The Privacy and Cookie Use Policy (hereinafter referred to as the Policy) regulates how the law firm Drakšas, Mekionis and partners (hereinafter referred to as the Law Firm) carry out the processing of personal data and determines the operating conditions of the Law Firm’s website http://dmsp.lt.

Data controller: law firm Drakšas, Mekionis ir partneriai, registered office address: A. Smetonos str. 4-2, Vilnius, LT-01115.

Personal data collected and used by the Law Firm are processed by lawyers, assistant lawyers, lawyers, persons providing accounting services to the Law Firm, providing services to the Law Firm under service contracts, taking into account the legitimate basis and purpose of data processing.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with 2016. 27 April Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania and the requirements of other legal acts regulating the protection of personal data.

We process personal data on the following legitimate grounds:

• your consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes;
• the processing of data is necessary in order to perform a contract concluded with you or to take action at your request before concluding a contract;
• the processing is necessary in order to comply with the legal obligations applicable to the Law Firm;
• the processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Law Firm.

Processing of personal data for purposes related to the provision of legal services

The Law Firm processes the following personal data of yours in order to perform the legal services contract concluded with you or in order to take action at your request before concluding a contract:

data directly identifying the person: name, surname, date of birth, personal identification number, other personal identification number; contact details: address of residence or location, e-mail address, telephone number; data that you provide to us before, during the conclusion and performance of a legal services contract; other data, including data from third parties, that we obtain in the exercise of our professional rights and in the performance of our professional duties.

The Law Firm also processes personal data for other legitimate purposes:

• the processing of accounting documents for the purpose of the settlement and other payments, accounting rules, compliance with other obligations applicable to the Law Firm, to the extent necessary to ensure a legitimate purpose;
• when concluding contracts that are not related to the provision of legal services, the purpose of the processing of personal data contained in them is the proper performance of the relevant contracts;
• for the purpose of concluding, executing, accounting and properly executing the duties of a lawyer or the Law Firm as an employer/ employer/ employer of the workplace provider, established by law, for the purpose of concluding, executing contracts (employment / legal services);
• The law firm also carries out data processing on its Facebook account “Law firm Drakšas, Mekionis ir partneriai”, the Privacy policy of which is provided at the address https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. We recommend that you read the privacy notices of third parties and contact the service providers directly if you have any questions about how they use your personal data;
• For the purpose of ensuring the protection of visitors, employees and property owned or otherwise legally owned by the Law Firm: video surveillance (without sound) is carried out and video surveillance data is processed – your personal data entering the field of video surveillance (video image of a person, vehicle registration number and other data, by which it is possible to directly or indirectly identify a person). These data are processed on the basis of a legitimate interest.

The use of cookies on the Law Firm’s website
http://dmsp.lt

Cookies are text files that are stored with your consent in the browser of the device (e.g. computer, mobile phone, tablet) when you browse the website and collect information about your browsing. When you first visit the website, cookies are transferred to your computer and then used to separate the computer from other computers, they ensure a more convenient use of the website, and allow us to improve the website. This is a common practice of browsing websites, which facilitates browsing the website of your already visitor and simplifies access to the published information.

With the help of cookies, your IP address, browsing information is processed, such as the visited areas of the website, the time spent on the website, etc.

In order to ensure that you can use the Law Firm’s website more conveniently and efficiently, we use the following cookies:

Title	Purpose	Duration of processing
cookie_notice_accepted_ratiolegis	A set of consent to the acceptance of cookies. Saves your cookie preferences (so that you don’t have to be asked again)	2 months ago
_Ga	To separate consumers. Client ID.	2 years
_gid	To separate consumers. Randomly generated ID	24 hours.
_Gat	Used to limit the amount of requests sent.	1 min.

Data is processed on the basis of your consent. You can control the use of cookies by changing your browser settings. More detailed instructions depend on the browser you are using, you can find them in the options menu of the browser you are using:

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in
  Safari web
  and
  iOS
  

More information
https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Please note that the removal or blocking of cookies used may affect the operation of the website and some of its functionalities, as well as may negatively affect your use of the services available on the portal.

