Privacy Policy

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1. Welcome to the ABA Law Office website Privacy Policy!!
2. ABA Law Office is a premier and Prominent Multinational Law Firm headquartered in New Delhi, India with a global reach.
3. ABA Law Office, on behalf of itself and its affiliates/group companies/entities, is the author and publisher of the internet resource https://www.abalawoffice.in (“The Website” “ABA Law Office” or "we" or "us" as the context requires, which term shall be deemed to individually and collectively include its related entities and persons controlling or owning the Website, content over the same and related hereto). ABA Law Office owns and operates the content provided through the Website.
4. ABA Law Office values, protects and respects your privacy and processes data as a data controller in accordance with the applicable data protection laws of India. We hold the sincere belief that You should always know what data we collect from You, the purposes for which such data is used, and that You should have the ability to make informed decisions about what data You want to share with us.
5. Your continued access and/ or use of this website and the services provided herein subsequent to any changes or modifications carried out by ABA Law Office from time to time without notice shall constitute Your acceptance of such changes or modifications.
6. “Personal Information” is defined under the SPI Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available to a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person. The SPI Rules further define “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to: Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
7. What do we collect:
   
   1. We collect personal data with your consent. For instance, we collect your information when you share your data on the Website by filling up the forms on the Website or subscribing to our newsletter. The data collected by us may include your basic information such as your name, contact number, email address or any other details you may share.While interacting with our Website, you may share certain information with us, such as your name, email address, mobile number, your organization name, or title. All such information collectively falls under “user information”;
   2. We may collect information which falls under demographic details such as current location;
   3. We sometimes use external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example, to display images or show videos. We cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content, hence you use the same at your sole risk, and cannot make ABA Law Office for such use, whatsoever.
8. The purposes for which we may process your personal data include:
   
   1. Providing our services;
   2. Complying with our legal and regulatory obligations;
   3. Managing our business development and marketing activities, such as briefings and invitations to our events;
   4. Handling your job application or otherwise managing our recruitment processes;
   5. Generating statistics regarding the use of our website or to analyse and improve on our website; and
   6. Fulfilling our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
9. The user agrees, accepts, and is bound by this Privacy Policy when they use or access the Website. These policies are subject to change and will be updated from time to time at our sole discretion or on account of changes in the law. However, we are not obligated to notify users unless significant changes are made or the data privacy laws obligate us to do so. Users are therefore requested to read our Privacy Policy along with the terms and conditions of use of the Website.
10. ABA Law Office maintains appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against loss, destruction, misuse, damage, alteration or disclosure.
11. ABA Law Office is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Security parameters adopted by us include monitoring and reviewing our information collection, storage and processing practices, to prevent unauthorised access to systems. Only our employees, agents and service providers can access the personal information as they process it for us. They are required to strictly abide by contractual confidentiality obligations. Their relationship with us may be terminated, in case they fail to abide by the obligations
12. However, we cannot be held responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that lie beyond our reasonable control. These events include, but are not limited to acts of the government, computer hacking and breach of security and encryption.
13. As a data subject, you have a number of legal rights under applicable data protection legislation.
    1. To request details of the personal data concerning you;
    2. To have your personal information rectified or corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
    3. To request the erasure of the personal data that relates to you;
    4. To withdraw your consent;
    5. To object to or request restrictions on the processing of your data;
    6. To have personal data transmitted to another organization in an appropriate format;
    7. To object to profiling; and
    8. To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
    If you wish to exercise these rights, you may, at any time, contact ABA Law Office using the contact details below.
14. We may disclose your personal information to third parties for the above-mentioned purposes. These include:
    1. Third parties relevant to the legal services we provide, such as counterparties, other counsel, courts, regulatory bodies and government institutions;
    2. Third parties we engage with in order to comply with legal obligations, such as our professional advisers and auditors; and
    3. Third parties in connection with the processing of your personal data. We will only disclose your personal data to such third parties for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Where we do so, we will do this in accordance with applicable data protection laws and will take appropriate safeguards to ensure its integrity and protection.
15. ABA Law Office takes no liability for any actions of third parties in relation to your personal information which you may have shared with such third parties.
16. ABA Law Office will not store the personal data of users any longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, or to comply with laws or regulations. Your personal information shall remain with us for at least 180 days or until the time:
    1. Communication sent to you is unanswered and emails bounce back;
    2. We feel there is no need for retaining your information for any reason, including the applicable law;
    3. In case you wish to discontinue the use of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please write to us at [email protected]
17. A grievance officer appointed shall redress complaints within one month from the date of receipt of the said complainant sent to us through email or mail, Details are as follows:
    1. Grievance officer: Vinietaa Bhardwaj
    2. Contact details for Email Id: [email protected]
    3. Dispose off such complaint within a period of fifteen days from the date of its receipt;
    4. Within twenty-four hours from the receipt of a complaint made by an individual or any person on his behalf, in relation to any content which is prima facie in the nature of any material which exposes the private area of such individual, shows such individual in full or partial nudity or shows or depicts such individual in any sexual act or conduct, or is in the nature of impersonation in an electronic form, including artificially morphed images of such individual, take all reasonable and practicable measures to remove or disable access to such content;