Weening Criminal Law Attorneys B.V. (hereinafter referred to as “Weening Criminal Law Attorneys”) is responsible for processing personal data as shown in this privacy statement. Weening Criminal Law Attorneys respects your privacy and ensures that you can entrust your personal data to Weening Criminal Law Attorneys. We inform you about this in this privacy statement.
During your contacts with Weening Criminal Law Attorneys, data about you is collected and processed. With this data, we can identify you as a person. Therefore, this is “personal data”. You can find all information about which personal data Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes and how Weening Criminal Law Attorneys handles this correctly below.
By using the (mobile) website, app, and other products and services of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys, you agree that this privacy statement applies to the personal data processed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys.
1. Applicability
This privacy statement applies to all persons whose personal data Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes, with the exception of persons employed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys.
This Privacy Statement applies to:
- Clients of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys;
- Potential clients with whom Weening Criminal Law Attorneys has made or wants to make contact;
- Visitors to the website of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys;
- Recipients of newsletters and commercial emails from Weening Criminal Law Attorneys;
- All other persons who contact Weening Criminal Law Attorneys or whose personal data Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes.
This Privacy Statement does not apply to partners, employees, temporary workers, seconded staff, student interns, and job applicants.
2. Personal Data in Possession of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys
The following data can be collected and processed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys in various ways.
2.1. Data You Provide Directly to Weening Criminal Law Attorneys
- Identification and contact information: name, first name, address and place of residence, email address, telephone number, gender, date of birth, place of birth, and IP address;
- Financial information: bank account number, BIC code, name of account holder, etc.;
- Complaints or feedback regarding your experience with Weening Criminal Law Attorneys, comments, suggestions, testimonials, and all other feedback;
- Other data that you exchange, communicate, and share yourself via the Weening Criminal Law Attorneys (mobile) website, application, and the like.
2.2. Data You Provide by Using the (Mobile) Website or App
When you use the (mobile) website or app of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys, the following information may be processed: visited pages, search queries, and IP address through cookies and data you enter on the website or in the app.
2.3. Data from other Sources
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys may also collect and process data through other sources, such as purchasing or renting data collected by suppliers specializing in this, partners of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys, public sources, social media, etc. The rules and preference settings of these providers will apply to the use of social media channels, both to you and to Weening Criminal Law Attorneys.
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites may not be managed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys and may have their own privacy statement or policy. Weening Criminal Law Attorneys strongly recommends that you read these and cannot take responsibility for these third-party websites.
2.4. Special and/or Sensitive Personal Data Processed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes the following special and/or sensitive personal data about you:
- Citizen Service Number (BSN);
- Health (in relevant cases, if relevant for the representation of your interests);
- Data of persons younger than 16 years (in relevant cases, if relevant for the representation of your interests);
- Various financial and fiscal data (in relevant cases, if relevant for the representation of your interests);
- Criminal records (in relevant cases, if relevant for the representation of your interests).
3. For What Purpose and on What Basis Weening Criminal Law Attorneys Processes Personal Data
It is possible to file a complaint against the decision to withhold the driver’s license with the court. This complaint requests the return of the driver’s license until the substantive hearing of your case. The judge will handle this complaint at the hearing. Here, you and your lawyer also get the opportunity to explain your position, for example, why you need your driver’s license for your work. The judge makes an immediate decision. By quickly contacting a lawyer, the complaint can be filed quickly, and the judge can make a quick decision on your case.
Personal data is processed by Weening Criminal Law Attorneys for the following purposes:
- Executing an agreement in which you have instructed us to provide legal services by our lawyers. If you give a case to a lawyer for handling, your contact details will be requested in any case. Other personal data may also be necessary for the handling of the case, depending on the nature of the case;
- Processing your payment;
- Collecting funds and taking collection measures;
- Complying with legal obligations. The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (WWFT) obliges lawyers to collect and record certain information. This includes, among other things, a copy of an identity document (passport);
- Maintaining contact with you. Your contact details are kept in our customer system and can be used for, among other things, sending newsletters, updates, invitations to events and seminars, and sending information you have requested from us;
- The continuous improvement, maintenance, and optimization of our services, (mobile) website, application, and their security, as well as the optimization of general, commercial, and marketing strategies of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys;
- Other specific purposes for which separate permission may be requested.
3.1. Analysis of Data
We find it important to approach you with information that is relevant to you. To make this possible, we combine and analyze the personal data available to us. Based on this, we determine which information and channels are relevant and which moments are most suitable for providing information or establishing contact. In marketing actions, we do not process special personal data or confidential data protected by the professional secrecy of lawyers. If we want to create a personal, individual customer profile of you, we will ask for your prior consent. If you later wish to withdraw this consent, that is always possible.
