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PRIVACY STATEMENT
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services, Maria Romano/Tuscany Real Estate Law, including its affiliated partnerships, (collectively, the firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel. The Firm is committed to privacy and confidentiality. This Privacy Policy describes information the Firm receives from inquiries received through the Firm’s website. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to maria.romano@tuscanyrealestatelaw.com
This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (the “Statement”) is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to the countries in which we operate. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Statement is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Statement is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites, our apps, our social media sites, our extranets, as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or users of Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries
to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services
to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
to conduct our recruiting and selection process
to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you.
Examples of scenarios where our visitors provide their personal information include, but may not be limited to:
Emailing, calling, or communicating with the lawyer or law firm.
Posting a question or comment through the site.
Requesting literature, ebooks, and tools.
Registering to attend a seminar or any event.
Participating in an online survey.
Requesting inclusion in an email or other mailing list.
Submitting an entry for a contest or other promotions.
Any other business-related reason.
The lawyer or law firm provides you the opportunity to agree or decline to give your personal information via the Internet. The lawyer or firm will inform you of the purpose for the collection and does not intend to transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent.
It is the Firm’s policy to respect the privacy of its clients. YOU ARE NOT A CLIENT AND AN ATTORNEY CLIENT RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT EXIST JUST BY SUBMITTING AN INQUIRY UNTIL YOU ARE ENGAGED AND EXECUTE A RESPRESENTATION AGREEMENT FOR YOUR PARTICULAR MATTER. Except as described above, under no circumstances will the Firm disclose information provided by you to any individual, advertiser, vendor, or any other entity without your consent (the most common being with Buyer Lenders and Realtors who you have consented for our office to communicate).
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work. We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.
Do Not Track Signals
“Do Not Track” signals are options available on your browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity tracked. Our websites operate no differently if these “Do Not Track” signals are enabled or disabled. Our Internet Services do not allow any third parties to collect Personal Information about your online activities over time or across websites for their own purposes.
Children
In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Statement, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
Links to Other Sites
This site may contain links to other websites. The Firm is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it links.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The lawyer or firm reserves the right to change, modify or update this policy at any time without notice. Any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information will be posted on this site.
DATA PROTECTION INFORMATIVE LAW
Informative note under art. 13 European regulation 679/2016
Pursuant to the art. 13 of the European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”), and in relation to the personal data that Maria Romano/Tuscany Real Estate Law will acquire as a consequence of the activities that you request, we inform you as follows:
Personal Data Protection:
Owner and Responsible Subject
Maria Romano (VAT 02420410512) is the owner for data processing (hereinafter “lawyer”) domiciled in Via dei Serragli n. 8, Firenze, 50124 Italy. The Owner can be contacted through the certified mail (in Italian “PEC”) listed on the directory of the Firenze Bar Association website. Maria Romano/Tuscany Real Estate Law is not required to appoint and has not appointed a subject qualifying as “Data Protection Responsible Subject” (or “RPD” or “Data Protection Officer”, or “DPO”).
Data Processing Purpose
The personal data processing activity has the goal to allow the correct and complete fulfillment of the requested activities and professional engagements, both in court and out of court. Your data will also be processed in order to:
- fulfill the obligations in compliance with tax and accounting rules;
- fulfill the obligations upon the lawyer and required by the current legislation.
The processing of personal data is carried out through manual and technological means (including handheld device) and processed with methods strictly necessary to meet the aforementioned purposes.
Legal basis for the processing
The law firm manages/treats your personal data lawfully, where the processing:
- it is necessary for the execution of the assignment or for a contract of which you are part or for the execution of pre-contractual measures adopted upon your request;
- it is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation on the lawyer;
- it is based on the express approval such as, for example, to send a newsletter by Maria Romano/Tuscany Real Estate Law.
Implications from not providing personal data
With respect to personal data concerning the fulfilment of a contract you are a part of or concerning the fulfillment of a regulatory requirement (for example the obligations related to book keeping, accounting and tax records), the failure to provide personal data represents an obstacle to successfully create a contract.
Data keeping
Your personal data, subject to processing activities for the purposes indicated above, will be kept for the duration of the contract and, afterwards, for the period of time the lawyer is subject to obligations for tax or other purposes required by laws or regulations.
Data communication
Your personal data may be communicated to third parties such as the following ones:
- consultants and accountants or other lawyers who provide activities instrumental to the purposes indicated above;
- banking and insurance institutions that provide activities instrumental to the purposes indicated above;
- persons that process the data in compliance with specific obligations as per the law;
- Judicial or administrative authorities, for the fulfillment of obligations as per the law;
Data profiling and distribution
Your personal data are not subject to distribution, disclosure, nor to any fully automated processing, including profiling.
Rights of the concerned
Among the rights that you are entitled to as per the GDPR there is also the right to:
- ask the lawyer for access to your personal data and information relating to it; the amendment of inaccurate data or the integration of incomplete data; the cancellation of personal data concerning you (upon the occurrence of one of the conditions indicated in the GDPR, art. 17, paragraph 1, and in compliance with the exceptions provided in paragraph 3 of the same article); the restrictions of the processing of your personal data (in the event of one of the cases indicated in the GDPR, article 18, paragraph 1);
- request and obtain from the lawyer – in the events where the legal basis for the processing is the contract or the approval, and the same is carried out by automated means – your personal data in a structured and automated device-readable format, also for the purpose to communicate such data to another data owner (so called personal data portability right);
- oppose the processing of your personal data at any time in the event of particular situations that concern you;
- withdraw the approval at any time, limited to cases where the processing is based on your approval for one or more specific purposes and concerns ordinary personal data (for example, date and place of birth or place of residence), or particular categories of data (for example data revealing your racial origin, your political opinions, your religious beliefs, your health or sexual orientation). The processing activities based on the approval and carried out prior to the withdraw preserves, however, remain lawful;
- file a complaint with a supervisory authority (Data Protection Authority – garanteprivacy.it).
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