Legal
The SLV Legal website provides general information about the firm. This website is not intended to advertise SLV’s legal services, to solicit clients, or to provide legal advice. The purpose is to provide information, with the understanding that the information on our site does not constitute or contain legal advice, and that prior results are no guarantee of similar outcomes. Our legal updates, lawyer publications, and other information have been abridged from laws, court decisions, and administrative rulings. They should not be considered legal opinions or a substitute for legal counsel.
The material published and archived on our website is for information and research purposes only. This information may not be applicable to your situation, accurate, current, or complete. Our website may not always be operational or free of functional defects. We disclaim any liability in connection with any actions taken or not taken based on any of our website’s content.
Neither our presentation of the information on the site nor your receipt of the information creates a lawyer-client relationship or imposes any obligation on SLV.
Any electronic communication sent to SLV may not be secure and thus may be disclosed. Accordingly, please do not send sensitive or confidential information electronically. In addition, the sending of electronic mail to any lawyer or other contact/address identified in the site does not create a lawyer-client relationship, and the contents of any such mail are not privileged, unless the sender is a current client of SLV and the communication is sent pursuant to that relationship.
Photographs that accompany lawyer biographies in the “Attorneys” section of the site are those of SLV lawyers. Other photographs or images of persons located on the site may or may not be of current SLV lawyers or staff and are not to be construed as depicting such. All non-SLV persons featured on website photographs and images are models and are used for illustrative purposes only.
You may download, print, and copy material on this website for your personal use as long as you do not alter any of the materials and that you ensure that each copy clearly acknowledges SLV Legal as the source.
Gender Equality Pay and Equal Opportunity Employment
SLV is committed to provide a supportive, high performance culture that enables our talent to achieve their full potential. Among our guiding principles is a pledge to build an inclusive firm that reflects the diversity of the world in which we practice. SLV is dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination. The Firm prohibits unlawful discrimination in any term or condition of employment against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, membership or service in the armed forces, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are proud of our organization and want every employee at the firm to feel welcome with an equal opportunity to excel. Thank you for your interest in SLV Legal.
Privacy
SLV and its affiliated offices (“SLV” or “we” or “our”) are committed to respecting the privacy of all individuals, including job applicants, employees and visitors to our website, as well as of our current and prospective clients.
For the purposes of applicable data protection law, and in particular, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), SLV Legal may be deemed to be a “data controller” or “data processor” of your personal data, including your personal data processed in the course of client transactions.
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) sets out:
- The types of personal data that SLV Legal collects, including from individuals visiting our website;
- The purposes and legal basis for our use of individuals’ personal data;
- Information regarding our marketing and individuals’ ability to withdraw their consent or otherwise object to marketing;
- How we may disclose individuals’ personal data;
- How we transfer personal data outside of the European Union (“EU”); and
- Individuals’ rights with respect to our use of their personal data.
Queries regarding how (1) our policies may apply to your personal data; (2) to exercise your right to question or object to our use of your personal data, in accordance with applicable laws; or (3) to access, correct, or delete your personal data, should be sent to info@slvlegal.com.
This notice describes the firm’s policies and procedures with respect to personal data, and in particular the personal data of individuals to which the GDPR applies. Any personal data collected, held or processed by SLV Legal is also subject to the relevant provisions of applicable local laws and/or SLV Legal policies in each jurisdiction where we have an office. For personal data outside the scope of GDPR, our policies and procedures may vary.
Personal Data We Collect
We collect personal data about:
- our current and prospective clients and their staff;
- our service providers and business partners and their staff;
- individuals who attend, or express interest in attending, our events;
- third parties who are the subject of, or otherwise related to, client transactions (for example, information about the staff of a company that will be acquired by a client); and
- visitors to our website.
The personal data we collect may include, but is not limited to: name, address, telephone number, date of birth, marital status, passport number, employment history, educational background, tax status, financial information, and details of visits to our website (including traffic data, IP addresses, location data, weblogs and other communication data).
We also collect personal data in relation to individuals applying for employment with SLV.
Sources of Personal Data
We obtain the personal data from a number of sources, including through our website, online questionnaires and forms, and other information provided directly to us, including by email or in conversation with our lawyers, legal or other advisers, consultants and other professional experts, complainants, correspondents and enquirers, and suppliers and service providers of any of the above. In addition, we obtain personal information from third-party sources, such as our clients and other law firms.
Information About Other People
If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, such as your employees, suppliers, shareholders or directors, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it.
Processing of Personal Data
We process the personal data referred to above for the following purposes:
- To fulfil a contract, or take steps linked to a contract, including:
- verifying your identity;
- accepting payments from you; and
- communicating with you regarding the legal services provided.
- As required to conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests, in particular:
- providing legal services to our clients, and responding to any comments or complaints they may send us;
- promoting our services to clients and potential clients, advising them of news and industry updates, and hosting or administering events;
- monitoring use of our website, and using personal data to help us improve and protect our services and website, both online and offline;
- investigating any complaints about our website or our services; and
- in connection with legal claims, and for compliance, regulatory and investigative purposes.
