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PRIVACY POLICY

1. Purpose of this Policy

Stefano Sciola Law Firm (“Stefano Sciola Advogados” or “we”) is committed to raising awareness among its website users, individual clients and representatives, partners or any other individuals related to Stefano Sciola Advogados' corporate clients (“Incumbent”) of the Data”, “Proprietary” or “you”) in relation to the personal data processed by Stefano Sciola Advogados.

Committed to respecting your privacy and maintaining the greatest possible transparency, Stefano Sciola Advogados prepared this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to provide you with an objective understanding of how Stefano Sciola Advogados treats your personal data.

For more information about the processing of personal data, contact the Supervisor through the e-mail privacy@stefanosciola.adv.br

2. Who is the controller of personal data?

Stefano Sciola Sociedade de Advogados will be the controller of your personal data within the scope of the relationship established with you.

For the purposes of the LGPD, the controller is responsible for decisions regarding the processing of personal data.

3. What personal data are processed?

Under the terms permitted by applicable law, Stefano Sciola Advogados may process the personal data described below.

  • Identification, qualification and contact data: full name; address; birth date; nationality; identification document(s) data (such as RG, CPF, CNH, OAB, as applicable), email address; telephone number;

  • Academic and professional data: company that works; profession; office; schooling

 

Within the scope of the provision of legal services, considering the support to clients in the most diverse areas and specialties of Law, Stefano Sciola Advogados will be able to access and process a large collection of your personal data or even the personal data of others involved in a given case (for example, the other party in a lawsuit), depending on the object or reason of the claim.

Some examples of personal data that Stefano Sciola Advogados may process when providing its services are:

  • Registration information: Name, CPF, ID, address and telephone number;

  • Financial information: remuneration; transaction history; credits; sales; possessions; debt certificate; loans;

  • Family information: family structure; relationships

  • Information contained in processes: date of birth, nationality, place of birth, age, marital status, country, address, driver's license, voter registration, profession, education, languages, professional registration, PIS/PASEP, CTPS, NIS, NIT, CEI

Personal data here are treated only in certain cases and when necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, especially for the provision of legal services.

Stefano Sciola Advogados may collect this information in different ways.

 

Such personal data may be collected directly from the Data Subject, may be obtained from someone related to the Data Subject (eg the company you are a part of) or may be accessed through publicly accessible sources. Regardless of the origin of the data, the treatment will be provided by this Privacy Policy and you can contact us by e-mail privacy@stefanosciola.adv.br

4. For what purposes does Stefano and Sciola handle your personal data?

In general, we process your personal data for customer service and provision of legal services in the field of advisory or litigation, including, but not limited to:

  • Carrying out or participating in due diligence to verify a company's compliance with Brazilian legislation and risk analysis;

  • Preparation, review or negotiation of contracts, bids, mergers, acquisitions and market and capital operations.

  • Management of investigations, inquiries, legal, administrative or arbitration proceedings, which includes the analysis and preparation of documents, monitoring of progress, among other actions;

  • Analysis of new structures, cases or any situations presented by customers to prepare a response to queries, memos, legal opinions or opinions;

  • Preparation of mandatory documents under Brazilian law;

  • Intermediation of the client's relationship with government authorities and agencies;

  • Conducting meetings, videoconferences or telephone conferences for discussions on topics in general;

  • Obtaining necessary licenses, authorizations and permissions;

We may also process your personal data for the purpose of formalizing the contract with Stefano Sciola Advogados, billing and collection if you are an individual client or a representative of a corporate client.

Likewise, we may process your personal data to maintain our relationship with you through:

  • Sending institutional communications, memos or bulletins with topics of interest and invitation to events;

  • Organization of events, including managing entries, sending save the date, reminders and thanks.

  • Satisfaction survey and feedback on our services and initiatives.

 

Occasionally, Stefano Sciola Advogados may provide your personal data to national or international legal publications so that you can evaluate and refer our services to such publications.

 

5. Who do we share your personal data with?

 

Stefano Sciola Advogados may share your personal data with:

  • Providers of software, cloud hosting services and other information technologies for the purpose of managing your relationship with our office, registration, documentation and other measures;

  • Correspondents, experts, reviewers, partner offices (national and international), auditors, accountants, translators and financial institutions to assist in the provision of legal services, depending on the demand;

  • Non-governmental organizations in case of pro bono work;

  • National or international legal publications;

  • Regulatory bodies and other authorities, such as the Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP) and the National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL).

 

6. How long will we retain your personal data?

We store and maintain your information:

  • for the time required by law;

  • until the end of the processing of personal data, as mentioned below;

  • for the time necessary to preserve the legitimate interest of Stefano Sciola Advogados, as the case may be;

  • for the time necessary to safeguard the regular exercise of Stefano Sciola Advogados' rights in judicial, administrative or arbitration proceedings.

 

In this way, we will treat your data, for example, during the applicable statute of limitations or as necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

The termination of the processing of personal data will occur in the following cases:

  • When the purpose for which the Data Subject's personal data were collected is achieved and/or the collected personal data is no longer necessary or relevant to the achievement of such purpose;

  • When the Data Subject is entitled to request the end of the treatment and the deletion of his personal data and does so; and

  • When there is a legal determination in this regard.

