Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is crucial to us and forms the basis of mutual trust. We do our best to secure your account, protect your personal data and data, and earn your trust.

Whether you are our long-term or new customer, please read these principles carefully and if you have any questions, contact us.

The website www.dostupnyadvokat.cz (hereinafter referred to as the “Site”)  serves to provide legal services, which naturally includes the processing of personal data. Because we want you to be as well informed as possible about what we do with the personal data collected in this way, we have written this Privacy Policy for you, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR”).

In the privacy policy you will learn in particular:

• How your data is protected.
• What information we collect and for what reason.
• How we use this information.
• What are your rights regarding the private information we use.

Protection of all data in our system

Legal documents often contain information that can have a significant impact on your personal and professional life – contracts, criminal complaints, sensitive personal information, documents relating to family and children.

That is why at Dostupný advokát we take the utmost care to protect client information and use security technologies that ensure your data is always protected from unauthorized access and potential threats. With us, you can be sure that sensitive documents will remain truly confidential.

How is the work with data done before and after the case is closed?

• The client creates his secured user account on the website www.dostupnyadvokat.cz, where he uploads all the necessary documents and information. Therefore, information is not exchanged via e-mails with the lowest level of security, as is common on the market.
• Only a lawyer specialized in a given area of ​​law has access to this data. This means that your sensitive information is not handled by the entire team of lawyers, but only by the lawyer who is handling your case – just like in a classic law firm with a single lawyer.
• After the case is closed, all data is encrypted using an advanced algorithm that is also used to protect top-secret information. Subsequently, this unreadable data is securely archived in a special storage outside the Internet environment, where it is not exposed to the risk of hacker attacks or any other manipulation. Here, only an authorized security officer (now there are two people in the entire company) has access to it.
• If a client or his lawyer needs to restore the data, they can submit a request that will undergo careful personal verification by the relevant employee (this procedure is indeed not automated to increase security). This system ensures maximum privacy protection and the possibility of safe access in case of need.

Thanks to these measures, we provide a significantly higher level of protection than is the usual standard in advocacy.

Information we collect about you

In connection with the provision of legal services, we collect the following data: Name and surname, telephone number, e-mail address, address, date of birth, bank details, IP address and similar data, data related to specific client questions, which may include sensitive data based on criminal decisions, data on family status or data on property, work, health, engagement or hobbies, etc. The Site also works with cookies files.

Without collecting this personal data, we would not be able to provide you with our services.

How we use the information

The personal data we collect is used exclusively to provide legal services and to inform you about them.

Published personal data is archived on the Site only to the extent strictly necessary and regularly backed up elsewhere to a secure storage location.

The collected personal data is not disclosed to third parties in any way.

We will store your personal information in our encrypted database. By sending or otherwise disclosing personal data, you are entering into a contract with us, which allows us to process it further. We will process your personal data for the entire duration of the contractual relationship. After the contract has ended, we must, due to possible objections and potential disputes, retain your personal data for a further 4 years (i.e. for the general limitation period after which it is no longer effective to file a lawsuit with the court, extended by the time it may take for the court to inform us or you that the lawsuit has actually been filed). During these four years, we will only keep personal information necessary for our or your defense in a potential lawsuit. After this period, your personal information will be completely deleted from our databases unless you use our services again or if it is not necessary in a specific case due to a specific legal order or your interest.

Sending commercial communications

During the provision of any service, we will politely ask you for your consent to send commercial communications. Through commercial communications, we want to inform you about our services and future changes. Each of the emails sent will be marked as a commercial communication and each of them will contain a link that will allow you to easily unsubscribe from commercial communications.

What are your rights and how to exercise them

Right to access and rectification

If we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing, namely to request confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed. If we process your data, we may, at your request, inform you, in addition to the information provided in this Privacy Policy, about any persons to whom your personal data has been or will be disclosed, and if we do not obtain personal data from you, you have the right to all information available to us about where we obtained your personal information.

If we process your personal data about you inaccurately, you can notify us of this fact by sending a message, and we will correct the inaccurate personal data without undue delay.

Right to object to the processing of personal data

If we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing by sending a message. If you submit such an objection, we will not be able to process your personal data until we demonstrate what compelling legitimate grounds we have for the processing and that our grounds outweigh your interests, your rights and freedoms or the exercise or defence of legal claims.

If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes (e.g. for the purpose of sending commercial communications), you may object to such processing at the above-mentioned e-mail address, and after such an objection has been raised, we will no longer process these data for direct marketing purposes.

Right to restriction of processing of personal data

You have the right to restrict any processing of your personal data, including its deletion:

• If you inform us that the personal data we have collected are inaccurate, pending verification of their accuracy.
• If the processing of your personal data is unlawful and you request the restriction of their use by sending a message instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data to provide our services, but you require them for the establishment, exercise or defence of your legal claims.
• If you object to the processing in accordance with the paragraph above, pending verification of whether our reasons for processing outweigh your interests.

Right to be forgotten (right to have your personal data deleted) data)

You have the right to delete personal data if you find that we are processing your personal data:

• Although their processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we obtained them.
• You withdraw your consent to their processing and at the same time there is no other reason for their processing (of course only in cases where we process your personal data based on your consent).
• If you raise an objection in accordance with the paragraph above and we are unable to demonstrate legitimate reasons for their processing that outweigh your interests, your rights and freedoms or the exercise or defense of legal claims.
• Unlawfully.

You have the right to have your personal data processed in this way deleted without undue delay after being notified of such facts by sending a message. However, we cannot delete the data even at your request if their processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of one of our legal obligations or for the fulfillment of a task carried out in the public interest, or for the determination, exercise or defense of our legal claims.

Right to provide data in machine-readable form

If you ask us to provide you with personal data processed by us by sending a message, we will send it to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. *.pdf format, or one of the table formats), if we process the data in this way. If you ask us to send your personal data to another personal data controller, we are obliged to do so, but again only if we are already processing it in this way.

The right to withdraw consent to sending commercial communications at any time

If you no longer wish to receive commercial communications from us, you can withdraw your consent to their sending at any time without giving reasons either by clicking on the marked link, which will be part of each commercial communication, or by sending a message.

The right to file a complaint with the Office for Personal Data Protection

If, in your opinion, we do not fulfill all our legal obligations arising in connection with the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Office for Personal Data Protection, either at their registered office at Pplk. Sochora 27, Prague 7, ZIP Code 170 00, by e-mail , or by any other means accepted by the Office for Personal Data Protection. More information about the Office can be found on the website www.uoou.cz.