In this policy, HOL refers to House of Laws. This policy reflects the clear intention of HOL to keep information and data received by it through its website confidential while exhibiting its adept compliance with national and international data protection laws and policies (Privacy Policy). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information that, by itself or in combination with other information, identifies or can reasonably be used to identify an individual, such as name, email address or telephone number. Personal Information does not include information that is publicly-available.
Declaration of Consent
By submitting Personal Information and other information to us, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of such information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
Collecting Information
Generally, you may browse our website without providing any Personal Information. However, we may ask that you provide information at various times and locations through the website. For example, if you intend to submit a request on the ‘Contact Us’ page or ‘Careers’ page you will be asked to provide information such as your name, telephone number and email address.
Protecting Personal Information
HOL has appropriate technical and organizational measures in place designed to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. You should keep in mind, however, that no internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free. In particular, email sent to or from this website may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Moreover, where you use passwords or other special access features on this website, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.
How We Use Personal Information
The information collected by and through this website may be used by HOL and other entities that are involved in the operation of this website for HOL’s purposes or that of its clients, partners, collaborators etc. We will use Personal Information only for the purpose for which it was provided, as well as other purposes for which the user gives consent. This includes, but is not limited to, the following purposes:
Contact Forms and Site-Initiated Emails
If you decide to contact us by using the contact form or email addresses sourced from this website, we use the information you provide to get in contact with you and to answer your enquiries. In both cases, we are processing in anticipation of entering a contract, agreement of other service-related relationship with you or on grounds that it is necessary to do so for the purposes of our legitimate interest in developing our firm’s business.
Events
HOL holds legal, corporate and non-corporate events from time to time. If you register for one of our events, we use the information you provide to register you for the event and to provide you with information about the event. The legal basis for processing your information in relation to events is that it is necessary to do so for the purposes of our legitimate interest in developing our business. Kindly note that we may also share your Personal Information with other people that are attending the same event.
Careers
You can apply online for job openings and internships at HOL. The legal basis for processing your information in relation to an employment or internship application is that it is necessary for processing in anticipation of entering a contract or for the performance of a contract. In the online application form, we ask you to provide information about your education, employment history and skills (amongst other information). We only use this information in connection with your application process. Except as set forth in this policy, we do not share this information with anyone outside of HOL, except other companies that are engaged to assist us in determining the eligibility of the various applicants, as well as our human resources consultants.
Disclosing Personal Information to Third Parties
Any Personal Information that you provide to us will be used for our purposes only. Your information will not be shared with other individuals or other companies other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
In some instances, we may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, website developers, IT services providers, shipping or direct mail organizations, storage facilities, or parties assisting us in a recruitment process. Such third parties may be provided with access to your Personal Information to perform the functions for which they have been retained.
We may also disclose any information, including Personal Information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.
Duration of Personal Information Retention
Personal Information will only be stored as long as the information is required to fulfill our legitimate business needs or the purposes for which the information was collected.
Your Rights
HOL is committed to ensure that your information is kept accurate and up to date. Please assist us to comply with this obligation by ensuring that you inform us of any changes to your Personal Information. You have the right to request details of the information we hold about you, to withdraw your consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information, and to delete or rectify any inaccurate information about you. You have also the right to object to our use of your Personal Information or to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Revisions to This Privacy Policy
HOL reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time whereby relevant changes take effect for the future. Kindly check this Privacy Policy regularly before you submit additional personal information through this website.
We use cookies on this website
What are Cookies?
In the context of computers, cookies are small files that contain information about browsing activity. Whenever you visit a website, the website sends a cookie to the device you are using to visit the website. Your devise automatically stores the cookie in a file that is located within your web browser.
Whenever you revisit the site, the website will respond in a more personalized way, remembering your preferences providing faster page load time and so on.
Like most law firms, we use cookies to help improve our understanding of how you navigate through our site so we can identify improvements, remembering your browsing experience as well as to prevent and detect fraud, keeping you and your information secure.
Cookies Categories
By submitting Personal Information and other information to our website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of such information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as navigating between pages, cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies
We make use of analytic cookies to analyze how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide high quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of our website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our collaborating partners and law firms, our contractors etc.
Functionality and Profile Cookies
We make use of cookies to provide you with certain functionality. For example, to remember choices you made, such as your user name, language or the region/continent you are searching from, or to recognize the platform from which you accessed the site. This enables us to provide enhanced and more personal features. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.
Targeting Cookies
Targeting cookies or advertising cookies collect information about your browsing habits and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are used by services provided by third parties, such as Like or Share buttons.
Cookies policy does not cover third party websites
Kindly note that this Cookies Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third-party websites which may be linked to or accessible through our website.
Changes to the Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies policy and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies. This Cookies Policy was last updated in June 2021.
Consent
By using our website https://houseoflaws.com you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy. You will have seen a pop up to this effect on your first visit to this website. Although it will not usually appear on subsequent visits, you may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions set out below (Disabling Cookies). Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser while persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed (For example to remember your user preferences when you return to our website).
Disabling Cookies
If you do not agree to the use of these cookies, kindly disable them by following the instructions set out by your browser or use the automated disabling tool IF available. However, remember that some of the services will not function so well if cookies are disabled.