In these cases of termination of the processing of personal data, except in the cases established by applicable law or by this Privacy Policy, the personal data will be deleted.

 

7. What are your rights regarding your personal data?

You have the following rights to your data:

  • confirmation of treatment;

  • access;

  • correction of incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data;

  • anonymization, blocking or deletion;

  • portability;

  • elimination;

  • sharing information;

  • information about the possibility of not providing consent and about the consequences of denial;

  • revoking your consent if we have requested it from you; and

  • right to petition the National Data Protection Agency (ANPD).

There are circumstances that may restrict the exercise of some rights provided for by law, such as when the provision of information may reveal any business secret of Stefano Sciola Advogados or due to compliance with any legal/regulatory obligation or to allow the defense Stefano Sciola Advogados in any judicial or administrative proceeding.

8. Collection and use of cookies

This section describes how cookies and tracking technologies are used on our websites to enable functionality and features, analyze usage and improve your browsing experience.

 

Below is information about the types of cookies and tracking technologies we use, the types of information we collect through these technologies, and your specific rights with respect to these treatments.

 

By using our websites, you acknowledge the use of cookies in accordance with the conditions described herein. You may have seen a pop-up at the bottom of the page warning you to use this tool on your first visit to our site.

 

Although this notice does not appear on subsequent visits, you can manage the use of cookies through our website by following the instructions below.

• If you do not agree with the use of these cookies, you can disable them at any time by adjusting your browser settings.

 

Browsers are different, so please refer to your browser settings menu for instructions on changing your cookie preferences.

If you choose not to receive cookies, our websites may not function correctly and some features may be unavailable. A cookie is a small text file that is stored by your browser when you visit a website.

 

Almost all websites use cookie technology. Cookies may store certain information, such as your IP address, information about the content you view, information about the content you provide so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, and your preferences and settings.

 

Cookies also help us to provide you with personalized content, speed up navigation on our website and allow us to learn more about your visit and use of online services.

 

Four types of cookies can be used on our websites: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies and cookies for marketing purposes.

 

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: they are essential to allow you to browse our websites and use their features.

These are temporary cookies that only last as long as your browser is open and are used for technical purposes, such as allowing you to better navigate our website. Without these cookies, your navigation on our website may be significantly affected. When you close your browser, the cookie disappears automatically.

 

• Performance cookies: These are stored on your computer for longer periods and are used for other purposes, such as tracking the number of unique visitors to our website and information such as the number of views a page gets, how long a user passes on a page and other pertinent statistics. The information collected is aggregated and therefore made anonymous. These cookies are used exclusively to improve the website's performance and, with it, the user experience.

 

• Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics web analytics services, which use cookies to collect information such as your IP address or other identifiers, browser information and the content you view in order to analyze how visitors use our website.

 

The information generated by cookies about the use of the website will be transmitted and stored by these service providers on servers in Brazil, the United States and the United Kingdom. These service providers will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating the number of users on our website, the location of our users, the most used sections of our website, the most used browsers to improve functionality and the interests of our users. users.

 

These service providers can retain information for up to one year. If you enable IP anonymization, your IP address will not be informed. Only in exceptional cases, the IP address will first be transferred to a Google server in the United States where it will be anonymized. The IP address that your browser transmits within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

 

We reserve the right to send e-mails to our clients, partners and third parties who have in any way related to the office, in order to present information that we deem to be of interest to you, and you may request your unsubscribe from these distribution lists at the foot of forwarded messages.

 

In addition to cookies, our marketing-related emails may contain tracking pixel, also known as web beacon, web bug, tracking bug or pixel tracking, which are intended to inform us if our emails are opened and to verify all the clicks on links within the email. We may use this information (such as personal identity and email) to determine which of our emails are most interesting to you and to inquire whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue to receive them.

 

The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not want the pixel to download to your device, you must choose not to click on the links we send you. When you register for any online event we promote, the accompanying emails also include a pixel.

 

We track your interaction with these emails and our events to validate participation for accreditation purposes and to help determine what information is of interest to you, as described above. We advise all customers that we will never send electronic messages requesting confirmation of personal information via email.

 

For this reason, we are not responsible for any fraudulent electronic communications that collect your personal data (phishing). In relation to incoming emails, we recommend checking the content of the entire email before clicking on any internet address or clicking on any link. Be wary of emails that contain a suspicious header and sender field or with strange content, messages that have Portuguese errors or even faulty photographs and logos.

 

After your first visit to this website, we may change the cookies we use.

 

This policy will always let you know what is being collected and its purposes and will provide you with the means to disable them, so you should access it from time to time.

9. Third Party Websites

As a feature of our website, we may provide links to other websites on the internet. Stefano Sciola Advogados is not responsible for these websites and content, and also does not share, subscribe, monitor, validate or accept the way in which these websites or content storage tools collect, process and transfer your personal data.

 

We recommend that you consult the respective privacy policies of such websites in order to be properly informed about the treatment of your personal data.

 

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Stefano Sciola Advogados reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, by publishing the updated version on this page.

This Privacy Policy is effective October 14, 2021.

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