About Feyr Law
Feyr Law B.V. (‘Feyr Law’) is a private limited liability company with its registered office in Vught, the Netherlands, and registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 97705845. For the processing of personal data as referred to in this privacy policy, Feyr Law is considered the ‘controller’ within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’).
About this Privacy Policy
The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide insight into the personal data processed by Feyr Law, the purposes for which this data is processed, the safeguards put in place by Feyr Law to protect data and the manner in which data subjects can exercise their rights under applicable laws and regulations.
The privacy policy is available in Dutch and English. In the event of any differences in interpretation between the Dutch and English versions, the Dutch version shall prevail.
Feyr Law reserves the right to unilaterally update and/or amend this privacy policy. Material changes to the privacy policy will be announced on the website and communicated to clients by email. However, you are advised to consult the privacy policy regularly for any changes.
Feyr Law contact details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the data processed by Feyr Law or the exercise of your rights, please contact Feyr Law using the following contact details:
Feyr Law B.V.
Taalstraat 34
5261 BE Vught
Tel. +31 (0) 6 121 455 90
Email: kantoor@feyr.law
If you have any complaints about the processing of personal data by Feyr Law, we will try to find an adequate solution to your complaint. If this does not lead to the desired result, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent privacy supervisory authority. In the Netherlands, this is the Dutch Data Protection Authority. If you live or work in another EU Member State, you can submit your complaint to the local supervisory authority in that Member State.
Data Processed by Feyr Law
NB. The information contained in this section is also available in table form in PDF format. The content is identical to the PDF.
Feyr Law processes the following (categories of) personal data for the purposes listed in the tables below:
CLIENTS AND CLIENT CONTACTS
Type of data: Name and address details, contact details, case details, financial details, other client details.
Processing of special categories of personal data
In the context of the provision of services, clients may provide Feyr Law with personal data that is considered “sensitive” or “special personal data” under applicable data protection legislation (i.e. data relating to a person’s health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sex life or sexual orientation, genetic data or biometric data).
Where the processing of “special categories of personal data” is necessary for the provision of legal advice, Feyr Law will only do so where permitted by data protection legislation, for example with the explicit consent of the data subject, when the data has been clearly made public by the data subject, or when it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Purposes of processing and legal basis
Client identification:
a. Performance of a contract (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: offering and improving services and complying with obligations under legislation and regulations, including the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act, the Legal Profession Regulations and the Rules of Conduct for the Legal Profession.
Legal services:
a. Performance of a contract (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: offering and improving services and complying with obligations under legislation and regulations, including the Wwft, the Legal Profession Regulation and the Rules of Conduct for the Legal Profession.
Administration of Feyr Law, including auditing and internal control
a. Execution of an agreement (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: keeping proper records.
Handling complaints and disputes
a. Execution of an agreement (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: maintaining and improving relationships with clients, defending rights and complying with obligations under the Regulation on the Legal Profession and the Rules of Conduct for the Legal Profession.
Communication and marketing
a. Performance of a contract (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: communication and marketing relating to services offered by Feyr Law
SUPPLIERS AND SUPPLIER CONTACTS
Type of data: Name and address details, contact details, financial and order details.
Purposes of processing and legal basis
The purchase of products and services
a. Execution of an agreement (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: keeping proper records.
Communication
a. Execution of an agreement (including pre-contractual actions)
b. Legal obligation
c. Legitimate interest: communication regarding products and services purchased by Feyr Law
THIRD PARTIES
Type of data: clients may provide information about third parties in the context of the services agreed between the client and Feyr Law. Which specific personal data Feyr Law receives is determined exclusively by the client.
Personal data of third parties received from clients may include personal data that is considered “sensitive” or “special personal data” under applicable data protection legislation.
Where the processing of “special personal data” of third parties is necessary to provide legal advice, Feyr Law will only do so when permitted by data protection legislation, for example, with the explicit consent of the data subject, when the data has been clearly made public by the data subject, or when it is necessary to initiate, exercise or defend legal claims.
