Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE:

Claassen & Associates Incorporated Attorneys (CLA, we or us) process personal information in terms of this policy when we act as a responsible party (we decide why and how to process the personal information). We take privacy seriously.

This policy (read with other notices given to individual data subjects) is our notice in terms of section 18 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA).

This policy describes what personal information we process, where we collect it, why we process it and the legal basis on which we do so and generally, how we do so.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND PROCESS:

INFORMATION RELATING TO OUR SERVICES

We process personal information in relation to our legal services (Service Information) including names, identity, passport or registration numbers, VAT numbers, contact information (phone numbers, email and other addresses) information in communications with our clients and others relating to our services, bank account details, financial information, employment history, marital status and children.

Our client and its employees or representatives are the main source of the Service Information but we also source it from others on our clients’ instructions (e.g. external auditors), public records and licensed databases.

We process Service Information to provide, bill and obtain payment for our services, ensure the security of our business and systems including our website, comply with the law (eg identifying our clients in terms of money laundering laws), charging VAT and keeping records of our dealings with our clients, including backups of our databases, communicating and managing our contract and relationship with our clients and securely and properly administering our law firm and marketing our services.

The legal bases on which we process Service Information are consent or compliance with the law or concluding and performing a contract for our services or our legitimate interests in properly and securely administering our business and marketing our services.