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JUCKER STUDIO LEGALE (hereinafter also referred to as: we, us) is a law firm based in Lugano, Switzerland. In the course of our business activities, we collect and process personal data (hereinafter also referred to as: data), in particular personal data of our clients, associates, counterparties, courts and authorities, corresponding law firms, professional and other associations, visitors to our websites, event participants, job applicants, recipients of newsletters and other services, and their respective contact persons and employees (hereinafter also referred to as: you). In this data protection declaration, we inform you about this data processing. We may also inform you about the processing of your data separately (e.g., in forms or in contractual terms and conditions).

If you provide us with data relating to other persons (e.g., family members, representatives, counterparties, or other associated persons), we assume that you are authorized to do so, that this data is correct, and that you have ensured that these persons are informed about this transfer, insofar as a legal obligation to inform applies (e.g., by bringing this data protection declaration to their attention in advance).

The data controller within the meaning of data protection law for the processing of data regulated in this statement is:

JUCKER STUDIO LEGALE

Avv. Dario Jucker

Via F. Somaini 5, 6900 Lugano

info@juckerlegal.ch

As part of our activities, we may process different categories of personal data for different purposes. In particular, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Communication: We process personal data in order to communicate with you and third parties, such as parties to proceedings, courts, or authorities, by email, telephone, letter, or other means (e.g., to respond to inquiries, in the context of legal advice and representation, and in the context of initiating or executing contracts). This also includes the possibility of sending our clients, contractual partners, and other interested parties information about events, legislative changes, news about our law firm, etc. This may take the form of newsletters and other regular contact (in particular by email, post, and telephone). You can opt out of such communications at any time, or refuse or revoke your consent to such communications. In the context of communication, we process in particular the content and marginal data of the communication, as well as your contact details, but also images and audio recordings of (video) calls. We will inform you separately if the communication is being audio or video recorded, and you are free to inform us if you do not want such recording or if you want to terminate the communication. If we need or want to determine your identity, we may collect additional data (e.g., a copy of an identity document).
• Conclusion and termination of contracts: In connection with the conclusion of a contract, in particular a contract to establish a mandate relationship with you or your principal or employer, which also includes the clarification of any conflicts of interest, we may process your name, contact details, powers of attorney, declarations of consent, information about third parties (e.g., contact persons, family and counterparty information), the contents of the contract, the date of conclusion, solvency data, and all other data that you provide to us or that we collect from public sources or third parties (e.g., the commercial register, credit agencies, sanctions lists, media, legal protection insurance companies, or the internet).
• Contract administration and execution: We process personal data in order to fulfill our contractual obligations towards our clients and other contractual partners (e.g., suppliers, service providers, correspondent law firms, project partners) and, in particular, to perform and enforce contractual services. This also includes the processing of data for mandate management (e.g., legal advice and representation of our clients in court and before authorities, and correspondence), as well as the processing of data for contract enforcement (debt collection, legal proceedings, etc.), accounting, and public communication. For this purpose, we process in particular data that we receive or have collected in the course of the initiation and conclusion of the contract, as well as data that we generate in the course of our contractual services or obtain from public sources or other third parties (e.g., courts, authorities, counterparties, information services, media, investigative agencies, or the internet). This data may include, in particular, meeting and consultation minutes, notes, internal and external correspondence, contractual documents, documents that we generate and receive in the course of proceedings before authorities and courts (e.g., legal documents, judgments, and decisions), supporting information about you, counterparties, or other persons, image and sound recordings, as well as other information relating to the mandate, documents, certificates, invoices, financial and payment information. In this context, we may also process personal data that is particularly sensitive.
• Management of our website: In managing our website we do not use any cookie or other tracing systems.
• Improving our electronic offerings: To continue improving our website and other electronic offerings (e.g., newsletters), we collect data about your behavior and preferences, for example by analyzing how you navigate our website and how you interact with our social media profiles and other electronic offerings (e.g., newsletters).
• Compliance with laws, directives, and recommendations from authorities, as well as internal regulations: We process personal data to comply with applicable domestic and foreign laws (e.g., to combat money laundering, to comply with tax regulations or professional obligations), self-regulation, certifications, industry standards, our corporate governance, as well as for internal and external investigations in which we are a party to the proceedings (e.g., through an investigating authority, supervisory authority, or private entity).
• Risk management and corporate management: We process personal data in the context of risk management (e.g., to protect ourselves from illegal activities) and corporate management. This includes, among other things, our corporate organization (e.g., resource planning) and corporate development (e.g., the acquisition and sale of business units or companies).
• Application: If you apply for a job with us, we process the relevant data for the purpose of reviewing and evaluating your application, conducting the recruitment process and, if your application is successful, preparing and concluding the relevant contract. For this purpose, in addition to your contact details and the information contained in the relevant communication, we process in particular the data contained in your application documents, possibly also extracts from the criminal record, and any additional data we may obtain about you, for example from professional social networks, the internet, the media, and references (if you consent to the collection of references). The processing of data in connection with the employment relationship is the subject of a separate data protection declaration.
• Other purposes: Other purposes include, for example, training and educational purposes as well as administrative purposes (e.g., accounting). We may listen to or record telephone or video conferences for training, evidence protection, and quality control purposes. In such cases, we will inform you separately (e.g., by means of a notice during the video conference in question), and you will be free to inform us if you do not wish to be recorded or to terminate the communication (if you simply do not want your image to be recorded, please turn off your webcam). In addition, we may process personal data for the organization, implementation, and follow-up of events, such as participant lists and the content of presentations and discussions, as well as images and audio recordings made during these events. The protection of other legitimate interests falls under “other purposes,” which cannot be listed exhaustively.

