In connection with the business activities of our lawyers, auditors and tax advisors, we, Noerr Alicante IP, S.L. process the personal data of (potential) clients and the employees, representative and/or advisors of our clients and their employees, opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, representatives and/or advisors of opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, employees of insurers, experts and their employees, employees of courts and/or authorities, employees of the Noerr companies that cooperate with us, as well as the law firms, tax advisory and/or auditing firms outside the Noerr companies that cooperate with us and their employees.

At our law firm we also process the personal data of employees, job applicants, our (potential) suppliers and their employees and our visitors.

The protection of personal data is important to us. We only process personal data in compliance with the applicable data protection requirements, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Spanish Organic Law 2018/3 on Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD).

In Section A of this Data Protection Information we provide you with information about the controller responsible for the processing of your personal data and the controller’s data protection officer.

In Section B we also provide you with information about the processing of your personal data.

In Section C we also provide you with information about your rights with respect to the processing of your personal data.

In Section D we also provide you with information about the technical data protection terms used in this Data Protection Information.

 

A. Information about the controller

Name and contact details of the controller

Noerr Alicante IP, S.L.
Address: Avenida México 20, 03008 Alicante, Spain
Email: alicante@noerr.com
Phone: 0034 96 598 04 80

Contact details of the controller’s data protection officer

Pascal Schumacher c/o Noerr PartGmbB,
Address: Charlottenstraße 57, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Email: pascal.schumacher@noerr.com
Phone: 0049 30 2094 2316


B. Information about the processing of personal data

professional practice

In connection with the business activities of our lawyers, auditors and tax advisors, we, Noerr Alicante IP, S.L. process the personal data of (potential) clients and their employees, representatives and/or advisors of our clients and their employees, opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, representatives and/or advisors of opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, employees of insurers, experts and their employees, employees of courts and/or authorities, employees of the Noerr companies that cooperate with us, as well as the law firms, tax advisory and/or auditing firms outside the Noerr companies that cooperate with us and their employees for the following purposes:

  • Identification of our (potential) clients, their economic beneficiary, the persons acting for them and their authorisation before or upon establishing the client relationship and carry out a comparison with sanctions lists,
  • conflict check to avoid conflicts of interests before establishing the client relationship,
  • preparation of the client relationship in particular for pre-contractual correspondence to prepare offers and cost estimates,
  • advising and representing our clients appropriately in connection with the engagement, in particular to exercise and defend the rights of our clients, including correspondence with our clients, opposing parties in legal proceedings and their representatives as well as with insurers, experts and/or service providers, courts and/or authorities,
  • sending correspondence or other items on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
  • disbursement, receipt or forwarding of third-party funds on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
  • translations on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
  • proper internal administration, including maintaining reference files and the operation of IT systems for administrative purposes,
  • proper accounting and invoicing,
  • proper retention of documents in order to comply with statutory, professional, anti-money laundering, commercial and tax law retention obligations and for evidence purposes for any establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims,
  • settlement of any existing liability claims and the exercise of any claims against our clients,
  • cooperate with courts and/or authorities in order to comply with statutory obligations,
  • liaison with external accountants or auditors in order to comply with statutory obligations,
  • client relationship management and the alignment of our advisory services with the needs and wishes of our (potential) clients,
  • naming of references for rankings and analyses by press publishers and analysts.

You receive more detailed information on this below:

Details on the information on the professional activities of our lawyers, auditors and tax advisors

employees

We process personal data at our law firm of people who are employed by us.

We process data of our employees in particular for the purposes of recruitment, fulfilment of the employment contract, including the discharge of obligations laid down by law, the management, planning and organisation of work, equality and diversity in the workplace, health and safety at work, the protection of our property or the property of our clients, and for the purposes of exercising and enjoying the rights and benefits related to employment and for the purposes of terminating the employment relationship.

Our employees can find more detailed information on this in the Special Data Protection Information for Employees.

job applicants

At our law firm we process personal data of persons who apply for jobs with us.

We process the data of our job applicants for the following purposes:

  • Conducting the application process, in particular reviewing applications, contacting the applicant and conducting interviews to evaluate and select suitable applicants.

You receive more detailed information on this below:

Details on the information on the processing of personal data of our job applicants

suppliers

At our law firm we process personal data of our (potential) suppliers and their employees.

Suppliers are all natural persons or legal entities that manufacture and/or supply goods or provide services. Data of our suppliers can be personal data if the suppliers are natural persons. Data relating to the employees of our suppliers are also personal data.

We process the data of our (potential) suppliers and their employees for the following purposes:

  • Taking steps prior to entering into a contract, including pre-contractual correspondence,
  • performance of contracts with our suppliers, including contractual communication, exchange of services and payment processing,
  • proper accounting and storage to comply with contractual and statutory, in particular commercial law, tax law and retention obligations,
  • storage for evidence purposes for the establishment, exercise or defence of possible legal claims,
  • establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, including coordination with external lawyers,
  • liaison with external tax advisors and/or auditors to comply with statutory obligations,
  • cooperation with courts and/or authorities to comply with statutory obligations.

You receive more detailed information on this below:

Details on the information on the processing of personal data of our suppliers

visitors

At our law firm we process the personal data of the visitors to our office facilities.

Visitors are all natural persons, with the exception of our employees, who visit our office facilities. These can in particular be our (potential) suppliers and their employees.

We process data of our visitors for the following purposes:

  • Identification of our visitors in order to maintain the safety of our office facilities and employees, to ensure the safety of our visitors, to protect our property or the property of our suppliers,
  • planning and organisation of the details of the visit,
  • storage for evidence purposes for the possible establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims,
  • establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, including cooperation with external lawyers,
  • cooperation with courts and/or authorities to comply with statutory obligations.

You receive more detailed information on this below:

Details on the information on the processing of personal data of our visitors

 

C. INFORMATION ON THE RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS

As a data subject, you have the following rights with regard to the processing of your personal data:

  • Right of access (Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to rectification (Article 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) (Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to data portability (Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to object (Article 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to withdraw consent (Article 7 paragraph 3 of the General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation)

You can contact us for the purpose of exercising your rights using the contact details in Section A.

Information about special modalities and mechanisms that facilitate the exercise of your rights, in particular the exercise of your rights to data portability and to object, can be found in the information on the processing of personal data in Section B of this Data Protection Information and in additional special data protection information.

You receive more detailed information on this below:

Details on the information on the rights of data subjects

D. Information about the General Data Protection Regulation terminology used in this Data Protection Information

The technical terms relating to data protection used in this Data Protection Information have the meaning used in the General Data Protection Regulation.

The full scope of the definitions of the General Data Protection Regulation can be found in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

You will find more detailed information on the most important technical terms of the General Data Protection Regulation used in this Data Protection Information below:

  • “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

  • “data subject” means the respective identified or identifiable natural person, to which the personal Data refers to;

  • “processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

  • “profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;

  • “controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

  • “processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;

  • “recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;

  • “third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data;

  • “international organisation” means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries;

  • “third country” means a country which is not a member state of the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”);

  • “special categories of personal data” means personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

 

E. Status of and changes to this Data Protection Information

This Data Protection Information was last modified on 01 April 2022.

It may be necessary to modify this Data Protection Information due to technical developments and/or amendment of statutory or official requirements.

An up-to-date version of this Data Protection Information can be retrieved at any time at http://consulting.noerr.local/ds/datenschutz-alicante-en.