Purposes of processing and legal basis
Legal services
a. Legal obligation
b. Legitimate interest: offering and improving services and complying with obligations under laws and regulations, including the Wwft, the Regulation on the Legal Profession and the Rules of Conduct for the Legal Profession.
Third-party recipients of personal data
Feyr Law may share personal data with the following (categories of) third parties:
- External service providers: such as IT hosting providers, e-mail providers, software suppliers, cloud suppliers, bailiffs, courier services, external lawyers and/or solicitors, translation agencies and accountants, under strict contractual conditions that protect personal data in accordance with data protection legislation;
- Counterparties: (and their solicitors or advisers) in the context of the agreed services;
- Courts and government agencies (including regulators): in connection with the agreed services, or with your consent;
- Law enforcement, judicial or regulatory authorities: if we believe that disclosure is necessary (i) under applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of another person;
- Legal successors: (and their solicitors or advisers) where Feyr Law is acquired by or merges with another firm, or in the event of the insolvency of Feyr Law;
- The external complaints officer: Ms E.A.M. van Lierop of Taylor Wessing N.V. for the purpose of handling and resolving complaints;
- A substitute lawyer: Ms E.A.M. van Lierop of Taylor Wessing N.V., when the substition arrangement has been activated in the exceptional case that Mr F.C.M. Leentfaar of Feyr Law is unable to provide legal services due to force majeure;
- Third parties: other than the aforementioned categories of recipients, if you have given your consent.
Transfer to third countries and organisations
Feyr Law only stores and processes data within the European Union and has made contractual and organisational agreements to this effect with, among others, IT hosting providers, email providers, software suppliers and cloud providers.
Where personal data is transferred to countries or organisations outside the European Union in the context of the provision of services, Feyr Law ensures that this is only to countries and organisations where an adequate level of data protection can be guaranteed, for example by means of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, or by appropriate safeguards, such as a model contract, a code of conduct, certification or so-called binding corporate rules (BCR);
Retention periods
Feyr Law does not retain personal data in an identifiable form for longer than is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, but in any case for as long as is necessary to comply with statutory retention obligations. More specifically, the following periods are observed:
For the storage and archiving of files, Feyr Law complies with the current general legal rules on file storage as published on the website of the Dutch Bar Association ( Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten): closing and archiving files. On this basis, files are stored for at least 5 years after closure.
Data processed by Feyr Law pursuant to Section 52 of the General Tax Act is retained for 7 years after the end of the relevant tax year.
Where a complaint has been lodged against Feyr Law, data processed in the context of the complaint handling procedure in accordance with the Feyr Law B.V. Complaints Procedure will be deleted no later than 2 years after the complaint or any resulting legal proceedings have been concluded.
Where necessary to protect a legitimate interest of Feyr Law, a decision may be made to extend the above periods.
Data security
Feyr Law has taken appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, and against loss or destruction, damage, alteration or disclosure of this data. For further information about the security of personal data, please contact Feyr Law at kantoor@feyr.law .
Your rights
As a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR, you have various rights with regard to the processing of your personal data by Feyr Law. To exercise these rights, please contact Feyr Law:
Feyr Law B.V.
Taalstraat 34
5261 BE Vught
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0) 6 121 455 90
Email: kantoor@feyr.law
You may exercise the following rights in this manner:
- The right to request whether Feyr Law processes your personal data and, if so, to access this personal data and further information about the processing of your personal data;
- The right to rectify your personal data if you believe it to be incorrect or incomplete;
- The right to have your personal data erased, known as the ‘right to be forgotten’
- The right to restrict the processing of this data;
- The right to withdraw your previously given consent to the processing of your personal data, if the processing by Feyr Law is based on consent.
- The right to receive or transfer your personal data to a third party designated by you, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
- The right to object to the processing of your personal data.
You also have the right not to be subject to automated individual decision-making, including profiling. Feyr Law does not use such automated decision-making.
When you have submitted a request to exercise one of the above rights, Feyr Law may ask you for additional information in order to verify your identity.
Feyr Law will confirm receipt of your request as soon as possible and will, in principle, respond to it within one month. It may take longer to respond to your request. In that case, Feyr Law may extend the period by another two months. Feyr Law will inform you of this within one month of receiving your request.