Privacy Policy
ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients worldwide,
Zamakhchary & Co. (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.
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. If you do not want to
receive publications or details of events or seminars that we consider may be
of interest to you, you may do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in
electronic marketing communications - to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional
obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering
requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for the firm to carry
out its anti-money laundering checks failure to provide such information
may result in the firm not being able to provide the representation.
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,
including, where applicable, European Union’s data protection laws and
regulations.
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.
Cookie Policy
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your
web browser. Cookies can be usefully divided into two different types, session and
persistent. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies primarily in that session
cookies are temporary and expire and are normally deleted when you close your
browser. Persistent cookies, in contrast, remain stored on your computer after you
close your browser until they are deleted either because they expire or you delete
them. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services,
except for Internet Services that require you to log in, such as our client extranets,
and a Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed
to the correct version of our website.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as
web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet. For example, the firm uses
cookies in conjunction with web beacons, which are small sections of code that we
may place in our Internet Services to understand the number of unique users that
have visited a specific page. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from
tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. These
tracking scripts are not used to gather information on your use of the Internet
unrelated to the firm, and they do not identify you unless you choose to provide
Personal Information to the firm.
The firm’s Internet Services use cookies. The firm uses session cookies in
connection with its Internet Services, specifically for cybersecurity purposes, to
provide you with customizations of your experience, such as highlighting your
recently viewed items, to detect and remember your region and language
preferences, and track your activities on the Internet Services. We also use a
Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed to the
the correct version of our website.
Although the firm uses the services of third parties in connection with these
cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal
Information about the users of our Internet Services.
None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You
may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you
when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function
differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it
will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you log on to the
firm’s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies
preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the
customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to
configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt out or block
some or all cookies.
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 otherwise
permitted under applicable laws.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time without advance notice.
Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Services, the firm will post it
on this website and relevant Internet Services.
Contact Us
If you have any questions relating to our use of your Personal Information, please
contact us at info@zamakhchary.com or by mail at: Building 13, Ground Floor,
The Business Gate 2362 Qurtubah Riyadh 13244 – 7440 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