Procedure and terms for storing personal data

When processing and storing personal data, the Law Firm implements organizational and technical measures that ensure the protection of personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, alteration, disclosure, as well as from any other unlawful processing.

We process your personal data within the scope of the purposes for which it was collected. We store the received personal data in accordance with the legal acts in force in the Republic of Lithuania and the rules of operation of the Lithuanian Bar Association. Your personal data is not stored or processed longer than is necessary for the implementation of the above-mentioned data processing purposes. Longer storage of your personal data may be carried out when it is necessary for us to be able to defend ourselves against claims, claims or claims and to exercise our rights, as well as in the presence of grounds established by law.

For the purposes related to the provision of legal services, personal data are processed by the Law Firm for 5 years after the expiry of the contract for the provision of legal services with the client.

For accounting purposes, the Data Controller processes personal data for 10 years.

Video surveillance data is stored for 14 calendar days.

Transfer of data to third parties

The law firm, performing your order, the contract for the provision of legal services, may transfer your personal data for the purpose of providing legal services: a court, bailiff, state or municipal institution, institution or organization, specialists who are used in the process of providing legal services, for example. experts, appraisers, auditors, etc., mediators, third parties against whom the client is represented and their representatives, other persons, depending on the objectives of the contract for the provision of legal services provided.

The Law Firm may transfer data outside the European Economic Area subject to one of the following conditions: you have expressly consented to the proposed transfer after being informed of the possible risks of such transfers; the transfer of data is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and the Law Firm or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at your request; the transfer of data is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in your interests between the Law Firm and another natural or legal person; the transfer of data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; the transfer of data is necessary to protect your vital interests if you are unable to give your consent for physical or legal reasons.

Your rights as a data subject

Right of access to data. You have the right to access your data processed by the Law Firm and information about the purposes of the data processing, the categories of relevant personal data, the recipients of the data, the period or criteria for storing the data, to determine such a period.

The right to rectification. You have the right to have the Law Firm correct inaccurate personal data relating to you and, taking into account the purposes for which the data were processed, you have the right to request that incomplete personal data be supplemented.

The right to erasure. You have the right to request the Law Firm to delete personal data relating to you if this can be justified by one of the following reasons: personal data are no longer necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw your consent on which the processing is based and there is no other legal basis for processing the data; personal data are processed unlawfully; personal data must be deleted in accordance with a legal obligation established by the law of the European Union or the Republic of Lithuania;

The right to restriction of processing. You have the right to request the Law Firm to restrict the processing of data when one of the following cases applies: you dispute the accuracy of the data for a period during which the Law Firm can verify the accuracy of your personal data; The processing of your personal data is unlawful and you do not consent to the erasure of the data and instead request that their use be restricted; The Law Firm no longer needs personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need them in order to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or you object to the processing until it is verified whether the Law Firm’s legitimate reasons take precedence over your reasons.

The right to object. You have the right, for reasons relating to you in a particular case, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you when the processing is based on your consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes or when the processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Law Firm or of a third party, unless such interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the Law Firm, which require the protection of personal data, take precedence over them. The Law Firm no longer processes personal data, unless the Law Firm justifies that the data is processed for compelling legitimate reasons that take precedence over your interests, rights and freedoms as a data subject, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

Right to data portability. If your personal data is processed by automated means or on the basis of your consent or on the basis of mutual contractual relations, you have the right to receive personal data related to you, which you have provided to the Law Firm in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to request the transfer of that data to another data controller when technically possible.

In order to exercise your rights, requests, complaints or demands, please submit to us in writing by e-mail. by post info@dmsp.lt or by arriving at the Law Firm or by sending it by mail to the address: A. Smetonos g. 4-2, Vilnius, LT-01115, Lithuania.

In cases where you believe that your personal data is being processed illegally or your rights related to data processing are being violated, you have the right to apply with a complaint to the State Data Inspectorate, whose contacts are available at the following address: https://vdai.lrv.lt

In order to find a suitable solution to the problem, we recommend that you contact us by email before submitting a formal complaint. by mail info@dmsp.lt.

Policy change

The Law Firm has the right to amend the Policy in part or in full. Additions or amendments to the Policy shall take effect from the date of their publication on the website of the Law Firm.