Privacy statement

Processing responsibility

Advokatguiden AS (hereinafter referred to as Advokatguiden) is responsible for all processing of personal data, including collection, registration, compilation, storage and disclosure, or a combination of these methods of use, which is done through this website. Advokatguiden is responsible for ensuring that the information we have about you is used in line with privacy legislation. In this privacy policy, we provide you with information about the processing for which Advokatguiden is responsible.

Personal information is all information that can be linked to you as a person. This declaration is continuously updated. An updated version will always be available on the website.

When do we collect personal data?

We mainly collect information about you in the following situations:

When you want to leave a review of a lawyer (or associate etc.)
When you request a quote for legal services
When you claim a lawyer profile on our website
When you agree to us contacting you for marketing purposes, for example in connection with signing up for a newsletter or similar
When you visit our website

Information that is typically collected is name, address, mobile/telephone, e-mail address and company affiliation. In addition, we collect various technical information, such as browser statistics, IP address, etc.

If you are registered as a lawyer (or associate etc.) we can also obtain the information about you from various open sources and databases and publish it on our website.

What is registered when you claim a lawyer profile?

When you claim a lawyer profile, the following information is stored, among other things: e-mail address, password (encrypted), description of your services, company affiliation, legal areas including keywords and contact information.

What is recorded when you request a quote for legal services?

When you request a quote for legal services, the following information is stored, among other things: your e-mail address, name, desired legal areas and your other contact information.

How long do we store personal data?

Information about lawyers (or associate etc.) is stored as long as the person is active and offers his services and there is no reason to believe that the person will not resume his work as a lawyer (or associate etc.) in the future.

For other users, the information is stored for a maximum of 10 years.

Visit our websites

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you download a website. There are several reasons why such cookies are placed. Some of the cookies are necessary for various services to function, while others are placed to be able to analyze the use of the website.

On our website, we use both session-based cookies (deleted when you close the browser, used to register use of and choices on the website) and permanent cookies (retained for given periods, among other things related to login and preferences).

Web analytics

We use Google Analytics for statistics and information about the use of our websites. We use Mailchimp to manage our newsletter lists and send newsletters.

Processing basis for personal data

Publish information about a lawyer

When we publish information about a lawyer on our website, we do this to offer a socially useful information service. This is in accordance with the GDPR Article 6 No. 1 f), which allows us to process information that is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest that outweighs the consideration of the individual's privacy.

Publish an assessment of a lawyer

If you wish to make an assessment of a lawyer, we process personal data about you and the relevant lawyer in order to fulfill our agreement with you in accordance with the GDPR article 6 no. 1 a). The processing is also based on the legitimate interest consumers have in such assessments being published for reasons of competition and the possibility of better legal services. GDPR Article no. 1 f) allows us to process information that is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest that outweighs the consideration of the individual's privacy.

Offer of legal services

If you wish to request an offer of legal services, we will process personal data about you in order to fulfill an agreement with you in accordance with GDPR article 6 no. 1 b). If you agree that we can market our services to you, then the processing basis for marketing is GDPR Article 6 no. 1 a), where you consent to our processing of information about you.

Visit our websites

When you visit our website, we collect technical information. This information is processed in relation to analysis and improvement of our services. The processing basis for the use of cookies and analysis is GDPR article 6 No. 1 f), which allows us to process information that is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest that outweighs the consideration of the individual's privacy. The legitimate interest is to improve and further develop our websites and services.

Disclosure to third parties

We only disclose personal data to third parties after agreement with you, or when we find it appropriate to use external system providers. We have a data processing agreement with relevant third parties which ensures the same safe processing of the information as with us and processing by third parties in accordance with GDPR.

Information security

Based on a risk analysis around the processing of personal data, we have implemented suitable organizational and technical measures to secure your personal data.

The measures ensure:

Confidentiality; Only authorized users have access to the personal data.
Integrity; Accuracy and completeness of the personal data, security against unauthorized changes and traceability of changes.
Availability; Personal data is available to authorized persons if necessary. We have general security logs in the systems where all use of the system is recorded.

Your rights

You can exercise your rights by sending us an e-mail to support e-mail for the website or to support@advokatguiden.no or a letter to:

Advokatguiden AS

Hoffsveien 4

0275 Oslo

Norway

The following rights may be exercised by you:

Access to own information; You can request a copy of the personal data we process about you.
Correction of personal data; You can request correction of personal data we process about you.
Deletion of personal data; In certain situations, you can request the deletion of personal data we process about you.
Limitation of processing of personal data; In some situations, you can request a restriction on the processing of personal data we process about you.
Protest against a processing of personal data; If we process personal data about you based on our tasks or on the basis of a balancing of interests, you have the right to object to our processing of personal data about you.
Data portability; If we process personal data about you based on consent or a contract, you can ask us to transfer personal data about you to you or to another data controller.

We hope you will speak up if you think we are not complying with the rules in GDPR. Then first contact us at our support e-mail or support@legaly.ch. You can also complain about our processing of personal data to the Data Protection Authority.