I- Confidentiality Policy
Legal Consultants and Clients agree that neither The Legal Rooms or its affiliates will be liable for any disclosure or dissemination of Confidential Information or the breach of any of the obligations in the Agreement.
This Non-Disclosure Agreement (this "Agreement” or this "Non-Disclosure Agreement”) is made between the Legal Consultant and the Client (both referred to as the "Parties”) who agree, by using The Legal Rooms platform, to be mutually bound by this Agreement.
Whereas, through this Non-Disclosure Agreement, the Disclosing Party and Receiving Party have entered into a relationship by which the Receiving Party may be exposed to certain confidential Information of the Disclosing Party, in which it has an interest in protecting.
Now, therefore, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises made by the Parties hereto, the Parties covenant and agree as follows:
1. Definitions
"Confidential Information” means any information, whether in written, visual, oral, electronic or other form, furnished by either Party to the other Party under this Agreement. Such Confidential Information may include, without limitation, personal information, trade secrets, know-how, inventions, technical data or specifications, other data, testing methods, business or financial information, concepts, models, whether or not protectable by patent, copyright or other laws, research and development activities, product and marketing plans, and customer and supplier information.
"Disclosing Party” means the party disclosing Confidential Information to the other party.
"Receiving Party” means the party receiving Confidential Information from the other party.
2. Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information
Except as required to further the relationship between Disclosing Party and Receiving Party or as expressly authorised in writing on behalf of the Disclosing Party, Receiving Party shall not disclose, directly or indirectly, any Confidential Information during the period of the relationship or any time after the termination of such relationship.
3. Use/Safe-guarding of Confidential Information
Receiving Party shall not use the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information for any purpose other than to exercise or perform its rights or obligations under this Agreement. Receiving Party shall not copy or otherwise reproduce Disclosing Party’s confidential Information, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of disclosing Party. Receiving Party further agrees that it shall safeguard Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information from disclosure and, at a minimum, use efforts commensurate with those receiving Party employs for protecting the confidentiality of its own Confidential Information which it does not disclose or disseminate, but in no event less than reasonable care.
4. Exceptions
The provisions of the section 2 above will not be deemed to prohibit any disclosure that is required by law or court order and any information which is or in future comes into the public domain. However, the Receiving Party agrees to provide the Disclosing Party with reasonable prior notice and an opportunity to consent or minimise such disclosure.
5. Return and deletion of documents
Immediately upon termination of the relationship between users, Receiving Party shall delete, and when applicable, return to Disclosing Party any documents pertaining to the Confidential Information which are in Receiving Party’s possession.
II- Personal Data Protection Policy
What Is Personal Data at TLR?
Protecting your private information is our priority. That’s why we treat any data that relates to an identified or identifiable individual or that is linked or linkable to them by TLR as "personal data,” no matter where the individual lives. This means that data that directly identifies you, such as your name, is personal data, and also data that does not directly identify you, but that can reasonably be used to identify you, such as the IP address, is personal data.
This Privacy Policy covers how TLR handles personal data when you use our website.
Your Privacy Rights at TLR
At TLR, we respect your ability to know, access, correct, transfer, restrict the processing of, and delete your personal data. We have provided these rights to our users and if you choose to exercise these privacy rights, you have the right not to be treated in a discriminatory way nor to receive a lesser degree of service from TLR.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password that you have chosen to access your account on our Platform.
You agree to keep this password secret and not to disclose it to anyone.
TLR does not sell your data.
For more information on exercising your rights please contact: info@thelegalrooms.com
Personal Data TLR Collects from You
We believe that you can have great service and great privacy. This means that we strive to collect only the personal data that we need.
When you create a TLR account, we may collect a variety of information, including:
Data you provide directly to us such as:
• Account Information : Your credential data, other information required for the provision of our services, information that you provide to us for the purpose of a creating a Legal Counsel account such as your Curriculum Vitae and your Qualification Certificate, your photo
• Contact Information: Data such as name, email address, physical address, phone number, or other contact information
• Location of practice Information. Precise location only to support Legal Consultants area of expertise
Automatically collected data such as:
• Personal Data TLR Receives from Other Sources: In the event that you connect to our services using other sources features made available to you, TLR will have access to some of the data (including, but not limited to, your first name, last name, photograph, email address etc…).
