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HarveyBloom Advocaten Privacy Statement

(2024 version)

This privacy statement explains how HarveyBloom Advocaten Coöperatie U.A. (HarveyBloom Advocaten) collects and processes personal data concerning its current and prospective clients and, where applicable, their family members; persons involved in legal proceedings or transactions in which HarveyBloom Advocaten acts as lawyer, mediator, special guardian or parenting coordinator; visitors to www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl; alumni and applicants; suppliers and their employees; third parties who communicate with HarveyBloom Advocaten; and persons seeking legal assistance. It also describes your rights concerning those data.

Personal data

Personal data means information that can directly or indirectly identify a natural person.

HarveyBloom Advocaten may process the following data about you:

  • Name;

  • Postal and/or email address;

  • Telephone number;

  • Other personal data you have provided to us for the handling of your case;

  • Personal data received from public online sources, such as business websites and social media platforms, including LinkedIn;

  • Personal data obtained from the Chamber of Commerce's Commercial Register or the Land Registry;

  • Other personal data we have obtained in the course of providing our services;

  • Data relating to your device, such as an IP address;

  • Communication preferences;

  • Information obtained through cookies.

HarveyBloom Advocaten collects your personal data in the following ways:

  • When you provide those personal data to HarveyBloom Advocaten, including through www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl; or

  • When you contact us to request information about HarveyBloom Advocaten's services; or

  • When you use HarveyBloom Advocaten's services; or

  • When the data are generated through your use of HarveyBloom Advocaten's services or website, including through cookies; or

  • From third parties, such as family members, opposing parties, courts and recruitment agencies.

If you are required to provide certain data, HarveyBloom Advocaten will inform you of the possible consequences of not providing them. You are never obliged to provide personal data. If you refuse to provide personal data, HarveyBloom Advocaten may be unable to provide its services to you.

Purposes and legal bases for processing personal data

HarveyBloom Advocaten processes your personal data on a legal basis under the General Data Protection Regulation:

a. Your consent;

b. Performance of an agreement with you;

c. Compliance with a legal obligation;

d. Performance of a task carried out in the public interest;

e. The legitimate interests of HarveyBloom Advocaten or a third party.

HarveyBloom Advocaten processes personal data in pursuit of our legitimate interests. These include providing services, IT management and security, sharing data with third parties involved in providing HarveyBloom Advocaten's services to you, research into its own services, marketing and advertising.

HarveyBloom Advocaten processes personal data for the following purposes, on the legal bases stated:

  • Purpose: Providing its services, including legal services by its lawyers, mediators, special guardian or parenting coordinator, advice, mediation, referral and conducting legal proceedings.
    Legal basis: Performance of the agreement or engagement, legitimate interests and/or consent.

  • Purpose: Improving its services.
    Legal basis: Performance of the agreement or engagement and legitimate interests.

  • Purpose: Establishing and maintaining a client relationship with you, for example by sending informative messages about HarveyBloom Advocaten's services or responding to your questions and requests.
    Legal basis: Performance of the agreement or engagement, legitimate interests and/or consent.

  • Purpose: Issuing and collecting payment of its invoices.
    Legal basis: Performance of the agreement or engagement, legitimate interests and/or consent.

  • Purpose: Meeting our legal obligations, such as record retention obligations and obligations under the Dutch Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Wwft).
    Legal basis: Compliance with a legal obligation and legitimate interests.

  • Purpose: Ensuring security, including the security of IT systems, and including data collected through audio, visual data or images.
    Legal basis: Legitimate interests.

  • Purpose: Resolving disputes, including disputes with you.
    Legal basis: Legitimate interests.

  • Purpose: Recruiting personnel, processing applications received through www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl or otherwise, and screening applicants where necessary.
    Legal basis: Legitimate interests.

Minors

In some cases, HarveyBloom Advocaten requests consent to use certain personal data. If you are under 16, HarveyBloom Advocaten requires the consent of your parent or guardian in those cases for personal data to be provided to HarveyBloom Advocaten. The parent or guardian may also amend or delete the data provided to HarveyBloom Advocaten at any time.

