Online Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy

As professionals engaged in providing legal services, business advisory services, and compliance-related services to clients, Themis Law Chambers, including its affiliated partnerships (collectively, the firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of “Confidential” and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). “Personal information” means any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such a person.

This Privacy Policy provides greater transparency into our privacy practices and cookie policies for our firm’s online presence ( Firm’s website, apps, social media accounts/pages, emails, etc.). This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (collectively, the “Privacy Policy”) is based on the privacy and data protection principles prevalent in India and common to the commonwealth of countries. However, it is clarified that for the purposes of this website that the laws of the Republic of India shall be the Applicable Law. We apply this policy in light of the applicable laws in India, including but not limited to the Information Technology Act, 2000, and I.T. Rules, 2011, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Statement is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally and to advise our clients, our website visitors, our social media visitors, our app users, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.

This Statement is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites, apps, social media channels/pages as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and Internet Services.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

In the course of providing legal services to the clients and as provided by visitors to its website and/or users of other internet services, the firm (Themis Law Chambers) collects personal information. By using our internet services, you (the USER) are hereby consenting to the collection of your information by us. We may use that “Personal Information” to contact you, respond to your requests and inquiries, personalize your visit and use of our website and other internet services, conduct recruitment and selection, send you newsletters and/or other developments at the firm that may be of interest to you (unless you unsubscribe to not receive such information), to comply with the applicable law, rules, and regulations and to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm.

However, it is clarified that we do not ask, solicit, induce, and/or request you to share sensitive personal data and/or information. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” of a person means such personal information which consists of information relating to:-

i) password;

ii) financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details;

iii) physical, physiological, and mental health conditions;

iv) sexual orientation;

v) medical records and history;

vi) Biometric information;

vii) any detail relating to the above clauses as provided to the body corporate for providing service; and

viii) any of the information received under the above clauses by the body corporate for processing, stored, or processed under lawful contract or otherwise:

Provided that, any information that is freely available or accessible in the public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, or any other law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as sensitive personal data or information for the purposes of these rules.

Security Practices & Procedures and Retention of Information

We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services. We Do Not Guarantee that our safeguards will always work. We require consultants, suppliers, and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with “Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures” as described in Rule 8 of the ‘Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices And Procedures And Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our Privacy Policy or information practices, please “Contact Us” and we will be happy to answer any queries or questions that you might have regarding the same.

Minimum Age Requirements to use our website/app/social media channels/pages

In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. However, we do have safeguards that prevent minors from consuming legal information and other information on our services provided on our website/app/social media channels/pages.

Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information

Rephrase:

(We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy, and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.)

Cookie Policy

Rephrase:

(The firm’s Internet Services use cookies. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, specifically for cybersecurity purposes, to provide you with customizations of your experience, such as highlighting your recently viewed items, detecting and remembering your region and language preferences, and tracking your activities on the Internet Services. We also use a Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed to the correct version of our website.

Although the firm uses the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal Information about the users of our Internet Services.

None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you log on to the firm’s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt out or block some or all cookies.)

Applicable Laws

Section 43A of Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Information Technology (reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011.