Privacy Policy               

In accordance with Article 13 paragraphs 1 and 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (OJ EU No. 119, p. 1; hereinafter referred to as GDPR), We hereby inform you that:

The administrator of your personal data is PRW Legal Wiącek i Wspólnicy sp. k. with its registered office at Adama Branickiego 11/32, 02-972 Warsaw, entered into the register of entrepreneurs maintained by the District Court for the capital city of Warsaw in Warsaw, 13th Commercial Division of the National Court Register under the KRS number 0000933482, with the Tax Identification Number (NIP) 9512530125 and the National Business Registry Number (REGON) 520510833, hereinafter referred to as the “Controller” or “Law Firm”:

In matters relating to the protection of personal data, you can contact the Administrator:

  • by correspondence; correspondence address:  Adama Branickiego 11/32, 02-972 Warsaw, Poland
  • by mail: prwlegal@prwlegal.pl ,
  • by phone at + 48 22 651 86 30,
  • personally at the Administrator’s office – Adama Branickiego 11/32, 02-972 Warsaw, after prior arrangement of a meeting by phone or email.

We process your personal data that we receive from you:

  • • in connection with the agreements concluded with the Law Firm and your use of the legal services provided by the Law Firm,
  • • during contact a member of the Law Firm’s team, including via the contact form available on the website prwlegal.pl,
  • from public records.

We only process personal data that is necessary to achieve the following purposes:

  • taking steps to agree with the Law Firm, the subject of which will be the provision of legal services by the Law Firm; making a valuation of services by the Law Firm; concluding and performing an agreement between you and the Law Firm; providing legal services by the Law Firm to you; legal basis: Article 6, paragraph 1, letter b) of the GDPR,
  • contacting you to provide legal services covered by the agreement with the Law Firm, including providing legal advice – in particular by telephone or e-mail; legal basis: Article 6, paragraph 1, letter f) of the GDPR; legally justified purpose: communication with the Client; informing the Client about activities related to the provision of the service,
  • creating, storing, and archiving: contracts, invoices, and other settlement documents; maintaining, storing, and archiving: accounting books and tax documentation; as well as fulfilling the obligations incumbent on the Law Firm resulting from the provisions of tax law; legal basis: 6 sec. 1 letter c) of the GDPR,
  • providing answers to your questions, comments, and other statements included by you in the contact form on the website prwlegal.pl; legal basis: Article 6 section 1 letter f) of the GDPR; legitimate purpose: communication with Clients and other persons using the contact form on the website prwlegal.pl,
  • archiving of requests for proposals; legal basis: Article 6, section 1, letter f) of the GDPR; legally justified purpose: enabling you to agree with the Law Firm in the future,
  • pursuing possible claims and defending against possible claims; legal basis: art. 6 sec. 1 letter f) of the GDPR; legitimate purpose: debt collection, as well as conducting proceedings: court, amicable, mediation, and enforcement to pursue claims or defend against claims,
  • creating registers and records related to the GDPR; legal basis: Article 6, paragraph 1, letter c) of the GDPR,
  • conducting the recruitment process, if you are taking part in the recruitment process for a job position in the Law Firm; legal basis: Article 6 paragraph 1 letter c) of the GDPR in connection with Article 221 of the Act of 26 June 1974, the Labor Code (consolidated text: Journal of Laws of 2022, item 1510; hereinafter referred to as the Labor Code) and Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR in connection with Article 221a of the Labor Code in the case of personal data other than those listed in Article 221 § 1 of the Labor Code (i.e. other than data such as first name(s) and last name; date of birth; contact details; education; professional qualifications; course of previous employment).

