The person responsible for processing your personal data is Angelozzi Lachat Avocats, 36 rue de Montchoisy, 1207 Geneva, Switzerland. References in this Privacy Policy (the Policy) to “Angelozzi Lachat”, “we” or “us” are references to Angelozzi Lachat Avocats.

The personal data we process about you includes:

• your name and contact details (for example, name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), information about the company you work for, your position or title and your relationship with a person, as well as other basic information;
• identification and general information provided by you or collected as part of our on-boarding process;
• financial information, such as payment information;
• information provided to us by or on behalf of our customers or generated by us in the course of providing services to our customers;
• information provided to us for the purposes of participation in meetings, seminars and events;
• information relating to materials and communications we send to you electronically, for example your use of marketing e-mails;
• any other information about you that you may provide to us.

We collect this information when you interact with us, for example when you communicate with our staff, when you register to receive information by e-mail, or when you attend a meeting, seminar or other event. We also collect or generate personal data in the course of providing legal services, and we may collect personal data from other sources, for example to keep your information up to date using publicly available sources.

We process your personal data in order to:

• communicate with you;
• to carry out anti-money laundering, conflict of interest and reputation checks;
• to provide and improve our services to you and our customers, including the personal data of other individuals provided to us or collected by us on behalf of our customers, for example by processing identification and general information as part of our on-boarding, finance, administration and marketing processes;
• to administer our relationship with you and our customers;
• operate and improve our websites, including monitoring and evaluating their use (see below for more information);
• to promote our services, including by sending publications, alerts, updates, invitations to events, etc;
• to comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

We process personal data for these purposes on the following basis: to the extent necessary for the performance of a contract, such as interacting with an individual to provide legal or other services; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or proceedings; to comply with legal and regulatory obligations; for legitimate interests, including the interests set out above; and/or on the basis of consent.

We automatically collect and store, for a limited time, log and device data when you access and use our website. This information includes, among other things, details of how you use our website, IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information, device information and similar information. We process this data on the basis that it is necessary for the operation, maintenance and improvement of our websites.

Our websites use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, USA, which tracks and provides information about how our websites are used. Google Analytics does this by placing small text files called “cookies” on your computer or other device. Cookies collect information about the number of visitors to the websites, the pages visited and the time spent on the websites. This information is aggregated and not personally identifiable. This Google Analytics integration generally anonymizes IP addresses by shortening them within the EU/EEA. Google is registered under the Swiss-US and EU-US Privacy Shield domain names.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note, however, that this may affect your experience of our websites.

We may use your name and e-mail address to send you publications, alerts, updates, event invitations and other information by e-mail, but we will first ask for your consent unless we have obtained your details as part of our services and you have not unsubscribed from receiving such marketing communications. If you receive marketing communications from us and no longer wish to receive them, you can unsubscribe at any time by following the link included in such e-mails. Please note that we use personal data to understand whether you read our e-mails or click on the links they contain.

We may share your personal data with trusted third parties, including:

• suppliers to whom we delegate certain support services, such as translations or document review;
• IT service providers;
• third parties involved in the services we provide to clients, with their prior consent, for example other law firms and providers of technological services such as data room services;
• our auditors;
• third parties involved in hosting or organizing events or seminars.

For the purposes set out in this Charter and where necessary, we may share personal data with courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, government agencies and law enforcement agencies. We may also need to disclose your personal data in order to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

We may transfer your personal data to recipients abroad, including countries which do not offer the same level of protection as Swiss law. We generally do so on the basis that such a transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject(s), for a contract or for the performance of a contract concluded in the interest of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. We retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which the data is collected and for as long as we have a legitimate interest in retaining the personal data, for example to assert or defend claims or for archiving and IT security purposes. We also retain your personal data for as long as it is subject to a legal retention obligation.

You have the right to request details of the personal data we hold about you and how we process it, and to receive a copy of your personal data. You also have the right to have your data rectified or deleted, to restrict the processing of such information and to object to the processing of your personal data. You may also choose to withdraw your consent. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent, we may be able to continue processing your personal data to the extent required or permitted by law. You may also lodge a complaint about the processing of your personal data with a local supervisory authority, in Switzerland with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.