Privacy Policy

Within our Privacy Policy, we describe how we collect, use and otherwise handle any Personal Information that you provide or make available to us directly (through direct contact when you prospect or engage us to provide you services) or through our website or the website of any of our members (“Websites”) and explains the circumstances in which we may transfer this to others.

 

HOW, WHEN AND WHY DO WE COLLECT AND USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 

1. Personal Information that we collect

​The types of information that we may collect from you (directly or indirectly) are the following:

• your name;
• your email address;
• your physical address;
• your landline and mobile telephone numbers;
• any other information that you choose to provide to us when filling out a contact form on our Websites;
• your geographic location (country/territory where you are living and/or working);
• the industry sector in which you work;
• your bank account details (when the service provided require holding such information);
• your C.V (job title, role and the name of your employer), diplomas, degree;
• your passport copy or any civil identification

 

2. How we use your Personal Information​

We may use your Personal Information for our business purposes such as:

• to process and respond to inquiries and provide our services
• to manage our relationship with you (our clients)
• to market our services or events
• to send notices, newsletters, publications (informative, legal, tax)
• record keeping, internal reporting and research purposes;
• to ensure network and information security;
• to notify you about changes to our services;
• to investigate any complaint you make;
• to provide evidence in any dispute or anticipated dispute between you and us;
• to customise various aspects of our Websites to improve your experience;
• to host, maintain and otherwise support the operation of our Websites;
• for the detection and prevention of fraud and other criminal offences and for risk management purposes;
• for business and disaster recovery (e.g. to create back-ups);
• for document retention/storage;
• for database management;
• to ensure the quality of the services we provide to our users.

 

In addition, we may use your Personal Information for further specific purposes made clear at the point of collection.

If you choose not to provide Personal Information requested by us, we may not be able to provide you with the information and/or services you have requested or otherwise fulfil the purpose(s) for which we have asked for the Personal Information.

If you wish not to receive any marketing materials please contact us directly to info@mena-legal.com or rj@mena-legal.com

 

3. Legal grounds for collection and use of Personal Information

We process your personal information where we need to do so:

• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
• for our legitimate interests in:
  • responding to your queries;
  • providing services and/or information to you;
  • recruiting personnel

 

We consider that the risk to your data protection rights in connection with Personal Information that we process on the basis of our legitimate interests is not excessive or overly intrusive. We have also put in place protections for your rights by ensuring proper retention periods and security controls.

 

HOW AND WHEN DO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES?

 

Some services that we provide require the involvement of third parties. We have carefully selected these third parties and taken steps to ensure that your Personal Information is adequately protected. Details about how we share Personal Information with third parties is set out below:

 

1. Sharing within BREXENDORFF & ASSOCIATES / MENA LEGAL
    

Your Personal Information are shared within the members of BREXENDORFF & ASSOCIATES / MENA LEGAL (“Member”):

• if you ask that we should do so;
• where we need to do so in order to provide the services or information that you have requested.

When a Member would like to use your Personal Information for a new purpose, he will let you know about this first.

 

2. Sharing with other third parties

We share your Personal Information with:

• our accountants, auditors, lawyers or similar advisers when we ask them to provide us with professional advice;
• any other third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property and/or safety of BREXENDORFF & ASSOCIATES / MENA LEGAL, our personnel or others;
• any other third party for the purposes of acting in accordance with the requirements of a court, regulator or government agency, for example, complying with a search warrant or court order or acting in accordance with an applicable law or regulation; or
• investors and other relevant third parties in the event of an actual potential sale or other corporate transaction related to BREXENDORFF & ASSOCIATES / MENA LEGAL

 

HOW LONG DO WE STORE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 

It is our policy to retain your Personal Information for the length of time required for the specific purpose or purposes for which it was collected. However, we may be obliged to store some Personal Information for a longer time, taking into account factors including: 

• legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
• statute of limitations under applicable law(s);
• (potential) disputes and
• guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.

Whilst we continue to process your Personal Information, we will ensure that it is treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Otherwise, we securely erase your information once this is no longer needed.

 

SECURITY

 

We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures to protect your personal information against loss, misuse and alteration. 

 

CONFIDENTIALITY

 

We acknowledge that the information you provide may be confidential. We do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make Personal Information commercially available to any third party, except that we may share information with our service providers for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and all applicable laws.