• Payment Information. Data about your billing address and method of payment, such as bank details, PayPal, credit, debit, or other payment card information
• Transaction Information. Data about purchases of TLR services
•Usage Data. Data about your activity on and use of our offerings, such as performance and other diagnostic data; and other usage data
•Automatically Collected Information Information about your computer hardware and software may also be automatically collected by TLR. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the TLR website.
TLR’s Use of Personal Data
TLR uses personal data to power our services, to process your transactions, to communicate with you, and to comply with law. We may also use personal data for other purposes with your consent.
• Power Our Services. TLR collects personal data necessary to power the provision of services, which may include personal data collected to create your account, verify your personal and professional information. For example, if you would like to subscribe as a Legal Counsel, we collect data on your professional background such as your qualification certificate and your experiences.
Data are used to perform the contracts entered into between Legal Consultants, Clients and the platform. This processing is necessary for the performance of our respective contractual obligations.
• Process Your Transactions. To process transactions, TLR must collect data such as your name, purchase, and payment information.
• Communicate with You. To respond to communications, reach out to you about your transactions or account. From time to time, we may use your personal data to send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with TLR.
• Communicate and exchange with other members using the platform. This processing is necessary for the performance of our respective contractual obligations and/or carried out with your consent.
• Comply with Law. To comply with applicable law, for example to comply with a lawful governmental request.
TLR’s Sharing of Personal Data
TLR does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
TLR may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to TLR, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
TLR may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on TLR or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of TLR; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of TLR, or the public.
Security of your Personal Data at TLR
TLR secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. TLR uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
- SSL
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Data of Children Under Eighteen
TLR does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen. If you are under the age of eighteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. and data transfer
We use Amazon Web Services, Inc. ("AWS”) to store and process users information, and to provide supporting physical and digital infrastructure for our services.
TLR servers are located in the United States. Your personal data is stored in various AWS regions, and replicated across regions for backup purposes. We take steps to protect your data and comply with the relevant data protection laws.
Otherwise, we do not transfer your data unless it is strictly necessary to comply with relevant laws.
Legitimate Interests and Users Consent
We occasionally process your personal information under the consent or legitimate interests’ legal basis. We use the consent and legitimate interests’ legal basis for processing all data given to us by Users in order to provide the services, and have identified that our interests correspond to legitimate interests of the user.
How long TLR keeps your data
TLR only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and we have strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations.
Upon termination of a user account for any reason (such as account termination, nonpayment, or customer deletion of the account), all personal data received from that customer will be deleted in 1 week and all records purged after 30 days. This process is subject to applicable legal requirements. We do not delete or purge any information required for legal, contractual or accounting obligations.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Disconnecting your TLR Account from Third Party Websites
You will be able to connect your TLR account to third party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR TLR ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time. Users may learn how to disconnect their accounts from third-party websites by visiting their "My Account" page. Users may also contact us via email or telephone.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, TLR may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from TLR, you may opt out of such communications by Customers may unsubscribe from emails or from the platform by "replying STOP" or "clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button. Through email request they can have their profiles removed.
Changes to this Statement
TLR reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
III- Cookie Policy
The Legal Rooms ("TLR") website may use "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise TLR pages, or register with TLR site or services, a cookie helps TLR to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same TLR website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the TLR features that you customised.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the TLR services or websites you visit.
We use the following cookies:
● Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
● Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
● Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Google Analytics and privacy :
The TLR Site uses a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this Site is transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Site, in order to compile reports on Site activity for Site operators and to provide other services related to site use and internet usage. Google will therefore transmit this information to third parties if necessary if required by law or if this data is processed by third parties on behalf of Google. Google will therefore transmit this information to third parties if necessary if required by law or if this data is processed by third parties on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will the IP address be combined with other Google data. The User can deactivate cookies by modifying their browser settings.
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Cookie name |
Cookie type |
Cookie purpose |
Expiry |
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_ga |
Analytics |
The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
2 years |
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_gid |
Analytics |
Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
1 day |
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_gat_gtag_UA_221441083_1 |
Analytics |
Set by Google to distinguish users. |
past |
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PHPSESSID |
Necessary |
This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
session |
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defaultSiteLang |
Other |
No description |
1 month |
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user_timezone |
Other |
No description |
1 day |
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crisp-client%2Fsession%2Fbc4a9778-10f7-440f-be1a-fe56d2d46a2f |
Other |
No description |
6 months |
PRIVACY QUESTIONS
If you have questions about TLR’s Privacy Policy or privacy practices, would like to contact us, or would like to submit a complaint, you can contact us at : info@thelegalrooms.com