• From you: Most of the data we process is provided by you (e.g., in connection with our services, your use of our websites, or your communication with us). In some cases, this data is also transmitted to us automatically from your device. Except in certain cases (e.g., legal obligations), you are not obligated to disclose your data. However, if you wish to enter into contracts with us or benefit from our services, for example, you must provide us with certain data. The use of our website is also not possible without data processing.
• From third parties: We may also collect data from publicly accessible sources (e.g., debt enforcement and bankruptcy registers, land registers, commercial registers, media, or the internet, including social media) or receive it from authorities, your employer or principal who has a business relationship with us or who deals with us in some other way, as well as from other third parties (e.g., customers, counterparties, legal protection insurers, credit agencies, address dealers, associations, contractual partners, internet analysis services). This includes, in particular, data that we process in connection with the initiation, conclusion, and execution of contracts, as well as data from correspondence and other communication with third parties, but also all other categories of data within the meaning of section 3.

In connection with the purposes described in section 3, we transfer your personal data in particular to the categories of recipients listed below. Where necessary, we obtain your consent or obtain an exemption from professional secrecy from the relevant supervisory authorities.

• Service providers: We work with service providers in Switzerland and abroad who (i) process data on our behalf (e.g., IT service providers), (ii) process data together with us, or (iii) process data on their own responsibility that they have received from us or collected on our behalf (e.g., IT service providers, banks, insurance companies, debt collection agencies, credit agencies, address verification services, other law firms, or consulting firms).
• Customers and other contractual partners: This primarily refers to our customers and other contractual partners for whom the transfer of your data is based on a contractual basis (e.g., because you work for a contractual partner or the contractual partner provides services to you). This category of recipients also includes entities with which we collaborate, such as other law firms in Switzerland or abroad, or legal protection insurance companies. These recipients are responsible for the data processing they carry out.
• Authorities and courts: We may disclose personal data to offices, courts, and other authorities in Switzerland and abroad if this is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and in particular for the execution of our mandate, or if we are legally obliged or authorized to do so, or if this appears necessary to protect our interests. These recipients are responsible for the data processing they carry out.
• Counterparties and other persons involved: To the extent necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations, in particular for the execution of the mandate, we also disclose your personal data to counterparties and other persons involved (e.g., guarantors, financiers, affiliated companies, other law firms, persons informed of the facts, or experts).
• • Other persons: This refers to other cases in which the involvement of third parties arises from the purposes set out in section 3. These include, for example, recipients of deliveries or payments specified by you, third parties in the context of representation relationships (e.g., your lawyer or bank), or persons involved in proceedings before authorities or courts. We may also disclose your personal data to our supervisory authority, in particular if this is necessary in individual cases to release us from our professional secrecy obligations. If we cooperate with the media and provide them with material (e.g., photographs), you may also be involved. In the course of business development, we may sell or acquire businesses, parts of businesses, assets, or companies, or develop partnerships, which may involve the transfer of data (including data about you, e.g., as a customer, supplier, or their representative) to the persons involved in these transactions. Communications with our competitors, industry organizations, associations, and other entities may also involve the exchange of data about you.