We care about the confidentiality of your personal data. However, due to the need to ensure the appropriate organization of the Law Firm’s activities, including the efficient, correct, and full performance of the services provided by the Office to you, personal data may be shared:

  • employees and associates of the Law Firm who perform work on our behalf as part of the Law Firm’s activities, in particular, for other attorneys and legal advisers obliged to maintain attorney-client privilege, including defense counsel privilege,
  • courts, including arbitration courts; public administration bodies; and mediators – in connection with the provision of legal services to you by the Law Firm,
  • courts and public administration bodies at their request based on a justified legal basis (excluding data covered by attorney-client privilege and legal counsel privilege, as well as professional tax advisor privilege – unless you or an authorized body release the Law Firm from maintaining professional secrecy in a given scope; however, depending on the circumstances of a given case, the Law Firm reserves the right not to disclose personal data covered by professional secrecy also if you or an authorized body grants a waiver),
  • entities supporting the activities of the Law Firm and service providers to the Law Firm (excluding data covered by attorney-client privilege, including defense counsel privilege, as well as tax advisor professional privilege), such as:
  • service providers providing the Administrator with technical and organizational solutions, including those providing the following services: IT, payment, e-mail hosting, courier and postal companies,
  • the insurance company insuring the Law Firm (if an insured event occurs that requires compensation for damage caused in connection with the provision of services by the Law Firm to you),
  • persons authorized by You,
  • public administration bodies or other entities authorized under the provisions of law, to fulfill the obligations incumbent on the Administrator, e.g. as the Tax Office, local government bodies
  • other entities authorized under the law.

The Administrator shall make your personal data available to these entities only if the purpose referred to above exists and only to the extent necessary to achieve this purpose or only when there is a legal obligation to make the data available to a specific entity.

Providing your personal data required by the Administrator is voluntary, but is a condition for the provision of services by the Law Firm to you, including the conclusion and performance of an agreement between you and the Law Firm.

You have the right to access the content of your data and to: rectify, delete, or limit processing, the right to object to processing, and the right to transfer data. In the case of personal data processing based on Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR (i.e. processed solely based on your consent), you have the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. However, you do not have the right to object if the Law Firm obtained the personal data to which the objection relates in connection with the provision of legal assistance. In addition, the Law Firm may refuse you the right to: access the content of data and limit the processing of data if the exercise of these rights would involve a breach of the obligation to maintain attorney-client privilege by the Law Firm or professional lawyers cooperating with the Law Firm.

The Law Firm stores your personal data processed as part of the profession of attorney, legal adviser, or tax advisor for 10 years from the end of the year in which the proceedings in which the personal data were collected ended. In the case of personal data processed for purposes other than those indicated above, your personal data will be stored by the Law Firm until the expiry of the obligations to store them resulting from generally applicable provisions of law, in particular the obligation to store data for tax and accounting purposes.

Your personal data of the Principal will not be transferred to a third country within the meaning of the GDPR. If the Law Firm uses services and technologies offered by entities based outside the European Union (such as Microsoft or Google), through which data will be transferred to a third country within the meaning of the GDPR, the Law Firm ensures that when using such services or technologies, it will transfer your personal data only to entities based in the USA that have joined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework program. The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework program obliges entities processing personal data to comply with the high standards of personal data protection that apply in the European Union. More information about the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework program can be found at:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_23_3752

Your personal data will not be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.

You have the right to complain to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (PUODO) in connection with the processing of your personal data by the Law Firm.

There is no obligation to register to use our website. If you are merely visiting our website, we do not collect any personal information about you, except for the so-called “cookies” and “web beacons” referred to below.

To ensure the proper management of this website, PRW Legal or its Internet service providers may use so-called “cookies” (small text files stored in your Internet browser) or “web beacons” (electronic images that allow users to be counted as visitors to certain Internet pages and enable access to certain “cookies”) to collect aggregate data. Neither “cookies” nor “web beacons” collect personal data.

PRW Legal or internet service providers may use web beacons to monitor the effectiveness of websites of other entities that provide us with recruitment or marketing services. Web beacons are also used to collect aggregate statistics about visits to the Service’s web pages and to manage cookies.

The user of this website can decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Internet browser options allow them to be configured in such a way that the user is informed about the installation of cookies. Browsers can also automatically reject these files. Failure to accept cookies may prevent the use of some elements of our website or its entirety.

We require that people taking part in the recruitment process for a job position express their consent to the processing of their personal data, by the information contained in the “Career” section. We collect only the data that is necessary to conduct the recruitment process, such as name and surname; date of birth; contact details; education; professional qualifications, and previous employment history.