PRIVACY POLICY
We may collect data from you (User Data) in various ways:
- by our use of cookies
- during the course of your use of this website (including, without limitation, all material you send or upload to this website or to an e-mail address given on this website (Your Material); and
- when we request further information from you from time to time following on from any contact you have made with us through this website.
Some of it will inevitably comprise personal data about you. This Privacy Policy describes how we fulfil our obligations under applicable data protection laws. This Privacy Policy is in accordance with the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the respective Cypriot legislation implementing the Directive.
The data collected by our servers and/or through cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information may not be kept for longer than one year.
Navigation data about site viewers is automatically collected by our servers. If you do not wish to have this navigation data collected, we recommend that you do not use this website.
You can also set your browser to block the recording of cookies on your hard drive to minimise the amount of data that may be collected about your navigating on this site. The browser on your computer can be set to notify you when a cookie is being recorded on your computer’s hard drive. Most browsers can also be set to keep cookies from being recorded on your computer. However, for optimal use of this website, we recommend that you do not block the recording of cookies on your computer.
All of our servers and computer systems are protected from outside intrusions. As a result, all data that may be collected about site viewers through the use of cookies will be protected from unauthorised access.
Cookies used on this site are only active for the duration of your visit. Cookies used on this site are not stored on your computer once you have closed your web browser. Information generated by the use of cookies may be compiled into an aggregate form so that no individual can be identified.
We may at some stage use cookies to identify users when they visit this website to use personalised services. In such circumstances these cookies may be kept on the hard drive of your computer following closure of the web browser. Cookies used in connection with such services enable us to build up a profile of our users and to develop personalised versions of this website.
You may choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your web browser to refuse cookies. The procedure for refusal of cookies may vary for different software products. Please check with your internet browser software help or your software supplier if you wish to refuse cookies.
Privacy of Electronic Communications
Although we welcome your queries, please note that any electronic communication through this website between you and us (or any of our lawyers, other employees or agents) may not be secure and, unless you are already a client, will not be treated as privileged or confidential. For this reason, please do not send us any email that contains confidential or sensitive information.
Our use of User Data
We will use User Data we collect from you only for the following purposes:
- To provide this website to you
- We will use User Data to provide and improve this website to enable us to deal with any queries you have about this website and to notify you of any changes to this website.
- To include User Data in anonymous statistics
- We may provide anonymous statistics about our users and related usage information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will not enable any third party to identify individuals or individual businesses.
- To provide you with information you have requested
- We will use User Data to provide you with information you have requested through this website.
If you have already registered to receive marketing materials from us in paper and/or electronic form, we may use your data in order to send you in electronic and/or paper form marketing and other materials relating to Allen & Overy, its products and/or services.
If you are not already registered to receive marketing information from us in paper and/or electronic form and wish to receive such information please click e-mail us.You may withdraw your consent to the receipt of marketing materials at any time and free of charge by sending an e-mail to us.
Any legal entity referred to on this website may at some stage re-organise or transfer all or part of its business. This may result in the transfer of your data to new entities or third parties through which the whole or part of the business of such presently existing entities will be carried out.
Consent
By continuing to use this website and by providing any personal data (including sensitive personal data) to us via this website or e-mail addresses provided on this website, you are consenting to our use of your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be used by us in this manner.
The Internet is a global environment. In order to provide this website we may need to transfer User Data to locations outside the jurisdiction in which you are viewing this website (the User Jurisdiction) and process User Data outside the User Jurisdiction. If the User Jurisdiction is within the European Economic Area (the EEA) please note that such transfers and processing of User Data may be in locations outside the EEA. Any data sent or uploaded by you may be accessible in jurisdictions outside the User Jurisdiction (including outside the EEA). The level of data protection offered in such jurisdictions may be less than that offered within the User Jurisdiction or (as the case may be) within the EEA.
User Data may be controlled and processed by any of our offices, some of which are outside the EEA. The location of our offices may change from time to time and we may acquire offices in any number of countries or territories at any time, any one or more of which may act as controllers of and/or process User Data.
By continuing to use this website and by providing any personal data (including sensitive personal data) to us via this website or e-mail addresses provided on this website, you are consenting to such transfers, provided that they are in accordance with the purposes set out above and elsewhere in the Legal Notices. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not consent to the transfer of this information to locations outside the User Jurisdiction (including, if applicable, outside the EEA).
While it is unlikely, we may be required to disclose your User Data by a court order or to comply with other legal or regulatory requirements. We will use reasonable endeavours to notify you before we do so, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.
We will not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make User Data commercially available to any third party, except as described above, or except with your prior permission.
You are entitled to a copy of your User Data and to have them rectified or deleted as required by applicable data protection legislation. For more information please send an email to us.
This Privacy Policy and/or other Legal Notices on this website may be amended by us at any time. Please check this website periodically to inform yourself of any changes.