3.2. We Analyze the Following Data:
- Interaction data: Personal data obtained from contact between Weening Criminal Law Attorneys and you. For example, about your use of our website or supported applications. This also applies to offline interactions, such as how often there is contact between Weening Criminal Law Attorneys and you;
- Conducting and analyzing client satisfaction surveys: sometimes we ask clients to participate in a client satisfaction survey. This is done through an online questionnaire. Participation in this is voluntary.
- Behavioral data: Personal data that Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes about your behavior, such as your opinion, wishes, preference, and needs. We can deduce this data, for example, from your browsing behavior on our website, reading our newsletters, or requesting information, but also through telephone conversations and email contact with our employees. We only collect and use information obtained through tracking cookies with your consent, which you can always withdraw. See also our cookie statement;
- Creating user statistics: the user statistics of the website allow us to get a picture of, among other things, the number of visitors, the duration of the visit, which parts of the website are viewed, and the click behavior. We use the information obtained to improve the website.
4. Legal Basis of Processing
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys processes personal data on the basis of one of the following legal grounds:
- Consent: your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes. If personal data is processed on the basis of consent, we will ask you separately. If you do not give this consent, it may mean that we cannot represent your interests, or not properly;
- Agreement: based on an agreement or in preparation for concluding an agreement;
- Legal obligation;
- Legitimate interest:
- Bringing news and events from our office to your attention (if there is an existing customer relationship);
- The protection of our financial interests;
- The improvement of our services;
- Security and management of our systems.
5. Data Retention
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys will not retain your data longer than necessary for processing, taking into account contractual and legal obligations. If you are a client of the firm, we will keep your file for 15 years. This – among other things – to comply with our fiscal retention obligation and revisions. After that, your file will be destroyed. If you have contacted the firm but have not become a client, we will keep your data for a maximum of 12 months.
6. Processors
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys may engage service providers (processors) for processing your personal data who process personal data exclusively on our behalf. We conclude a processor agreement with these processors that meets the requirements set by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
For example, we work with ICT service providers who support us in keeping our systems safe and stable. These are examples of parties that can be considered processors as referred to in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
7. Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties
Your personal data will only be released in accordance with this privacy statement and/or if legally required and/or pursuant to a court order. Weening Criminal Law Attorneys will reasonably attempt to inform you in advance, unless this is subject to legal restrictions.
Finally, personal data can also be anonymized and shared with third parties. In this case, you will never be identified based on this anonymized data.
8. Transfer outside the (European Economic Area) EEA
It may sometimes be necessary to transfer your personal data to parties established outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This may – depending on the circumstances of the case – be necessary for the handling of your file by a lawyer, notary, or tax specialist.
9. Your Rights
Based on the law, every person can exercise certain rights regarding his or her personal data. You have the right to access, rectify, and delete personal data. You can also object to the use of your data or ask to limit this use. In certain cases, you can even request your data and take it to another party. For all these questions, please contact us via 088 933 6464 or info@weening.net.
To ensure that the request for access has been made by you, we ask you to send a copy of your ID with the request. Make your passport photo, MRZ (machine readable zone, the strip with numbers at the bottom of the passport), passport number, and Citizen Service Number (BSN) black in this copy. This is to protect your privacy. We respond as quickly as possible, but within four weeks, to your request.
You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority: Dutch Data Protection Authority, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Tel: 0900 – 2001 201.
10. Data Security
To protect your personal data in the best possible way, Weening Criminal Law Attorneys takes all reasonable measures to prevent loss, misuse, disclosure, unauthorized access, or modification of personal data. Both technically and organizationally, the necessary measures are taken to provide a sufficient level of security.
11. Minors (Children under 16 Years)
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys never knowingly collects or processes personal data of minors without the consent of a parent or guardian, which must be given to use the (mobile) website, application, etc. of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys and to subsequently exercise the rights regarding the minor’s data.
If personal data of minors would be processed in good faith, Weening Criminal Law Attorneys will delete this from its files as soon as possible after becoming aware of this.
12. Automated Decision-Making
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys does not make decisions based on automated processing about matters that can have (significant) consequences for individuals. These are decisions taken by computer programs or systems, without a human (for example, an employee of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys) being involved.
If you have any questions after reading this privacy statement about how Weening Criminal Law Attorneys handles personal data, if you want to exercise your rights mentioned in this privacy statement under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or other legislation and regulations on personal data, or if you want to file a complaint about the use of your personal data, you can reach us via the contact details below:
13. Contact Details
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys B.V.
Wilhelminasingel 97, 6221 BH Maastricht
info@weening.net
088 933 6464
www.strafrechtadvocaten.nl
Weening Criminal Law Attorneys reserves the right to change this privacy statement at any time. You can always find the applicable version on the website of Weening Criminal Law Attorneys.
