Privacy Policy

On this section of our website you will find further information on how we process your personal data. Like any law firm in Poland, we are committed to keeping your matters confidential. Your personal data (including the data of your opponents), separately from the details of your cases, are protected by the policy as set out in the following set of rules.

Select subjects:

I. Data Controller

II. Purposes, legal grounds and duration of processing of your data

III. Recipients of user data

IV. Rights of data subjects

V. Head of the Personal Data Protection Commissioner in Poland

VI. Data Protection Officer

VII. Legal acts referred to in the clause

VIII. Confidentiality in the Legal Services

IX. Service of documents

I. Data Controller

The administrator of your personal data of our website users is: Wesley Legal Law Firm, Advocates and Legal Advisors, Mirosław Dęmski, Igor Wierzbicki – Limited Partnership, registered in the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw, XII Commercial Division of the National Court Register.
The data controller can be contacted:

  1. at the correspondence address: Wesley Legal Law Firm – Wronia 45/175, 00-870 Warsaw (with a note: Personal Data Inspector);
  2. at the e-mail address: iod@wsalegal.pl

II. Purposes, legal grounds and duration of processing of your data

  1. Answering, settling the matter
    1. The content of correspondence and information about the contact are processed for the time necessary to settle the user’s case, no longer than for 3 months after settling the matter for archiving purposes if it is necessary to defend against possible claims against our company.
    2. We may, subject to your consent, post information about the fact that we have acted for you, on our website, for marketing purposes. Subject to your consent, we may also ask you to provide references, which we may also publish on our website.
  2. Claims
    1. If it is necessary to pursue claims or defend us in any claims made against us, the administrator may process personal data of specific users as defined in these regulations, and gathered by our online contact form, until the end of the ongoing proceedings and until the expiration of the limitation period, which is usually 3 years in accordance with Article 118 of the Polish Civil Code; in special other cases provided for by law, it may be longer.
    2. These data will then be processed in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the RODO regulations (GDPR), i.e. to protect our legitimate interest which may consist of pursuing the claims against the user or defending against claims. The legitimate interest of the administrator will then be our overriding goal, over the rights and freedoms of the recipient.
  3. Statistics on the use of services
    1. In order to improve the quality of our services, the we process statistical information regarding the use of the online contact form, and for this purpose uses statistical information provided by cookies or other similar technologies. Detailed information on the use of cookies by the administrator can be found in the cookie policy available here
    2. This information is processed in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the RODO (GDPR) in the legitimate interest of the controller, that is: the use of services, improving the quality and functionality of the services provided; the processing of this information does not violate the rights and freedoms of the service users.
    3. Information will be processed as part of the controller’s ongoing obligation under these rules, but no longer than for a period of 60 days from receipt of the information. After this time, the controller may process statistical data, which will anonymized and which will contain no further information allowing identification of individual service users.

III. Recipients of user data

Personal data contained in the online contact form are disclosed only to entities processing data for the administrator and on the basis of a written contract for keeping them confidential. Such information may be used by data providers of hosting or website operation services, IT services, marketing and Public Relations services.

IV. Rights of data subjects

  1. Each data subject [service user] will have the right to:
    1. access – obtaining confirmation from the administrator whether their personal data are being processed. If any information about you is processed, you are entitled to access this information and obtain following data from us: purposes of processing, categories of personal data, recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data have been or will be disclosed, about the period of data storage or about the criteria for determining them, about the right to request rectification, restrict processing of personal data, and to object to such processing (Article 15 of the RODO (GDPR);
    2. to receive a copy of the data – to obtain a copy of the data subject to processing, with the first copy being free of charge, and for subsequent copies the administrator may impose a reasonable fee, resulting from administrative costs (Article 15(3) of the RODO (GDPR);
    3. to rectify – request rectification of personal information concerning your person, which are incorrect, or completion of incomplete data (Article 16 of the GDPR);
    4. to delete data – request the deletion of their personal data, if the administrator no longer has a legal grounds for their processing or the data are no longer necessary for the purposes of processing (Article 17 of the RODO (GDPR);
    5. to limit processing – request to limit the processing of personal data (Article 18 of the RODO (GDPR), when:
    6. the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject [service user], for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the data,
    7. the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the data by requesting the restriction of their use,
    8. the controller no longer needs the data, but they are needed by the data subject [service user] for the formation, exercise or defending any legal claims,
    9. the data subject has objected to the processing – until it is determined whether the legitimate grounds on the part of the controller override the grounds for objection of the data subject;
    10. to transfer data – to receive in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format the personal data concerning him or her, which she has provided to the controller, and to request the transfer of these data to another controller, if the data are processed on the basis of the consent of the data subject or a contract concluded with him or her and if the data are processed in an automated manner (Article 20 of the GDPR);
    11. to object – to object to the processing of a personal data, for the legitimate purposes of the administrator, for reasons related to the special situation of the eservice user, including profiling. In such a case, the controller assesses the existence of valid legitimate grounds for processing, overriding interests, rights and freedoms of data subjects, or grounds for founding, pursuing or defending claims. If, according to the the controller’s assessment, the interests of the data subject outweigh the interests of the controller, the controller will be obliged to stop processing the data for these purposes (Article 21 of the RODO (GDPR);
    12. to withdraw [service user] consent at any time and without giving a reason, but the processing of personal data carried out before the withdrawal of consent will still remain lawful. Withdrawal of consent will result in the cessation of processing by the administrator of personal data for the purpose for which this consent was expressed.
  2. In order to exercise the above rights, the data subject shall contact the controller using the contact details provided in this form and inform him or her of which right and to what extent, he or she wishes to exercise.

V. Head of the Personal Data Protection Commissioner in Poland

The service user has the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, which in Poland is the Head of the Office for Personal Data Protection with its office in Warsaw, at Stawki 2 Street, who can be contacted:

  1. by post, by writting to: Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw;
  2. by email that can be found here: https://www.uodo.gov.pl/pl/p/kontakt;
  3. by phone: (22) 531 03 00.

VI. Data Protection Officer

In any case, the data subject may also contact the controller’s data protection officer directly:

  1. by e-mail at the following e-mail address: iod@wsalegal.pl;
  2. to our firm’s above correspondence address with the note on the envelope: Data Protection Officer.

VII. Legal acts referred to in the clause

  1. GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (Dz.Urz. EU L 2016 No 119, p. 1);
  2. Art. 118 et seq. of the Act of 23 April 1964 – Civil Code (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1025, as amended).

VIII. Confidentiality in the Legal Services

The information in this document and any electronic communications (e-mail) and any attachments you sent to us is confidential, subject to legal protection privilege at our home country (Poland) and abroad, and is intended always solely for the use of the designated addressee(s).

If an email or letter was sent to you by mistake or by a third party, we kindly inform you that you are not entitled to disclose, copy, distribute or store this message or any of its attachments.

If you have received any type of correspondence without being the addressee of it, please contact the person from whom you received it immediately and at our email address: info@wsalegal.com, so that we can take appropriate steps to prevent this in the future.

IX. Service of documents

We agree to the service of documents between the parties to the proceedings by e-mail or fax, but only if we expressly accept to it in writing. This rule also applies to all court documents.

In all other matters, please deliver the documentation to us by post, to our correspondence address: Wesley Legal -ul. Wronia 45/175, 00-870 Warsaw, Poland.

Version 3. Date of publication: 18 August 2022

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