All of these categories of recipients may in turn involve third parties, which means that your data may also become accessible to them. We can restrict processing by certain third parties (e.g., IT service providers), but not by other third parties (e.g., authorities, banks, etc.).

We also allow certain third parties to collect your personal data on our websites and at events organized by us, also under their responsibility (e.g., media photographers, providers of tools that we have integrated into our website, etc.). If we are not significantly involved in this data collection, the third parties involved are solely responsible for it. If you have any concerns or wish to assert your data protection rights, please contact these third parties directly. We have described your rights in section 7. Information about the activities of our website is described in section 8.

We process and store personal data primarily in Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA), but depending on the circumstances—for example, through sub-processors of our service providers or in connection with proceedings before foreign courts or authorities—potentially in any country worldwide. Your personal data may also be transferred to any country in the world in the course of our activities for our customers.

If the recipient is located in a country that does not have adequate data protection, we contractually oblige the recipient to comply with an adequate level of data protection (for this purpose, we use the European Commission's revised standard contractual clauses, which can be found at the following link https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/..., if necessary with the adjustments required for Switzerland), unless the recipient is already subject to a legally recognized set of rules that guarantees data protection. We may also transfer personal data to a country that does not have adequate data protection without entering into a separate contract for this purpose, provided that a specific exemption applies. An exception may apply in particular to legal proceedings abroad, but also in the case of overriding public interests or if the performance of a contract in your interest requires such disclosure (e.g., if we transfer the data to our corresponding law firms), if you have given your consent or if it is not possible to obtain your consent within a reasonable period of time and the transfer is necessary to protect your life or physical integrity or that of a third party, or if it concerns data that you yourself have made generally accessible and to the processing of which you have not objected. We may also use this exemption for data that comes from a legally required register (e.g., the commercial register) to which we have legitimately gained access.

You have certain rights in relation to our processing of your data. In accordance with applicable law, you may, in particular, request information about the processing of your personal data, have incorrect personal data corrected, request the deletion of personal data, object to the processing of data, request the delivery of certain personal data in a commonly used electronic format, or request its transfer to other data controllers.

If you wish to exercise your rights against us, please contact us; you will find our contact details in section 2. We are required to identify you in order to rule out any form of abuse (e.g., if necessary, with a copy of an identity document).

Please note that these rights may be subject to conditions, exceptions, or restrictions (e.g., for the protection of third parties, business secrets, or due to our professional secrecy).

We believe that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not apply to our data processing activities. However, if the GDPR should exceptionally apply to certain data processing activities, this section 10 shall apply exclusively for the purposes of the GDPR and the data processing activities subject to it.

In this case, we base the processing of your personal data in particular on the fact that:

• it is necessary for the initiation, conclusion, and fulfillment of contracts, as well as for their management and execution (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR; see also section 3);
• it is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests or those of third parties, for example to communicate with you or third parties, to operate our websites, to improve our electronic offerings and registration for certain offerings and services, for security purposes, to comply with the law and internal regulations, for our risk management and business management, and for other purposes such as training and education, administration, evidence protection, quality assurance, the organization, holding, and follow-up of events, and the protection of other legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR; see also section 3);
• it is necessary or required to fulfill our mandate or function under European Union law, EEA law, or the law of a European Union member state (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) or is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person (Art. 6(1)(d) GDPR);
• you have separately consented to the processing, for example by means of a declaration on our websites (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR).

We inform you that we will process your data for as long as necessary for the purposes of processing (see section 3), for the retention periods required by law and for the protection of our legitimate interests, in particular for documentation and evidence purposes, or if storage is technically necessary (e.g., in the case of backups or document management systems). In the absence of legal or contractual obligations or technical reasons, we generally delete or anonymize your data at the end of the retention or processing period as part of our regular processes and in accordance with our retention policy.

Failure to provide certain personal data may make it impossible to provide the relevant services or conclude a contract. In principle, we indicate which personal data we require is essential.

The right to refuse data processing described in section 7 applies in particular to data processing for direct marketing purposes.

If you disagree with our handling of your rights or data protection, please let us know (see section 2 for contact details). If you are located in the EEA, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country. A list of supervisory authorities in the EEA is available at: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_it.

This data protection declaration is not part of any contract concluded with you. We may change this data protection declaration at any time. The current version is the one published on this website.