Privacy Policy

Last update: 1 March 2023

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we process your personal data, as well as to set your rights related to the processing of your personal data by us.
This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site https://algl.legal (“Site”) and to understand how your personal data may be processed by us. Please take a moment to read it carefully.

1. General Information

The controller of personal data is ALG Legal Limited Liability Company (ALG Legal Sp.o.o.) (“we”, “us”, “our”) with its seat in Warsaw (02-672) at 17/19 Domaniewska str., office 133.

Personal data collected by us are processed in accordance with the rules set out in the personal data protection regulations, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 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) (“GDPR”) and Polish regulations issued on the basis of the GDPR, including the Act on Personal Data Protection dated May 10, 2018.

We keep the personal data confidential and secure them against unauthorized access by third parties in accordance with the rules set out in the legal acts mentioned above.

2. Why do we collect your personal data
We may collect personal information from you, including through your use of our Site or when you contact us by phone or email or request information from us by completing the contact form on our Site.

Our goals in collecting personal data from you is to:
  • carry out requests made by you on the site, by phone or email or in other way in relation to our services;
  • provide materials that are useful to you;
  • improve, develop and market our services;
  • comply with any applicable law or the requirements of a regulator;
  • use as otherwise required or permitted by law.

3. How do we use your personal data
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Responding to your inquiries
We allow you to request information about our services including contact form on our Site,phone or email enquiry or contact us in another way. In order to understand and respond to your request, we may ask for contact details together with other information and personal data that are relevant to your issue in each case (including your name, name of your company, email, phone and other information provided by you).

We use the information received from you and contact you only if you have consented to this (art. 6 (1a) GDPR).

As our Site is made on Tilda (website creation platform of Tilda Publishing Ltd., Republic of Ireland), your personal data is collected using the functionality provided to us by the platform. However, Tilda does not process the personal data we collect on the Site and only provides the computing power we use to collect your personal data.

We retain your personal data for at least one year after the year in which you requested information about our services.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@algl.legal giving your name and email address.

  • Marketing Activity
We carry out the email marketing activity using your personal data (email). We send younewsletters and other messages to keep you informed of market insights, legal developments and of our services and events.

We only send you marketing emails where you have consented to receive such emails (art. 6 (1a) GDPR).
For indicated purpose we use Mailchimp (email marketing service of Rocket Science Group, USA, GA). Here you can read more about the actions taken by Mailchimp for protection of your privacy.
We retain your personal data for at least five years, after the year in which you have providedyour email to receive materials from us.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email you receive from us or contacting us at info@algl.legal giving your name and email address.

  • Site monitoring (Use of cookies)
Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. For more information, please see the following section of this Privacy Policy.

4.Use of cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that websites you visit ask your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, your preferences (such as your language of choice) or your device information, when you return to it. In the majority of cases it does not allow us to identify you, but it can offer you a better user experience when visiting websites (including our).

We analyse information that we observe about you from your interactions with our Site to check our Site is being used appropriately, and to optimise its functionality.

The following types of cookies are processed on the Site:

- Strictly necessary
These cookies enable the correct operation of our Site, ensure its security and make the Site usable, including enabling users to visit and navigate the Site. Our Site cannot function properly without these cookies.

- Statistical
By using these cookies, we are able to understand how you interact with our Site, to measure the effectiveness of the content on our Site. This allows us to learn what pages of our Site are more and less interesting and to improve our Site and its content.

Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent. For statistical cookies, we request your consent before placing them on your device. You can give your consent by clicking on the appropriate button on the cookie banner displayed to you.

If you do not wish to give consent or wish to withdraw your consent to statistical cookies at any time, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings. Please see below for more information on how to do this.

We use the Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrica services to collect and analyse aggregatedinformation about the use of our Site. More information on how these services collect and process data is available here and here.

For additional information about cookies, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.

Managing cookies
To manage the cookie settings, choose your web browser from the list below and follow the instructions:

5. Your rights as data subject
You have the following rights concerning your personal data collected and processed by us:

  • Right of access
You are entitled to ask us if we are processing your data and, if we are, you can request access to your personal data. If necessary, we provide you with a copy of your personal data and certain other information about it.

  • Right to rectification
You are entitled to request that any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold about you is rectified.

  • Right to object
You have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data where we base this processing on a legitimate interest or perform it for direct marketing purposes.

  • Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
You are entitled to ask us to delete or remove your personal data in some circumstances such as where we no longer need it or if you withdraw your consent (where applicable).

  • Right to restrict processing
You have the right to demand us to suspend the processing of certain of your personal data about you after verification that the collection of your data is not proportional to the purpose of the processing.

  • Right to data portability
You have the right, in certain circumstances, to retrieve your personal data in an open and machine-readable format.

  • Right to withdraw consent
Where the legal basis for processing is the consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of the personal data at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on the consent prior to withdrawal.

  • Right to lodge a complaint
If you have a concern about any aspect of our privacy practices, including the way we've handled your personal data, you can report it to the relevant data protection supervisory authority.

Please be aware that some of these rights may be limited where we have an overriding interest or legal obligation to continue to process the data.

To exercise these rights you may contact us by email: info@algl.legal.

6. Changing of the Privacy Policy
We may make changes to our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change anything important about this Privacy Policy we will notify you by email or highlight those changes at the top of this page. However, we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we use your personal data.

7. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the use of your personal data or want to exercise your rights set out in this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an email to info@algl.legal.