been contested.
Right to Object. You have the right to object to the processing of your data when it concerns direct marketing or when the processing must cease due to reasons related to your personal situation, unless a legitimate interest is demonstrated or it is necessary for the exercise or defense of claims.
Right Not to Be Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making. You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects or significantly affects you, unless it is necessary for the execution of a contract, is permitted by law, or you have given your explicit consent.
Right to Data Portability. Under certain circumstances, you can also ask us to send the personal data you have provided to us to a third party. The copy provided will be in a structured, common, and machine-readable format.

Likewise, please consider the right to be forgotten, which is the consequence of the rights to erasure and objection, and which is understood as the right to delete personal data.

How Can You Control Your Personal Data?

As the data subject, you have the right to know the data that the information systems of SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. hold about you.

For this purpose, your request will be addressed within a maximum period of ten (10) business days from the date of receipt. When it is not possible to address the request within said term, you will be duly informed, stating the reasons for the delay and indicating the date on which your request will be addressed, which in no case may exceed five (5) business days following the expiration of the initial term.

We will provide the information in an individual record or linked to your identification.

Similarly, as the data subject, you may submit a complaint to the person responsible for SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. indicated in the Who is responsible for your personal data at SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P.? section when you consider that your personal data should be subject to correction, updating, or deletion, or when you notice the alleged breach of any of the duties contained in the current rules and legal provisions on personal data.

Your complaint will be processed according to the following terms and conditions:

The complaint will be formulated by means of a request addressed to the person responsible for SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. indicated below, with your identification, a description of the facts giving rise to the complaint, the address, and accompanying the documents that you wish to submit. If the complaint is incomplete, you will be required within the following five (5) business days from receipt of the complaint to correct the flaws. After two (2) months from the date of the request for clarification have passed without you providing the required information, it will be understood that you have withdrawn the complaint.
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If the recipient of the complaint is not competent to resolve it, he/she will transfer it to the appropriate person within a maximum of two (2) business days and will inform you of the situation accordingly.
Once the complete complaint has been received, it will be included in our information systems with a note indicating "complaint in process" and the reason for it, within a period not exceeding two (2) business days. This note must be maintained until the complaint is decided.
The maximum term for addressing the complaint will be fifteen (15) business days from the day following the date of receipt. When it is not possible to address the complaint within said term, the reasons for the delay will be informed, and the date on which your complaint will be addressed will be indicated, which in no case may exceed eight (8) business days following the expiration of the initial term.

The exercise of these rights is free, unless manifestly unfounded or excessive requests are made, in which case you may be required to bear the cost of processing the request.

How Does SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. Protect Your Personal Data?

SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. has implemented reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access to, and misuse of, personal data. Only authorized personnel have permission to access personal information during the course of their work.

We will store this information using generally accepted data encryption and storage technology. We use commercial systems and appropriate procedures to safeguard the personal data you provide to us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions to access and use personal data from our servers.

Where Do We Store Your Information?

All personal information is collected and stored in the cloud on a server owned by Google LLC, which is duly protected by encryption activated by a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Likewise, at SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P., we will implement all necessary protection measures to safeguard your data. For this purpose, appropriate administrative, technical, and organizational security measures are combined, and the necessary legal contracts are formalized to meet these requirements.

How Does SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. Handle Data of Minors Under 16 Years Old?

SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. understands the importance of protecting the privacy of children and adolescents, especially in the Internet environment. The website is not designed for children and adolescents under 16 years old, nor is it directed at them. It is our policy not to deliberately collect or maintain information about any person under 16 years old.

For minors under 16 years old, the use of our services is only possible with the legitimate consent of a parent or legal guardian. In exceptional cases, SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. will collect and use information about children only to the extent that it has been provided by the parent or legal guardian or with their consent.

In case we detect that we are processing information of any minor under 16 years old without valid consent from a parent or legal guardian, we reserve the right to delete it.

Who is Responsible for Your Personal Data at SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P.?

The data of the person responsible for addressing your requests, queries, and complaints to SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P., and to whom you can exercise your rights to know, update, rectify, and delete your data and revoke your authorization, are as follows:

Name of the responsible person: Mrs. Gisella Zuñiga Galván.
Address: Calle Valencia 262 3º 2ª – 08007 – Barcelona (España).
Phone: +34 691 704 887.
Email: gisella.zuniga@sumaqlawfirm.com.

You can also contact the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.agpd.es) to request protection of your rights if you consider it appropriate.

Cookies and Tracking Tools

Like many other websites, we use cookies, 1-pixel GIF files (highlighted tags), JavaScript code, and other standard network technology to collect information for our own use in order to improve the website and its tools.

A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer's hard drive for the purpose of recording logs. You can change the option in your browser to no longer accept cookies or to notify you before accepting a cookie, allowing you to decline it. Disabling cookies may cause the website to not display properly. Check with your browser manufacturer for more information on how to control cookies.

Cookies make it easier for you to use the website, and they allow us to give you the option to decide whether you want your personal data included in the information processing we do. They also allow us to track your navigation through the website so that we can tailor it to your interests. They also allow us to remember your identity and preferences so that we can show you content appropriate for you and your interests.

These technologies also help manage our online promotion. To promote other websites, we use 1-pixel or transparent GIF files (spotlight technology). Our advertising management partners provide these GIF files, which allow them to recognize a unique cookie in your browser, which in turn allows our advertisers to know if our ads led users to their websites. The cookie was placed by us through our advertising management partners. These partners use your IP address along with these technologies, but they do not store your name, address, phone number, or email address. Contact us by email for more information about our advertising management partners or to learn how you can opt out of the use of these technologies.

Although we hire third parties to manage the use of these technologies, the personal data we process is used only to help us control our own marketing materials and our own websites. These third parties are contractually obligated to maintain the information confidentially and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

Links to Third-Party Sites

The website www.sumaqabogados.es contains and/or may include links to third-party websites. In the event you are redirected to third-party websites or other platforms, we do not assume direct responsibility for the privacy policy of those internet sites, and the privacy policy of SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. does not apply. Therefore, we encourage visitors to review the privacy policy of each website before disclosing any information on them.

Phishing

We do not request, nor will we at any time, solicit personal information in an insecure or unsolicited email or through telephone communication. Identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of significant concern to us. Our priority is to safeguard information to help protect you from identity theft.

Changes to this Policy

This privacy policy may be regularly updated as our services change and expand. We will directly inform you through an efficient and effective means of any substantial changes to these privacy policies regarding the identification of SUMAQ LAW FIRM S.L.P. as the responsible entity for your personal data and the purpose of its processing that may affect the content of the authorization in this document. Other changes will be announced through the privacy link located at the bottom of our home page. Your continued use of the website will be presumed to indicate awareness of any new conditions. The most up-to-date version of the Privacy Policy can be obtained by clicking on the privacy link.