Parties with access to personal data

In principle, HarveyBloom Advocaten will not disclose personal data to other parties, but it may do so if:

  • This is necessary in the course of providing HarveyBloom Advocaten's services, for example in legal proceedings;

  • The personal data are disclosed to processors engaged by HarveyBloom Advocaten with whom a data processing agreement has been concluded, or to independent controllers, such as IT and hosting providers, other service providers, external advisers or experts, accountants or lawyers; or

  • HarveyBloom Advocaten is required by a legal obligation to disclose personal data to competent bodies, such as supervisory bodies or other public authorities.

  • Personal data will be disclosed to the above parties only for the purposes set out in this privacy statement and insofar as this is permitted under this privacy statement and applicable laws and regulations, or where HarveyBloom Advocaten has a legal obligation to disclose personal data to a competent body. Third parties to whom personal data are disclosed are themselves responsible for compliance with privacy legislation. HarveyBloom Advocaten is neither responsible nor liable for those third parties' processing of your personal data.

Data outside the European Union

To provide our services, HarveyBloom Advocaten may need to transfer your personal data to a recipient in a country outside the European Union. In that case, HarveyBloom Advocaten ensures that such transfers comply with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Cookies or similar technologies

HarveyBloom Advocaten uses so-called cookies. In accordance with your stated preferences, these cookies automatically collect certain data about the history of your activities on www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl. Personal data may therefore be collected while you use www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl. HarveyBloom Advocaten may combine these data with other data about your device, such as an IP address. Where your consent is required, HarveyBloom Advocaten will request it in advance.

HarveyBloom Advocaten uses Google Analytics to gain insight into matters including visitor traffic, traffic sources and page views on www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl. This means Google acts as a processor in HarveyBloom Advocaten's processing of personal data. HarveyBloom Advocaten has therefore concluded a data processing agreement with Google.

Information collected through Google Analytics is anonymised as far as possible. Google will never process your full IP address, and the last octet of your IP address is masked. Data sharing is also disabled, and no other Google services are used in combination with Google Analytics cookies.

The information obtained is stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google participates in the EU–US Privacy Shield agreement of the US Department of Commerce. Google may disclose your information to third parties only if legally required to do so or insofar as those third parties process the information on Google's behalf. For more information, please read Google's Privacy Policy.

The website www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl includes links for promoting or sharing web pages on social media networks or third-party websites, such as LinkedIn. HarveyBloom Advocaten does not supervise and is not responsible for the processing of your personal data by or through those third parties. Use of those media is at your own risk. Before using those third-party services, you are advised to read their privacy statements.

Security of personal data

HarveyBloom Advocaten has taken appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss or unlawful processing. Persons working at HarveyBloom Advocaten are also bound by confidentiality.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, correct and erase your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

You may request that HarveyBloom Advocaten restrict processing and provide data portability. The latter means that you have the right to receive the personal data HarveyBloom Advocaten holds about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, where applicable, to have HarveyBloom Advocaten transmit those data to another controller.

If you have consented to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have questions about this privacy statement, you can contact HarveyBloom Advocaten at info@harveybloomadvocaten.nl or Zuid Hollandlaan 7, 2596 AL The Hague.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority at https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/.

Retention period

HarveyBloom Advocaten retains your personal data no longer than strictly necessary for the purpose for which they were collected. Statutory retention periods are applied. Personal data collected and processed in the course of an engagement agreement are retained by HarveyBloom Advocaten for seven years after the end of the provision of services to you, unless HarveyBloom Advocaten is required by law to retain personal data for longer.

Changes to this privacy statement

HarveyBloom Advocaten reserves the right to amend this privacy statement. HarveyBloom Advocaten will announce such changes in accordance with the law. Each amendment will be published on this page, and a clear notice will appear on www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl. HarveyBloom Advocaten therefore advises you to check this page regularly for changes.

If you continue to use www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl once the changes take effect, this means that you accept the changes. If you do not agree to them, you must stop using www.harveybloomadvocaten.nl.

The current privacy statement was last updated on 9 January 2024.

Contact

For questions or comments about this privacy statement and/or the processing of personal data, you can contact HarveyBloom Advocaten at:

Zuid Hollandlaan 7
2596 AL The Hague
Telephone: +31 (0)88 210 22 90
Email: info@harveybloomadvocaten.nl

Translated from the Dutch version.

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