- Where you give us consent:
- we may send you direct marketing in relation to our services;
- we may use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the information below and the information provided to you as to when those technologies are used; and
- we will use personal data that you give us solely for the purpose we explain at the time you give us such consent.
- For other purposes which are required by law, including:
- undertaking compliance checks on current and potential clients and other third parties as part of our legal, regulatory and professional obligations (including anti-money laundering obligations); and
- in response to requests by government or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.
In certain circumstances, we will not be able to provide legal services to clients if we are not provided with all relevant personal data.
Marketing Communications and Withdrawing Consent
We may contact you with information about services or events that might be of interest to you. Where necessary, at the time that you provide your personal data to us, you will be given the opportunity to indicate whether or not you agree for us to use your personal data to tell you about such services and events.
You will always be able to withdraw your consent to allowing us to process your personal data, although we may still have other legal grounds for processing your data, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you marketing materials without your prior consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests, but you have an absolute right to opt-out of receiving future marketing materials at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the email communication you receive, or by contacting us at info@slvlegal.com.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We have the right to share your personal data amongst our affiliated offices.
We have the right to share your personal data with trusted third parties including:
- Legal or other advisers, consultants and other professional experts, complainants, correspondents and enquirers, and suppliers and service providers of any of the above, and each of their associated businesses;
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors only for the purposes of performance of any contract we enter into with them or you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that our personnel protect your personal data and are aware of their information security obligations; and
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website.
We may also share your personal data with third parties:
- If we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
- If we or any part of our operations merges with or is acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users, suppliers, or customers will be one of the transferred assets;
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any applicable law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our users, clients, or others; and
- For the purposes of crime and fraud prevention and remediation.
Transfers of Personal Data Outside the EU
In some cases, disclosure of personal data to the affiliates and third parties referred to above will involve transferring personal data from a country in the EU to a country which has been held not to provide a level of protection to personal data equivalent to that provided in the EU. In particular, data from the EU may be transferred to, and processed in, our network of offices in the United States.
To provide adequate protection for these transfers in accordance with EU data protection law, SLV has a Data Transfer Agreement in place, which includes appropriate contractual clauses based on and conforming to the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses. To obtain a copy of these clauses, please contact us at info@slvlegal.com.
Your Rights
You have various rights with respect to our use of your personal data:
- Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you. Please note that there are exceptions to this right, so that access may be denied if, for example, making the information available to you would reveal personal data about another person, or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. You are entitled to see the personal data held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us at info@slvlegal.com.
- Accuracy: We aim to keep your personal data accurate, current, and complete. We encourage you to contact us at info@slvlegal.com to let us know if any of your personal data is not accurate or changes.
- Objecting: In certain circumstances, you also have the right to object to processing of your personal data and to ask us to block, erase and restrict your personal data. If you would like us to stop using your personal data, please contact us at info@slvlegal.com
- Porting: You have the right to request that some of your personal data is provided to you, or to another data controller, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Complaints: If you believe that your data protection rights may have been breached, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the applicable supervisory authority.
Please note that there are exceptions to these rights, if, for example, we are under a legal obligation to continue to process your personal data.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Data
When we process personal data for marketing purposes or with your consent, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your requests). We also keep a record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your data so that we can respect your request in future.
Where we process personal data in connection with the provision of legal services, we may keep the data for ten years from the date the matter is closed.
Where we process personal data to comply with our legal obligations (for example, “know-your-client” information processed for anti-money laundering purposes), we will retain this for as long as the client has open matters, and for ten years from the date the last matter is closed.
Cookies
Cookies and Similar Technologies
This web site uses cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is sent by our web server to your computer or mobile device when you access our web site. Our web site uses persistent cookies, which enable our web server to recognize your device and browsing preferences each time you visit our web site. For more information on cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Our web site uses cookies in the following ways:
- Binder Feature. We use a persistent cookie in the “binder” feature, which you can use to collect various pages throughout the web site and combine them into a single PDF. The cookie tracks which pages you have collected.
- Text Size Adjuster. We use a persistent cookie in the “text size” feature, which you can use to increase or decrease the size of the font throughout the web site. The cookie tracks your preference.
- Mobile Site. When you access the site using a mobile device, you can choose to view the desktop version of the web site instead of the mobile version. We use a persistent cookie to remember your preference.
- Certain portions of our web site are accessible only by username and password. In such areas, upon logging in, cookies are used to mark the status of your session as you browse from page to page.
We use cookies only to assist visitors in accessing our web site and to collect information that will help us to improve the quality of our visitors’ browsing experience. We use the information that we collect through our use of cookies only for our own analysis of how visitors use our website.
Cookies can be disabled by changing the settings on your browser, though some parts of the web site may not function well if you choose to do so.
By continuing to use the web site of SLV Legal without changing your browser settings, you agree to our use of cookies as described above. For further information, please refer to the Privacy policies section of this website.