DATA PROTECTION POLICY
CHR. LARCOU & ASSOCIATES LLC (the “Firm”) is GDPR-compliant and entirely committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy and any other documents referred to on it sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
This Privacy Notice only applies to personal information and or data we collect and processes through this website (the ‘Site’) when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, search for any legal services, leave a review or rating on our site, and when you report a problem with our site.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with any other Privacy Notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
By providing us with your personal information and using our services, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. For the purposes of EU Regulation 2016/679 (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter referred to in this policy as the “GDPR”, the Data Controller is CHR. LARCOU & ASSOCIATES LLC of Larnaka – Cyprus.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
We will collect and process the following data about you:
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
The type of personal information that we may collect and process about you includes:
- Identity Data includes your username.
- Contact Data includes your email address, phone number.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail to provide personal data:
There is no obligation on you to provide the information listed above; however, if you do not, we may be unable to provide you with the Services. In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use the information you provide us in the following ways:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already used or enquired about;
- to notify you about changes to our service; Information we collect about you.
We will use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
Information we receive from other sources. We will combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:
- Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined under the Cyprus Companies’ Law.
- Selected third parties including:
- business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;
- business publications and/or legal and/or business directories. We will always ask for your consent to release material information relating to your personal data and/or particulars of a case handled by us and/or any services provided by us.
- analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site;
- credit reference agencies and/or banking/financial institutions for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
- Compliance software for the purposes of complying with local and international regulations against money-laundering, fraud and the general prevention of crime and illegal activities and/or the cooperation with the authorities and/or the police.
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that this is necessary for the provision of services provided to you.
- If CHR. LARCOU & ASSOCIATES LLC or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of CHR. LARCOU & ASSOCIATES LLC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, anti-money laundering and credit risk reduction.
COLLECTION OF DATA UNDER MONEY-LAUNDERING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
The Firm conducts client due diligence enquiries on each new client and legal or physical persons connected with them and conducts ongoing monitoring of existing clients.
This Privacy and Security Policy has been drafted in English. In the event of any discrepancy between the meanings of any translated versions of this Policy and the English language version, the meaning of the English language version shall prevail. This Privacy Policy was last revised on …………. 2023.