This Privacy Statement describes how Quisumbing Torres collects, uses, and discloses certain personal information obtained through your engagement of our services, through your email communication with us, through your participation in our events, seminars and/or other promotional activities, through your provision of goods and/or services to us, or through our general service contact with you (collectively referred to as "Engagement"). This Privacy Statement does not address information collected through other sources such as an attorney’s personal contacts.
Personal Information Collection and Use
You may have provided your name, company name, e-mail address, phone number, address, age, gender, marital status, government-issued identifiers, and other personal information (collectively referred to as “Personal Information”) in your Engagement with us. We retain and process your Personal Information to enable us to provide our legal services to you, to administer any contract for goods and/or services that we may have with you, to correspond with you in the course of our service either as a client, vendor, service provider, or as contacts, to provide you with a subscription to our regular news alerts, newsletters or publications, to notify you about events and to provide relevant event materials, for your information and/or participation in our events, to obtain feedback, to respond to your requests or provide you with information that we consider may be of interest to you, or otherwise to pursue other legitimate service purposes of Quisumbing Torres (collectively referred to as "Purpose"). We retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for and/or relevant to service activities related to the Purpose. Kindly note that it will be necessary for Quisumbing Torres to process your Personal Information for the Purpose, without which we will not be able to carry out the Purpose.
If you receive an e-mail from Quisumbing Torres, other than in the course of seeking legal advice, you will be provided with an automated way to opt out (unsubscribe) from that particular communication or from similar e-mails sent by our Firm. Please follow the instructions on the e-mail you received. If you have received unwanted e-mail from our Firm, please forward a copy of that e-mail here.
Please note that if you reply to a Quisumbing Torres address in one of such e-mails or otherwise send a communication to us, your communication will not create a lawyer-client relationship with us. Do not send us any information that you or anyone else considers to be confidential or secret unless we have first agreed to be your lawyers in that matter.
Data Sharing and International Data Transfers
Quisumbing Torres is a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein, with member law firms around the world. We may share and/or transfer Personal Information among our member law firms for purposes of responding to your requests or otherwise as necessary for the Purpose described above. Our service providers, which may or may not be located outside the Philippines, may also have access to the Personal Information, for reasons relating to the Purpose. We may also in limited circumstances share Personal Information with government authorities or others as required to protect the interests of the Firm or others, as necessary in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a portion of the service, or as required by applicable law or court order.
Security Measures
Quisumbing Torres maintains reasonable and appropriate technical, physical, and organizational security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or alteration.
Links to Other Websites
The privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Statement are for purposes of your Engagement with us only. This website may contain links to other sites. Quisumbing Torres is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. If you link to or otherwise visit any other site, please review the privacy policies posted at that site.
Cookies and Passive Tracking
A "cookie" is an element of data that can be sent to your browser. Your browser may then store it on your system based on the preferences you have set on your browser. Cookies gather information about your operating system including, but not limited to, browser type and Internet Protocol (IP) address. Quisumbing Torres uses such information to analyze the traffic on our website and to better serve you when you return to our website. It is not our intention to use such information to personally identify a user. You have the option to configure your Internet browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not. Further, you have the option to block all cookies. Please note, however, that if you refuse or otherwise block cookies, you may not be able to use all of the functionality available on this website.
Access and Correction
If you wish to access, correct, limit or update the Personal Information you have submitted to us, or to make any inquiries or complaints about the processing of such information, please contact us by sending an email to dataprotectionofficer@quisumbingtorres.com. We provide individuals with access to their Personal Information where we believe appropriate, including in situations where you are entitled to access and correct your Personal Information under applicable personal data protection laws.
Privacy Violations
If you reasonably believe that we have committed any violation of your rights as a data subject and/or of applicable data privacy laws, you may contact us by sending an email to dataprotectionofficer@quisumbingtorres.com. Please also note that you may lodge a complaint with the National Privacy Commission should we fail to respond to you in a timely and/or acceptable fashion.
Basis for Processing of Personal Information
We shall process and continue to process your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Statement, on the basis of the explicit consent that you previously gave and/or as necessary for the pursuit by Quisumbing Torres of its legitimate service purposes.
Revisions to this Privacy Statement
Quisumbing Torres reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time. Please check the Privacy Statement frequently and particularly before you submit additional personal information. All revisions to this Privacy Statement will be posted on the website via a link from the homepage.