Privacy Policy

JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI law firm, with its registered office in Varaždin, Zagrebačka ulica 61/III, OIB: 71198181260 (“JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI”, “law firm”), in accordance with Articles 12, 13 12, 13. and 14. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter referred to as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and the Act on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (OG 42/2018), in its capacity as the controller, hereby wishes to inform you about the manner in which your personal data is processed.

The law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERS collects and processes personal data (e.g. information that can directly or indirectly identify you, such as name, surname, academic title, personal identification number (PIN), company where you are employed) lawfully, fairly and transparently, while ensuring appropriate security of personal data, in particular against unauthorized or unlawful processing, in the following cases:

• when you contact us via contact forms or by e-mail,
• when you contact us with a request or job application,
• when you visit our website and use certain features of our website

In doing so, the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI states that it will not collect Personal Data if you do not provide it to us voluntarily, except for certain Personal Data collected through information systems and programs used to operate our website, the transmission of which is necessary for the use of Internet communication protocols and will not require more information than is necessary to perform a specific activity.

Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a specific website. They help the website remember your actions and preferred settings over a certain period of time, so you don’t have to re-enter them when you re-enter the website and browse different pages.

These cookies are essential for enabling you to browse our websites and use their features. Without these cookies, it is not possible to use our website.

These cookies collect information about how you use our site – for example, which sub-pages you visit the most – and can be used to optimize our website. However, this category of cookies does not collect information that can directly identify you, all information collected by these cookies is anonymous.

These cookies allow websites to remember your choices while you are browsing. We may remember personal preferences such as text size, fonts, and other customizable elements of the website. The information these cookies collect will not personally identify you and cannot track your browsing activity on websites outside of this site.
Cookies that are not strictly necessary are activated only after the visitor’s consent.

JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERS collects open applications from candidates who wish to work at the law firm. Only authorized persons within the law firm, bound by a confidentiality statement, have access to personal data from open applications and personal data of candidates who apply for a job, who process such open applications and job applications for the purpose of contacting candidates back and possible employment.

Clients of the law firm JELAKOVIĆ&PARTNERI are persons with whom we have concluded an agreement on the provision of legal services related to representation and legal advice (“Client”). As lawyers, bound by the obligation of professional secrecy, we keep all information relating to the Client and the subject of representation confidential. During the course of representing the Client, the law firm may come to know or create confidential information. Therefore, the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI will not, without the express consent of the Client, share this information with third parties, except with team members working on assignments for the Client, to whom the disclosure of this information is intended, or who must know it in order to properly provide legal services. Also, the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI undertakes to take the necessary precautions to maintain the confidentiality of this information.

When you provide your Personal Data, we will limit the processing of the Personal Data to the purpose for which it was collected in accordance with the terms of this Policy. The processing of your Personal Data includes:

1. Taking necessary actions at your request before entering into a contract (e.g. responding to questions and comments, fulfilling requests, sending an offer, receiving an offer)
2. Performing a contract to which you are a party (e.g. providing legal services, providing access to certain areas and features on the website),
3. Investigating suspected fraud, harassment, physical threats or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, Site Rules or the rights of third parties; or investigating any suspicious behavior that we consider inappropriate,
4. Compliance with a legal obligation to which the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERS is subject (e.g. for disclosures required by law, other regulation or court order),
5. For the purposes of or in connection with legal proceedings, the establishment, defense or exercise of legal rights,
6. Conducting data analytics or communications via electronic media (e-mail, social network)

Providing Personal Data for the above purposes is voluntary, but any refusal to provide such data may prevent the law firm from entering into a contract with you, from responding to your requests, from providing you with legal services, from receiving and processing your application, and from complying with the legal obligations to which the law firm is subject.

Your Personal Data may be disclosed, in close connection with the purposes set out above:

• entities necessary for sending mail and e-mails, removing repetitive information from the list of service recipients, analyzing data and providing support, providing customer services, and who usually process Personal Data on behalf of the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI as processors,
• entities that maintain our IT systems;
• entities that provide us with accounting services, who are subject to appropriate contractual confidentiality obligations;
• to persons authorized by the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERI to process Personal Data, who are subject to the appropriate legal obligation of confidentiality (BDV employees);
• associates of the law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PARTNERS, who are subject to an appropriate contractual obligation of confidentiality;
• to competent services and public authorities when required by applicable law or in good faith
• to business partners for their needs only in accordance with appropriate legal grounds.

For certain personal data, processing and storage periods are prescribed by positive regulations of the Republic of Croatia. For example, in accordance with the Attorneys’ Act, an attorney is obliged to keep personal data in the file for 10 years from the final conclusion of the procedure. Regarding personal data that we keep on the basis of consent, we keep the said data as long as the purpose for which the data was provided exists, or until the consent is withdrawn.

The rights of data subjects whose personal data are processed are as follows: right of access to data, right of rectification, right of erasure, right to restriction of data processing, right to data portability, right to object.

The security of your Personal Data is extremely important to us, so we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures and technical and organizational measures to protect the data we collect. Also, due to the very openness of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us or information stored on our site or on our servers will be completely secure from unauthorized access by third parties.

All matters relating to our site and these Terms shall be governed by Croatian law. You agree that the courts of the Republic of Croatia shall have exclusive and territorial jurisdiction in connection with any proceedings relating to this site and these Terms. We do not warrant or imply that our content/materials on our site are appropriate for use outside of the Republic of Croatia.

The law firm JELAKOVIĆ & PAETNERI is approved and regulated as a law firm by the Croatian Bar Association.
This page is in compliance with the Regulations on the Lawyers’ Website of the Croatian Bar Association, adopted on February 14, 2009 year.

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