I. Contact and Data Processor
Your personalized data is being processed by the law firm Dr Marcin Byczyk & Partners. Kancelaria Radcy Prawnego, based in Poznań (Poland) (in the following referred to as ,,us”).
You may use the following ways to contact us:
– via traditional mail: ul. Zeylanda 3/5, 60-808 Poznań, Poland
– via email: byczyk@byczyk.com
– by phone: 0048606202661
– by fax: 616660875
II. Purposes of data processing
Your data is being processed with the purpose of:
– to provide you with proper legal counselling. This includes court representation and representation before administrative bodies, as well as in front of other bearers of public authority.
– to provide you with legal counselling outside of court proceedings, as well as prior to court proceedings. This also includes counselling in the context of preparing contracts as well as prior to the submission of lawfully binding declarations.
The basis for the processing of your personal data are:
− regulations regarding litigation including the legal obligation, regulated in the regulation from the 30th of august 2002 – Polish Code for Administrative Proceedings (t.j. Dz. U. z 2017 r. poz. 1369 z późn. zm.) (art. 6 par. 1 let b) or other rules pertaining to the legal proceedings, especially: Polish Code for Court Proceedings in Civil Cases – regulation from the 17th November 1964 – polish code for civil proceedings, Dz.U.2018.0.155 t.j. as well as the Polish Code For Criminal Proceedings – regulation from the 6th June 1997 Dz.U.2017.0.1904 t.j.,
− your consent to process necessary data following the agreement upon the counselling by the law firm.
− our justified interest – in regard to data received from unaffiliated third parties, as far as it is necessary to obtain these data to assure proper legal counselling.
III. Legal bases for data processing
Data protection law: Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a.), b.), c.), f.) and Art. 24 section 1 sentence 1 GDPR
Freedom of Information: Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a.), b.), c.), f.) GDPR
IV. The recipients
Your personal data may be transferred to other clients, authorities and courts or others (such as shareholders of clients, business partners of clients), as required by the process of reasonable and effective legal counselling, with which you have entrusted us.
Your personal data will also be transferred to a necessary extend – to our service providers which provide us with necessary services, such as to our accounting firm.
V. Duration of storage
Data raised from you will be stored as long as it is necessary to accomplish he purposes mentioned above under section II and as long as legal regulations do not require us to store them for a longer time. Furthermore, the data will be stored until the end of a court proceeding and subsequently until the prescription of the claims / prescription of the culpability of a certain action / prescription of claims and duties based on public law, established on the grounds of the contract concluded with us or as long as the binding legal regulations require us to store them.
VI. Rights of affected clients and affected third parties
With regard to our duties in case of providing legal counselling within court proceedings or outside court proceedings of our clients, we are responsible for processing data of those mentioned and of the third parties (in the following referred jointly to as „affected persons”).
Affected persons may apply the following rights from the GDPR in this context, as long as special terms of confidentiality and the ban of multiple representation, required by the particular practices of legal counselling and the regulations concerning the lawyers, do not require a exaptation that restricts the following rights:
– Right to information about the personal data- art. 15 GDPR
According to art. 15 par. 1 GDPR affected persons bare the right to full information, such as the information about the purposes of processing and the duration of process. The exceptions stated in art. 34 GDPR do apply.
– Right to correction of personal data- art. 16 GDPR
Affected persons may demand the correction and completion of data which concerns them, as far as it is regarded to be necessary.
– Right to deletion of personal data- art. 17 GDPR
Affected persons may demand us to erase their data. This requires that further processing of personal data is no longer necessary or that this data has been processed unlawfully or that the affected person withdrew his consent to process his personal data.
– Right to restrict the processing of personal data – Art. 18 GDPR
Affected persons may demand the restriction of processing personal data in certain cases, as specified in the binding legislation.
– Right to demand a disclosure concerning the correction or deletion of personal data or the restriction of processing data – art. 19 GDPR
As far as it is possible and as long as it does not require disproportional means, we notify affected persons about correction or deletion of personal data.
– Right to data transfer of personal data– art. 20 GDPR
Affected persons may require us to send them personal data in a common and machine-readable way.
– Right to object – art. 21 GDPR
Affected persons may object further processing of their personal data, when presented with a special situation (right to object).
VII. Necessity to process data
Processing and collecting personal data of affected persons is directly connected with legal proceedings in courts or outside of courts for our clients.
In particular, legal action before courts and fulfilling other court-affairs requires us to process the personal data – otherwise we could not provide you with any kind of court representation and legal counselling.
VIII. Right to file a claim
You are entitled to file a claim to the competent office for the protection of the personal data, i.e. to the President of the Polish Office for Data Protection.
